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PRIME VIDEO
PRESENTATIONS
2025
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
The Boys
HBO | MAX
The Penguin
The Last of Us
APPLE TV+
Severance Shrinking
Bear McCreary (Composer)
Christopher Lennertz (Composer/Songwriter)
Matt Bowen (Composer)
Mick Giacchino (Composer)
Gustavo Santaolalla (Composer)
David Fleming (Composer)
Theodore Shapiro (Composer)
Tom Howe (Composer)
Illustration By JEAN-MICHEL TIXIER
HULU
SONY PICTURES
TELEVISION & PEACOCK
PEACOCK
NETFLIX
RIOT GAMES | NETFLIX
Paradise
Long Bright River
INTERMISSION
Siddhartha Khosla (Composer) (VIRTUAL)
Dimitri Smith (Composer) James Poyser (Composer)
The Day of the Jackal
Squid Game
Arcane
SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Volker Bertelmann (Composer) (VIRTUAL)
Jung Jaeil (Composer)
Alex Seaver (Composer/Executive Music Producer)
SPECIAL THANKS TO SOUND & SCREEN CONSULTANTS Jana Davidoff Rhapsody PR Ray Costa Costa Communications
WELCOME TO DEADLINE SOUND & SCREEN
Deadline’s Composer Showcase of Original Music for Some of Television’s Most Acclaimed Shows
By Peter White
We’re back with another tuneful iteration of Deadline’s Sound & Screen event. This showcase is one of our most soulful jams that we put together, where audiences get to hear a fantastic orchestra beautifully play the music from their favorite television shows of the year.
Sound & Screen grows every year and puts a smile on attendees’ faces in a way that no other awards season event does. Tonight will be no different and we hope there’s as much sonic charm as always.
We’re confident that there will be, given the music from the 11 shows featured. From epic dramas, comic book capers, video game adaptations, classic remakes and some of the most original titles of the year, we promise that the music from this season’s crop of projects will bring you closer to these stories than ever before.
Tonight, you’ll hear from an assortment of composers and song writers, kicking off with Bear McCreary heading to Middle Earth’s Second Age with the score from Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The Amazon-owned streamer is also bringing us the superhero sounds of The Boys with composers Christopher Lennertz and Matt Bowen.
Sound & Screen grows every year and puts a smile on attendees’ faces in a way no other awards season event does.
Volker Bertelmann, recent Oscar winner for his work on Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front, will discuss his latest small-screen project, The Day of the Jackal, the acclaimed Peacock series fronted by Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch.
There’s also Siddhartha Khosla, the founder of indie rock band Goldspot, who won the Emmy last year for his work on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. He’ll be hoping to replicate that with his work on a different Hulu show, the dystopian drama Paradise starring Sterling K. Brown.
Speaking of dystopian, we also have music from Apple’s Severance, HBO’s The Last of Us and Netflix’s Squid Game
Theodore Shapiro, fresh from appearing at Deadline’s Contenders TV event last month, will discuss working with Ben Stiller, with music from the Adam Scott-fronted workplace series Severance.
Gustavo Santaolalla and David Fleming—the latter appeared last year with Mr. & Mrs. Smith— will be bringing music from The Last of Us, while Jung Jaeil will
be exposing us to the haunting sounds from inside the island of Squid Game
Apple is also bringing us some therapy in the form of Shrinking Tom Howe, who has worked on projects as diverse as The Great British Bake Off and Ted Lasso, will be here to share sounds of the Jason Segel-fronted dramedy series.
Mick Giacchino has worked his magical sounds into some major IP series from The Muppets Mayhem to Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. Tonight, he is sharing sounds from HBO’s The Penguin. Dimitri Smith and James Poyser will be performing the dark sounds of Peacock’s Sony Pictures Television-produced Philadelphia-set cop drama miniseries Long Bright River, which stars Amanda Seyfried.
Finally, one of two video game adaptations that will be platformed tonight is Netflix’s Arcane, with composer and executive music producer Alex Seaver sharing the sounds of the steampunk action series that is set in the world of Riot Games’ League of Legends. We hope you enjoy the music.
