John Powers

British novelist Mick Herron's Slough House books are being adapted by Apple TV+ into a new six-part series. It starts with the first of the novels, Slow Horses.

Chronicling a Korean family's difficult rise over 70 years, Pachinko offers a cornucopian narrative that's at once a multi-generational epic, an immigrant saga, a history lesson, a portrait of cultural bigotry, a high-class soap opera and a celebration of women's capacity to survive even the darkest circumstances.

Schumer plays Beth Jones, a hard-drinking wine rep in New York who doesn't really like her job or boyfriend, and begins a voyage of self-discovery.