Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit) reunites with Matthew Goode for Netflix’s new crime drama Dept Q. The series, based on Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s books, will premiere on the streamer on May 29, 2025.
Goode (The Offer) stars as Detective Chief Inspector Carl Morck, Chloe Pirrie (The Game) plays Merritt Lingard, Jamie Sives (Guilt) is Detective Chief Inspector James Hardy, Mark Bonnar (Operation Mincemeat) is Stephen Burns, and Alexej Manvelov (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) is Akram Salim. The cast also includes Leah Byrne (Nightsleeper) as Detective Constable Rose Dickson, Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones) as Detective Chief Superintendent Moira Jacobson, Shirley Henderson (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) as Claire Marsh, Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men) as Dr. Rachel Irving, and Tom Bulpett (Father Brown) as William Lingard.
“DCI Carl Morck is a brilliant cop but a terrible colleague. His razor-sharp sarcasm has made him no friends in Edinburgh police. After a shooting that leaves a young PC dead and his partner paralyzed, he finds himself exiled to the basement and the sole member of Department Q; a newly formed cold case unit,” reads Netflix’s synopsis. “The department is a PR stunt, there to distract the public from the failures of an under-resourced, failing police force that is glad to see the back of him. But more by accident than design, Carl starts to build a gang of waifs and strays who have everything to prove. So, when the stone-cold trail of a prominent civil servant who disappeared several years ago starts to heat up, Carl is back doing what he does best – rattling cages and refusing to take no for an answer.”
Kelly Macdonald (Photo Credit: Netflix)
Scott Frank wrote, directed, and served as an executive producer on the nine-episode season.
“I’ve been working with him since 2006,” said Frank on his relationship with Matthew Goode. “Matthew just felt like this guy. I was writing with him in mind. I knew that he could do this and that he would lend this undeniable intelligence with his flintiness, but that he could also be emotional without being sentimental.”
Additional executive producers include Rob Bullock and Andy Harries.
As someone who has never played the video game and has attempted to avoid all spoilers, I can genuinely say I was not at all prepared for The Last of Us season two, episode two. But seriously, how could anyone, without having listened to potential spoilers, be prepared for the devastating turn of events?
Fellow The Last of Us neophytes felt the same way, sharing their heartbreak on social media. One commenter even said they weren’t sure they’d watch another episode. While, thankfully, that sentiment wasn’t widely shared, it just goes to show the love we all felt for Joel, played to perfection by Pedro Pascal.
In the aftermath of the episode, HBO released a nearly 10-minute behind-the-scenes video featuring interviews with series creator Craig Mazan, director Mark Mylod, director of photography Catherine Goldschmidt, VFX supervisor Alex Wang, and actors Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey, Gabriel Luna, and Kaitlyn Dever.
Pedro Pascal as Joel in ‘The Last of Us’ season 2 episode 2 (Photograph by Liane Hentscher/HBO)
The seven-episode second season premiered on April 13, 2025. New episodes air on Sundays at 9pm ET, with the season finale set for May 25th.
“Five years after the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world even more dangerous and unpredictable than the one they left behind,” reads HBO’s synopsis. The cast includes Pedro Pascal as Joel (RIP), Bella Ramsey as Ellie, Gabriel Luna as Tommy, and Rutina Wesley as Maria. Kaitlyn Dever stars as Abby, Isabela Merced is Dina, Young Mazino is Jesse, Ariela Barer is Mel, Tati Gabrielle is Nora, Spencer Lord is Owen, Danny Ramirez is Manny, and Jeffrey Wright is Isaac.
Season two is written and executive produced by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. Additional executive producers include Carolyn Strauss, Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O’Connor, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, and Evan Wells. Halley Gross is a writer and co-executive producer.
The 40-second teaser for New Line Cinema’s Weapons gives nothing away other than confirming the film’s creepy vibe. Barbarian‘s Zach Cregger wrote and directed the horror/thriller opening in theaters on August 8, 2025.
Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan star. New Line Cinema offers this description of Weapons: “When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.”
