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True Detective | SoHo, 3.00/7.30 Monday ☆☆☆☆ “Season 3 is very good. Structurally, it uses the same reopened case conceit as Season 1, where a detective is talking to investigators about a long-ago mystery that still haunts him, but it adds a third timeline to great effect. Oscar winner Mahershala Ali plays Wayne ‘Purple’ Hays, […]

Season three of SoHo’s True Detective will open with a double-episode on January 14 and screen the same time — 3pm — as its HBO premiere. The eight-part series will explore the mystery around a macabre crime in the Ozarks that deepens over 30 years. Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Stephen Dorff (Immortals), Carmen Ejogo (Selma), Josh Hopkins […]

Neon will stream season three of True Detective the same day it premieres on HBO. The much anticipated sequel will stream from January 14. Also new to Neon next month will be the SyFy series Deadly Class, about an ’80s high school for assassins, and the Chris Pine Black Dahlia thriller,  I Am the Night. Other […]

   Next month Sky Box Sets will screen the first two seasons of True Detective as a curtain-raiser to season three’s January 14 premiere on SoHo. Says Esquire of S3: “With Oscar-winner Mahershala Ali in the lead role, the first trailer for new season appears to deliver everything that made the first season such a […]

Maniac | Netflix, from Friday ➢➢ “Forget Superbad, this reuniting of two of that movie’s leading lights is super good. Emma Stone and Jonah Hall star in the trippy new 10-part Netflix series … With it’s ironic opening voiceover, deep mediations on the nature of loneliness and more cynical riff on the traditional rom-com manic pixie-dream girl, […]

Sharp Objects | SoHo, 1.00/8.30 Monday ➢ “Like the Gillian Flynn novel it’s based on, HBO’s Sharp Objects is a fascinating fake-out. It’s a murder mystery, but its main character isn’t a detective. She isn’t even necessarily an especially good journalist. The law enforcement characters are secondary, and the case they’re pursuing is light on enriching […]

The Alienist | Netflix, from Thursday ➢ “Part Gangs of New York, part The Knick and part Mindhunter, TNT’s The Alienist pairs gruesome, serial killer carnage with horse-and-carriage charm for this psychological thriller set in 19th century Manhattan. The 10-episode limited series is as much about a murder investigation as it is about the roots […]

  Sky has tied up HBO content in this market with a new multi-year deal that puts streaming upstarts on notice and will include developing an HBO Download to Go app. The pact cements Sky’s entrenched partnership with HBO, which  began with the launch of the SoHo channel in 2011, and nixes prospects of HBO […]

Mindhunter | Netflix, from today ➢ “The first two episodes of Netflix’s FBI profiler drama are a prime showcase for director David Fincher. And it’s never less than engrossing … There’s no telling if the series can maintain this level of quality, though Fincher seems much more hands-on here (directing four episodes in total, and […]

Westworld may be HBO’s new darling, with its 22 Emmy nominations, but diehard western fans will be elated to learn the cable channel’s Deadwood is poised to ride again. Today on the Television Critics Association tour, HBO Original Programming chief Casey Bloys said he was impressed by creator David Milch’s script for a movie-length send-off more […]