Netflix’s One Piece, The Wheel of Time season 2, and more new TV this week

It’s a big week, folks! There’s new fantasy TV on Prime Video, new animated fantasy on Netflix, new wacky animated fantasy on Max, and new ballet school fantasy on Hulu — OK, you get the picture. There’s a lot of fantasy coming this week! Even more if you count One PieceNetflix. I sort of watch it, but don’t really.

Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the hit manga and anime is certainly news in and of itself. One Piece Season 1 follows the Straw Hat Crew on their early adventures. It traces about the first 100 chapters. Prime Video has a variety of other shows. The Wheel of TimeIt picks right up where season one left off. With the Dragons Reborn scattered across a whole new world, they are still trying to understand where their whirlwind journey from the first season left them.

It’s a new kind of fantasy. ArcherSeason 14 (!) Season 14 (!) premieres on Hulu. This marks the beginning of the final season. Meanwhile, The Justification for City Primeval You can also find out more about the following: Special Ops: LionessThe Season Finales are here! This week’s most notable TV premieres and finals are listed below.

Netflix releases new series

One Piece

Genre: Live-action shonen anime
Release Date: August 31, all episodes
Showrunner/creator: Steven Maeda & Matt Owens
Cast: Iñaki Godoy, Mackenyu, Emily Rudd, Jacob Romero Gibson, and Taz Skylar

Do you like the show One Piece — Then why not check out the manga or anime that has been running for a long time? You might also want to look at One PieceNetflix’s live-action version. This story is starting from scratch (as much as these remakes ever can), setting sail with Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) from the very beginning of the Straw Hat Pirates. This is not the same as Cowboy Bebop’s tonal shift, however, Netflix’s One Piece will be working with a world that’s already kind of kooky and fun, meaning there’s a little less genre displacement than you’d expect.

Disenchantment’s final season

Genre: Fantasy animated
Release Date: All episodes of Sept. 1
Showrunner/creator: Matt Groening
Cast: Abbi Jacobson, Eric André, Nat Faxon, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille, Matt Berry, David Herman, Maurice LaMarche, Lucy Montgomery, and Billy West

It’s the final season of Disenchantment, and though Bean confronted the dreamtime, “bad” version of herself, the final post-credits scene seemed to imply she’s not quite done with her — with Bad Bean’s severed head joining Satan and Dagmar on the throne. What does that mean for the final season of Groening’s Netflix show? Hope for the best?

Hulu: New Shows

Spellbound

Genre: Magic and dance classes
Release Date: August 31, one episode
Showrunner/creator: Jill Girling & Lori Mather
Cast: Hailey Romain, Margherita Barbieri, Abigail O’Regan, Etienne Moana, Sam Darius, Zac Gabriel Werb, Raven Dauda, and more

Things can get high-pressure when you’re a 15-year-old studying at the Paris Opera Ballet School, navigating the cutthroat world of ballet while balancing the pressures of growing up. Add in the fact that you’ve accidentally discovered you come from a family of witches and you’ve lifted an enchantment keeping you safe for all these years, inadvertently summoning your nemesis, and you’ve got Spellbound.

Archer’s final season

Genre: Debauched espionage
Release Date: August 31, two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Adam Reed
Cast: H. Jon Benjamin Aisha Taylor, Judy Greer Amber Nash Adam Reed Lucky Yates

It’s the final outing for Archer (H. Jon Benjamin), Lana (Aisha Tyler), and the whole crew — including everyone’s favorite memes, tacticalnecks, “phrasing” checks, and more. The show has had 14 seasons, and several reinventions. ArcherThe end of the series is approaching, and this begs a question: Did Sterling Archer earn a happy conclusion?

It is justified that the city primeval final finale

Image: FX

Genre: Crimson thriller
Release Date: Aug. 29
Showrunner/creator: Dave Andron (left) and Michael Dinner
Cast:Timothy Olyphant Boyd Holbrook Aunjanuee Ellis and More

It’s the end of Justified’s reboot, City PrimevalEverything is starting to make sense. Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) has been stuck in Detroit for a good while now, and I reckon he’s just about to have Clement (Boyd Holbrook) cornered. (And likely make some excuses to do some shootin’, I wager.)

Max: New Shows

Adventure Time Fionna And Cake

Genre: The wacky world of animated cartoons
Release Date: August 31, two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Adam Muto and Fred Seibert.
Cast: Madeleine Martin and Roz Ryan. Andrew Rannells. Donald Glover. Kayleigh McKee. Sean Rohani.

It’s Adventure Time — the new show on Max stars an alternate-universe Jake the Dog and Finn the Human: the titular Fionna and Cake. Together with Simon Petrikov (neé “the Ice King”), they travel the multiverse and try to outrun a powerful antagonist trying to erase them from existence.

Prime Video now has new episodes

The Wheel of Time, season 2.

Genre: High-fantasy
Release Date: Sept. 1 with Two Episodes
Showrunner/creator: Rafe Judkins
Cast: Rosamund Pike, Josha Stradowski, Madeleine Madden, Zoë Robins, Fares Fares, Marcus Rutherford, Daniel Henney, Dónal Finn, and more

The Wheel of TimeThe second season of the show is Finally, here, picking up with (roughly) book two of Robert Jordan’s series and following what happens to Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) and Rand (Josha Stradowski) after their fight with the Dark One (Fares Fares). Oh, and they finally brought out their coolest guys, this season’s antagonists: the Seanchan.

Paramount Plus: New Shows

Special Ops: Lioness finale

Photo: Lynsey Addario/Paramount Plus

Genre: Spy thriller
Release Date: Sept. 3
Showrunner/creator: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Zoe Saldaña, Nicole Kidman, Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, Laysla De Oliveira

Special Ops: LionessIt started off slowly and eased into its grand spy plans. Like most Sheridan joints, it’s come together by the end of the season, building a web of drama and relationships that creates more than enough tension (before you even add in the “special ops” of it all for some good ol’ fashioned spy fun). Watch Sunday’s episode to find out if Paramount Plus can make it work.