Y’all, James Reece has been through enough. The man completed his revenge mission, lost nearly everyone he loved, discovered he had a brain tumor, and sailed off into the sunset. Any reasonable person would take that as a sign to disappear somewhere peaceful and never answer another suspicious phone call again. James Reece is apparently not a reasonable person. Prime Video dropped the first teaser for The Terminal List Season 2, and Chris Pratt is officially back in action as the Navy SEAL commander when all eight episodes arrive on Wednesday, October 21, 2026. Nearly five years after the original series premiered, Reece is sporting longer hair, a massive beard, and the general appearance of a man who would very much like everyone to leave him alone. Naturally, nobody does. Based on Jack Carr’s True Believer, the second novel in his James Reece series, Season 2 is going much bigger than the deeply personal revenge story that launched the franchise. This time, Reece is getting dragged into an international conspiracy, and judging by the teaser, his quiet little life on a boat is about to become a distant memory. Reece Finished the List, but the List Wasn't Finished With Him When we last saw Reece in the original series, he had completed the mission that consumed him throughout Season 1. The new chapter finds him searching for some kind of purpose after everything he's lost, and apparently that purpose involves what Prime Video describes as a journey of violent redemption. Sounds healthy. The conspiracy awaiting Reece stretches from Moscow to Langley and even connects to his own family history. His mission will take him across the Indian Ocean, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, transforming The Terminal List from a relatively contained revenge thriller into a full-blown international espionage story. The teaser doesn't give away too much, but it certainly establishes the new Reece. He is living aboard a sailboat, looking considerably rougher around the edges and still dealing with the illness revealed during Season 1. That last part is worth remembering because, sir, perhaps traveling around the world getting shot at is not the treatment plan your doctor had in mind. The Terminal List Universe Has Gotten Much Bigger Reece hasn't exactly been gone from our screens without leaving a trace. Prime Video expanded the franchise with The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, putting Taylor Kitsch's Ben Edwards at the center of a prequel that explored his journey from Navy SEAL to CIA operative. Now the spotlight swings back to Pratt, and he's bringing some familiar faces with him. Constance Wu returns as journalist Katie Buranek, while Tom Hopper is back as Raife Hastings. Dar Salim returns as Mohammed Farooq, and Luke Hemsworth reprises his role as Jules Landry. Season 2 is also bringing in some serious new blood. Gabriel Luna joins the series as Freddy Strain, with Costa Ronin, Olga Kurylenko, Yul Vazquez, Arnold Vosloo, Martin Sensmeier and Shiraz Tzarfati also joining the cast. That's quite a collection of people to surround a man who clearly just wanted to sit on his boat. This Doesn't Look Like Season 1 All Over Again The smartest thing about this first look is that Season 2 doesn't appear interested in simply handing Reece another list of names and asking him to start crossing them off. The revenge thriller worked the first time because the story was intensely personal, but trying to recreate that exact formula years later would have felt like the franchise was spinning its wheels. Taking Reece international gives the show somewhere new to go while keeping the damaged, dangerous character at its center. There is also something interesting about seeing what happens to a man like Reece after revenge. He got the people responsible, but that didn't magically restore the life they destroyed. And with Prime Video saying The Terminal List franchise has reached more than 100 million viewers worldwide, clearly plenty of us are willing to follow this man into another terrible decision. So get ready. The beard is longer, the mission is bigger, and James Reece is once again ignoring every possible opportunity to live a quiet life. The Terminal List Season 2 premieres Wednesday, October 21, 2026, with all eight episodes streaming on Prime Video.

