“Good Girls”
Synopsis: Three suburban mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
What You Need To Know: Christina Hendricks (“Mad Men”), Mae Whitman (“Parenthood”) and Retta (“Parks and Recreation”) star as three fed up and furious mothers who pull off a one-and-done heist of a supermarket in order to solve their individual problems. Unfortunately, they find out they’ve taken more money than they expected to be available, and all hell breaks loose. NBC’s “Good Girls” looks to be an excellent network spin on “Hot Money”/“Mad Money” for the #TimesUp age; I’m certainly willing to stick around for the ride.
Release Date: February 26th
“McMafia”
Synopsis: The English-raised son of a Russian mafia exile is drawn into the criminal underworld of his father’s past while trying to build his own legitimate business.
What You Need To Know: Created by Hossein Amini (“Drive”) and James Watkins (“Black Mirror”) the BBC series (airing on AMC stateside) stars James Norton (“Grantchester,” “War & Peace”) as Alex Godman, a young man trying to establish his own business and begin a life with his fiancée Rebecca (Juliet Rylance). However, when a murder unearths his family’s Russian mafia past, he becomes further entwined in the criminal underworld his father (Aleksey Serebryakov) tried to escape. David Strathairn, Maria Shukshina, David Dencik and Merab Ninidze round out the cast as players in the “mcmafia” business.
Release Date: February 26th
“UnREAL”
Synopsis: A behind-the-scenes look at the chaos surrounding the production of a Bachelor-esque dating competition reality program.
What You Need To Know: The third season of Lifetime’s hit series shakes things up with the “Bachelor”-esque reality series “Everlasting” debuting its first ever female suitress, Serena (Caitlin FitzGerald). Serena is may be “looking for love” but she’s no push over and is set to shake up “Everlasting,” as Svengali producers Rachel (Shiri Appleby) and Quinn (Constance Zimmer) realize their suitress can go toe to toe with their manipulations and machinations. Lights, camera, drama!
Release Date: February 26th
“The Looming Tower”
Synopsis: A miniseries that examines the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda throughout the late 1990s and the foundation that was set in place for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
What You Need To Know: Hulu certainly isn’t resting on the laurels of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Adapted from Lawrence Wright’s titular book and produced by Dan Futterman (“Capote”) and Alex Gibney (“Going Clear”), the miniseries takes a hard look at the rise of Bid Laden and Al-Queda and takes a controversial stance of how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA may have inadvertently set the stage for 9/11 and the Iraq War. Tahar Rahim, Jeff Daniels, Peter Sarsgaard, Wrenn Schmidt, Michael Stuhlbarg and Bill Camp play key players Ali Soufan, John O’Neill, Marti Schmidt, Diane Priest, Richard Clarke and Robert Chesney respectively, each trying to maintain order in their own way with no idea of what was to come.
Release Date: February 28th
