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Rapid Insights: ‘Outlander: Blood of My Blood’ Proves Table-Stakes IP Opens the Door to Fresh Appeal

Starz recently debuted a compelling spin-off to its historical romance drama Outlander that’s so promising it’s already been renewed for a second season. This new show serves as a prequel to the original series, tracing how the parents of Outlander’s storied couple originally came together–one pair in 18th century Scotland, the other in WWI-era England. Here’s what you […]

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Rapid Insights: ‘Alien: Earth’ Exposes the Hidden Rule That Makes TV Horror Scarier Than Film

Last week, FX on Hulu premiered the first TV series in the Alien film franchise and it’s already racking up both critical and viewer acclaim. Set two years before the 1979 film Alien and fifteen years after 2012 prequel Prometheus, this new sci-fi horror-thriller follows what happens after a deep space research vessel, loaded with dangerous specimens, crash-lands on Earth. […]

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Rapid Insights: ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Shows Why a Strong Sequel Lifts Every Chapter of a Series

America’s favorite serial killer is back in Showtime’s newest entry in the mega-successful Dexter franchise. However, rather than a spin-off, this new show continues the very same story begun in the original Dexter, continued through the limited series Dexter: New Blood, and set up in the prequel Dexter: Original Sin. Dexter: Resurrection follows the popular antihero through New York City in pursuit […]

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Rapid Insights: ‘Countdown,’ ‘Ballard,’ and ‘Smoke’ Reveal How Procedurals Hook Viewers Beyond the Case

Three gripping new west-coast-set crime thrillers have premiered on streaming outlets in recent weeks, and all three have been racking up views and generating considerable online buzz. Amazon Prime Video’s Countdown and Ballard and Apple TV+’s Smoke all focus on dedicated investigators–two teams in Los Angeles, one in the Pacific Northwest–determined to solve increasingly urgent cases and save lives, whether […]

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Rapid Insights: ‘The Waterfront’ Reveals the Trick to Masking Gritty Drama as Soap

Netflix recently released an addictive, attention-grabbing new series that, more than a month after its premiere, is still going strong, heading the streamer’s top ten list and generating considerable buzz. From the creator of Dawson’s Creek and The Vampire Diaries, this new series straddles the line between gritty crime and soapy melodrama and follows a seemingly affluent and […]

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Rapid Insights: ‘Nautilus’ Makes a Strong Case for Reinventing IP Instead of Reviving It

AMC recently premiered an exciting new adventure series that has been generating considerable buzz and netting impressive viewership numbers for the network. A reimagining of Jules Verne’s 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the show creates an origin story for the enigmatic Captain Nemo as an Indian prince-turned-rebel slave-turned-crusading scientist who captures and pilots […]

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