The Brainerd Dispatch - Today's Entertainment Magazine
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Brainerd Dispatch • April 3 - 9, 2022 •19 By Raye Smith TV Media WHAT'S NEW ON HULU "Woke" - Season 2 Stay in the know with the Season 2 release of "Woke," available on Hulu on Friday, April 8. Co-created by American cartoonist Keith Knight ("The Nib") and inspired by his works, the series follows Black cartoonist Keef (Lamorne Morris, "New Girl") as he hovers on the brink of commercial success. Having always prided himself on keeping things light and avoiding confrontational situations and opinions, Keef's life changes in an instant when he is the victim of ra- cial profiling at the hand of an over- ly aggressive police officer (Link Baker, "Riverdale"). Traumatized by the incident, Keef can suddenly see and hear inanimate objects inter- acting with him, often confronting and challenging his lax opinions. With a new outlook on the world, Keef copes with the new voices in his ear as he becomes more at- tuned to the racism and everyday micro-aggressions around him that he'd worked so hard to ignore. The end of the first season found Keef able to turn his pain into art, but his life takes another complicated turn when the officer who started it all sues Keef for portraying him negatively in his work. Now subject to an angry police department and halfhearted apology, Season 2 is set to take more steps forward to heal- ing and fighting for justice. Written by co-creators Knight and Marshall Todd ("Barbershop," 2002), the se- ries is directed by Maurice Marable ("Brockmire") and Chioke Nassor ("How to Follow Strangers," 2013). Blake Anderson ("Workaholics"), T. Murph ("One Night Stand Up," 2016), Sasheer Zamata ("Home Economics"), Rose McIver ("The Lovely Bones," 2009), J.B. Smoove ("Spider-Man: Far From Home," 2019) and Marquita Goings ("American Soul") also star in the series. WHAT'S NEW ON PRIME "All the Old Knives" (2022) Dive into a story of passion and betrayal with the new spy thriller "All the Old Knives," premiering in select theaters and to stream on Prime on Friday, April 8. When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost the lives of more than 100 people from their organization, veteran opera- tive Henry Pelham (Chris Pine, "Star Trek," 2009) is assigned to the case. Tasked with rooting out the mole from his former colleagues at the agency's Vienna station, his investi- gation takes him around the world from Austria to England to Califor- nia. Reunited with his one-time co- worker and former lover, Celia Har- rison (Thandiwe Newton, "West- world"), in Carmel-by-the-Sea, the pair re-examine their past as Pelham works to uncover the truth. Based on the novel of the same name by Olen Steinhauer ("Berlin Station"), the film is directed by Janus Metz ("Borg vs. McEnroe," 2017) and features a screenplay by Steinhauer himself. The main cast is rounded out by Laurence Fishburne ("The Matrix," 1999), Jonathan Pryce ("The Two Popes," 2019), Corey Johnson ("The Ipcress File"), Jonjo O'Neill ("The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," 2018), Ahd Kamel ("Collateral"), David Dawson ("The Last Kingdom"), Nasser Memarzia ("After Love," 2020) and Orli Shuka ("Gangs of London"). WHAT'S NEW ON PARAMOUNT+ "iCarly" - Season 2 Jump right back into the fun with Season 2 of the "iCarly" reboot, premiering Friday, April 8, on Para- mount+ with a special two-episode debut. New episodes will stream weekly on Fridays thereafter. Back nine years after the events of the original "iCarly," the reboot's first season saw Carly (Miranda Cosgrove, "Drake & Josh") move back to Seattle. For those who may have missed it, Carly's eccentric older brother, Spencer (Jerry Trainor, "Evolution," 2001), stumbled into life as a wealthy artist thanks to a sculpture that took the world by storm; Carly is living in an apart- ment with her friend Harper (Laci Mosley, "The Wedding