{"id":134,"date":"2026-07-03T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cheyennestar.org\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:14:30","slug":"peak-tv-just-got-peaker-amcs-secret-society-and-the-elusive-100-rotten-tomatoes-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheyennestar.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/03\/peak-tv-just-got-peaker-amcs-secret-society-and-the-elusive-100-rotten-tomatoes-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Peak TV Just Got Peaker: AMC\u2019s Secret Society and the Elusive 100% Rotten Tomatoes Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the Anne Rice immortal universe, because AMC is expanding its footprint in a massive way. Loosely threading the needle between <em>Interview With the Vampire<\/em> and <em>Mayfair Witches<\/em>, their newest series dives deep into the Talamasca&mdash;the clandestine outfit pulling the strings, tracking down every vampire, witch, and werewolf roaming the globe. If you&#8217;ve been paying attention to AMC&#8217;s other Rice adaptations (including <em>Interview<\/em>, which is currently shooting its third season up in Toronto, and <em>Mayfair Witches<\/em>, which just cracked open its Season 3 writers&#8217; room), you already know these guys.<\/p>\n<p>The big hook for longtime fans is that Eric Bogosian is officially bringing his <em>Interview<\/em> character, the legendary author Daniel Molloy, over for a guest stint in the first season.<\/p>\n<p>Helming the ship are co-showrunners John Lee Hancock (who is also sitting in the director&#8217;s chair) and Mark Lafferty. The narrative engine of the show is Guy Anatole, played by Nicholas Denton. He&#8217;s a brilliant, remarkably sharp law school grad who always suspected his brain was wired on a slightly different frequency. Right as he&#8217;s gearing up to graduate, he&#8217;s cornered by Helen&mdash;a Talamasca veteran played by Elizabeth McGovern. She drops a bomb: they&rsquo;ve been watching him since he was a kid. Overnight, Guy is dragged into a high-stakes ecosystem of secret agents and immortals clinging to a paper-thin truce with the mortal world. It&#8217;s a sink-or-swim situation where surviving means learning to embrace the dark, treacherous depths of his own identity.<\/p>\n<p>The supporting roster is packed with heavy-hitters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Jasper (William Fichtner):<\/strong> A shady American calling the shots at the Talamasca&rsquo;s London headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Olive (Maisie Richardson-Sellers):<\/strong> Guy&rsquo;s American handler.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Doris (Celine Buckens):<\/strong> A headstrong &#8220;old soul&#8221; bunking on a houseboat with her coven of witches.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Burton (Jason Schwartzman):<\/strong> A charismatic, rake of a vampire playing it low-key in a swanky Upper West Side penthouse.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Perfect Score Club<\/h3>\n<p>While AMC is busy building out its monster-hunting bureaucracy, the review aggregator over at Rotten Tomatoes is having a historic week. It&#8217;s not every day you see a show notch a flawless 100% critic score, but right now, three separate series are sitting at the absolute ceiling. If your queue is looking a little light, these are the current masterpieces you shouldn&#8217;t sleep on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Mutant Masterpiece: X-Men &#8217;97 (Season 2)<\/strong> Beau DeMayo&rsquo;s animated powerhouse on Disney+ somehow managed to outdo itself. Picking up the torch from the beloved 1992&ndash;1997 original, the show continues the mutant saga in a post-Charles Xavier world. With the Professor gone, the squad has had to figure out how to operate without their leader&#8217;s wisdom. Season 1 had them tangling with Bastion and his mutant-hunting Sentinels, barely missing a perfect score at 99%. But Season 2? An absolute bullseye. The writers took the X-Men mythos and spun it in wildly unpredictable, gripping directions. Some critics are throwing around the &#8220;most underrated Marvel property&#8221; label, and honestly, the hype is entirely justified.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subterranean Paranoia: Silo (Season 3)<\/strong> Apple TV+&rsquo;s sci-fi drama continues its methodical climb to greatness. Down in the bunker, over 10,000 survivors are crammed into 144 subterranean floors, hiding out from whatever toxic hellscape ruined the surface. Survival means sticking to a suffocating set of rules, but the creeping realization that the leadership is lying through their teeth about human history is finally boiling over.<\/p>\n<p>Starring Rebecca Ferguson, Avi Nash, Rick Gomez, Common, and Harriet Walter, the show has been on a constant upward trajectory. Season 1 opened strong with an 88%, Season 2 ticked up to 92%, and this brand-new third season&mdash;which dropped on July 3, 2026&mdash;just bagged the max score. It&rsquo;s straight-up universal acclaim, cementing its status as one of Apple&#8217;s absolute best originals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nostalgia Done Right: Adventure Time: Side Quests<\/strong> Back in the 2010s, <em>Adventure Time<\/em> wasn&#8217;t just a cartoon; it was a cultural reset. Finn the Human and Jake the Dog had a death grip on both kids and adults. Now, the franchise is back on the board with <em>Side Quests<\/em>, a prequel zooming in on Finn&#8217;s early childhood and exactly how that iconic brotherly bond with Jake took shape.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s stepping into some massive shoes&mdash;the original 10-season run is basically a wall of 100% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. But critics are already handing the new spinoff a flawless score right out of the gate. Fans can breathe a sigh of relief; a decade later, the magic hasn&#8217;t faded one bit. The only catch is a geographical one: if you&#8217;re tuning in from Germany, you&#8217;re locked out until it hits Disney+ and Hulu on October 5th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the Anne Rice immortal universe, because AMC is expanding its footprint in a massive way. 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