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MODERATORS Meet the
The Deadline staffers who will guide you through this year’s Sound & Screen
ANTHONY D’ALESSANDRO
Editorial Director/ Box Office Editor
● Anthony covers box office, breaking film news, awardsseason features and festival news. His first job in the film industry was at Savoy Pictures’
headquarters in New York where he worked in film distribution. In the summer of 1999, he was hired by Variety and moved to Los Angeles, and remained in the newsroom covering numerous parts of the industry, including box office, for about a decade. Prior to arriving at
Deadline in the fall of 2011, where he co-edited the site’s sister publication AwardsLine, Anthony covered the box office beat for Indiewire’s Thompson on Hollywood. He also co-produced Matt Walsh’s film A Better You.
PETER WHITE
Executive Editor, Television
● Peter, who joined Deadline in 2017, is a respected veteran TV journalist who previously worked at U.K.-based Broadcast, where after starting there in 2013 rose to News Editor responsible for putting together the weekly magazine as well as breaking daily news. Before that he was deputy editor of Television Business International magazine. He covers the television industry from Deadline’s Los Angeles bureau.
PANELISTS Your
Volker Bertelmann
The Day of the Jackal
Volker Bertelmann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician. In 2023, he won a BAFTA and Oscar in the Best Original Score category for All Quiet on the Western Front. His score for Lion, which he composed in collaboration with Dustin O’Halloran, was nominated for multiple awards, including an Oscar for Best Original Score, Golden Globe for Best Original Score, and Best Film Music at the BAFTAs. He has provided music for several films and television series, including the score for Patrick Melrose, The Old Guard, Stowaway, the episode “Red Book” from Black Mirror, and
the 2020 film Ammonite, cocomposed with O’Halloran. In 2022, he scored War Sailor, an official selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, and returned to TIFF in 2023 with One Life
Bertelmann’s latest projects include Conclave, for which he collaborated again with director Edward Berger, and which garnered critical acclaim at Telluride and TIFF. The film also secured Bertelmann an Academy Award nomination for the Best Music (Original Score), a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Original Score–Motion Picture, a Critics Choice Awards nomination for Best Score and a BAFTA nomination for Original Score. In addition, he scored the prequel series Dune: Prophecy
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(HBO Max), the Peacock series
The Day of the Jackal, and the documentary Hollywoodgate. His most recent score can be heard on the The Amateur (20th Century Studios).
Bertelmann is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Matt Bowen
The Boys
Matt Bowen fuses his background as a classicallytrained violinist with his decades-long experience
recording rock bands to write and produce rich, eclectic, and handmade scores for film and television.
As an LA-based composer, Bowen most recently coscored Season 4 of Amazon’s dark superhero franchise The Boys, as well as its spinoff Gen V, with composer Christopher Lennertz. Contrasting the twisted world of the Vought Cinematic Universe are Bowen’s eccentric, energetic and earnest scores for Hulu’s R-rated feature film comedies The Binge, its sequeI It’s a Wonderful Binge, and the upcoming Summer of 69
Some of Bowen’s other credits include the Emmy Award-winning documentary Blood Road, the Netflix TV series Best. Worst. Weekend. Ever., and episodes of the animated anthology series
The Boys Present: Diabolical Bowen grew up with a bow in hand, having played the violin since age 3, so his scores are often adorned with bowing instruments not intended to be bowed, creating unique and provocative textures. His violin work led to joining his hometown San Diego Youth Symphony, which toured the world, and gave him his first sense of music collaboration on a larger scale.
Bowen’s high school and
college years brought experimentation within a variety of bands outside of the classical setting, from electronica, to punk, to acoustic rock. After recording multiple albums with these bands, he discovered his true love of working behind-thescenes in a studio setting and moved on to work directly with recording artists, linking up with record producer Matt Wallace (Maroon 5, Faith No More), and engineering RIAA-certified platinum singles by Michael Franti & Spearhead (“Say Hey”) and O.A.R. (“Shattered”).
David Fleming
The Last of Us
Composer David Fleming is an American composer who has written music for film and television, including most recently, Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Ron Howard’s Jim Henson: Idea Man, both of which resulted in Primetime Emmy nominations for Fleming, and a win for his Jim Henson score.
