“Game of Thrones” won’t be coming back before 2019 but that doesn’t mean Netflix won’t leave any stones unturned. With shows like “Black Mirror” and “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” coming back with new season, here is a list of original series to premiere on Netflix in 2018.
Altered Carbon
Based on the book “Altered Carbon” written by Richard K. Morgan, the story reflects on the bizarre realm of technological world and how it alters the meaning of death. Altered Carbon, set in three centuries in the future, deals with the story of how people can transfer their consciousness from one body to another. Takeshi Kovacs (played by both Joel Kinnaman and Will Yun Lee) is a body-hopping soldier who gets killed on a distant planet. He wakes up again 250 years later on Earth. He gets resurrected by a wealthy man named Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy) who appoints him to investigate Bancroft’s own murder.
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Length: 10 hour-long episodes
Creator: Laeta Kalogridis
Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Martha Higareda, James Purefoy
Seven Seconds
With all the racial tension in the world right now, “Seven Seconds” portrays an incident when a white cop accidentally hits and critically injures a black teenager. Tensions run high as the whole situation is made to be covered up and creates a sense of debacle around his murder. Regina King who plays the grieving mother of the teenager gives an intense expression on the teaser of the drama as she looks at the frozen strains of the blood on the snow stricken path.
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Length: 10 hour -long episodes
Creator: Veena Sud
Cast: Regina King, Russell Hornsby, Clare-Hope Ashitey
Maniac
Remake of the Norwegian drama, “Maniac” is an American dark comedy which revolves around the life of an institutionalized man who lives a fantasy life in his dreams. No teasers are available right now, but it has been stated to be released in 2018. The drama is already creating buzz for its casting of Emma Stone and Jonah Hill as protagonists.
Release Date: 2018
Length: 10 half-hour episodes
Creator: Patrick Somerville
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Cast: Emma Stone, Jonah Hill, Justin Theroux, Sonoya Mizuno, Sally Field, Julia Garner, Jemima Kirke
Dogs of Berlin
The drama focuses on two Berlin police detectives who detest each other but team up in order to take down the underworld dons who want to destroy the cops at any cost. Together, the two cops face incidents that make them start doubting about the rightful hands of law.
Release Date: 2018
Length: 10 hour long episodes
Creator: Christian Alvart
Cast: Felix Kramer, Anna Maria Mühe, Katharina Schüttler
Everything sucks!
Netflix surely knows how to bank on the success of 90’s nostalgia. After the success of “Stranger things”, Netflix wants to showcase a drama that follows the next decade. “Everything Sucks!” follows two groups of high school misfits — the A/V club and the drama club. ‘Everything Sucks!’ aims to be the next “Freaks and Geeks” in terms of their comedic flavor.
Release Date: 2018
Length: 10 half-hour episodes
Creators: Ben York Jones, Michael Mohan
Cast: Peyton Kennedy, Jahi Winston, Patch Darragh, Claudine Mboligkpelani Nako
Kiss Me First
Kiss me first is a story of a lonely gamer who meets a “party girl” with a mysterious secret. The two meet online in a gaming site called Agora, and soon become friends in real-life. The plot thickens when one of them disappears and the other starts to look out for clues to find out the whereabouts of the missing friend’s identity.
Release Date: Early 2018
Length: Six hour-long episodes
Creator: Bryan Eisley
Director: Misha Manson-Smith
Cast: Tallulah Haddon, Simona Brown, Matthew Beard, Haruka Abe