Cregger serves as a producer along with Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz, and Raphael Margules. Josh Brolin and Michelle Morrissey are the executive producers. Larkin Seiple is the director of photography, Tom Hammock is the production designer, Joe Murphy is the editor, and Trish Sommerville is the costume designer. Cregger collaborated with Ryan Holladay and Hays Holladay on the music.
The clock is ticking as the team tracks down a bomb maker on CBS’s The Equalizer season five episode 17, “Acceptance.” Episode 17 will air on Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 10pm ET/PT.
Queen Latifah stars as Robyn McCall, Tory Kittles is Detective Marcus Dante, Adam Goldberg is Harry Keshegian, and Liza Lapira is Melody “Mel” Bayani. Laya DeLeon Hayes plays Delilah and Lorraine Toussaint is Viola “Vi” Marsette.
“Acceptance” Plot: When Dante’s brother, James, seeks the team’s help to clear his client’s name in a shooting, they uncover a plot to bomb an international anti-terrorism conference. Meanwhile, Delilah gets ready for prom and learns she has been accepted to UCLA.
“The Equalizer is a reimagining of the classic series starring Academy Award nominee and multi-hyphenate Queen Latifah as Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills as a former CIA operative to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall presents to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage daughter. But to a trusted few, she is The Equalizer—an anonymous guardian angel and defender of the downtrodden, who’s also dogged in her pursuit of personal redemption.
Robyn’s clandestine work and her personal life often collide when her smart and observant daughter, Delilah, and her aunt Vi, who lives with Robyn to help her balance life as a working mother, struggle to conceal her vigilante career. While Robyn worries about the mental and emotional toll her work exacts on her family, she is joined in her pursuit of justice by Melody “Mel” Bayani, an edgy bar owner and sniper from Robyn’s past who recently quit the Equalizer team to recover from post-traumatic stress disorder, and Harry Keshegian, a paranoid and brilliant white-hat hacker married to Mel.
As Robyn aids the oppressed and exploited, she sometimes works with Marcus Dante, an NYPD detective and trusted friend who respects the need for Robyn’s type of justice even as he often questions her methods.”
Randy gets to join Colter in the field for a missing persons investigation on CBS’s Tracker season two episode 17. The action takes place in Reno, and the case is personal to Randy, who’s no longer subbing in for Bobby.
(This is a recap, so there are lots of spoilers ahead!)
A woman comes to after a night of partying and calls out to a friend, asking what happened the previous night. There’s no response, and as she’s looking around, she notices she has blood on her dress. Although her first reaction is to call 911, she hesitates and decides not to.
Colter (Justin Hartley) is in Northern California when Randy (Chris Lee) calls and needs him to head to Reno as soon as possible. Colter meets Randy at the Casa D’Oro casino and learns Randy’s ex, Megan, needs his help. Randy says he’ll do anything for Megan because she’s “the one.”
Randy and Colter head upstairs to Megan’s hotel room, and she explains that Sonya, her BFF, never came back to their room. Megan (Khamisa Wilsher) is worried because she can’t remember much about the previous night. Randy thinks Megan and Sonya were roofied, and Colter wonders why Sonya’s phone is in the room without her. Megan thinks it’s possible she had Sonya’s purse because Sonya would sometimes ask her to hold it. Megan woke up with a headache and with blood on her dress; she has no idea where the blood came from. She also doesn’t know why she has blood on her knuckles.
They head to the last club Megan remembers being at, and an employee insists Megan needs to leave. He threw her and Sonya out last night after Sonya threw a bottle at a customer. The club employee hasn’t seen her since and refuses to let them look at the security footage.
Of course, Randy and Colter are quickly able to hack into the club’s security system. They spot Megan’s ex-boyfriend Troy staring at Megan and Sonya, and watch as Sonya confronts him. They leave the club after an intense argument. Colter believes Troy did something to Sonya.
Bobby (Eric Graise), who’s once again Colter’s go-to tech genius, does some quick research and learns Troy was convicted of assault and possession. It’s possible Troy drugged Megan and then did something to Sonya. Bobby uses Troy’s car’s GPS to track him and sends Colter a pin of the car’s location.
Colter recommends that Randy take Megan to the hospital to be checked out. He then heads to Troy’s car’s location and hears banging in the trunk. It turns out the man in the trunk is a stripper named Ricky the Stallion. Troy kidnapped him because he thought Ricky was hitting on Megan. He wasn’t. Ricky was just inviting Megan and Sonya to his show at the Golden Fox.
