Marvel’s Echo, True Detective: Night Country, and more new TV this week
2024 is revving up, and 2024 TV is following suit. This week, some big name players are coming to grace our television screens, and tee up some genuinely good TV to get our new year really rockin’ and rollin’.
Like Jodie Foster who, along with Kali Reis, is bringing back all the best parts and promise of True Detective season 1. Night Country, the fourth True Detective season, is written by Issa López, and will be set up in the frigid Alaskan north during the entire month (or so) of night. Hell yeah!
Alaqua Cox will also finally be getting her chance to shine as Echo in Marvel’s Echo, the grittiest MCU show to date. Perhaps best of all, Marvel is putting this under its new Spotlight series, meaning there’s no previous MCU knowledge required.
Here’s the rest of the best new TV premieres and finales this week.
Genre: Game show
Release date: Jan. 10, with four episodes
Host: Brooke Baldwin
Cast: Eleven people who will “test human nature”
If you were offered a piece of a quarter million dollars, would you try to take an even share? The Trust is here to find out, giving 11 strangers the chance to try to keep more for themselves. Netflix is billing this as “the ultimate test of human nature,” but let’s call it what it really is: a fun enough idea for a reality show to see just how greedy these 11 people will turn out to be.
Genre: Gritty MCU
Release date: Jan. 10, with all episodes
Showrunner/creator: Marion Dayre
Cast: Alaqua Cox, K. Devery Jacobs, Vincent D’Onofrio
Echo (Alaqua Cox) first turned up in Hawkeye, where she learned the unfortunate truth about her surrogate father, Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio). Echowill pick up on her life after the end of Hawkeye, where she attempted to take over Kingpin’s empire and became
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