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Brainerd Dispatch • September 6 - 12, 2020 •19 By Jessica Gosse TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "Undercover" Season 2 Undercover agents Bob Lem- mens (Tom Waes, "Dreamland," 2013) and Kim De Rooij (Anna Drijver, "Zwarte tulp") are back in Season 2 of this Belgian-Dutch crime drama premiering Sunday, Sept. 6, on Netflix. This second season is set to pick up nearly a year after the events of the first season finale, and there have been some big changes in that time. While Bob is still working as a cop, Kim is now working for an NGO that focuses on human rights. Her latest investigation with the orga- nization leads her to Syria, where she uncovers an illegal arms trade and calls on her former colleague to help her. Bob goes undercover yet again, as the operation is be- ing run through a horse ranch by arms-dealing brothers Laurent (Sebastien Dewaele, "Eigen Kweek") and JP Berger (Wim Wil- laert, "Cargo," 2017). Meanwhile, despite being in prison, Season 1 drug kingpin Ferry Bouman (Frank Lammers, "All You Need Is Love," 2018) is determined to use all of his resources to find out who the undercover agents were that put him away and get his revenge. "Julie and the Phantoms" Music mixes with the supernatural in this new series from Kenny Ortega (director of the High School Musical franchise) premiering Thursday, Sept. 10, on Netflix. Based on the popular Brazilian TV series of the same name, the show follows a teenage girl named Julie (newcomer Madison Reyes), who loses her passion for life after the tragic death of her mother. When spending time in her mother's old music studio, Julie is suddenly visited by three ghosts — Luke (Charlie Gillespi, "Charmed"), Reggie (Jeremy Shada, "Mr. Stu- dent Body President") and Alex (Owen Patrick Joyner, "Knight Squad") — who, when they were alive, were a dreamy '90s boy band. As she spends time with the boys, her love of life and music is reignited, and she begins singing again. Julie soon comes up with the brilliant idea to form a band, creating a musical outlet for her- self while giving the boys a chance to become the musicians they always wanted to be. "The Duchess" Canadian comedian Katherine Ryan ("Beyond Bionic") serves as both star and creator of this com- edy series premiering Friday, Sept. 11, on Netflix. Based on her own life, Ryan stars as Katherine, a single mom living in London with her adolescent daughter. As Kath- erine manages the various aspects of her life, from her job to her new boyfriend, she realizes that, despite the hardships of being a single mother, her daughter is her favorite part of life. With that in mind, she decides that what she wants more than anything is to have another child, and, in order for that child to be as wonderful as her first daughter, she should have it with the same father — her hor- rible ex-boyfriend. WHAT'S NEW ON HULU "Woke" In a world that is becoming increasingly aware of systemic racism, it seems only appropriate for Hulu to launch a new series that highlights the struggles of a Black up-and-coming artist, premiering Wednesday, Sept. 9. Lamorne Morris of "New Girl" fame stars as Keef Knight, a cartoonist who, despite many struggles in life, is about to finally achieve mainstream success with his comic book "Toast and But- ter." Keef makes an effort to avoid controversy in both his life and his artwork, but when he has a run-in with some aggressive policemen, his world is shaken and he begins to question why it is "that people of color are always having to stand for something in [their] work." He doesn't realize how much his world has truly been changed until he begins to see inanimate objects come to life and confront him about the racial inequality to which he has been turning a blind eye, despite facing it himself every day. With a new perspective on life, Keef must manage to maintain what he has already achieved as his work be- gins to change from cute to more "woke" art. Inspired by the life of cartoonist, rapper and social activ- ist Keith Knight (who, incidentally, serves as a writer), this timely series is not to be missed. WHAT'S ON PRIME "Burn Notice" Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan, "Shut Eye") was working as a U.S. Army Ranger when he was recruited into the CIA, but after a long and successful career, he has been let go in this action drama available now on Prime. When Westen is beaten and kidnapped while on a CIA mission in Nigeria only to wake up back in his home town of Miami, Florida, he realizes that he has been "burned" — dis- missed from the agency and left with essentially no identity, as all of his personal assets are frozen and his connections to the agency have been cut off. With nowhere else to turn, Westen is forced to move back in with his eccentric mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless, "Queer as Folk"), while he figures out why his career has suddenly been cut short. After strenuous efforts to contact the U.S. government, Westen dis- covers only that someone powerful wants him out of the picture, and as long as he stays in Miami, he can live a relatively normal life, but if he leaves, he will be hunted down by the very agency he used to work for. Resigned to his situa- tion, Westen begins working as a private investigator with the help of his ex-girlfriend Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar, "Once Upon a Time"), who is an explosives expert, and his best friend Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell, "Ash vs Evil Dead"), a former Navy SEAL. While the cases they take are real, the private investigation business is merely a front, as the three of them work to discover who burned Westen and why. Binge all seven seasons of this thrilling series now on Prime. Tom Waes in "Undercover" Lamorne Morris stars in "Woke" Sharon Gless, Bruce Campbell and Jeffrey Donovan star in "Burn Notice"

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