At its Television Critics Association presentation today, Netflix unveiled a new trailer for OZARK, announced a few new series pick-ups and doled out a few more pieces of news.
First up is a new trailer for season 2 of OZARK, which is returning on August 31. The Jason Bateman/Laura Linney series will continue to follow Marty Bryde and his family as they navigate the murky waters of life within a dangerous drug cartel.
Netflix also announced the series premiere date for MANIAC: September 21. Here’s what we know about the show: “Set in a world somewhat like our world, in a time quite similar to our time, Maniac tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial, each for their own reasons. Annie’s disaffected and aimless, fixated on broken relationships with her mother and her sister; Owen, the fifth son of wealthy New York industrialists, has struggled his whole life with a disputed diagnosis of schizophrenia. Neither of their lives have turned out quite right, and the promise of a new, radical kind of pharmaceutical treatment—a sequence of pills its inventor, Dr. James K. Mantleray (Justin Theroux), claims can repair anything about the mind, be it mental illness or heartbreak—draws them and ten other strangers to the facilities of Neberdine Pharmaceutical and Biotech for a three-day drug trial that will, they’re assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.” The series is directed by Cary Fukunaga.
In addition, Netflix announced that is has picked up two new shows. The first is MADAM C.J. WALKER. Starring Olivia Spencer, the 8 episode limited series “is the untold and highly irreverent story of black hair care pioneer and mogul Madam C.J. Walker and how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America’s first black, self-made female millionaire. Based on the book On Her Own Ground, by A’Lelia Bundles.
The second new show is WHITE LINES, from the producers of THE CROWN and LA CASA DE PAPEL. “When the body of a legendary Manchester DJ is discovered twenty years after his mysterious disappearance from Ibiza, his sister returns to the beautiful Spanish island to find out what happened. Her investigation will lead her through a thrilling world of dance music, super yachts, lies and cover-ups, forcing her to confront the darker sides of her own character in a place where people live life on the edge.”
Finally, there’s some bad news for STRANGER THINGS fans — season 3 of the show will not debut until summer 2019.