April is a big month for new releases, with some major titles hitting streaming platforms as spring arrives. Andrew Scott helms a new, highly-anticipated drama for Netflix, while Colin Farrel makes one of two 2024 TV appearances with “Sugar” on Apple TV+ (the other being “The Penguin” coming in the fall). There’s the latest video game adaptation that, like “The Last of Us,” attempts to nail the original tone while delivering why the adaptation is worthwhile. Elsewhere, actresses Lily Gladstone and Elizabeth Moss get their latest buzzy roles, and Idris Elba reprises his voice work as the character Knuckles.
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“Loot” (Season 2)
Maya Rudolph returns to the Apple TV+ comedy series created by Matt Hubbard and Alan Yang. Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (“Pose”), Joel Kim Booster (“Fire Island”), Ron Funches (“Harley Quinn”) and Nat Faxon (“Our Flag Means Death”) also star. The series follows Rudolph’s Molly, a woman whose divorce led her to be the third wealthiest woman in the world, prompting her return to lead a charity she forgot she had founded. Season two teases a new potential romance for Molly as she continues to thrive in her philanthropic position.
Premiere Date: April 3 on Apple TV+.
“Ripley”
From Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Steven Zaillian (“The Irishman,” “Moneyball”) comes “Ripley,” a new series-long adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s chilling grifter-turned-conman-murder novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” Andrew Scott (“All Of Us Strangers”) stars as the title character alongside Johnny Flynn and Dakota Fanning, with appearances by John Malkovich and Eliot Sumner and spectacular black-and-white photography by two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit that’s pretty much its own character.
Premiere Date: April 4 on Netflix.
“Star Trek: Discovery”
After a two-year wait, the fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Discovery” continues to follow the exploration of the crew of the starship Discovery. Sonequa Martin-Green (“Invincible”) stars as the ship’s captain as she and her crew continue their galactic adventure to find a mysterious power hidden for centuries. The series takes place more than 900 years after “Star Trek: The Original Series.” Doug Jones (“What We Do In the Shadows”), Anthony Rapp (“The Good Fight,) Mary Wiseman (“Room 104”), Wilson Cruz (“Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur”), Blu del Barrio (“The Owl House”), and David Ajala (“Supergirl”) all return.
Premiere Date: April 4 on Paramount+.
“Sugar”
Created and written by Mark Protosevich (“I Am Legend”) and directed by Fernando Meirelles (“City Of God”) and Adam Arkin (“Succession”), “Sugar” is a contemporary neo-noir detective mystery set in L.A. along the backdrop of Hollywood royalty, but it has a big genre twist on top of all that. The series stars Academy Award nominee Colin Farrell alongside Amy Ryan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Kirby (formerly known as Kirby Howell-Baptiste), James Cromwell, Anna Gun, and Sydney Chandler (read our review).
Premiere Date: April 5, 2024 on Apple TV+.