That club could have been Megan and Sonya’s next stop on their night out partying, and Colter makes it his next destination to check out for clues. There are auditions going on when Colter arrives, and the woman in character, Marlene, hopes Colter’s there to show off his pole-dancing skills. He’s not, and asks if she recognizes photos of Sonya, Megan, and Troy. She does and reveals Troy was hassling Sonya and Megan and some guys from the VIP lounge took care of Troy.
Marlene also remembers that Megan’s dress got blood on it when she punched Troy. Other than that, Megan and Sonya seemed okay and left with the men who beat up Troy. Sonya asked her where she could get married, and Marlene told them the Lucky Love wedding chapel.
Randy runs into Troy at the hospital, and Troy’s got a broken nose and other injuries. Randy’s furious that Troy roofied Megan and did something to Sonya, but Troy claims to be completely innocent of both charges. Troy admits Megan sucker-punched him, and then guys beat him up. He thinks those men took Sonya.
A quick scene shows Sonya begging her abductor to let her go and promising she won’t tell anyone.
The man running the wedding chapel greets Colter, Megan, and Randy, and recognizes Megan from the previous evening. Megan doesn’t remember any of this since she was roofied. (The flowers in Megan’s hotel room match the flowers used at this chapel.) The chapel employee says Megan tried to stop Sonya from getting married, but Sonya was adamant she wanted to marry this guy.
He shows them a video from the wedding, and the man who married Sonya roofied Megan and maybe Sonya. Colter also notices the tape shows the groom was carrying a gun. The chapel employee remembers Sonya wanted to take Megan back to the hotel to sleep it off.
They get a copy of the marriage certificate, and Bobby does some quick research. The groom is Peter Bronwen, and his best man is his brother, Nicholas. They’re British and run the family’s real estate business in America. The business has had a lot of complaints against it, and they were investigated in the UK for murder. They’re on vacation in Reno and have a short-term rental in the Reno foothills.
Randy talks his way into going with Colter to the vacation rental and immediately proves it was a wise decision to tag along when he’s able to hack into their security cameras. He puts the feed on loop but is disappointed when Colter insists that he remain in the car. (Randy claims he’s got judo skills, and Colter just chuckles.)
A man steps outside, and Colter enters while the door’s still open. He sneaks around, makes his way upstairs, and hears muffled screaming. Colter follows the noise and finds Peter tied up in a closet. After being freed, he reveals his brother ordered one of his men to take Sonya away to be killed because she saw something she shouldn’t have.
Randy’s spotted in the car by one of Nicholas’ men and brought into the house at gunpoint. Randy tries to lie his way out of the situation, but a photo of Megan and Sonya on his laptop makes it obvious he’s there to find Sonya.
Nicholas goes looking for Peter and discovers he’s been released. Peter surprises his brother by holding him at gunpoint, and Nicholas reminds him that he doesn’t know anything about his new wife. Peter insists they had a connection. Nicholas reveals what it was that Sonya walked in on: a business meeting that went south and ended with him killing the man he was meeting with.
Nicholas claims he was just protecting their family, and Peter hands over the gun.
Peter reveals that a stranger found him in the closet and set him free. Peter suggests that his brother just let Sonya go since this stranger won’t stop looking for her. Nicholas pretends he agrees and then knocks out Peter.
Colter makes it back outside and realizes Randy’s gone. Just then, Randy comes running up, yelling at Colter to go. Colter fills him in on why Sonya was taken and admits he doesn’t think they have any choice but to believe Peter.
Night falls as Randy and Colter arrive at the location Peter described. A gunshot rings out and they spot a dead body and Sonya, who’s thankfully still alive. Randy picks her up, and Sonya’s frantic about Megan. Randy assures her that Megan’s okay.
They get Sonya back to the car, and she tells them everything that happened. She saw Nicholas shoot a guy and screamed. They tied her up in a closet, and Peter stopped them from shooting her right then. Instead, Nicholas’ guy took her out to the woods. Sonya was able to distract him with a little flirting. They ended up fighting, and his gun went off, killing him.
