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WHAT’S NEW ON APPLE TV+
“Servant” - Season 3
Season 3 of “Servant,” the hit horror series from director M. Night Shyamalan (“Lady in the Water,” 2006), debuts its first episode on Apple TV+ on Friday, Jan. 21, with each of its nine remaining new episodes releasing weekly on subsequent Fridays. The series follows wealthy Philadelphia couple Dorothy (Lauren Ambrose, “Six Feet Under”) and Sean Turner (Toby Kebbell, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” 2014) as a rift in their marriage grows following the death of their infant son. As the rift gets bigger, it opens an opportunity for a mysterious force to enter their home. Bringing in a lifelike baby doll to help Dorothy process her grief, the doll is soon followed by a mysterious nanny named Leanne (Nell Tiger Free, “Too Old to Die Young”), who arrives to care for it — their “son.” As the story has progressed over the course of the past two seasons, unbidden forces continuing to wreak havoc on the family and the lives of those around them moving into the Season 3. Created and written by Tony Basgallop (“Hotel Babylon”), the series also stars Rupert Grint (“Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” 2011) and new cast addition Sunita Mani (“GLOW”).
WHAT’S NEW ON PRIME “As We See It”
Three roommates embark on a grand new journey in “As We See It,” the new Prime original sitcom premiering on the streamer on Friday, Jan. 21. Jack (Rick Glassman, “Undateable”), Harrison (Albert Rutecki, “Aged Fruit”) and Violet (Sue Ann Pien, “Everlasting,” 2016) are 20-something roommates on the autism spectrum. The show follows the group as they learn to live together and strive to build new friendships, explore budding love and find career-type jobs. As they navigate their changing lives — often with the help of their friends, families and each other — Jack, Harrison and Violet experience all of life’s triumphs and setbacks together. Written by Ian Deitchman (“Ordinary Joe”), Jason Katims (“Friday Night Lights”), Kristin Rusk Robinson (“Life as We Know It,” 2010), Michelle Sam (“Black Boy Joy,” 2019) and Jesikah Suggs (“Away”), the series is directed by Jaffar Mahmood (“Young Sheldon”) and Jenée Lamarque (“The Pretty One,” 2013). “As We See It” also stars David Futternick (“Joe & Dave”), Andrew M. Duff (“Little Voice”), Angela Fornero (“Another Girl,” 2021), Jocelyn Marie (“Rizo,” 2020) and Heather Adair (“The Big Nothing,” 2020).
“A Hero” (2021)
Catch the film that’s taken the festival circuit by storm when director, writer and producer Asghar Farhadi’s (“A Separation,” 2011) newest film, “A Hero,” premieres on Prime on Friday, Jan. 21. The co-winner of the Grand Prix at 2021’s Festival de Cannes, this Iranian drama follows Rahim (Amir Jadidi, “The Lost Strait,” 2018), a calligrapher who was imprisoned when he was unable to pay off a dept. While on a two-day leave from his prison, Rahim tries to convince his creditor (Mohsen Tanabandeh, “Seven Minutes to Fall,” 2010) to
Albert Rutecki, Rick Glassman and Sue Ann Pien star in “As We See It”
drop the charges against him. When things don’t go the way any of them hoped or planned, it starts to look like Rahim’s days as a free man may be numbered. From Memento films, “A Hero” is co-produced by Farhadi and Alexandre Mallet-guy (“The Past,” 2013). Fereshteh Sadrorafaii (“When the Moon was Full,” 2019), Sarina Farhadi (“A Separation,” 2011), Ehsan Goodarzi (“A Dragon Arrives!” 2016) and newcomers Sahar Goldust, Alireza Jahandideh and Maryam Shahdaei also star in the film.
WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX
“Munich - The Edge of War” (2021)
Robert Harris’s 2017 spy novel “Munich” comes to life in the highly anticipated new British drama film “Munich — The Edge of War,” premiering on Netflix on Friday, Jan. 21.
A historical-fiction film set just before the beginning of World War II, during the negotiations for the 1938 Munich Agreement, “Munich” follows two young former Oxford classmates — one a British civil servant (George Mackay, “1917,” 2019) and the other a German diplomat (Jannis Niewöhner, “Godless Youth,” 2017) — as they are reunited during the fateful political summit. As Adolf Hitler (Ulrich Matthes, “Downfall,” 2004) prepares to invade Czechoslovakia and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (Jeremy Irons, “Watchmen”) desperately attempts to find a peaceful resolution, the young pair conspire behind the scenes to prevent a war in Europe. Directed by Christian Schwochow (“Cracks in the Shell,” 2011) with an adapted screenplay written by Ben Power (“The Hollow Crown”), the film’s cast is rounded out by Jessica Brown Findlay (“Brave New World”), Robert Bathurst (“Toast of London”), August Diehl (“Inglourious Basterds,” 2009), Anjli Mohindra (“Vigil”), Alex Jennings (“Victoria”), Mark Lewis Jones (“Gangs of London”), Liv Lisa Fries (“Babylon Berlin”) and Sandra Hüller (“Toni Erdmann,” 2016).