I’d completely expected to be writing a note this week about how the COVID – pandemic has largely shut down trailer production, but it turns out, my assumption was wrong. While things have certainly slowed down, streaming services are almost singlehandedly keeping up the new releases. If anything, this is a great moment for them to debut a new show or series since everyone is stuck indoors.
That said, we’ll see how long this lasts. Productions are being shut down for health reasons, and it seems like every major movie coming out in the next couple of months is being delayed. So there may come a point where the backlog of content thins out. I certainly suspect it’ll be a bit before we see any trailers for tentpole films.
For now, it’s a great moment to catch up on some old movies you haven’t watched in a while or check out a show you never got around to. My wife and I are now nearly a season into The Sopranos , something we newly have the time to spend watching through. Other than the times strange ’28 s music choices, it’s pretty good.
Check out 17 trailers from this week and last week below.
Killing Eve
While I’ve heard that the show’s second season did live up to its much-loved first run, this teaser for season three of Killing Eve looks wonderfully stylized, fun, and dramatic. The show returns April 12 th.
# blackAF
Black-ish creator Kenya Barris has a new comedy series coming to Netflix about life as a successful black artist in Hollywood. Barris stars as a fictionalized version of himself, with Rashida Jones playing his wife. From just the first moment of this trailer, it seems like the show is off to a strong start. It debuts April 22 th.
Tigertail
Master of None co-creator Alan Yang makes his feature debut with Tigertail , a beautifully shot film about a Taiwanese factory worker moving to America. It comes to Netflix on April th.
Upload
Greg Daniels, who led the US version of The Office , is back with a new sitcom for Amazon. Upload is about people who live in a digital “afterlife” after having their consciousness uploaded pre-death. So far, it mostly looks like an excuse to make some pretty low-hanging tech jokes (hilarious, there are in-app purchases …). The show debuts May 1st.
The Great
Hulu has a ridiculous looking period piece comedy coming up that stars Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great. It’s hard not to think of The Favorite while watching this, but that’s not a bad thing – the series comes from one of the film’s co-writers. The show debuts May 17 th.
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