The Brainerd Dispatch - Today's Entertainment Magazine
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Brainerd Dispatch • March 21 - 27, 2021 •19 By Dana Simpson TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON DISNEY+ "The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers" Calling all '90s babies, youngsters and hockey fans, the Mighty Ducks are back with a new addition to the franchise nearly 25 years after the last installment was released. "The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers," a new Disney+ series, is skating its way onto the streamer, and it pre - mieres on Friday, March 26. When 12-year-old Evan (Brady Noon, "Boardwalk Empire"), an aspir- ing hockey player, tries out for the powerhouse Mighty Ducks junior hockey team, he finds himself in a league of his own. Amid serious young hockey aficionados and in - tense parents who've hired private coaches and sports psychologists for their children, Evan never stood much of a chance of getting on the team. But when he is denied as a Mighty Duck, Evan's mother, Alex (Lauren Graham, "Gilmore Girls"), decides to create a team of their own, one specifically designed for those who simply want to play the game for the love of the sport and a bit of fun. Knowing nothing about hockey herself, Alex decides to recruit a familiar face: former Ducks coach Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez, "The Breakfast Club," 1985). Resolute in his new disgust for all things related to hockey and children (despite the fact he owns an ice rink), Bombay finds that Alex is one mother who is very hard to say no to. The new series, directed by Michael Spiller ("Modern Fam - ily"), Jay Karas ("Superstore") and James Griffiths ("Black-ish"), is set to run for 11 episodes during its first season and also stars Maxwell Simkins ("Bizaardvark"), Swayam Bhatia ("Succession"), Bella Hig- ginbotham ("Troop Zero," 2019) and Kiefer O'Reilly ("Home Before Dark"). WHAT'S NEW ON HULU "Solar Opposites" Season 2 No need to panic. Everything is "back to normal" in the second season of "Solar Opposites," pre- miering Friday, March 26, on Hulu. At the end of this crude animated adult comedy series' first season, it seemed as though the alien family had fixed up their ship and were about to head home. Alas, nothing goes quite according to plan for Ko- rvo (voiced by Justin Roiland, "Rick and Morty"), Terry (voiced by Thom- as Middleditch, "B Positive"), Jesse (voiced by Mary Mack, "Golan the Insatiable"), Yumulack (voiced by Sean Giambrone, "The Goldbergs") and the Pupa (voiced by Sagan McMahan). Since crash landing in middle America at the beginning of the series, the family have been deciding whether life is better there or on their home planet. Now, eight episodes into their saga, the aliens will battle a whole new set of chal- lenges as they are forced to live on Earth a little longer. From raven- ous dogs to an explosive case of testosterone-fueled "energy" and the concept of murder for the sake of human-made (literally) wine, this new season is sure to be just as odd and crass as the first — it will even be touching on the pandemic! The eight-episode second season was, like the first, created by Roiland and Mike McMahan ("Rick and Morty"). "Into the Dark: Blood Moon" Another part of the horror anthol- ogy series "Into the Dark" is com- ing to Hulu on Friday, March 26, and it's written by "Songbird's" (2020) Adam Mason. "Blood Moon," the latest installment and finale of the project's sophomore season, tells the story of Esme (Megalyn Echikunwoke, "Damien") and her 10-year-old son, Luna (Yonas Kibreab, "Silicon Valley"), who make a move to a small town in the desert, hoping for a fresh start to- gether. Tied to the arrival of the first full moon of spring (which this year is set to arrive two days after the episode lands on the streamer), this episode makes it clear that Esme and Luna have a sinister, possibly magical secret to hide from their new neighbors. Desperate to keep the townspeople out of their pri- vate lives, Esme struggles to protect her son and herself at all costs. Also featuring roles played by Marco Ro- driguez ("Velvet Buzzsaw," 2019), Joshua Dov ("Westworld"), Gareth Williams ("Mindhunter"), Danielle Juliet Ma ("Enchantments") and Brian R. Norris ("Halt and Catch Fire"), "Blood Moon" is the 24th episode of the series to date and the second directed by Emma Tammi ("The Wind," 2018). WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "The Irregulars" Learn what it means to be truly afraid with the new series "The Irregulars," coming to Netflix on Friday, March 26. Taking inspira- tion from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous Sherlock Holmes novels, this new young adult Netflix origi- nal TV series centers on a group of unlikely heroes as they are ma- nipulated to work alongside dark, oddball Doctor Watson (Royce Pierreson, "Line of Duty") and the aloof and mysterious Sherlock Holmes (Henry Lloyd-Hughes, "Killing Eve") himself while try- ing to solve some of the most grisly murders and mysteries in and around Victorian-era London. Starring Thaddea Graham ("Cur- few"), Darci Shaw ("The Bay"), Jojo Macari ("Sex Education"), McKell David ("The Gentlemen," 2019) and Harrison Osterfield ("Catch-22"), this eight-episode crime series' first season is a dark testament to the still-popular lore of the Sherlock Holmes stories and was developed for Netflix by London-based independent video production company Drama Republic. WHAT'S NEW ON PRIME "Invincible" Experience life unlike anyone else when the new animated Prime original series "Invincible" comes flying onto the streamer Friday, March 26. Mark Grayson (voiced by Steven Yeun, "The Walking Dead"), a 17-year-old high schooler, is living life just like everyone else in his class — unless, of course, you factor in his famous superhero father, Omni-Man (voiced by J.K. Simmons, "Whip- lash," 2014), and his budding powers of flight, super strength and invincibility. With his dad by his side while he hones his new-found super skills, Mark begins to realize that perhaps Omni-Man's legacy isn't so "super" after all. From Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker, the creative minds that made "The Walking Dead," and based on the original Skybound/Image comic books of the same name by Kirk- man, Walker and Ryan Ottley, this eight-episode premiere season also features the voices of Sandra Oh ("Killing Eve"), Seth Rogan ("This Is the End," 2013), Mark Hamill ("Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope," 1977), Gillian Jacobs ("Community"), Zachary Quinto ("Star Trek," 2009), Andrew Ran- nells ("A Simple Favor," 2018) and many, many more. Emilio Estevez as seen in "The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers" A scene from "Solar Opposites" Thaddea Graham and Darci Shaw in "The Irregulars"