Everyone brings their own set of baggage to a new relationship, but in Peacock’s high-concept, genre-bending series “Wolf Like Me,” the baggage is pretty extraordinarily complicated. And given the tone—comedy, but also real drama, looking at emotional trauma and psychological scars like that— it’s a tricky thing to pull off. In “Wolf Like Me,” Josh Gad plays a grieving father and an emotional wreck, struggling to provide for his daughter since the death of his wife.

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Since its official launch last July, NBC’s subscription service Peacock hasn’t exactly set the world on fire. Positive press for sitcoms like “Rutherford Falls,” “Girls 5eva,” and “We Are Lady Parts” have gained the streamer a modest cultural foothold, but Peacock is mostly lacking the kind of bingeworthy series that established players like Netflix or Hulu seem to generate every other month.

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When Neill Blomkamp left the production of “RoboCop Returns,” many fans feared that the long-in-development sequel would just fall apart. However, it appears that MGM isn’t letting the setback impede progress on the sequel, as the studio has now brought in Abe Forsythe to bring ‘RoboCop’ back to the big screen.

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According to THR, MGM has landed on Forsythe, who recently released his horror-comedy “Little Monsters,” as the director of “RoboCop Returns,” which is set to serve as a direct sequel to the 1987 original film directed by Paul Verhoeven.

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Without question, Lupita Nyong’o is one of the best actresses around. This year alone, she’s proven that thanks to her stellar performance in the Jordan Peele film, “Us.” That doesn’t even take into account that in 2014, she won the Oscar for her work in the drama, “12 Years a Slave.” Needless to say, the fact that she’s one of the stars of “Little Monsters” is the main reason you’re likely to be interested in the film.

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If you were asked to make a courtroom case for Lupita Nyong’o’s ability to do literally anything, “Little Monsters” would be Exhibit A. (This is an actual thing that happens often in our judicial system, don’t bother looking it up.) Co-starring as a patient and cheerful kindergarten teacher whose class field trip is interrupted by an inconvenient zombie uprising, she sings, gets laughs, talks tough, wields a shovel and pitchfork, and expertly navigates a big monologue about Neil Diamond.

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