The Snowfall universe is officially back, but Franklin Saint's drug empire isn't the center of the story anymore. FX has released the official trailer for The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, the highly anticipated Snowfall spinoff bringing Gail Bean and Isaiah John back as Wanda Bell and Leon Simmons. Premiering Tuesday, September 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on FX, with streaming available on Hulu, the new drama moves the story into 1990s Los Angeles and trades one booming business for another: West Coast hip hop. Judging by the trailer, Wanda is ready for a new hustle. Whether this one will be any safer is a completely different question. Wanda Wants Her Piece of the Music Business The Drop picks up after the events of Snowfall as Wanda attempts to reinvent herself and break into Los Angeles' rapidly growing rap industry. She begins working with former drug dealer turned record label owner Darryl "DG" Grant while betting on rising rapper Artillery and pulling her cousins Lamar and James Kinsey into her plans. The trailer makes it clear that Wanda isn't interested in sitting around watching other people build empires. After everything she survived on Snowfall, she wants something of her own, and the music business looks like her opportunity to get it. But this is still the world of Snowfall. Nobody was expecting Wanda to spend eight episodes peacefully sitting behind a record label desk. As the music industry explodes around her, the lines between business, ambition and the streets begin getting increasingly difficult to separate. Leon Is Trying to Leave His Old Life Behind Leon, meanwhile, appears to be moving in a very different direction. After surviving the violence and consequences of the original series, he's searching for redemption and attempting to build something meaningful through a free legal clinic. The trailer puts Wanda and Leon on two potentially conflicting paths as she pushes further into an industry surrounded by familiar dangers while he tries to distance himself from the life they once lived. That dynamic could become one of the most interesting pieces of The Drop. These aren't the same Wanda and Leon audiences met at the beginning of Snowfall, and the spinoff doesn't appear interested in pretending everything they experienced simply disappeared when the original series ended. The Snowfall Universe Gets a New Generation Bean and John are joined by Asante Blackk, Peyton Alex Smith, Simmie "Buddy" Sims III and Brandon Mychal Smith, introducing a new group of characters as The Drop expands the world beyond the Saint family. The move into the West Coast rap scene also gives the franchise a natural way to evolve. Snowfall explored the rise and devastation of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles. The Drop moves forward into another transformative era for the city, when West Coast hip hop was becoming a cultural force far beyond California. And putting Wanda at the center of that story feels like a smart way to continue the franchise without simply trying to recreate Snowfall with different names. Franklin's story may be finished, but Los Angeles clearly has plenty more stories to tell. The Drop: A Snowfall Saga premieres Tuesday, September 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on FX and streams on Hulu.

Just when the MasterChef: Global Gauntlet contestants thought surviving last week's Tag Team Challenge might earn them a tiny break, Gordon Ramsay basically said, "That's cute." The Top 8 walked into the MasterChef kitchen for one of the competition's most stressful returning challenges: The Wall. The cooks had to work in pairs while separated by an eight-foot wall, communicating only by yelling back and forth as they attempted to create two identical dishes. Oh, and because apparently the wall wasn't stressful enough, this was another double elimination. This time, however, there was a twist. The two cooks eliminated didn't necessarily have to come from the same pair. The judges would be evaluating everyone individually, meaning you could technically survive even if your partner didn't. Suddenly, being a good teammate only got you so far. Dave and Jake Get a Major Advantage After winning last week's Tag Team Challenge, Dave and Jake earned the power to determine the pairings. Instead of teaming up again, the two decided to split up and build teams around the dishes they felt most comfortable cooking. Dave paired himself with Heidi, Jake chose Julia, Tkaiya was paired with Basia, and Peter landed with Foo. Each pair had to prepare a protein, two sides and a sauce, with both cooks expected to produce plates that looked and tasted as close to identical as possible. Basically, cook the same meal as somebody you can't see while Gordon Ramsay walks around judging you. Sounds relaxing. Dave and Heidi Conquer The Wall Dave and Heidi quickly proved that splitting up the previous week's winning team wasn't such a bad idea after all. The pair prepared prosciutto-wrapped pork tenderloin with mascarpone mushroom filling, sweet potato puree and blackberry sauce. More importantly, their communication translated into two dishes that actually looked like they belonged together. The judges named Dave and Heidi the winners of The Wall, securing both of them spots in the Top 6. For Dave, it also continued an impressive run after winning the Tag Team Challenge with Jake the week before. At this point, Dave might want to avoid making eye contact with anybody before Gordon decides winning means another "advantage" that involves doing twice as much work. Jake and Julia Deliver Where It Matters Jake's decision to partner with Julia also paid off. They served pan-seared sea scallops with king oyster mushroom medallions, lemon caper orzo and almond sauce. Their plates weren't quite as identical as Dave and Heidi's, but the flavors impressed the judges enough to earn them second place and two more spots in the Top 6. That left Basia, Tkaiya, Peter and Foo waiting to find out which two individuals would be going home. And this is where things got rough. Tkaiya and Foo Hit Trouble Basia and Tkaiya tackled blackened pan-seared salmon with curry fennel, purple cauliflower puree and a Scotch bonnet lemon caper beurre blanc. Unfortunately for Tkaiya, her salmon became a major problem. Her fish was badly cooked, leaving her vulnerable despite Basia surviving the challenge. Things weren't going much better on the other side of the wall. Peter and Foo attempted miso-glazed salmon with cauliflower puree, asparagus, roasted mushrooms and lemongrass beurre blanc. Foo ultimately presented his plate without the sauce, while his mushrooms were undercooked. At this stage of MasterChef, forgetting an entire component is pretty much the culinary equivalent of handing Gordon your apron yourself. Foo and Tkaiya Are Eliminated When the judges made their decision, Foo Nguyen and Tkaiya Dryden were eliminated from MasterChef: Global Gauntlet. The result saved their respective partners, Peter and Basia, and officially narrowed the competition from eight cooks to six. Foo's elimination also means Team Asia-Pacific has been completely eliminated from the competition, leaving Africa, Europe and the Americas fighting for the title. Foo left proud of making it into the Top 8, while Tkaiya reflected on putting her master's degree plans on hold to pursue her culinary ambitions. At only 23, she made it clear that leaving the MasterChef kitchen isn't the end of that journey. That leaves Basia, Dave, Heidi, Jake, Julia and Peter as the Top 6. And if surviving a giant wall wasn't enough, they're heading straight into the Restaurant Takeover next week. Because MasterChef apparently looked at the remaining six contestants and decided they were still entirely too comfortable.

