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Three brand-new series we’re excited to check out this month

Generation

HBO Max, March 11th

Lena Dunham was an extremely precocious 25 years old when she made the culture-shaking first season of Girls.

As if to prove a point about 25 not really being all that young to lead a TV show, she now serves as one of the producers on this new half-hour series created by 18-year-old Zelda Barnz and her father, Daniel Barnz ( Cake),

who also directs. Daughter and father turn their gaze on a group of SoCal teens (played by, among others, Justice Smith, Chase Sui Wonders, Chloe East, and Uly Schlesinger) grappling with sexuality, school lockdowns, and all the other travails of contemporary high schoolers.

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Disney+, March 19th

Marvel Studios follows the sitcom-history shenanigans of WandaVision with a much more straightforward-sounding spinoff of the Avengers

films. This one tracks the further adventures of Falcon (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan), as well as other MCU characters like Captain America: Civil War villain Baron Zemo (Daniel Brühl), S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp), and mercenary Batroc (Georges St-Pierre). New on the scene: Wyatt Russell as John Walker, who in the comics briefly — and badly — attempted to succeed Steve Rogers as Captain America.

The Irregulars

Netflix, March 26th

In a handful of Sherlock Holmes stories, the master detective calls in the aid of a group of local street urchins dubbed the Baker Street Irregulars, who act as his eyes and ears on the streets of London. This young-adult drama reimagines the relationship as one where the Irregulars are actually solving all the mysteries, while

Holmes (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) is a drug addict (hey, he does use cocaine in the books) and Dr. Watson (Royce Pierreson) is far less altruistic than he appears, on the page or in previous adaptations.