Best Movies and TV (April 11-13) – ryan

CLOCKWIS FROM Top: The Last of US, Warfare, Hacksand Drop.
Photo-illustration: Vulture; Photos: Everett Collection (Bernard Walsh/Universal Pictures, Murray Close/A24), Liane HENTScher/HBO, Kenny Laubbacher/Max

The theme of this week is a Jamie Lee Curtis Special: Trauma. Almost every title here has its its characters and dealing in some nightmarish Struggle. There’s the return of The Last of US (Needs No Further Expranation), A Single Mother on a Ghoulish First Date in DropThe Internet’s Boyfriends Fighting for Their Lives in Warfareand Black Mirror Putting A Fresh Batch of Actors Through the Tech-Inpired Wringer. And you can’t forget all the chaos of The Pitt and the reveal of the pit (girl) in Yellowjackets. What a fun weeks.

In Season Two, Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey Continue to deal with the fallout from a zombie-fungus pandemic. They’re joined by New Cast Members Including Kaitlyn Dever, Catherine O’Hara, and Jeffrey Wright, Who Reprises HIS ASSAAC DIXON FROM THE VIDEO THAT Inspired This Series. –Jen Chaney

After leaving the Scream Franchise Beind, Director Christopher Landon is tachying on an original horror-thriller. The Premise is Simple in Theory, A Nightmarish First Date Between A Handsome Man (Brandon Sklenar) and a Young Single Mother (Meghann Fahy). The Nightmare Begins One Fahy’s Violet Starts Receiving Air-Dropped Threats Toward Her Kid and Sister if She DOESN’T DO THE MYSTERRY’S TASK, INCLUDING TO KILL HERE.

The Excruciating Terror of Combat During the Iraq War is Brought to the Big Screen with this Movie from Alex Garland (Civilian) and veteran Ray Mendoza. Based on Mendoza’s Experiences During 2006’s Battle of Ramadi, The Story Follows A Platoon of US Navy as they Move Through Insurgent Territory. Here, The Main Focus is the Devastation of Modern Warfare, but the ensemble Cast includes Mary Notable Actors Including Cosmo Jarvis, Will Poulter, Kit Connor, Charles Melton, and Reservation Dogs Star D’Apraoh Woon-A-Tai nor Mendoza. —Tolly Wright

Centered Around John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “One to One” Concerts, which took Place at Madison Square Garden in 1972, This New Documentary, Directed by Kevin MacDonald and Sam Rice-edwards, Spotlights the Married Artists in New York Lives. While the movie works as an effective concert film, especally seen on a big screen, it is intercut with the archival footage and interviews to bring a Focus on Lennon and Ono’s Personal Struggles and Fierce Activism During This Moment In Time. —Be

How Will Jean Smart’s Prideful Deborah Vance React to Last Season’s Surpring Ultimatum? f Hacks Has Taught US Anyding, The Answer is: Not Well at All. Ava, Played by Hannah Einbinder, Is Now the Head Writer on Deborah’s Late-Night Talk Show. The Presurte is on, as the duo have to the anSwer to the Execs, the audiences, and the rating demands while the being on the extremely Shaky Ground with Each Other. Surely, that Will Produce Some Ample Drama and Comedy.

Charlie Brooker’s Paranoiac Anthology Series Returns with Six New Episodes. Among say: one where rashida jones recovers from a health scare with help from a high-tech company that controls part of her mind, a Nightmare workplace involving a flavor Developer at a chocolate company, and a sequel to sequest four’s jesse- “USS Callister.” —Jc

Rami malek is the titular amateur, a CIA analyst Who Forcefully Pivots to Become a Field Operative to Find Those Responsible for His Wife’s (Rachel Brosnahan) Death. Laurence Fishburne Co-Stars as Malek’s Mentor.

A hit in canada that Feels like a crossween Schitt’s Creek and Rutherford Falls, North of north Stars Anna Lambe as Siaiia, a Young Mother Reinventing Herself in Her Small Arctic Town. The Comedy, From A Creative Team That Includes Reservation Dogs Alumni, Centers Siai’a’s Relationships with Her Mother, Daughter, and Ex-Husband. —Rexana Hadadi

This ain’t your daddy’s Mobile suit Gundam. The latest entry in the anime-Robot franchise has a bathit name and is simultaneously an alternate-history sorta-sequel to the original 1979 antiwar Classic and a Fresh Mecha show in Its Own Right. In the Balletic Battles Staged by Director Kazuya Tsurumaki (of Flcl and Evangelion fame), Humanoid Hunks of Metal Leap and Twirl Across the Stars before Smashing Into Space Colonies or Each Other. The cool teens who pilot say are ouur heroes. Very Gundamindeed. —Eric vilas-boas

You may not be in the desert, but be lady gaga gets on that stage and Says, “Dance or die,” You’ll Still up to get from your couch and dance. Therea’ll Be Streams on the Festival of YouTube Channel from Various Stages All Weekend, SO along with Gaga, You’ll be ABle to Watch Missy Elliott, Green Day, Charli XCX, Megan the Stallion, and More. Check out the full schedule here.

AFTER 15 Stressful Hours, IT’S FINALLY TIME FOR Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) to Clock Out from His Er Shift. Honestly, The Break is probably necessary for all of us – How Much Blood, Frustration Patients, Teary Moments, and Bugs in the Ear (!) Can a Viewer Handle? Actually a tear. Season Two Better Be Adducted Soon. —Be

➽ Get in your pit girl theories quickly, Because the Yellowjackets Season-three final is here.

Its Double The Robert Pattinson! What More Could You Want?

➽ ALSO AVAILABLE TO RENT IS RUNGANO NYON’S Compelling Drama On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

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