Well, that didn't take long. Prime Video has officially renewed Sterling Point for Season 2, giving fans some very good news just weeks after the series made its debut. The renewal comes after the show quickly found an audience on the streamer, and apparently Prime Video saw enough to decide there was no reason to leave everybody sitting around wondering about its future. We appreciate efficiency around here. Sterling Point Is Coming Back for Season 2 The renewal means viewers haven't seen the last of the world introduced during Sterling Point's first season. The series debuted on Prime Video on August 5, 2026, and quickly made an impression with viewers, becoming the streamer's No. 1 global debut. With numbers like that, a second season suddenly feels a whole lot less surprising. Creator Megan Park is expected to return for Season 2, with the next chapter offering an opportunity to dig deeper into the characters and relationships established during the show's freshman run. Prime Video has not announced a premiere date for Season 2, so fans shouldn't start clearing their calendars just yet. Production details and additional information about the upcoming season are also still being kept under wraps. What's Next for Sterling Point? For now, the biggest takeaway is simple: Sterling Point isn't going anywhere. Getting a renewal this quickly is certainly encouraging, especially at a time when streaming audiences have learned the hard way not to get too comfortable with a new series. You can fall in love with eight episodes, recommend the show to everybody you know and still spend the next six months refreshing social media waiting to find out whether you'll ever see those characters again. Thankfully, Sterling Point fans can skip that particular form of television torture. Season 2 now has the chance to build on the relationships, storylines and unanswered questions left behind by the first season while expanding the world that helped make the series an early hit for Prime Video. Exactly when we'll get to see it is another question. Sterling Point Season 2 does not currently have a premiere date. The first season is streaming now on Prime Video.

Owen Wilson is heading back to the golf course, and this time Pryce Cahill isn't content with standing on the sidelines. Apple TV has announced that Stick will return for its second season on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, with the first two episodes dropping on premiere day. New episodes will then arrive weekly through December 30. The streamer also released a first look at the new season, which brings back the show's core cast while adding Pluribus star Rhea Seehorn to the mix. And after spending Season 1 betting on somebody else's future, Pryce is apparently ready to make one very questionable bet on himself. Stick Season 2 Puts Pryce Back on the Course Season 1 introduced Wilson's Pryce Cahill as a former professional golfer whose career fell apart 20 years earlier. With his marriage over and his sporting goods store job gone, Pryce saw another shot at something meaningful when he discovered teenage golf phenom Santi, played by Peter Dager. Season 2 finds Santi taking another step toward becoming a professional golfer, but being talented is one thing. Having everyone suddenly expect you to deliver is another. While Santi deals with that pressure, Pryce starts wondering whether his own golf story is actually finished. Encouraged by former rival Clark Ross, played by Timothy Olyphant, Pryce launches an unlikely comeback with an extremely modest goal: becoming the oldest golfer ever to win a major. No pressure whatsoever. The comeback also forces Pryce to confront a much bigger question about why he never became the golfer everyone once expected him to be. Helping him figure that out will be his trusted caddie Mitts, played by Marc Maron, and new coach Amanda, played by Rhea Seehorn. Rhea Seehorn Joins the Stick Cast Seehorn isn't the only newcomer hitting the course in Season 2. John Higgins, Billy Zane, Rex Linn, Sasha Alexander and Missi Pyle have also joined the cast. Wilson, Dager, Maron, Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay, Judy Greer and Olyphant return from the first season. Golf fans can also expect appearances from Jim Nantz, Trevor Immelman, Matt Scharff and Dan Rapaport. Created by Jason Keller, Stick mixes its golf story with the found family relationships that became the heart of its first season. Season 2 appears ready to expand that idea by putting both Pryce and Santi at career crossroads, even if they're approaching them from very different directions. Santi is trying to prove he can live up to his potential. Pryce is trying to prove his potential didn't expire two decades ago. Apparently one complicated golf career wasn't enough. Stick Season 2 premieres Wednesday, November 4, 2026, with two episodes on Apple TV, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through December 30.