Starting his career moonlighting in New York ad houses, he relocated to LA after winning BMI’s Pete Carpenter Fellowship and soon began contributing music to major films. He composed the score for the BBC’s acclaimed Blue
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Planet II alongside Hans Zimmer, which marked the start of a collaborative relationship with the Academy Award-winning composer, encompassing scores for both Dune films and Top Gun: Maverick Fleming’s sweeping orchestral fantasy score for Netflix’s Damsel marked his first solo feature, while his dark electronic work alongside Gustavo Santaolalla on HBO’s The Last of Us won ASCAP’s Composer’s Choice Award for Television Score of the Year. Through his soundtrack work, he has also collaborated with recording artists such as Elton John, Lady Gaga, Pharrell Williams and Beyoncé, with whom he worked on the Grammy-nominated song “Spirit” for her album The Lion King: The Gift. In addition to his work on The Last of Us, he recently composed the score for A24’s Eternity and Americana, which are both slated for 2025.
Mick Giacchino
The Penguin
Mick Giacchino is a composer for film and television in both liveaction and animated mediums. His recent work includes the HBO/DC original series The Penguin, Skeleton Crew from
Lucasfilm starring Jude Law, Disney’s The Muppets Mayhem and AMC+’s That Dirty Black Bag
Since his debut with Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow in 2015, he has contributed to projects such as Disney’s Zootopia+, Netflix’s animated feature Extinct, The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell, and additional music for Matt Reeves’ The Batman.
In 2021, he released his first instrumental EP, Perseverance.
Tom Howe Shrinking
Tom Howe’s abilities as a multiinstrumentalist and fluency with large-scale orchestral scores, combined with his talents in writing pop and rock music, electronic sound design and his use of modern production techniques have made him a highly sought-after composer and songwriter. Howe has scored more than 100 projects for film and television, including Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso and Shrinking, Amazon Prime’s Daisy Jones and the Six, Focus Features’ Polite Society and Book Club: The Next Chapter, and Paramount+ series Knuckles. He has most recently scored the DreamWorks animated film Dog Man.
Howe has also written Top 40 hit songs, such as Sam Ryder’s “Your Christmas to Me”, which reached No. 2 on the U.K. chart and garnered a Brit nomination. He has also written TV theme songs, including Shrinking’s main title theme, co-written with Benjamin Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and the Emmy-
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nominated Ted Lasso theme, which he co-wrote with Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons.
The U.K. native divides his time between London and LA.
Jung Jaeil Squid Game
Jung Jaeil is a distinctive music composer and producer, continuously surpassing expectations across various genres, including, but not limited to, contemporary, film soundtracks, musicals, jazz and pop.
His unique musical tones, colors and styles set him apart by amplifying emotions in people, and his belief that music has neither boundaries nor discrimination has been inspirational to others of his time.
As a cultural creator from South Korea, he has participated in various musical activities and performances, including film scores, Korean opera/plays, musicals and pop music.
He is well-known for blending traditional Korean music with other genres, winning the Jazz and Crossover Album Award twice, in 2018 and 2015. He has also co-produced albums with top vocalists and artists.
In 2017, he was honorably awarded by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for his outstanding work and received the Chanel Next Prize in 2022.
He is the composer and music director of Parasite, the Oscarwinning film directed by Bong Joon-ho, and Netflix’s global hit series Squid Game, the six-time
Emmy Award-winning series directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk.
Siddhartha Khosla
Paradise
Composer Siddhartha Khosla is an Emmy Award-winning film and television composer, singer/songwriter, and producer of the criticallyacclaimed band, Goldspot. In 2024, Khosla received an Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series for his work on Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. Khosla is the first Asian person to win an Emmy in the Primetime Emmy score categories. In 2022, he received three Emmy nominations, two for his work on Only Murders in the Building—Outstanding Original Main Title Music and Outstanding Music Composition for a Series— and an additional nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for his No. 1 Billboardcharting song “The Forever Now” (shared with Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith) from NBC’s Emmy-winning series, This Is Us In 2019 and 2021, he received Emmy nominations for his work on This Is Us for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series and in 2020 for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for the original song “Memorized”.
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Upcoming projects include the Skydance Animation feature Pookoo, directed by Nathan Greno and produced by John Lasseter; Amazon Studios’ Oh. What. Fun, directed by Michael Showalter; and the series Government Cheese and limited series Imperfect Women from AppleTV+.
