When’s that show you mentioned starting, TMINE? Including Good Girls, S.W.A.T., Sacred Games and Mr Sunshine

22 June 2018 Rob Buckley Airdates, International TV, Streaming TV, US TV Post a comment
Good Girls
l-r: Retta, Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman in NBC's Good Girls

Every Friday, TMINE lets you know when the latest TV shows from around the world will air in the UK

One new premiere-less acquisition this week, with BBC Four picking up ARD (Germany)’s period terrorism drama Gladbeck (54 Hours) for airing “later this year“; otherwise, everything else has a date.

Premiere dates

Good Girls
l-r: Retta, Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman in NBC’s Good Girls

Good Girls (US: NBC; UK: Netflix)
Premiere date: Tuesday, July 3

Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman decide to improve their lives by robbing the local grocery store. Fortunately, it turns out to have far more money in its safe than it’s supposed to have. Unfortunately, not only does it all turn out to be a gang’s drug money, but Whitman’s boss recognises her and tries to use it to his advantage. After that, things spiral out of control.

Supposed to be a comedy, it honestly isn’t.

Episode reviews: 1

Sacred Games

Sacred Games (Netflix)
Premiere date: Friday, July 6

Set amid the chaos of Mumbai, this epic series explores the corrupt underworld lurking beneath India’s economic renaissance. Based on the novel.

https://youtu.be/28j8h0RRov4

SWAT CBS

S.W.A.T. (US: CBS; UK: Sky Living)
Premiere date: Sunday, July 8, 9pm (or 10pm)

Remake of the 70s cop drama about LA’s Special Weapons and Tactics police squad. Mostly just an excuse to give Criminal Minds‘s Shemar Moore something to do, in a Fast & Furious style shoot-up mixed with a weird attempt at social commentary on the black-American community that makes it more like Marvel’s Luke Cage than anything else.

Episode reviews: 1

https://youtu.be/3xD8nf1EhtA

Mr Sunshine

Mr Sunshine (Korea: No idea – soz; UK: Netflix)
Premiere date: Thursday, July 19

Set in Shinmiyangyo, or the U.S. expedition to Korea in the late 19th century, Mr. Sunshine tells the story of a Korean boy born into a family of a house servant running away to board an American warship, later to return to his homeland as a US marine officer. He ironically falls in love with an aristocrat’s daughter and discovers the dark scheme to colonize the country that he once ran away from.

Obviously, I’ve not seen this one, since it doesn’t start anywhere until July 7, but it does star the hugely popular Lee Byung-hun and looks very shiny, so it stands a chance of being good.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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