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 5, “Level Five Transporter Accident,” gives us one of the strangest Enterprise emergencies yet. Scotty tries to break a transporter record, nearly the entire crew gets turned into puppets, Spock is forced to keep the ship together, and somehow there is still time for relationship drama. The episode opens with a nice tribute to Star Trek’s 60th anniversary before Spock reveals that the Enterprise is heading toward Vulcan. He had planned to spend time studying logic, but Orion pirate activity has Starfleet ordering the Enterprise to help keep Rizonian space safe. That delay turns out to be the least of Spock’s problems. Scotty, Spock and Little Ricky Scotty is determined to push the transporter beyond its previous limits. Simulations suggest they can successfully transport something 27,000 kilometers, but Scotty wants to reach nearly 30,000 kilometers and send something aboard the U.S.S. Witmere. His motivation is slightly personal because engineer Declan Milder holds the transporter record and also beat Scotty for valedictorian at the Academy by one sixteenth of a point. Scotty decides the perfect test object is Little Ricky, a creepy stuffed puppet from his childhood that he wants to transport directly into Declan’s quarters. What could possibly go wrong? La’An Ends Things With Spock Before the puppet madness begins, Spock’s personal life takes a hit when La’An cancels another one of their dance sessions. Spock admits that dancing has helped him focus lately, especially after what happened during the Griffin mission, but La’An believes they have been moving in different directions. She tells Spock that their romance has reached its end and encourages him to focus on himself. Spock tries to control his emotions as she walks away, but the breakup clearly affects him at a time when he is already struggling to quiet his mind. Spock later turns to T’Pring and tells her about his experience aboard the Griffin. She points out that Spock wanted to explore his human side when their relationship ended, yet now his connection to Vulcan logic has weakened. T’Pring agrees to help him when she comes aboard the Enterprise, provided he can guarantee there will be no high jinks. That guarantee does not last long. Captain Pike Really Loves His New Chair Elsewhere, Captain Pike is ridiculously excited about his new captain’s chair. Designed by Pelia, the fully biometric chair allows Pike to control several parts of the Enterprise using his hands and voice commands, and he happily shows Number One everything his new favorite toy can do. The scene is played for laughs, but the chair soon becomes unexpectedly important. When almost everyone aboard loses the ability to operate the Enterprise normally, Pike’s fancy new technology becomes one of the crew’s few advantages. The Enterprise Becomes a Puppet Show Spock takes a shuttle out to set up the final relay buoy for Scotty’s transporter experiment, and Scotty sends Little Ricky on his way. Something immediately goes wrong, alarms sound, and Spock watches the Enterprise briefly disappear before it reappears. When Spock returns, he discovers that nearly everyone aboard has been transformed into a soft stuffed puppet. Pike is a puppet, the bridge crew is made up of puppets, and even T’Pring has fallen victim to the accident. Scotty believes Little Ricky’s matter became cross wired inside the transporter buffer, causing the transporter energy to spread throughout the Enterprise. Spock classifies the accident as Level Five, while Scotty helpfully points out that at least it was not Level Six. The transformation creates more than an appearance problem. M’Benga and Chapel do not know exactly how the accident has affected everyone medically, while La’An cannot operate the weapons and Uhura cannot properly use her communications console because the ship does not recognize their puppet fingers. Running the Enterprise without functional fingers turns out to be a problem Starfleet apparently never planned for. Spock Has to Keep the Enterprise Running Admiral April tells Pike that the nearest ship capable of helping them is two days away and orders the crew not to reveal their puppet situation. With Orion pirates already nearby, letting anyone know the Enterprise is being operated by stuffed animals would probably be a terrible tactical decision. Because Spock was outside the Enterprise when the accident occurred, he remains normal and becomes essential to keeping the ship operational. Pike’s biometric chair allows Spock to control several systems while Scotty and the medical team work on reversing the transporter accident. Unfortunately, Spock was already emotionally frazzled before any of this happened. Now