Christopher Lennertz The Boys
While Star Wars, Van Halen, and Bye Bye Birdie may be responsible for his love of movies, music and theater, it was a chance meeting with Henry Mancini in college that changed Christopher Lennertz’s life forever.
In awe of Mancini’s ability to compose for any genre, Lennertz has modeled his career to be just as diverse. He has written music for some of the world’s greatest storytellers, from biting action and satire for Amazon’s hit The Boys, to the lush orchestral melodies of Steven Spielberg’s Medal of Honor series, a stark, gospel piano for Mark Ruffalo’s battle with addiction in Thanks for Sharing, and soaring heroics for Seth Rogen as a hot dog saving the world in Sausage Party. This classic eclectic ability has
now become his signature.
He has two Emmy nominations for The Boys and the cult hit Supernatural, a Grammywinning album with Ozomatli, and 24 BMI awards for blockbusters like Bad Moms, Horrible Bosses and Ride Along.
Lennertz’ work also includes new songs for Marvel/Disney’s Rogers: The Musical and Gen V produced by Eric Kripke, Disney 100’s “When You Wish Upon a Star” with Sara Bareilles, an orchestral version of Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain”, and Back in Action for Netflix.
“At the heart of everything is a collaboration to tell stories that move people,” says Lennertz. His passion for education and philanthropy plays a major part in his life serving on the board of Education Through Music Los Angeles and The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation as well as Hands Together in Haiti. He personally launched the Symphony of Hope project after the 2010 earthquake to rally the film music community around the cause.
Bear McCreary
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Award-winning composer and recording artist Bear
McCreary began his career as a protégé of legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein, before bursting onto the scene scoring the revered series Battlestar Galactica in 2004.
Since then, McCreary has won three Emmy Awards, including two for Disney’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians and one for
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his theme for Da Vinci’s Demons, a musical palindrome, and has won 12 International Music Critics Association film awards, including the award for Score of the Year in 2024, his second. Project highlights include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon); Foundation (Apple TV+); Outlander (STARZ);
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures); The Walking Dead (AMC) and Netflix’s Academy Award–nominated documentary Crip Camp (produced by Barack and Michelle Obama). McCreary’s celebrated scores for Sony PlayStation’s blockbusters God of War and God of War Ragnarök have earned him two BAFTA Awards and two Grammy nominations.
James Poyser Long Bright River
James Poyser is a multi–Grammy Award-winning producer, musician and composer whose artistry has left an indelible mark on modern soul, R&B and hip-hop. Born in the U.K. and raised in Southwest Philadelphia, he is widely recognized for his essential role in the legendary hip-hop group The Roots, the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon With a signature soulful touch and an unmistakable musical voice, Poyser has written and produced for a wide range of artists, including Mariah Carey, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Jay-Z, D’Angelo, Rihanna, Common, Lauryn Hill, Al Green and John Legend.
A sought-after session musician, James has lent his talents to recordings by many artists including Adele, Aretha Franklin, Roy Hargrove, Elton John, Nas, Amy Winehouse, Ozzy Osbourne, Ziggy Marley and Eric Clapton. As a composer for film and television, Poyser’s credits include the Oscar awardwinning short Two Distant Strangers and the feature film Boxing Day. His television scoring work spans projects such as Peacock’s Long Bright River, CBS’s The Equalizer, OWN’s Cherish the Day, Disney’s Rise Up Sing Out, HBO’s Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, and NBC’s Password. In the documentary space, he has composed the score for The 1619 Project, Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, WNBA: Unfinished Business, and Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music. He has also contributed music and orchestration to the films The Harder They Fall and The Book of Clarence
Gustavo Santaolalla The Last of Us
Two-Time Oscar winning multiinstrumentalist, songwriter, producer and composer, Gustavo Santaolalla is recognized as one of the most
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highly acclaimed and prolific contemporary Argentine musicians in the world.
In the mid-’90s, Santaolalla created his own record label Surco and has produced more than 100 albums by some of Latin-America’s most relevant alternative musicians, including Café Tacvba, Julieta Venegas, Molotov, Los Prisioneros, Juana Molina, Bajofondo, Los Tigres del Norte and Juanes, establishing him as one of the fundamental pillars of the history of the movement known as Rock en Español. In 2020, he produced Netflix’s Break It All, the mini-series about the history of rock in Latin-America and has won two Grammys and 19 Latin Grammys.
