Plus 8 post-apocalyptic shows you won’t stop thinking about
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| | While the total solar eclipse will have many looking up to the sky this afternoon, there's plenty onscreen to look forward to as well. Before queueing up this week's slate of premieres, join NASA's live stream as experts guide viewers through the blackout that will briefly impact most of North America. Happy viewing! |
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| | | | Fallout | The popular video game series gets a long-awaited screen treatment, with Ella Purnell and Walton Goggins leading this wildly captivating post-apocalyptic series about hellish life on the Earth's surface after nuclear fallout. Premieres April 11. | More details |
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| | Franklin | Michael Douglas transforms into Benjamin Franklin, with the limited series depicting the Founding Father's time in France as he convinced the country to support America's democratic revolution. Premieres April 12. | More details |
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| | The Sympathizer | Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, this espionage thriller follows the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy-turned-refugee during the final days of the Vietnam War. The limited series’ ensemble cast includes Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh. Premieres April 14. | More details |
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| | Civil War | In filmmaker Alex Garland's latest movie, Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny and Nick Offerman play figures caught up in a chaotic divide that results from a political race in a near-future America. Premieres April 12. | More details |
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| | Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead | The 1991 hit movie gets a modern remake, with Ms. Pat, June Squibb and Nicole Richie starring in this dark teen comedy about what happens after a mom jets off for a last-minute vacation—and her kid's babysitter turns up dead. Premieres April 12. | More details |
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| | | The movie's baseball scenes were filmed at real games, with one marking the end to a 10-game winning streak for the Boston Red Sox.Despite being about a die-hard supporter of the Red Sox, the movie's star is actually a Yankees fan born and raised in New York.The 2005 rom-com marked the first of three onscreen collabs between the movie's two stars. | Answer in footer |
| | | | | | If Fallout's take on post-apocalyptic life has got you curious about more takes on the world after society falls, here are a few must-watches to queue up before the premiere. | | The Last of Us | Another wildly popular video game got the TV treatment, with Pedro Pascal leading this harrowing tale about a smuggler struggling to survive among the undead—and other treacherous obstacles—as he transports a young girl (Bella Ramsey) across North America. | More details |
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| | Station Eleven | Easily one of the best—and most underrated—shows of 2021, the limited series starring Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel picks up two decades after a flu wiped out most of the population and modern life as many knew it. | More details |
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| | Silo | Rebecca Ferguson stars in this drama about a colony of people living in a massive bunker built deep into the ground who start to question why they've been sequestered there to begin with. But the answers they seek only lead to more questions about their society. | More details |
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| | | | Interview with the Vampire | A new trailer for Interview with the Vampire Season 2 has arrived, and it's, er, a monster. The next installment in the adaptation of Anne Rice's book series can't come soon enough, but this extended look at what's to come might just hold us over until May 12 when it premieres on AMC. | View trailer |
| | | | | Released on this date in 2005, Fever Pitch stars Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore, who would also share the screen in Whip It and The Stand In. |
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