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Time to get your perusal on.

Spoiler alert – there’s actually a fourth trailer down the bottom but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

To begin on this fine summery Friday (yes, we have declared the season open), we’re looking at Station Eleven.

The series is based on the 2014 Emily St. John Mandel novel and it’s rather timely.

Based on the aftermath of a pandemic, production was heavily delayed by our current pandemic predicament.

Here’s The Verge with an outline:

Twenty years after most of the population was wiped out by the Georgia flu, a band of performers travels the post-apocalyptic landscape staging performances and encountering all manner of survivors including a mysterious person known as The Prophet.

We see both the Before and After Times mainly through the eyes of Kristen, who was a child actress at the onset of the flu and is played by Mackenzie Davis as an adult.

Himesh Patel, David Wilmot, Nabhaan Rizwan, Daniel Zovatto, Lori Petty, and Matilda Lawler also star in the 10-part series.

Just in case you don’t have enough pandemic-related content in your life:

Station Eleven begins airing on December 16 on HBO Max.

Our next trailer is also based on a novel – the 2012 New York Times bestseller by Harlan Corben.

Four lives brought together and thrown into chaos help drive the fast-paced psychological thriller Stay Close, according to Collider:

The terrible events of a time thought gone, return to shake up these people’s lives. One of these people is Megan, a suburban soccer mom, who once upon a time lived a very different and riskier lifestyle.

Then there’s Ray, who used to be a promising documentary photographer but has ended up posing as a paparazzo. There is also Lorraine, an old acquaintance of Megan who comes back into her life unannounced.

And finally, there is Broome, a detective who is still obsessing over a cold case.

Ah, classic. There’s always a detective haunted by a past case in these things, hey?

The eight-part series hits Netflix on December 31.

It’s your New Year’s Eve and you can do as you please.

Remember how the first trailer for 2020’s Sonic The Hedgehog was torn apart on social media?

The production team took the criticism to heart and came back with something a little more refined, and the movie actually went on to become one of the most successful theatrical releases of 2020.

That means a sequel was always on the cards and the trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog 2 has arrived.

Over to Polygon:

Sonic faces off against Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) again, though this time the evil scientist looks more like his source material. But more importantly, Tails and Knuckles make their first appearances — and we get to hear Idris Elba’s silky smooth voice!

Ben Schwartz reprises his role as the blue speedster, with Idris Elba joining as Knuckles the Echidna.

Idris Elba may well play James Bond one day but first, watch him voice an echidna:

Jim Carrey’s ‘tache gets my seal of approval.

It hits US cinemas on April 8, 2022.

That’s three in the bag but we did mention there was a fourth snuck in.

Plenty has been said about The Matrix Resurrections already so just watch the official second trailer and let’s be on our way.

[sources:verge&collider&polygon]