In 2000, Santaolalla began composing for television and film. He has written music for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel and Biutiful, Walter Salles’ Motorcycle Diaries and On the Road. For his work on Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, he received his first Oscar for Best Original Score and a Golden Globe for Best Original Song, “A Love That Will Never Grow Old,” co-written with Bernie Taupin. The following year, Santaolalla received his second Oscar for Best Original Score for Babel
In 2024, Santaolalla wrapped up the score for cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s feature directorial debut Pedro Paramo, based on the landmark Mexican surrealist novel by the same name by Juan Rulfo. Later that year, he rescored the 1931 Spanish version of Dracula and performed it live with the Los Angeles Opera orchestra conducted by Lina González-Granados.
Alex Seaver Arcane
Executive music producer Alex Seaver represents a strikingly new phenomenon in today’s music world. Whether he’s releasing studio albums for his own artist outfit Mako, collaborating with Riot Games, or writing and producing music for some of today’s biggest artists, Juilliard-trained Seaver has made a unique impact across the intersection of music, film, television and video games. Most recently, he served as the executive music producer and composer for the second season of Riot Games’ Emmywinning Netflix animated series Arcane. Across both seasons, Arcane spent 15 weeks in Netflix’s global top 10 list, where Seaver earned an Emmy nomination
for his work on the first season. He took on an expanded role for the second season, which features a 22-song soundtrack, including tracks by global artists such as Twenty One Pilots, Linkin Park, Stromae, Stray Kids, Young Miko and Ashnikko, among many others. In addition to writing and
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producing songs across the album, he oversaw the creative guidance of its artists through the musical world of Arcane, composed the musical score with Alex Temple, and performed the song “What Have They Done to Us”. Since its release, the soundtrack has garnered over 1.6 billion global streams.
Theodore Shapiro Severance
Theodore Shapiro is an Emmy Award-winning composer with a filmography spanning many of the most culturally defining films of the past 25 years.
Most recently, he returned to score the second season of Apple TV+’s critically acclaimed Severance, which premiered on January 17th, following his
award-winning work on Season 1. His haunting, atmospheric score has garnered wide praise for elevating the show’s unsettling tone.
Outside of Severance, Shapiro’s career has been defined chiefly by his versatility. He has built a reputation as a master of comedy scores, notably scoring such iconic projects as The Devil Wears Prada, 13 Going on 30 and Dodgeball. Beyond that, however, his extensive body of work—contributing to more than a billion dollars in cumulative box office revenue— spans a wide variety of films, with turns scoring the likes of The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Bombshell and Severance helmer Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Dimitri Smith Long Bright River
Dimitri Smith is a composer and pianist known for blending his classical roots with a style that is fiercely modern, imaginative, and collaborative. He recently co-scored Sony’s Long Bright River with James Poyser, which stars Amanda Seyfried and immediately hit No. 1 on Peacock. He also co-scored the Emmy, Golden
Globe and Critics Choice Award-nominated Netflix series The Diplomat with Nathan Barr, starring Keri Russell and Rufus Sewell.
After a stint in orchestration, Dimitri began working closely with Emmy-winning composer Barr–first as an assistant, then as additional music composer, and then as co-composer on The Diplomat. Some of these additional music projects include Amazon’s Carnival Row, Hulu’s The Great, Netflix’s Kate, Halston and Hollywood, which earned an Emmy nomination for its jazz score. Dimitri also co-arranged the main title for Hollywood In feature films, Dimitri scored The Mystery of Her, which reached the Netflix Top 10 globally and in 10 different countries. He also scored the animated feature film Unicorn Boy, which premiered at the Slamdance Festival. He provided additional music to the Stephen King Salem’s Lot adaptation on Max, as well as Lionsgate horror film Prey for the Devil. From rural Washington, he moved to Malibu in 2009 to attend Pepperdine University, where he earned a double major in Composition and Opera Performance.
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SHOWS The
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Severance
● Created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller, this sci-fi psychological thriller follows employees at Lumon Industries, a sinister biotech corporation. Mark (Adam Scott) is an employee that went through a controversial “severance” procedure separating his work and non-work memories. But then he begins to unravel conspiracies around Lumon. The show also stars Patricia Arquette and Dichen Lachman.
