It’s 1972, the Vietnam War is nearing an end, and Mac (Logan Marshall-Green) and his best friend Arthur (Jamie Hector) are returning home from Memphis after two tours of duty, yet they hardly receive a warm welcome. It’s not just that American opinion has shifted considerably about the war —the pair have been implicated and cleared of wrongdoing in a My Lai massacre-esque incident. But whatever happened halfway around the world hasn’t changed the love their wives Joni (Jodi Balfour) and Ruth (Nikki Amuka-Bird) feel for them.

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As you’ll know from our list of the best TV shows of the first half of 2016, and from our summer preview, it’s been a stacked year on the small-screen so far. There have been disappointments —chiefly, a show that starts with V and ends with -inyl— but also some surprises and triumphs, with “The Girlfriend Experience,” “Billions,” “Stranger Things,” “Lady Dynamite,” “The People Vs.

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For years, Cinemax was known as the cable channel that played, ahem, movies, “after dark” for the adult crowd and insomniacs. While it’s still not prestige TV yet, the channel is certainly classing up the joint a little bit. It started in a major way with Steven Soderbergh’s “The Knick,” and shows like “Outcast” are garnering critical traction too.

Next up in the queue, which looks pretty intriguing, is “Quarry,” starring Logan Marshall-Green (“Prometheus”) aka Tom Hardy’s lookalike.

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End Of The Golden Age? 12 Shows Hoping To Be The Next 'Breaking Bad'

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Mary Elizabeth Winstead Digs Into John Hillcoat's 'Quarry' For Cinemax

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