Death is only the beginning of this fall TV season
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The fall season arrives with death, death and more death.
And not just of people. In one of this edition’s five viewing suggestions, a critic deals a death blow to one series while resurrecting another. So all good there.
In another, an Office-esque mockumentary begins a deathwatch on a small Toledo newspaper. Which hits a little close to home.
Say one Hail Mary, three hallelujahs and press play.
● The Terminal List: Dark Wolf
Premières first three episodes Wednesday, on Prime Video
This espionage origin story, spinning off The Terminal List, goes deep into the psyche of Ben Edwards (Taylor Kitsch) who is front and centre for a lot death and other bad stuff from his time in the Navy SEALs to CIA Special Ops.
Chris Pratt reprises his role from the original series as James Reece.
● The Thursday Murder Club
Movie premières Thursday, Aug. 28, on Netflix
Netflix Helen Mirren (clockwise from left), Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie star in The Thursday Murder Club.
The mystery novels by six-foot-seven British gameshow regular (8 out of 10 Cats) and raconteur Richard Osman go down like a G&T on a hot summer day, which heightens the perennial question of whether the movie adaptation, of this first of four novels, can possibly be as good or better.
For what it’s worth, the casting looks perfect, with the crime-solving residents of a U.K. nursing home being played by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie.
The choice of director does give pause, but Chris Columbus (Harry Potter, Night at the Museum) gets the benefit of the doubt. This time.
● The Golden Girls
Complete series premières Thursday, Aug. 28, on Crave
A recent commentary in the New York Times stuck many daggers into the heart of And Just Like That… as not just weaker than the original Sex and the City (1998-2004), but as the nullification of the latter’s achievement as a genre-defining, taboo-breaking series about Carrie and her girlfriends.
That’s harsh, and proof that one should never write while hangry, but that same analysis also struck gold with the suggestion that The Golden Girls is the true sequel to Sex and the City.
Sure The GGs (1985-1992) ended years before Sex and the City was a twinkle in Sarah Jessica Parker’s eye. However, it is and always was one of, if not THE, best depiction of older women enjoying liberty and devotion to found family.
The full series of the Emmy-winning GGs moves this week from Disney+ to Crave, the latter of which also hosts the other two series. Last one on the lanai makes the cocktails!
● The Paper
Series premières Thursday, Sept. 4, on Showcase/StackTV
Ned Sampson (Domhnall Gleeson, About Time) is the new editor in chief of the Toledo Truth Teller, a “dying” but historic American newspaper.
Parent company Enervate, which also sells toilet tissue and toilet seat covers, is hoping to revive the paper to its former glory.
That story will be told by the same documentary crew who immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch.
Yes, a new mockumentary from The Office’s Greg Daniels!
A couple of bonuses before this arrives: Dunder Mifflin’s prickly accountant (Oscar Nunez) has changed jobs and will bring his pedantry and awkward conversational segues to the Truth Teller.
Also Tim Key! If this name is unfamiliar, consider the movie The Ballad of Wallis Island (Prime Video), a glorious stew of music, cringe and rom-com.
● Task
Series premières Sunday, Sept. 7, on HBO/Crave
Bell Media Martha Plimpton and Mark Ruffalo star in Task, the new crime drama on Crave.
Mare of Easttown’s creator, Brad Ingelsby, is back with another dark crime series.
The parallel to the wilted detective in small-town Easttown, played by Kate Winslet, is Agent Tom, a nearly broken, disaffected FBI agent in working-class Philadelphia.
Tom (Mark Ruffalo) is put in charge of a task force to deal with a string of violent home-invasion robberies. His target is a bad guy — with a good side — played by Tom Pelphrey.
Most memorably, Pelphrey played the twitchy bad brother in Ozark. For added ballast, Tom’s FBI boss is played by a weary, humourless Martha Plimpton (Prime Target).
Broadcast dates subject to change. Questions, comments to denise.duguay@winnipegfreepress.com.