New TV Trailers: Side Quest, Alien: Earth, The Rehearsal: Season 2, Bosch: Legacy: Final Season, and The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 2
Check out these trailers and sneak peeks for Apple TV's Side Quest, FX's Alien: Earth, HBO's The Rehearsal Season 2, Prime's Bosch: Legacy Final Season, and AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2.
“Side Quest” Trailer: ‘Mythic Quest’ Expands With a Four-Part Anthology Miniseries Spotlighting Side Characters – Streaming March 26th on Apple TV+
In perfect video game parody fashion, Mythic Quest, Apple TV's hit workplace comedy series set in the world of the video game industry, is branching out into a new “Side Quest” featuring side character storylines. While one could call it a spinoff series, this feels more like a digression with four vignettes—or simply an expansion of the Mythic Quest universe, courtesy of creators Rob McElhenney, Megan Ganz, and Charlie Day.
Side Quest is a four-part anthology series set within the world of Mythic Quest, a comedy about a fictional video game studio producing one of the world’s most popular multiplayer online role-playing games. McElhenney stars as Ian Grimm, the thick-headed blowhard co-creator and creative director of Mythic Quest, a man with a massive ego who, despite his flaws, genuinely wants to see his employees succeed—so long as they don’t get in his way.
In this new four-chapter side series, the focus shifts to a few side characters, like Mythic Quest art department head Phil (Derek Waters), who gets some time to shine in his own standalone quest.
The cast also includes Anna Konkle, William Stanford Davis, Bria Henderson, Rome Flynn, Leonard Robinson, Gary Kraus, Annamarie Kasper, Esai Morales, Shalta Grant, and more, all appearing in the roles featured in each of the four installments. McElhenney’s Ian Grimm will make an appearance as well.
Side Quest is set to debut on March 26th exclusively on Apple TV+, following the finale of Season 4 of Mythic Quest.
“Alien: Earth” SXSW Teaser: FX’s Small-Screen Prequel Brings Xenomorphs to Earth – From ‘Fargo’ Creator Noah Hawley
The latest installment in the Alien franchise is landing soon, but this time it’s venturing into new territory—television!
This upcoming FX sci-fi horror series, Alien: Earth, created by Noah Hawley (the Emmy-winning genius behind FX's Fargo), serves as a prequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, Alien. Set two years before the original film, the series follows a group of tactical soldiers who stumble upon a crashed spacecraft on Earth, only to discover a terrifying presence—Xenomorphs and facehuggers. Yikes!
With Timothy Olyphant, Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, and a stellar cast joining the ride, Alien: Earth aims to deliver the same spine-chilling thrills—but this time, with the weight of gravity.
Executive produced by Ridley Scott, Alien: Earth will debut on FX/Hulu and Disney+ with Hulu sometime this summer. However, this newly-released teaser (above) is just the beginning, announcing its world premiere at the upcoming SXSW Film and TV Festival in a few days.
“The Rehearsal: Season 2” Teaser: Nathan Fielder Returns to Stage More Elaborate (and Cringe-Inducing) Social Experiments – Premieres April 20 on HBO
When The Rehearsal, Nathan Fielder's HBO docu-comedy series, premiered in the summer of 2022, it quickly became known as one of the funniest—and most excruciatingly awkward—shows of the year. Which is exactly what we’ve come to expect from comedian Nathan Fielder, whose brand of humor blends prankster, surrealist, and provocateur.
The show features Fielder as he helps ordinary people rehearse difficult conversations or life events through staged reenactments, complete with elaborate sets and hired actors to recreate real situations. The results were equally hysterical and provocatively searing, as participants seemed to undergo real emotional breakthroughs.
Well, Nathan Fielder is back next month with Season 2 of The Rehearsal, and from the look of this first teaser, the sets are already being built. Get ready for more hilarity mixed with cringe-worthy scenarios when The Rehearsal: Season 2 premieres on HBO on April 20th.
“Bosch: Legacy: Final Season” Trailer: Titus Welliver’s Hard-Boiled Detective Bows Out as Prime Video’s Acclaimed Crime Drama Wraps Up on March 27th
To be totally honest, the Bosch series on Amazon is one we've mostly heard great things about but just never got around to checking out for ourselves. That said, it doesn't change our high opinion of actor Titus Welliver. The guy rocks! Whether it’s Deadwood, Gone Baby Gone, Lost, Sons of Anarchy, or countless other roles, Welliver has always delivered, chewing up scenery and leaving a lasting impression. He’s the kind of actor who walks into a scene, and suddenly the entire scene becomes better. He elevates everything he touches.
So, for whatever reason, we haven't gotten around to watching Bosch yet, which might be the show and character Welliver is most remembered for. But maybe it's time to finally open that box and catch up, especially as the cop show is coming to a close this month.
Bosch Legacy, in which Titus Welliver returns as LA homicide detective Harry Bosch—now working as a private eye—will be wrapping up on March 27th on Prime Video.
Bosch Legacy is actually a sequel to the original Bosch series, which ran for seven seasons. Legacy will be closing up shop with its third season. So, looks like we’ve got a lot of hours to catch up on!
“The Walking Dead: Dead City - Season 2” Sneak Peek Clip: Witness a Zombie-Infested New York City as AMC’s Spinoff Returns May 4th
We hate to admit it, but The Walking Dead has become the television franchise we can't stop watching. We understand the argument—that each spinoff, each season, and sometimes even each episode, is merely a regurgitation of the same story: a group of post-apocalyptic survivors working with and against each other to survive in a world filled with zombies. It's simple, and it happens over and over again—someone messes up, someone dies, everyone fights each other. And it's been happening for more than a decade.
But there’s something about this universe that makes it impossible for us to NOT watch every seasons. Sure, there have been some spinoff shows that we had to drop because the writing got ridiculously bad, and we’d argue Dead City might fall into that category as a subpar horror series that’s not nearly as good as the flagship show.
But we’ve got to say—after watching this sneak peek clip, the first scene from The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 2—we can't help but feel a little excited, even if it goes against all common sense in our heads.
What can we say? A desolated city filled with gruesome-looking zombies set to KISS rocker Ace Frehley's “New York Groove” might just be the thing we need to be enthusiastic again about this show. But then again, maybe we’ve become The Walking Dead at this point.
Set to debut May 4 on AMC and AMC+, The Walking Dead: Dead City: Season 2 features Maggie and Negan (Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as an unlikely duo surviving in a dead New York City — and we’re in for the ride, whether we like it or not.
