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WHAT’S NEW ON HULU
“What We Do in the Shadows” - Season 4 Sink your teeth into a brand-new season of “What We Do in the Shadows,” premiering its first two episodes on Hulu Wednesday, July 13, with episodes airing weekly thereafter. Based on the 2014 comedy-horror mockumentary film of the same name from the dynamic and multi-talented producing/writing/directing/acting team of Jemaine Clement (“Flight of the Concords”) and Taika Waititi (“Jojo Rabbit,” 2019), “What We Do in the Shadows” gives viewers a look into the nightly lives of a group of vampires who’ve lived together for over 100 years and currently haunt the citizens of Staten Island, New York. Filmed in the mockumentary style, the series follows vamps Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak, “Cruella,” 2021), Laszlo (Matt Berry, “Toast of London”) and Nadja (Natasia Demetriou, “Stath Lets Flats”), Nandor’s human familiar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén, “Reacher”) and their energy vampire roommate, the always full-named Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch, “The Office”). Now heading into its fourth season, the series picks up with Colin Robinson as a baby, forced to grow up again. While the group is back on Staten Island after their worldly adventures, Guillermo is faced with some tough decisions about his family traditions and his duty to his vampire masters. Created and written for television by Clement, with staff writers Jake Bender (“Bless the Harts”), Zach Dunn (“Mr. Student Body President”), Shana Gohd (“Archer”), William Meny (“Our Flag Means Death”) and Sarah Naftalis (“Silicon Valley”), the new season is directed by Yana Gorskaya (“Trial & Error”).
WHAT’S NEW ON NETFLIX “Persuasion” (2022)
Get a second chance at love with “Persuasion,” the new film premiering Friday, July 15, on Netflix. Inspired by Jane Austen’s 1817 novel of the same name, the last book she wrote before her death, “Persuasion” is set in the early 19th century and follows Anne Elliot (Dakota Johnson, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” 2015), a young woman with modern sensibilities. When Fredrick Wentworth (Cosmo Jarvis, “Lady Macbeth,” 2016), her former fiancé and man of humble origins whom she left at the insistence of her family, walks back into her life, Anne has a chance to embrace true love once again. Now, she must learn to follow her heart in order to live the life she truly wants. Directed by Carrie Cracknell (“A Doll’s House,” 2012), the film features a screenplay by Ron Bass (“Rain Man,” 1988) and Alice Winslow (“#Blueboar,” 2020). Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians,” 2018), Mia Mckenna-bruce (“Get Even”), Richard E. Grant (“Gosford Park,” 2001), Lydia Rose Bewley (“The Royals”), Nikki Amuka-bird (“Jupiter Ascending,” 2015), Izuka Hoyle (“The Outpost”) Nia Towle (“Rocketman,” 2019) and Edward Bluemel (“A Discovery of Witches”) also star.