Even with the arrival or spring, the lure of the television remains strong. Not only will
Amazon season, but the streamer will start churning towards ‘ return. This month, however, a different crop of show are preparing to thrill and chill viewers from several angles. Gamers will receive starring turns from both Walton Goggins and Idris Elba. True crime addicts will see more of the Robert Durst downfall and a series that will also appeal to fans of the most recent season. Then there are grifters and spies, a new sci-fi adventure, and an interlude from Neil Gaiman’s universe. Here are the must-see shows for April. Everyone remembers
Matt Damon in , and Andrew Scott is fully shaking off his “Hot Priest” days to don Tom Ripley’s grifter duds. This limited series is, of course, based upon Patricia Highsmith’s series of novels, and Scott’s incarnation of the character takes a
Job in the 1960s that sets him on the deceit-filled path to murder.
Netflix has cranked up their South Korean production following the phenomenon, and this live-action manga adaptation — which differs starkly from its source material although it appears to remain loyal to the same universe — pulls out the sci-fi stops as well. The series follows mysterious parasites who begin falling from the sky to inhabit hosts and start rampantly committing murder, yet the potentially greater threat to humanity is whether they can come together to react. Colin Farrell is gearing up to appear in Max’s series, but for the moment, he’s starring as private detective John Sugar, who must track the disappearance of a powerful
Hollywood producer’s granddaughter. In the process, Sugar also digs up family secrets that were buried for major reasons. Walton Goggins portrays The Ghoul in this series that he was very excited to join until he learned about . Still, he persisted in this live-action adaptation of the wildly successful video game series that takes place two centuries following the apocalypse, in which coming home doesn’t exactly happen as expected for the wealthy who have been hanging out in their shelters. The entire season will drop at once, for the binging.
Apple TV+ continues hitting the history books hard (after and ), and here, Michael Douglas puts on the duds to portray Ben Franklin. In this series, however, the focus isn’t upon Franklin’s legacy as the father of electricity but in his journey to
France on a secret mission. The show adapts , the Pulitzer Prize winning book from Stacy Schiff. Lily Gladstone is following up her arresting performance in this true-crime series adaptation of the late Rebecca Godfrey’s same-named book that into 14-year-old Reena Virk’s murder after it flipped a Canadian town on its head. The story carries some flavor with vibes alongside its real-life origins. Riley Keough portrays Godfrey, and Gladstone suits up as a cop as the two
Women take different approaches to the pursuit of justice. If you adore Conan O’Brien — and who doesn’t? — and especially if you enjoy his podcast, you’ll want to fall in-like all over again as Conan visit those
Friends. What follows will be a globetrotting extravaganza, surely of the self-deprecating variety. Robert Durst didn’t know what hit him, but it was always (surprise) Robert Durst hitting himself. He hot-mic’d his way into a followup investigation following 2015’s first season finale, in which he confessed (to himself but inadvertently to the world), “What the hell did I do? Killed them all, of course.” At that point, a long wait for a followup season began, and Durst ended in behind bars after an extended run of dodging prosecution for repeated murder allegations due to insufficient evidence. Finally
HBO the Max will take us behind the scenes as director Andrew Jarecki continued digging into the most bizarre of cases with interviews from witnesses who didn’t come forward until after that Durst slip-up. Welcome to another side of Neil Gaiman’s , in which two young detectives discover each other while dead after being born decades apart. They’re BFF ghosts who also happen to have a knock for solving mysteries, particularly when something paranormal is afoot. That’s precisely what they encounter, including witches and the depths of Hell while aiming to help the mortal realm find closure through their investigations. In the midst of runaway successful movies, Jim Carrey and James Marsden’s voices are taking a break and yielding to Idris Elba, who stars here in the live-action series where his character fashions Adam Palley’s Wade into his protégé because someone needs to continue in the fine tradition of being an Echidna warrior. The film fills some gaps before the third movie, and the biggest attraction is (of course) the voice of Elba as an incorrigible grump. Because there’s as too , Elisabeth Moss stars in this thriller series that brings two women together in an intricate game while they leap across Europe to save thousands of innocents from perishing. Secrets, lies, and ass-kicking moves swirl with international agencies coming together, possibly begrudgingly, to ward off mayhem.