he is trying to keep an Enterprise full of puppets alive while dealing with the Orion threat, and his usually reliable logic is being pushed to its limit. The Puppets Fight Back Things get worse when the Orions become a direct threat and Spock is eventually taken captive. With their one non-puppet crew member compromised, everyone else has to figure out how to fight back using the bodies they currently have. T’Pring becomes one of the biggest surprises of the episode. After arriving on the Enterprise insisting there be no high jinks, she ultimately realizes that logic alone will not solve their problem and begins embracing the crew’s unpredictable approach. The puppets regroup for a surprise attack, and the plan even involves a puppet-to-human mind meld. It sounds completely ridiculous, but that is exactly what makes the episode work. The crew eventually saves the Enterprise and finds a way back to normal, with an unexpected twist helping restore logic after all the madness. The experience also leads to a past romance being rekindled, while Little Ricky gets one final laugh when the question of who ends up with the creepy puppet is finally answered. Final Thoughts “Level Five Transporter Accident” is one of the weirdest episodes Strange New Worlds has attempted, but there is more happening here than a funny puppet gimmick. Spock’s struggle with logic and emotion runs throughout the episode, beginning with his breakup with La’An and continuing through his interactions with T’Pring and the increasingly ridiculous crisis aboard the Enterprise. The puppets still steal the show, though, and the episode gets plenty of laughs out of Pike’s new chair, Scotty’s rivalry, Little Ricky and a Starfleet crew discovering how difficult their jobs become without actual fingers. It is silly, surprisingly character driven and exactly the kind of swing Strange New Worlds can have a lot of fun taking. Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars

The wilderness may be behind them, but Yellowjackets has never been particularly interested in letting anyone simply move on. Paramount+ has officially announced that Yellowjackets will return for its fourth and final season on Friday, November 20, 2026, exclusively for Paramount+ Premium subscribers. Along with the premiere date, the streamer released the first teaser for the final season, giving fans their first taste of how this wonderfully twisted story plans to reach the finish line. And apparently, the Yellowjackets are finally going home. Because surely that will solve everything, right? The Yellowjackets Are Going Home in Season 4 The final season will follow the team as they finally make their way back home following their nightmare in the wilderness. Of course, anyone who has watched three seasons of Yellowjackets knows that rescue was never going to magically erase what happened out there. As the survivors attempt to bury their sins before rescue arrives, the official description also teases the return of an old flame who comes back into town with plans of her own. Paramount+ warns that not every homecoming is a happy one, which feels like a fairly polite way of describing what is probably waiting for these women. The series has spent its run bouncing between the teenage Yellowjackets fighting to survive after their plane crash and their adult counterparts dealing with the consequences nearly 25 years later. With the final season bringing the younger survivors home, the show is getting closer than ever to connecting those two timelines and potentially answering some of the questions fans have been carrying since Season 1. A Familiar Cast Returns for the Final Chapter Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci and Tawny Cypress return alongside Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Sophie Thatcher. Samantha Hanratty, Courtney Eaton, Liv Hewson, Warren Kole, Kevin Alves, Sarah Desjardins, Nia Sondaya and Jenna Burgess are also returning. Two time Academy Award winner Hilary Swank will also be part of the final season, giving Yellowjackets another major player as the series prepares to wrap up its story. Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, who also serve as showrunners and executive producers, Yellowjackets debuted as a survival drama but quickly became something much stranger and darker, mixing psychological horror, coming of age drama and one seriously complicated friendship group. Now there is only one season left to explain exactly how the girls went from stranded soccer players to the women we met decades later. After everything Yellowjackets has put these characters through, expecting a peaceful homecoming feels wildly optimistic. Yellowjackets Season 4 premieres Friday, November 20, 2026, on Paramount+ with the Premium Plan. All three previous seasons are currently available to stream.