Year," 2019), and Freddie (Nathan Kress, "Into the Storm," 2014) is back living with his mother after two divorces and a failed tech startup. Restarting her once-popular web show, Carly gets help from Spencer, Freddie and her new friends. Heading into Season 2, Carly focuses all her attention on friends and family — she's learning from Season 1's ro- mantic complications — and she's working to boost the popularity of her channel with her friends and brother by her side. From original "iCarly" creator Dan Schneider, this series reboot is written by Danny Fernandez ("Love, Victor"), Nasser Samara ("The Candle," 2017) and new talents Kate Stayman-London and Jordan Mitchell. Jaidyn Triplett ("The Affair"), Mary Scheer ("The Penguins of Madagascar") and Mia Serafino ("Crowded") also star in the new season. WHAT'S NEW ON NETFLIX "Tiger & Bunny" The hit Tiger & Bunny anime franchise continues with its most recent, self-titled installment, "Tiger & Bunny," premiering its second season on Netflix on Friday, April 8. Following the events of "Tiger & Bunny: The Rising" (2014), this series follows the heroes on their journeys in Sternbild City. A fictional re-imagining of New York City, Sternbild city sees ordinary people living alongside those with superhuman abilities, called NEXT (Noted Entities with eXtraordinary Talents). While using their abilities to maintain peace in the city, their super-suits are plastered with spon- sorship logos and their exploits are covered on a reality show in which the heroes fight for the annual title of "King of the Heroes." Two of these heroes — Kotetsu T. Kabura- gi, aka Wild Tiger (Hiroaki Hirata, "One Piece"), and Barnaby Brooks Jr., aka Bunny (Masakazu Morita, "Bleach") — are now veteran he- roes in the city. But with the popu- larity of Sternbild's reality show spreading around the world and more heroes appearing in town, Ti- ger and Bunny have to work harder than ever to live up to their expec- tations. Directed by Mitsuko Kase ("Glass Maiden") and written by Masafumi Nishida ("The Stand-In Theif," 2017), the series also voice stars Minako Kotobuki ("Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger"), Go Inoue ("Ku- roko's Basketball"), Kenjiro Tsuda ("Attack on Titan"), Taiten Kusunoki ("Black Lagoon"), Nobuhiko Oka- moto ("My Hero Academia") and Mariya Ise ("Hunter x Hunter") as the voice of Dragon Kid. WHAT'S NEW ON HBO MAX "Tokyo Vice" - Season 1 Get swept up in a new adventure with the HBO Max original crime thriller "Tokyo Vice," premiering on the streaming platform on Thurs- day, April 7. Based on the 2009 memoir of the same name by Amer- ican journalist Jake Adelstein, the series recounts the story of Adel- stein's (portrayed by Ansel Elgort, "West Side Story," 2021) life as the first American journalist working for a major Japanese newspaper in the early 1990s. Taken under the wing of an older detective (Ken Watanabe, "Inception," 2010) in the department's vice squad, young Adelstein starts to explore Japan's underworld and the dark and dangerous activities of the Yakuza. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton ("Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," 2021), Hikari ("27 Seconds," 2019) and Michael Mann ("The Insider," 1999), the 10-episode season is adapted by J.T. Rogers ("Oslo," 2021) and written by Naomi Iizuka ("The Terror"). Rachel Keller ("Fargo"), Ella Rumpf ("Raw," 2016), Shun Sugata ("Kill Bill: Vol. 1," 2003), Sho Kasamatsu ("Love You as the World Ends"), Masato Hagiwara ("We Couldn't Become Adults," 2021), Kosuke Toyohara ("Prescription Police"), Ayumi Tanida ("Downtown Rocket"), Noémie Nakai ("Army of Thieves," 2021), Tomohisa Ya- mashita ("Code Blue") and Koshi Uehara ("The Tunnel," 2021) also star in the series. Blake Anderson, T. Murph and Lamorne Morris as seen in "Woke" Dragon Kid from "Tiger & Bunny" Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe as seen in "Tokyo Vice"