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HEN MICHAEL DOUGLAS FIRST READ THAT
season 2 of his streaming comedy called for
a scene between his character, Sandy, and
one of his ex-wives, the star had only one
person in mind for the role: Kathleen
Turner. The onscreen pairing is the first for
the duo since they teamed up on three hit films in the 1980s:
Romancing the Stone, its sequel The Jewel of the Nile, and The
War of the Roses. “When I saw the part that [series creator
Chuck Lorre] had written, it just reeked of a kind of a War of
the Roses divorce, and she’s just so good,” Douglas says of
Turner. “I was just so happy when she said yes.” On Komin-
sky, Turner plays Ruth, who delights in pushing Sandy’s
buttons when he calls her to discuss their daughter Mindy
(Sarah Baker). Fans of the duo can expect delightfully vicious
banter akin to some of their past collaborations, as well as
one major wink to Romancing the Stone. “We must have that
sort of vibe of an old married couple, because we’re just so
comfortable with our past and our relationship,” says Turner.
“It’s sort of like, ‘Oh, there they go again.’ ” —LAUREN HUFFReturning Comedy � Season 2
OCT—25 � NETFLIXNetflix is doubling down on Paul Rudd. This intriguing,
eccentric comedy features the Ant-Man star as Miles, a belea-
guered husband/ad exec who undergoes a mysterious cutting-edge
procedure to become a better person, only to end up face-to-face
with a superior clone of himself. “It occurred to me: What if you
could meet another version of yourself?” says creator Timothy
Greenberg. “Would that be a good thing? What might you learn from
them? Can you model yourself after them or might it make you feel
even worse about yourself?” LWY shifts perspectives from Miles to
new MIles to wife Kate (Aisling Bea), keeping viewers off-kilter. “If
you watch the first episode, you might think it’s about one thing,”
says Greenberg. “But if you keep watching, you’ll see that there are
layers and layers.” Call us intrigued. —DAN SNIERSONNew Comedy � OCT—18 � NETFLIXLIVING WITH
YOURSELF
Kaitlyn Dever stars in this limited series as Marie Adler,
an 18-year-old rape victim. When she’s forced to repeat-
edly recount her trauma to police, the process wears on
Marie—especially since the male detectives don’t believe
her. Under pressure, she recants her report. “I put myself
in these heavy emotional spaces every day for three, four
months,” says Dever. Created by Susannah Grant (Erin
Brockovich), the drama is based on an acclaimed Marshall
Project/ProPublica article that traced Marie’s journey,
as well as a separate investigation into a serial rapist
by two detectives (Toni Collette and Merritt Wever) three
years later. “[I put] pressure on myself to do it justice,”
Wever says. “It matters to me, because—well, I’m not
sure how it could not matter.” —DAVID CANFIELDUNBELIEVABLE
↓ Merritt Wever and Toni ColletteAnd you thought your high school experience felt like
the end of the world. Netflix’s dystopian dramedy centers
on an apocalypse-ravaged Glendale, Calif., where a
nuclear blast has transformed adults (possibly including
a principal played in flashbacks by Matthew Broderick)
into brain-dead, bloodthirsty savages. To survive, the
teenagers have banded together into Warriors-esque
gangs, carving out their own rules and domains. (The
athletes and the cheerleaders have their own circles, of
course, but so do the 4-H Club and the self-proclaimed
Disciples of Kardashia.) Navigating it all is Josh Wheeler
(Colin Ford), the new kid from Canada who has to
traverse each crew’s territory to try to find his missing
girlfriend. “It feels like to survive high school you need a
tribe, and to survive the apocalypse you need a tribe,”
explains showrunner Aron Eli Coleite. “That’s how we get
through this: with our friends.” —DEVAN COGGANDAYBREAK
New Drama � SEPT—13 � NETFLIXNew Dramedy
OCT—24 � NETFLIXfall
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