Thursday is giving TV fans a little bit of everything. Netflix is sending the Pogues into their final adventure with the return of Outer Banks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is somehow making puppets a legitimate workplace hazard, and Peacock is dropping three episodes of Married at First Sight because apparently one hour of questionable relationship decisions simply isn't enough. The evening lineup keeps things moving with Celebrity Family Feud, The Real Housewives of Orange County, Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, Project Runway and more. Whether you're looking for streaming binges, reality TV drama, documentaries or something completely unexpected, here's what to watch on TV today, Thursday, August 20. What to Watch on TV Today: August 20, 2026 Time (ET) Show Network / Streaming What's Happening 3:00 AM Disney Worldbuilders Disney+ Disney's influential storytellers look back at the ideas and creative breakthroughs that helped shape the company's stories and theme parks. 3:00 AM Married at First Sight Peacock Three episodes drop as the couples' retreat quickly goes sideways and a seemingly harmless game puts multiple marriages in jeopardy. 3:00 AM Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter Prime Video The documentary traces Novak Djokovic's journey from Serbia to the top of men's tennis. 3:00 AM Outer Banks Netflix The 10 episode final season begins with the Pogues struggling to move forward after the tragic loss of JJ in Morocco. 3:00 AM Paris Is Always a Good Idea Hallmark+ Chelsea travels to Spain and Marcos's vineyard while searching for answers about her past loves. 3:00 AM Passenger Paramount+ A young couple's van life adventure becomes a nightmare after a highway accident leaves them pursued by a demonic presence. 3:00 AM Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Paramount+ A transporter accident turns everyone except Spock into puppets just as pirates threaten the ship. 8:00 PM Celebrity Family Feud ABC The summer finale features Bow Wow vs. Rickey Smiley and Steve Aoki vs. Joel Kim Booster. 8:00 PM Jersey Shore: Family Vacation MTV The gang meets Angelina's dolls as preparations for the Jersey Shore Roast continue. 8:00 PM The Real Housewives of Orange County Bravo The Vegas trip heads to the Grand Canyon while tensions involving Shannon, Jenn and Heather continue. 9:00 PM Monsters of God HBO A massive reptile import and export business grows into a booming global operation. 9:00 PM Press Your Luck ABC The summer finale sends another group of contestants after big money and prizes. 9:00 PM Secrets Declassified With David Duchovny History The Season 2 finale explores covert operations involving the CIA and Mossad. 9:00 PM Stuart Fails to Save the Universe HBO Max Stuart and company land in a paradise like universe and introduce capitalism and monogamy. What could possibly go wrong? 10:00 PM Project Runway Freeform Season 22 designers face Season 21 returnees in the unconventional materials challenge. There's Plenty to Watch This Thursday The biggest commitment of the day belongs to Outer Banks, which launches its entire final season at once and gives longtime fans the chance to see how the Pogues' story ends. For something completely different, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues proving there may genuinely be no concept this series won't try. Reality fans have Married at First Sight, The Real Housewives of Orange County and Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, while Project Runway closes out the night with some returning competition. Basically, your remote has work to do today.

Dr. Martin Best survived his first year in Port Wenn, but judging by the newly released Best Medicine Season 2 trailer, surviving Year 2 might require a little more patience. Unfortunately, patience has never exactly been Martin’s specialty. FOX released the first official trailer for the medical dramedy’s sophomore season Wednesday, and Martin’s future in Port Wenn is suddenly looking a lot less certain. Josh Charles returns as the cranky doctor who reluctantly made the small Maine town his home, but the fallout from the Season 1 finale is coming back to bite him. After Glendon reported that Elaine had been performing Martin’s blood draws, the state medical board is now involved. Martin’s blood phobia is no longer something he can quietly work around, and Season 2 introduces Parker, played by Jack Cutmore-Scott, as the professional monitor assigned to make sure Martin follows the board’s ruling. Because having someone watching his every professional move apparently was not irritating enough, Parker also develops sparks with Louisa. Yes, Martin has a new problem, and this one is charming. The trailer teases more tension between Martin and Louisa as Parker settles into Port Wenn, while Martin appears to question whether staying in town is really what he wants. After Season 1 spent so much time slowly making Port Wenn feel like home for a man who initially wanted absolutely nothing to do with it, the possibility of Martin walking away gives Season 2 an interesting place to start. Of course, this is still Best Medicine, so the medical cases and eccentric residents of Port Wenn are not going anywhere. FOX is promising wilder cases and tested relationships as Martin attempts to navigate professional scrutiny, his increasingly complicated personal life and a town that has somehow managed to get under his skin. Martin may have finally found a home in Port Wenn. Now Season 2 is going to find out how badly he actually wants to keep it. Best Medicine Season 2 premieres Tuesday, September 22 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.

