And there’s plenty more ahead. Viewers who take the broad view this fall across the video landscape will find a host of delights such as these dozen new arrivals:
• “Atlanta,” FX; Sept. 6. Starring and created by Donald Glover, who’s also one of its writers, this remarkably gritty yet heartwarming comedy focuses on two cousins as they try to break into the Atlanta rap scene with many a stumble in both their professional and personal lives. Everything about this show rings true, sometimes painfully so: “I just keep losing. I mean, some people just supposed to lose … just to make it easier for the winners?” Good question. But hope springs eternal, along with well-earned laughs, on this winning new series.
• “Queen Sugar,” OWN; Sept. 6. If it were only a robust melodrama, that would be enough. Its African-American ensemble and perspective make this family saga instantly appealing. But along with an intoxicating tale of the at-odds Bordelon clan and their at-risk cane farm in the Deep South, “Queen Sugar” does something any series should be proud to accomplish: It puts forth a varied group of individuals ranging from rich to poor and from reckless to righteous, minus the stereotyping. This series is executive-produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay, director of the Oscar-nominated “Selma.” A breath of fresh air, it’s a series that could bring viewers to OWN who have never come before.
• “Fleabag,” Amazon; Sept. 16. Fleabag (this gal’s nickname) is a klutz, a kook and a self-perpetuating outcast. On the loose in London, she’s a cringingly hilarious mess you can relate to, even while seized by an urge to look away. Not that she isn’t pretty and, one supposes, bright. And yet: “I have a horrible feeling that I am a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can’t even call herself a feminist,” she blurts out to her arm’s-length dad, to which he replies, “You get all that from your mother.” In the tradition of “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “Girls” and even TV-Larry-David’s trouble-seeking compulsions, it’s a virtuoso performance by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who not only stars but also created the series, which premiered on BBC Three in July.