The American drama in April is really wonderful!
Although there are not many new dramas this month, the old dramas are one by one heavy:
"Westworld" replaced "Game of Thrones" and seized HBO's spring slot; Hulu sacrificed The Handmaid's Tale of the Golden Ball; FX's "The Great Swarm", Syfy's "The Vast Sky", Bravo's "True Love Mask", and AMC's "Fear of the Walking Dead" will also return.
If the new drama in February and March does not satisfy you, then this month's drama list can definitely end your drama famine.
Westworld Season 2
Westworld Season 2
★★★★★
Genre: Sci-Fi / Western
It starts on April 22
Broadcast platform: HBO
Writers: Jonathan Nolan (Suspect Tracking), Lisa Joe Nolan (Line of Fire Warning)
Directed by: Tariq Saleh (The Underground Republic), Craig Zobe (Watch over the World)
Starring: Evan Rachel Wood (True Love Like Blood), Tandy Newton (Crash)
"Westworld", which was absent in 2017, is finally back! It should be noted that before April, HBO reserved a slot for "Game of Thrones", which also shows the weight level of "Westworld".
The first season of Westworld ended with an abrupt and shocking ending, in which Scientist Robert Ford, played by Anthony Hopkins, was killed, leaving behind an awakened robot "receptionist" and a group of humans waiting to be slaughtered. The massacre in Bloodbath Paradise, after a long period of preparation, has just begun.
In the new season, the story will revolve around "chaos", the robot "receptionist" is the king, "Maeve" played by Sandy Newton will inevitably become the leader of the robot uprising after obtaining the highest value of presidential awareness; and Rachel Wood's Dolores is the mysterious bloodthirsty tyrant Wyatt in the previous season, and in the new season, she is likely to be more inclined to use force to fight against humans.
And the human side, on the other hand, does not intend to give up. Eddie Harris' "Men in Black" has confirmed his return, and in the trailer, he threatens: "I'm going to raze this place to the ground." Obviously, this Western World, which evolved into the strongest, was in line with his madness and ambition.
The younger version of "Men in Black", William played by Jimmy Simpson, will also continue to appear in the sequel, which means that there will still be a double timeline narrative in the second season.
Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joe Nolan, the two screenwriters and husband and wife, wrote all 10 episodes of the second season, and the degree of brain-burning is definitely only increased compared to the previous game. The two producers have previously revealed that the worldview of the second season will continue to expand, and in addition to Westworld, there will be other themed robot parks.
In Michael Clayton's original Westworld film, in addition to recreating the Westworld of the Wild West, there are two other parallel parks: the medieval world and the Roman world.
The series was adapted into six theme parks, and in the first episode of the second season, the shogunate world in the Style of Toei appeared. In the trailer, there was a robot with a samurai image, and the geisha played by Kikuchi Rinko also had a glimpse. In addition to Kikuchi, Sanada Hiroyuki also joined the series.
As for whether the war in Westworld will ignite in other worlds, we have to wait for the story of the second season to help us reveal the answer.
The Handmaid's Tale Season 2
The Handmaid's Tale Season 2
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi
It starts on April 25
Broadcast platform: Hulu
Writers: Bruce Miller (The Handmaid's Tale, Hundred Sons of the Earth)
Directed by: Mike Barker (Ice Storm)
Starring: Elizabeth Moss (Mad Men), Alexis Braddell (Gilmour Girl)
"The Handmaid's Tale" was a huge hit in 2017, not only becoming a big winner of the Golden Globes and Emmy Awards, but also making Hulu, who has been hanging by streaming peers Netflix and Amazon, raise his eyebrows. With the popularity and quality of the series, the production of the second season has been nailed down a long time ago.
The lineup in front of and behind the stage in the second season basically continues the original team of the first season, and Elizabeth Moss continues to play the role of the heroine Ofrid after the Emmy Awards, and the tragically circumcised handmaiden Ofgren played by Alexis Braddell in the previous season will also return as a resident role.
Judging from the official plot information, the story of the new season will start from the pregnancy of Overrid, on the one hand, she continues to make efforts to free the soon-to-be-born child from the terror rule of Gilead, on the other hand, the whole story has also been expanded, and the heavily polluted colonies that have been mentioned repeatedly in the first season will also appear.
In fact, the first season of "The Handmaid's Tale" has already finished filming Margaret Atwood's original book, that is, the second season is basically an original story rewritten on the original worldview.
The level of Hulu's original dramas is still a bit worse than other streaming media competitors, so for the new season, everyone should first maintain a normal heart.
Large Flock Season 2
Legion Season 2
★★★
Genre: Drama / Action / Sci-Fi / Suspense / Thriller / Horror / Crime
Start time: April 3
Broadcast platform: FX
Writers: Noah Holly (Ice Storm)
Directed by Tim Mirantes (Blood Gang)
Starring: Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Rachel Keller (Ice Storm Season 2)
The Neurotic Drama of the Year is here again! This time, the genre of the series cannot be counted on one hand, including sci-fi action, crime suspense, and a little more thriller and horror plot.
"The Swarm" focuses on a mutant with superpowers, David Howler, and the Swarm is his nickname. His superpower is "fine points", a person can be divided into different individuals, each individual has a different superpower, almost invincible himself.
The story of the first season is about a large group of people slowly discovering and controlling their huge abilities from a dick, and the finale leaves many big holes to fill.
