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Jupiter’s Legacy
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Ben Daniels, Leslie Bibb
Where: Netflix After close to a century of protecting humanity, an group of ageing superheroes looks to pass the torch to a younger generation. But is the code of honor by which they’ve conducted themselves relevant anymore? And what if their children don’t want to use their powers for good?
Halston
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Rory Culkin
Where: Netflix Miniseries based on the life of American fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, who rose to fame in the 1970s. The series covers his glamorous life in New York and the hostile takeover bid that left him fighting for control of his own name.
Love, Death & Robots
Starring:
Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gary Cole
Where: Netflix The second season of the animated anthology series created by Tim Miller and ‘re-imagined’ from Miller and David Fincher’s reboot of the animated sci-fi film “Heavy Metal” (1981). Each episode has a loose thematic connection to (one of more of) the title’s subjects.
Oxygen
Starring: Melanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi Where: Netflix French sci-fi thriller. A young woman wakes up in a medical cryogenic unit with no memory of who she is or how she got there. Confined in a box little bigger than a coffin, she realizes that she will soon run out of oxygen, and that regaining her memory is her best hope of escape.
The Upshaws
Starring: Wanda Sykes, Mike Epps, Kim Fields, Page Kennedy Where: Netflix Sitcom about a black working-class family in Indianapolis, consisting of well-intentioned, hard-working dad Bennie, his wife Regina, their two daughters and one son, Bennie’s teenage son from a former relationship, and Regina’s sarcastic sister.