April Television and Movie Recommendations
TV Shows
The Handmaid’s Tale: Season 4
Hulu’s dystopian tragedy series “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been one of the streaming platform’s most popular shows. The series focuses on following a Second American Civil War, wherein, a totalitarian society subjects fertile women, called “Handmaids,” to child-bearing slavery.
In the upcoming fourth season, main character, June, emerges as the fierce rebel leader she’s. This is what the show been building up over the series. Her quest for justice and revenge threatens to consume her and destroy her most cherished relationships.
Shadow and Bone
“Shadow and Bone” is an upcoming fantasy television series based on the worldwide, bestselling Grishaverse novels. The series finds us in a war-torn world where the lowly soldier and orphan, Alina Starkov, has just unleashed an extraordinary power that could be the key to setting her country free.
With the monstrous threat of the Shadow Fold looming, Alina is torn from everything she knows to train as part of an elite army of magical soldiers known as Grisha. Watch “Shadow and Bone” on Netflix April 23.
Law & Order: Organized Crime
“Law & Order: Organized Crime” is an upcoming crime-drama television series that is set to premiere on April 1 on NBC. It is a spin-off of the long-running popular series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and will focus on Elliot Stabler, a detective who returns to the New York City Police Department to join a new task force that battles organized crime and finds out how much the criminal justice system has changed over the past decade.
Movies
Monday
“Monday” is a romantic drama that features Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough as two strangers who quickly become attracted to one another, one hot summer night. They begin a love affair in Greek city of Athens. The movie is scheduled to open in theaters April 16.
Stowaway
The long-awaited Anna Kendrick space drama, “Stowaway,” is set aboard a spacecraft headed to Mars. It follows the three-person crew as they discover a fourth person has snuck onto the ship. With limited resources and an inability to just turn around and send the stowaway home, the crew is forced to make the difficult decisions. Find out how it ends when “Stowaway” takes off April 22 on Netflix.
Every Breath You Take
The upcoming thriller, “Every Breath You Take,” follows a psychiatrist (Casey Affleck) whose life is thrown into turmoil when his client commits suicide. The situation quickly becomes more complicated when the deceased client’s brother appears at the doctor’s home unannounced. He begins to cause a rift among the family and ultimately enters very uncomfortable and potentially dangerous territory. The film will be in theaters on April 2.