The second season has just completed the premiere recently, the current Rotten Tomatoes praise rate is as high as 100%, Douban score of 8.9, maintaining the level of the first season, and also inheriting the brain-burning and neurotic characteristics of the previous game, the huge amount of information makes the fans who have difficulty in smoothing out the plot of the first season into confusion again.
"The Swarm", which takes the psychological thriller route, is like the private graffiti field of screenwriter Noah Holly.
The several surreal style wits that he shakes off from time to time in "Ice Storm" have a huge space for display in "The Big Flock", so this drama is stuffed with Noah's various strange brain holes.
From the first season onwards, it's a polarized episode that makes people who like them like drugs and hate people unable to poke at the G-spot at all. And this trend, I believe that in the second season will not change much.
Lost in space
Lost in Space
★★★★
Genre: Sci-fi
Start date: April 13
Broadcast platform: Netflix
Writers: Matt Sazma (The Amazing Team), Burke Shapleys (The Amazing Team)
Director: Neil Marshall (Game of Thrones)
Starring: Toby Stephens ("No One Survives"), Molly Parker ("The Lawgiver")
Before there was "The X-Files", after "Star Trek", when the science fiction classic became a new mine in the field of American dramas, the smell-sensitive Netflix naturally did not miss this opportunity, and "Lost in Space" was the first wave of achievements.
Remade from the 1965-1968 eponymous series of the same name, the drama tells the story of the Robinsons, who, while flying to an extraterrestrial planet on a colonization mission, experience a malfunction in their spacecraft and thus deflect to a strange planet where they find a way to survive and find their way home.
It can be said that "Lost in Space" combines various elements of different types of space films, both the plot of exploration and curiosity in "Star Trek", and the adventure link similar to "Star Wars", and it is also a family type drama, and there must be a lot of warm elements suitable for all ages.
Netflix in this drama, although not to use the big star, but from the trailer, the magnificent large scenes and realistic special effects prove that the investment in the whole series should be quite a lot, and it can also be seen that Netflix attaches great importance to it.
However, at the beginning of the year, Netflix launched the science fiction series "Copy", which received mixed reviews, so in this genre field, Netflix is not yet called a "ministry boutique", and the quality of this new remake may only have to wait until after broadcasting to finally see the difference.
Vast Sky Season 3
The Expanse Season 3
Genre: Sci-Fi / Suspense
Airtime: April 11
Broadcast platform: Syfy
Writers: Hawke Osby (Son of Man), Mark Fergus (Iron Man), Hayley Lambert (The Romance of Mom and Dad)
Director: Brick Eisner (UFO Invasion)
Starring: Steven Stritter (10,000 Years Ago), Thomas Jane (The Mist)
Some American dramas, obviously the quality is not bad, but they are always tepid. This strange law applies to the finished Watchman, the coming-to-end American Spy Dream, and the vast expanse of the firmament.
Remember that when the second season of "The Sky Is Vast" was broadcast last year, the local ratings in the United States have been hovering around 0.2. Many domestic public accounts have been hyped amway, high ratings, large scale, have become selling points, the result of the current number of episodes Douban ratings, or did not exceed 5000.
The setting of the series is set 200 years later, in addition to the political center of the universe, Earth, Mars has become a colony of mankind and holds a powerful military power. The asteroid belt between Earth and Mars also lives with humans, but because of its economic backwardness and lack of materials, it is equivalent to a cosmic slum. The Earth, Mars, and the asteroid belt have gradually formed three forces, and the relationship between them is also in a state of tension.
The story takes two small characters as the starting point, but involves the political conspiracy of different power cores, and the pattern span can be described as quite large. Behind the praise of the second season of "The Vast Sky" is not only because of the excellent production level achieved by Syfy TV for 6 million US dollars, but also because of the epic sense of the show in addition to science fiction, police banditry and adventure.
Some people in Douban call this drama a space version of "A Song of Ice and Fire", and this drama's complex characters, cumbersome clues, and grand story construct a fantasy space that is completely different from today's world and exists independently, which is also one of its most powerful places.
The third season of "The Vast Sky" is sure to air a total of 13 episodes, but if this year's ratings and popularity are not ideal, then this will become the last season of the entire series.
Finally, take a look at this month's full list.
April 2
Crossworld Season 1 ABC
April 3
The Last Bandit Season 1 TBS
The Swarm Season 2 FX
April 5
The second season of "Masquerade True Love" Bravo
April 6
Troy: City Of The Fallen Season 1 Netflix
April 8
The first season of Bloodthirsty Baby BBC America
The third season of "Unforgettable" PBS
April 10
"Jessie Arrives" Season 7 FOX
April 11
Season 3 of The Sky Syfy
April 13
Bosch Season 4 Amazon
Lost in Space Season 1 Netflix
April 15
Fear of the Walking Dead Season 4 AMC
April 18
《First Vampire》 5th Season CW
April 22
Wasteland Season 3 AMC
Westworld Season 2 HBO
April 24
Season 5 CW of 100 Sons of the Earth
April 25
Gold Critics Season 2 IFC
Black Alert Season 3 CBS
The Handmaid's Tale Season 2 Hulu
April 26
Spy Network Season 3 ABC
April 27
The Legend of the Monkey King Netflix
April 30
Basic Deduction Season 6 CBS