The Outer Banks may be saying goodbye to John B and the Pogues, but Netflix apparently isn't ready to leave Kildare behind. A potential Outer Banks prequel is in development, giving the hit Netflix franchise a chance to explore the history of the island long before treasure hunts, family feuds and questionable teenage decisions became the norm. The project, reportedly titled Kildare, would take viewers roughly 20 years before the events of the original series. Rather than continuing the story after the upcoming fifth and final season, the prequel would explore how the world fans already know came to be, including the origins of the divide between Kildare's wealthy Kooks and working class Pogues. And honestly, that might be exactly the story the franchise needs. Netflix Wants More Outer Banks, Just Not More of the Same The biggest question surrounding Kildare is what an Outer Banks story looks like without John B and his friends at the center of it. The answer appears to be a deeper look at the island itself. The original series has always treated Kildare almost like another character. The beaches, marshes, mansions and working class neighborhoods aren't simply scenery. They are part of the show's identity, and the enormous gap between the people who have money and those who don't has fueled plenty of the series' conflicts. Going back approximately two decades could allow the creators to show how that divide developed in the first place. Creators Josh Pate and Shannon Burke have been developing the prequel with Netflix, with the story expected to introduce a new generation while connecting back to the mythology established by Outer Banks. The project is still in development, however, so fans should resist the urge to start making a Netflix countdown just yet. What Would the Outer Banks Prequel Be About? Details remain limited, but the central idea is particularly intriguing. Kildare would explore the history behind the island's Kook and Pogue class divide and what created the social lines that eventually shaped the lives of John B, Sarah Cameron, Kiara, Pope, JJ and their friends. That means the prequel has an opportunity to answer questions the original series has largely left in the background. Who established the island's most powerful families? How did the wealthy residents gain such control over Kildare? When did being a Pogue become more than simply living on the wrong side of town? And, perhaps most importantly, how many family secrets have been sitting there all along? Those questions could give Kildare a more grounded story while still leaving room for the mystery and adventure that made Outer Banks such a hit. Could Familiar Outer Banks Characters Appear? Don't expect the original cast to simply show up as their current characters. A story taking place roughly 20 years earlier means the focus would naturally shift to an older generation. That doesn't mean fans should expect zero familiar connections. The prequel could explore parents, relatives and other figures whose actions eventually shaped the world inhabited by the original characters. That gives the series plenty of opportunities for connections without turning it into a simple reboot. For longtime viewers, that may actually be more rewarding than trying to recreate the original Pogues with a new group of teenagers. Is Kildare Officially Ordered by Netflix? Here's where fans need to pump the brakes. Kildare is in development, but Netflix has not officially announced a series order at this time. The creative team is working on the project with Netflix, but there is no confirmed premiere date or production schedule for the potential prequel. That distinction is important, especially with Outer Banks Season 5 serving as the show's final season. The existence of a prequel project does not mean Netflix has already guaranteed another series. Still, the fact that the creators are developing the idea suggests the Outer Banks universe could have life beyond the original five season story. The Timing Couldn't Be More Interesting Netflix is preparing to release the final season of Outer Banks, so the possibility of a prequel arriving in development at the same time feels very intentional. Fans may be getting ready to close the book on John B and the Pogues, but Kildare could turn the page rather than simply ending the story altogether. There is also something appealing about going backward. The original series spent years introducing viewers to the rival worlds of the Kooks and Pogues. Now, instead of asking what happens next, the prequel can ask a much more interesting question: how did all of this begin? For now, Kildare remains a project to watch rather than a confirmed Netflix premiere. But if the prequel moves forward, the Outer Banks universe could get the chance to prove that its biggest story was never only about finding treasure. It was about the families, history and social divisions buried underneath Kildare all along. And yes, girl, we have questions.

