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Comedy, Reality, Underground Drug Rings. Whatever Your Genre, There’s A TV Show For You This Week
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Daniel Ings, Kaya Scodelario and Theo James attend Netflix's "The Gentlemen" photo call at Netflix Tudum Theater on February 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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So you’re scrolling your favorite streamer, completely unsure what show to watch, right? It can feel like an endless void.
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Each week on AirTalk, LAist 89.3's daily news show, we're joined by television critics who help parse through the biggest releases and tell us what's worth a binge.
Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk and Indiewire’s Marcus Jones joined to discuss.
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TV-Talk: ‘The Gentlemen,’ ‘Elsbeth,’ ‘Completely Made Up Adventures of Dick Turpin,’ And More
The Gentlemen
A young man suddenly inherits a large estate from his father. But wait, there’s more! Guy Ritchie adapts his 2019 film of the same name into a series that’s part British, part underground drug ring and all fun.
“It kinda leads into the criminal underworld in really fun ways that you can kind of already see from the beginning. Despite delivering the action and the crime drama, it is really funny at times and definitely intense as well.” –Marcus Jones, Indiewire
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When & where: All eight episodes are available now on Netflix.
The Traitors [Season 2]
Twenty one contestants arrive in the Scottish Highlands ready for a Mafia-style reality show and an attempt at winning $250,000. Players include familiar faces from reality TV shows like Real Housewives and Big Brother as well as athletes who work together to eliminate each other.
“What I love is the Bravo stars, being familiar with making a reality show and sort of turning their lives into reality, are a little more savvy about like 'who would the producers want to be the traitor?' And so it's really fun watching all these stars combine and kind of see who's the smarter of the bunch around this particular game.” — Marcus Jones, Indiewire
“I think it is a really fun way for all of these different reality show worlds to collide, although I know that the other international versions, the UK version, the Australian version, is more like the first season of The Traitors where it is a combination of reality and sort of normies. So if the mechanics of the gameplay are exciting to you, it's worth checking out the international versions as well.” — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture
When & where: All episodes are available on Peacock.
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The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Are you looking for a show that gives you similar feels to Our Flag Meets Death? Critics are drawing comparisons here. In this British comedy series set in the 18th century, Dick Turpin becomes the leader of a group of outlaws. It stars Noel Fielding, who many will recognize as host of the iconic competition series The Great British Baking Show.
“It has that sort of found family, quirky, British, self-aware, strange thing and the idea of outsiders sort of looking at themselves against more of a mainstream society, and the minor characters I think are arguably even better than the central figures.” — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture
When & where: The first three episodes are available on Apple TV+. New episodes appear every Friday.
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