Shrinking
● In Apple TV+’s comedydrama Shrinking, Jason Segel stars as Jimmy Laird, a depressed therapist grieving the loss of his wife. Unhinged by his grief, Jimmy affects the lives of his patients, co-workers and friends in professional and surprisingly unethical lifechanging ways. The show is co-created by Segel and Ted Lasso alums Brett Goldstein and Bill Lawrence. It also 2
stars Harrison Ford, Jessica Williams and Lukita Maxwell.
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The Last of Us
● The second season of the post-apocalyptic drama, set five years after the end of Season 1, sees Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) at odds as they settle into the fortified city of Jackson, Wyoming. Gabriel Luna and Rutina Wesley return for Season 2. Joining the cast for the second season is Kaitlyn Dever, a soldier on a mission of vengeance for a loved one. Also new to the cast are Isabela Merced, Young Mazino, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, Spencer Lord, Danny Ramirez and Jeffrey Wright. Catherine O’Hara also guest stars.
The Penguin
● The Penguin, created by Lauren LeFranc, follows the rise of mobster and general ne’er-dowell Oswald Cobblepot (Colin Farrell) as he navigates Gotham City’s seedy underground while going against the famous Falcone family. The DC series, which started out as an entity to bridge the narrative gap
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between The Batman and The Batman Part II, became HBO/ Max’s third-most watched debut season, following House of the Dragon and The Last of Us.
HULU Paradise
● This Hulu Original political drama series, created by Dan Fogelman, stars Sterling K. Brown as Secret Service Agent Xavier Collins. Set in a peaceful utopian community only inhabited by the world’s most prominent individuals, Xavier and the citizens of this new world are suddenly put into a crisis when someone mysteriously assassinates the president (James Marsden). The series also stars Julianne Nicholson, Sarah Shahi, Nicole Brydon Bloom, Aliyah Mastin and Percy Daggs IV.
NETFLIX
Squid Game
● Created by Hwang Donghyuk, Squid Game Season 2 takes place three years after Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) won Squid Game. Upon giving up going to the states and starting a wealthy new life, Gi-hun sets his sights on revenge. He once again dives into the mysterious survival game with new participants gathered to win
the prize of 45.6 billion won. Lee Byung-hun and Wi Ha-joon return for the second season, while Yim Si-wan and Kang Ha-neul join the cast.
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The Day of the Jackal
● An unrivaled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, (Eddie Redmayne) makes his living carrying out hits for the highest bidder. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer (Lashana Lynch) who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, that leaves destruction in its wake. Based on the Frederick Forsyth novel and 1973 film of the same name, the series is written and created by Ronan Bennett, produced by Christopher Hall and directed by Brian Kirk, Anthony Philipson, Paul Wilmshurst and Anu Menon.
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The Boys
● Based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys follows a group of vigilantes who aim to keep corrupt superheroes in check. In Season 4, the
world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the thumb of Homelander (John Gillman), who is consolidating his power. The dying Butcher (Karl Urban) is still reeling from losing his job as The Boys’ leader and the trust of his fellow teammates. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late. Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Chace Crawford and Jeffrey Dean Morgan also star.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
● Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel series The Lord of the Rings, this TV series is set thousands of years before the events of the book. During a time of relative peace in the Second Age of Middle-earth, the show captures all the major events of the period, from the creation of the Rings of Power to the rise of the Dark Lord Sauron (Charlie Vickers). Morfydd Clark, Lenny Henry and Sara Zwangobani also star.
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Arcane
● The series, inspired by Riot Games’ League of Legends multiplayer online game, is co-created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee, and follows the origins of League champions Vi (Hailee Steinfeld) and Jinx (Ella Purnell), as they become caught in the power struggle between the utopian city of Piltover and the oppressed underground city of Zaun.
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Long Bright River
● Long Bright River tells the story of Mickey (Amanda Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a Philadelphia neighborhood hard-hit by the opioid crisis. When a series of murders begins in the neighborhood, Mickey realizes that her personal history might be related to the case. Nicholas Pinnock, Ashleigh Cummings, Callum Vinson and John Doman also star in this adaptation from the novel by Liz Moore.
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