Randy and Colter take Sonya back to her hotel, and Nicholas and his men are already there, holding Megan at gunpoint. Colter tries to calm the situation, but Nicholas orders his men to shoot all of them. Colter gives Randy the signal, and Randy causes a distraction. Colter takes out a few of the men as Sonya and Megan go after another. Randy also puts his fighting skills, which, honestly, we doubted he had, to good use. The fight almost ends with Randy being shot by Nicholas, but Colter shoots him before he can pull the trigger.
The police pick up Peter and Nicholas, and Velma reports that the cops have been after the brothers for quite a while.
Randy and Megan have a heart-to-heart, and Randy admits he messed up last time they were together. He’ll never do that again and hopes they can take it slow this time. Megan agrees and suggests they meet later for a date. Randy can’t stop smiling.
Colter’s playing roulette when Randy joins him with the good news about his and Megan’s potential relationship. Colter believes you create your own luck and that things have a way of working themselves out.
Randy wonders if Colter has anyone like Megan in his life. Colter won’t admit that he does.
Is Jake (Jordan Calloway) really leaving Fire Country? Episode 18 left the impression the final two episodes of season three could be Jake’s last. Hopefully, his status won’t be left hanging and fans will get the answer one way or another when the two-part season three finale airs on Friday, April 25, 2025 beginning at 9pm ET/PT.
Series star and creator Max Thieriot directs part one of the two-parter.
Thieriot stars as Bode, Billy Burke plays Vince, Kevin Alejandro is Manny, and Diane Farr is Sharon. Stephanie Arcila plays Gabriela, Jordan Calloway is Jake, Jules Latimer is Eve, and Leven Rambin guest stars as Audrey James.
Episode 19 “A Change in the Wind” Plot: When a fire erupts at a gas station, Bode and Manny jump into action to protect the patrons and property, on part one of the two-hour season finale.
Episode 20 “I’d Do It Again” Plot: Extremely high winds and dangerous conditions push the Zebel Ridge fire into Edgewater, threatening Three Rock and Walter’s care facility. Bill Purple directs from a script by Tia Napolitano.
Fire Country stars Max Thieriot as Bode Leone, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining a prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region. It’s a high-risk, high-reward assignment, and the heat is turned up when Bode is assigned to the program in his rural hometown, where he was once a golden all-American son until his troubles began.
Years ago, Bode burned down everything in his life, leaving town with a big secret. Now he’s back, with the rap sheet of a criminal and the audacity to believe in a chance for redemption with Cal Fire.
SWAT‘s Kenny Johnson reprises his guest-starring role as Mitchell’s father on CBS’s FBI: International season four episode 19. Directed by Attila Szalay, episode 19 – “Now and It’s Over” – will air on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT.
Jesse Lee Soffer stars as Supervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell, Carter Redwood plays Special Agent Andre Raines, Vinessa Vidotto is Special Agent Cameron Vo, Eva-Jane Willis is Europol Agent Megan “Smitty” Garretson, and Christina Wolfe plays Special Agent Amanda Tate.
“Flinch Now and It’s Over” Plot: When a suspected American arms dealer with a lengthy rap sheet pops up in Vienna with stolen weapons, the Fly Team sends Mitchell and Smitty undercover to try to infiltrate his operation. During the mission, Smitty enters muddy waters while working with the suspect’s wife. Meanwhile, Mitchell’s biological father (Johnson) shows up in Budapest after being released from prison to seek him out despite Mitchell’s disinterest.
FBI: International is the third iteration of the successful FBI brand that follows the elite operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s International Fly Team. Headquartered in Budapest, they travel throughout Europe with the mission of tracking and neutralizing threats against American citizens wherever they may be, putting their lives on the line to protect the U.S. and its people. Newly embedded to the Fly Team is charming and rakish Supervisory Special Agent Wesley “Wes” Mitchell, whose impeccable instincts and unconventional tactics deepen his drive to stop at nothing to achieve justice.
