New Shows (April 14 - May 28)

[ninetydegrees]

Anything you plan on watching?

• Other Space premiered on April 14 on Yahoo!.

When their ship is drawn into a different universe, Captain Stewart Lipinski and crew must to learn to work together while dealing with space clouds, robot rebellions, and the occasional alien attack.

• The Messengers premieres on April 17 on CW.

From Metacritic: The CW's latest genre series begins with a group of five seemingly unconnected strangers dying from an energy pulse when a mysterious object crashes into the Earth. But they aren't dead for long. When they awaken a few hours later, they discover that they have gained new superpowers, which they will have to put to good use: it seems that an apocalypse is coming, and these five people are the only ones who can prevent it. .

• Tatau premieres on April 18 on BBC America. It premiered on the 12th on BBC Three in the UK.

Tatau follows Kyle (Joe Layton) and Budgie (Theo Barklem-Biggs), two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. When snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle finds the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. Returning to the lagoon with the police, Kyle finds her corpse has disappeared. But Kyle knows what he saw. Desperate to uncover what happened, Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked deeper and deeper into a world of Maori myths, symbols, and hallucinatory visions… until finally the full meaning of Kyle’s tattoo is revealed.

• Happyish premieres on April 26 on Showtime.

Thom Payne is a 44 year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25 year-old "wunderkind" boss arrives, saying things like "digital," "social" and "viral." Is he in need of a "rebranding," or does he just have a "low joy ceiling?" Maybe pursuing happiness is a fool's errand? Maybe, after 44 years on this ludicrous planet, settling for happyish is the best one can expect. HAPPYish features Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn, and Bradley Whitford.

• Grace and Frankie premieres on May 8 on Netflix.

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin co-star as two women forced to reinvent their lives in this new Netflix Original series. Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie aren't friends, even though their husbands Robert and Sol (Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston) have been law partners for decades. But when Robert and Sol announce that they're leaving their wives for each other, the two women start to bond in ways they never expected.

• Wayward Pines premieres on May 14 on Fox. It is based on Blake Crouch's novels.

Secret Service Agent ETHAN BURKE (Matt Dillon) drives to the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, searching for two missing federal agents. One of the best Secret Service agents in the Seattle office, he’s the man who knew missing agent KATE HEWSON (Carla Gugino) better than anyone. They were more than partners; their relationship nearly destroyed Ethan’s marriage. Everything changes when a truck slams into his car…and he wakes up in the Wayward Pines Hospital, with the intense and unpredictable NURSE PAM (Melissa Leo) at his bedside.

• Between premieres on May 21 on Netflix.

"Between" is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and left the inhabitants to fend for themselves. Starring: Jennette McCurdy, Jim Watson, Ryan Allen

• Aquarius premieres on May 28 on NBC.

Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny), a decorated World War II vet and homicide detective, barely recognizes the city he's now policing. Long hair, cheap drugs, rising crime, protests, free love, police brutality, Black Power and the Vietnam War are radically remaking the world he and the Greatest Generation saved from fascism 20 years ago. So when Emma Karn (Emma Dumont), the 16-year-old daughter of an old girlfriend, goes missing in a sea of hippies and Hodiak agrees to find her, he faces only hostility, distrust and silence. He enlists the help of Brian Shafe (Grey Damon) - a young, idealistic undercover vice cop who's been allowed to grow his hair out - to infiltrate this new counterculture and find her.

Comments

[ninetydegrees]

I'm curious about Aquarius because David Duchovny and hmm 70's.
Will wait for reviews for some others because I already watch way too much stuff :)

[veritas_poet]

This is exactly where I am as well! I'm a huge XF fan from back in the day, so I'm curious about DD's new show. But wow, I just can't keep up with all these shows.

I'm sure I'm missing out on some good stuff, but I'm behind on Orphan Black and Justified and who knows what else. (My poor eyeballs just can't take it!)

[ninetydegrees]

Yeah, with all the shows coming up on Internet channels, and new formats such as shorter seasons and mini-series, it's gotten impossible to keep up with everything. I'm glad for the industry but it feels saturated already.

I'm also one season and half behind on Justified, which makes me sad because it's such a great show and I'm unspoiled so I have no idea what happens.

[wendelah1]

I'm checking it out because David Duchovny, and the setting, Los Angeles in 1967. In truth, I'm already hate-watching it and it hasn't aired. Charles Manson is a character. I think the show is going to examine the late sixties using his criminal career as a plot device.

[silverr]

A few look interesting, but our DVR is already bursting with unwatched stuff :/

[ninetydegrees]

Hear, hear.

[silverr]

Having said that, we'll probably set the scooper for Tatou (and watch Grace and Frankie), and then watch reviews for the others.

[graculus]

Aquarius is the only one I'll definitely be checking out, the rest I'd need to see some good reviews for because (like other folks) already too much to watch...

[fannishnonsense]

As an old MSTie I pretty much have to watch Other Space at some point. Oh Joel, love of my adolescent life. *fangirl sigh*

[meganbmoore]

I'll check out Between depending on what I hear about it. I'll at least watch the pilot of The Messengers, though CA shows tend to take a few episodes to get going. At the very leadt, at least I get to look at JD Pardo for a while.

[glitteryv]

I'll probably check out Wayward Pines (but that's 'cause I'm a sucker for "small town with DARK secrets" premises). None of the other shows ping me at all.

(FTR, that's more than fine because I've got a ton of shows to catch up to so there we are).