Amazon's New 'Tick,' JCVD, and Jill Soloway Pilots Are Here, and They're Amazing

" Always be hoppering " is a true and real maxim that Amazon has learned well in its short metre as an original scheduling entity , and the streaming service is see to put some new project into the pipeline , pronto . As always , through its annual original program , Amazon TV audience can get involved in the operation bycasting balloting on pilot episodes of declare oneself serial publication . In the past times , fan frenzy has help Amazon give the immature light toTransparent , Man in the High Castle , and more , and now three fresh pilot are ready to be judged .

And estimate we shall ! Here ’s what you need to jazz about this yr ’s crop of pilots and what we thought of them .

Jean Claude Van Johnson

Who ’s in it : Jean - Claude Van Damme , Phylicia Rashad , Kat ForsterWho ’s behind it : Expendableswriter Dave Callaham and Peter Atencio ( Keanu ) , who directed the pilotWhat ’s it about : Jean - Claude Van Damme , turn in from acting and apparently secret - agentive role body of work as well , re - ups in both the acting and shameful - ops business organization to pull ahead back the girlfriend who got aside by take on a mission to queer a drug - smuggling operation in Bulgaria while on location to take the lead role in an action mechanism - movie reading ofThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . Who ’s it for : The kind of person who , upon hear Jean - Claude Van Damme , playing a surprised drug - smuggling factory doer , inform a doppelgänger black - ops agent , also act as by Jean - Claude Van Damme , that there ’s no way that JCVD # 2 could be JCVD # 1 from the future , because it goes against something JCVD # 1 pluck up from watchingTimecop , which leads JCVD # 2 to anticipate the controversy with a conflicting metre - travel factoid fromLooper , which leads to JCVD # 1 demand whether JCVD # 2 thinksLooperis better thanTimecop , and JCVD # 2 saying yes to that , which leads to JCVD # 1 to use that as proof that JCVD # 2 is perfectly not JCVD # 1 , because he thinks thatTimecopis better thanLooper , which lead to our Cuban sandwich JCVD # 2 crack JCVD # 1 ’s neck opening , chuckles . Did we vote yes?Yes , multiple time , and we encourage you to do the same . Watch theJean - Claude Van Johnsonpilot .

I Love Dick

Who ’s in it : Kevin Bacon , Kathryn Hahn , Griffin Dunne , Roberta ColindrezWho ’s behind it : Playwright Sarah Gubbins and Jill Soloway ( Transparent ) , who directed the pilotWhat ’s it about : Academic yoke Chris ( Hahn ) and Sylvère ( Dunne ) retreat to Marfa , Texas , where they become infatuated with psychosexual professor Dick ( Bacon ) , who has n’t read a book in 10 years because he ’s " post - theme . " To work out her rocky marriage and understand her emerging lecherousness , Chris writes letters to Dick , which she recite in the show as asides . Who ’s it for?Transparentfans who postulate more literati bullshittery ( the funny kind ) , rough sexual activity ( the sad sort ) , and Texas vistas ( the stunning variety ) in their tales of kinship woefulness . Did we vote yes?A flaccid yes –I Love Dickplays like the first act of a bang-up niggling movie . But a series ? We ’ll see . watch over theI Love Dickpilot .

The Tick

Who ’s in it : Peter Serafinowicz , Griffin Newman , Valorie Curry , Jackie Earle HaleyWho ’s behind it : Firefly , Angel , and originalTickwriter Ben Edlund and Wally Pfister ( Transcendence , theatre director of photography onThe Dark Knight ) , who directed the pilotWhat ’s it about : Arthur ( Newman ) , a mild - mannered account , and the dim , super - strengthed Tick ( Serafinowicz ) ravel a conspiracy tied to the diabolical baddie , The Terror ( Hayley ) . Or they attempt to – they ’re reasonably unspeakable at being superheroes . Who ’s it for?People sick of Hollywood ’s superhero pic dependencyandthe comic - record - obsess who ’d donate their life economy to aBatman and Robinreboot Kickstarter . Seriously , everyone wins withThe Tick , a cheeky send - up that does n’t skimp on the spectacle ( for now).Did we vote yes?Maybe nostalgia for the oldTickcartoon ( or first live - action series ) is blurring our visual modality , but yeah , we ’re in . This is the skillful crop of Amazon pilots yet . WatchThe Tickpilot .

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