Special Agent Andre Raines shines in the field and makes good use of his accounting background in tracking criminal enterprises’ moving money. Special Agent Cameron Vo, a competitive West Point grad, excels at interrogation and strategy, and Megan “Smitty” Garretson, a streetwise Europol agent with an extensive undercover background, uses her expertise to liaise with each host country they inhabit. Special Agent Amanda Tate, a confident and tech-savvy intel analyst, stays quick on her feet and remains calm in the midst of chaos. Always at the scene where American interests are at risk, FBI: International is a globe-trotting depiction of law enforcement overseas.
CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season six episode 19, “Starman,” dives into the world of adult content creators. Directed by Ken Girotti, episode 19 is set to air on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 10pm ET/PT.
Dylan McDermott leads the cast as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott. Season six also stars Shantel VanSanten as Special Agent Nina Chase, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.
“Starman” Plot: The Fugitive Task Force investigates the kidnapping of a high-profile astronaut in connection with other disappearances in the area, landing them in the wild world of adult content creators. Meanwhile, Remy and Abby struggle to see eye to eye.
FBI: Most Wanted is a high-stakes drama that focuses on the Fugitive Task Force, an elite unit that relentlessly pursues and captures the notorious criminals on the Bureau’s Most Wanted list. The team’s charming but formidable leader is Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, who started his career in the New York FBI field office before rising through the ranks of the Bureau in Philadelphia and Las Vegas.
The team includes Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, a former NYPD detective and forensics expert; Special Agent Hana Gibson, a gifted millennial computer whiz with a sharp wit and mad hacking skills; Special Agent Ray Cannon, who is a former New Orleans cop-turned-junior detective and worked Violent Crimes in Albany after following in his retired FBI agent father’s footsteps; along with well-seasoned Special Agent Nina Chase, who worked assorted cases with the FBI’s New York office, and among her strengths is her undercover work.
Barbie‘s Ken is set to headline director Shawn Levy’s upcoming Star Wars project, confirmed to be Star Wars: Starfighter. Ryan Gosling will star in the just-announced addition to the Star Wars franchise, with Lucasfilm targeting a fall 2025 start of production.
The title and confirmation of Gosling’s involvement were announced during the 2025 Star Wars Celebration in Japan. SW fans can expect the film to see a May 28, 2027 theatrical release.
Per the official announcement, “Star Wars: Starfighter, which will be directed by Shawn Levy and star Ryan Gosling, is a standalone adventure taking place approximately five years after the events of 2019’s Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. The film, which will begin production this fall, is an entirely new adventure featuring all-new characters set in a period of time that has not been explored on screen yet.”
Shawn Levy’s film credits include multiple films with the other Ryan (Reynolds): Deadpool & Wolverine, The Adam Project, and Free Guy. Levy also directed the Night at the Museum franchise, Date Night, Real Steel, and multiple episodes of Stranger Things.
Ryan Gosling earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Barbie and Best Actor nominations for La La Land and Half Nelson. Gosling’s recent credits include The Fall Guy, The Gray Man, First Man, and Blade Runner 2049.
Michael Emerson reprises his guest-starring role as Judge Milton Crawford on CBS’s Elsbeth season two episode 18. “I Know What You Did Thirty-Three Summers Ago” will air on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 9pm ET/PT, immediately following Ghosts season four episode 20 titled “I Know What You Did Thirty-Seven Summers Ago.”
Carrie Preston stars as Elsbeth Tascioni, Wendell Pierce stars as Captain C.W. Wagner, and Carra Patterson is back as Officer Kaya Blanke. Robert King, Michelle King, Liz Glotzer, and Jonathan Tolins serve as executive producers.
“I Know What You Did Thirty-Three Summers Ago” Plot: As Judge Milton Crawford (Emerson) inches closer to becoming a federal judge, Elsbeth scours his past to prove he’s a murderer before it’s too late, but her attempts to take him down put everyone around her in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Teddy considers following in his mother’s professional footsteps.
Emmy Award winner Carrie Preston is back as Elsbeth Tascioni, the astute but unconventional consent decree attorney working with the NYPD to catch New York’s most well-heeled murderers utilizing her unique point of view. Season two of the critically acclaimed series brings new cases and challenges when mistakes of the past come back to haunt Elsbeth, her boss Captain Wagner (Pierce), and detective in training Officer Kaya Blanke (Patterson).
