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WHAT’S NEW ON PRIME VIDEO “Outer Range” - Season 2
The mystery deepens in Season 2 of “Outer Range,” when the dramatic thriller series returns Thursday, May 16, to Prime Video. Josh Brolin (“No Country for Old Men,” 2007) stars in the series as family patriarch Royal Abbott, a Wyoming rancher who uncovers an unbelievable supernatural mystery on the edge of his property in the form of a dark void.as Royal and his wife, Cecelia (Lili Taylor, “American Crime”), try their best to hold their family together in the aftermath of their granddaughter’s disappearance, new threats emerge from all sides. Meanwhile, this new season “propels its characters deeper into the void with profound and unforeseen circumstances that could shake the very foundations of time itself” (per Prime Video). Created and written by new talent Brian Watkins, “Outer Range” Season 2 features episodes directed by Brolin, Blackhorse Lowe (“Reservation Dogs”) and Catriona Mckenzie (“Shining Vale”).the series’ ensemble cast includes Imogen Poots (“Vivarium,” 2019),Tamara Podemski (“Reservation Dogs”), Lewis Pullman (“Lessons in Chemistry”),tom Pelphrey (“Ozark”), Noah Reid (“Schitt’s Creek”), Shaun Sipos (“Reacher”), Isabel Arraiza (“The Oath”), Olive Abercrombie (“The Haunting of Hill House”) and Will Patton (“Yellowstone”).
WHAT’S NEW ON APPLE TV+ “The Big Cigar”
Based on the magazine article by executive producer Joshuah Bearman (“Argo,” 2012), the new six-episode series, “The Big Cigar,” debuts its first two episodes Friday, May 17, on Apple TV+. The remaining four episodes air weekly on Fridays thereafter. Based on real-life events, the series follows Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton (André Holland, “Moonlight,” 2016) through his escape to Cuba in the 1970s.as described by Apple TV+, the series chronicles “the incredible true story of Hollywood revolution meeting social revolution: it’s a wild caper of Black Panther founder Newton escaping from the FBI to Cuba with the assistance of famed producer Bert Schneider [Alessandro Nivola, “The Many Saints of Newark,” 2021] in an impossibly elaborate plan — involving a fake movie production — that goes wrong every way it possibly can.and somehow, it’s all true. Mostly.”