TV Show Excited to Watch in 2021（7）

Mare of Easttown

HBO, April 18

Kate Winslet stars in this HBO limited series murder mystery. (Her character's name is Mare. She is the "Mare" in question and presumably hails from some place named Easttown.) It's directed by Craig Zobel, whose most recent project was the troubled film The Hunt, and created and written by Brad Ingelsby, most recently of the Ben Affleck vehicle The Way Back.

The Secrets She Keeps

AMC, April 19

Although this twisty Australian miniseries about a chance encounter between two women who are both pregnant but couldn't be more different—one a picture-perfect influencer and the other struggling to get by working at a supermarket—already aired overseas and is streaming on Sundance Now, it's finally hitting regular TV on AMC this spring.

Cruel Summer

Freeform, April 20

Jessica Biel produced this mysterious teen thriller. Set over the course of three summers in the '90s, it examines the disappearance of a popular teenage girl and how an unsuspecting outlier takes her place as queen bee… before later being accused of killing the other.

Sasquatch

Hulu, April 20

Looks like you already have your 4/20 plans carved out for you. This three-episode docuseries from the Duplass Brothers investigates an urban-legend-cold-case hybrid as an investigative journalist returns to the Redwoods decades after he learned of a triple homicide that took place there in the early '90s and was thought to be the work of Bigfoot. (The fact that he learned of this case while visiting a weed farm may or may not be important.)

Rutherford Falls

Peacock, April 22

Michael Shur (The Good Place, Parks and Recreation) teamed up with Ed Helms and Sierra Teller Ornelas (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) to create this new Peacock exclusive comedy. Helms stars in the series as the titular Nathan Rutherford, the descendant of the founder of a small Upstate New York town, who clashes with a local Native American reservation when the town wants to remove his ancestor's statue.

Shadow and Bone

Netflix, April 23

Netflix has another big-budget fantasy series on the way. This one's inspired by Leigh Bardugo's popular books, the Grisha trilogy, and set in a frightening world of perpetual darkness, where one teenaged orphan discovers she has a power that may be able to help save her nation.

93rd Academy Awards

ABC, April 25

After a weird year of movie delays and mostly streaming or VOD releases, the Oscars will finally commence (after its own delays) to honor the films that did see a release from 2020 to early 2021.

The Handmaid's Tale (Season 4)

Hulu

Escaped handmaid June has been planting the seeds for a full-blown revolution against the tyrannical Gilead, and Season 4 looks like it'll blow the floodgates off its hinges to make that crusade more realized.

Yasuke

Netflix, April 29

Netflix's anime game has been getting consistently stronger, and this new project, from Cannon Busters creator LeSean Thomas and renown studio MAPPA (Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen) with a soundtrack from Flying Lotus, will certainly up the ante. LaKeith Stanfield is on to voice the eponymous and Yasuke, the first African samurai—a real person!—who must protect a young girl from dark forces and violent warlords in feudal Japan