Just when Sons of Anarchy fans thought they had made peace with the fact that SAMCRO was never riding back onto their screens, FX has another trick up its sleeve. The cast of the beloved biker drama is reuniting for a new limited series called Legends, and whew, the concept is far more unexpected than a traditional sequel. FX has ordered Legends, which brings together a major portion of the original Sons of Anarchy cast more than a decade after the series came to an end. Charlie Hunnam is leading the project, which he developed with Jonathan Groff, and the series is designed to play with the line between the television world fans remember and reality itself. The Sons of Anarchy Cast Is Back Together The reunion alone is enough to get longtime fans reaching for their leather vests. Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal, Maggie Siff, Mark Boone Junior, Tommy Flanagan, Kim Coates and Theo Rossi are all set to return for Legends. That means a whole lot of familiar faces from the original FX hit will once again share the screen. Of course, there is one enormous catch: fans should not expect everyone to simply slip back into their old Sons of Anarchy roles. Legends takes a meta approach, with the actors playing fictionalized versions of themselves rather than simply resurrecting Jax Teller, Clay Morrow, Gemma Teller Morrow, Tara Knowles, Bobby Munson, Chibs Telford, Tig Trager and Juice Ortiz. The premise reportedly centers on the Sons of Anarchy cast coming together for a fan convention years after the original show ended, only for the reunion to take a much darker turn. The story begins blurring the boundary between the world of the actors and the fictional world they once inhabited. And honestly, that is a pretty clever way to revisit Sons of Anarchy without undoing its ending. Why the Legends Concept Could Actually Work There is always a little danger when a beloved television series gets revisited years after its finale. Fans remember the original characters, relationships and shocking twists very clearly, so simply throwing the old cast back together and pretending nothing happened would probably feel forced. Legends appears to be taking a different route. Rather than trying to recreate SAMCRO, the limited series can acknowledge the enormous cultural footprint of Sons of Anarchy while giving its actors something completely different to play. That distinction matters. Sons of Anarchy ran for seven seasons from 2008 through 2014 and became one of FX's signature dramas, following Jax Teller and the members of the outlaw motorcycle club SAMCRO. The ensemble was a major part of the show's appeal, with Hunnam, Sagal, Perlman, Siff, Flanagan, Coates, Rossi and Boone Junior among the performers who helped make the series such a memorable television experience. Bringing those performers together again gives Legends an immediate emotional connection with the original series without requiring the story to rewrite its history. Charlie Hunnam Is Behind the Reunion Hunnam isn't simply returning as the familiar face fans associate with Jax Teller. He helped develop Legends alongside Jonathan Groff and will executive produce the project. The creative setup suggests this reunion is coming from someone who understands why the original cast and characters still mean so much to viewers. That could be the secret ingredient here. The premise has room to poke fun at celebrity, fandom and the expectations surrounding a beloved television franchise while still delivering the darker storytelling audiences associate with Sons of Anarchy. And yes, the idea of the Sons of Anarchy cast attending a fan convention together already sounds like the kind of situation that could go spectacularly sideways. When Will Legends Premiere? There is currently no premiere date for Legends. FX has announced the limited series order and its principal cast, but additional details about production and the release schedule are still to come. For now, fans have a pretty significant reason to start talking about Sons of Anarchy again. The original series may have ended in 2014, but its cast is getting another opportunity to ride together. Whether Legends becomes a clever continuation of the show's legacy or simply a very entertaining trip down memory lane remains to be seen. But with Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman, Katey Sagal, Maggie Siff, Tommy Flanagan, Kim Coates, Theo Rossi and Mark Boone Junior back in the same orbit, there is already plenty here to make Sons of Anarchy fans pay attention. One thing is certain: SAMCRO may be history, but apparently these legends aren't finished with us yet.

The Wayans Brothers are bringing the jokes home. Paramount+ has announced that the new Scary Movie will begin streaming exclusively on the service September 3, giving fans another chance to watch the latest installment of the beloved horror parody franchise from their couches. The sixth Scary Movie arrives more than 13 years after Scary Movie 5 and 26 years after the original movie introduced audiences to a franchise that made turning horror movie clichés into comedy look ridiculously easy. The Wayans Are Back! One of the biggest reasons longtime fans have been waiting for this installment is the return of Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans as Shorty and Ray Wilkins. Anna Faris and Regina Hall are also back as Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks, bringing some very familiar faces back into the franchise. The new movie also features returning favorites Dave Sheridan, Lochlyn Munro, Cheri Oteri and Chris Elliott, alongside newcomers including Kenan Thompson, Kim Wayans, Damon Wayans Jr., Heidi Gardner, Olivia Rose Keegan, Sydney Park and more. And considering the franchise's history, we're guessing nobody involved is going to be taking horror movie rules particularly seriously. No Horror Movie Trope Is Safe The new Scary Movie takes aim at just about everything Hollywood has been doing with the horror genre lately, including reboots, remakes, sequels, prequels, spin-offs, origin stories and those movies that insist they're delivering the "final chapter" before inevitably announcing another sequel. The returning characters once again find themselves in the killer's crosshairs, giving the movie plenty of opportunities to send up the horror movies audiences have been watching for years. Basically, if you've seen it in a scary movie, there's a decent chance this franchise has a joke waiting for it. The movie has already made a major impression at the box office, earning more than $230 million worldwide during its theatrical run earlier this year. When Can You Watch Scary Movie? Scary Movie begins streaming September 3 exclusively on Paramount+. The movie joins the complete Scary Movie franchise on the service, along with other comedy favorites including The Naked Gun, Airplane!, Tropic Thunder and Zoolander. So, if you're looking for something to watch after spending the evening yelling at horror movie characters for making terrible decisions, Paramount+ has you covered. The Wayans are back, Cindy and Brenda are back, and absolutely nobody's favorite horror trope is safe. September 3 can't come soon enough.