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For those of you who thought it might just have been a bad dream, we’re sorry to have to report the Apocalypse is definitely on. We’ve barely had time to catch our breath after the breathless season finale of The Walking Dead and now the action is already shifting to the sunny and oh-so-dead shores of California.

Outlander, Starz’s swashbuckling, time-traveling historic fantasy romance was a worldwide hit in its first season, winning three Golden Globe nominations (Best Actress, Best Actor and Best TV Drama). Now the show is back for a second helping after having garnered legions of faithful followers around the globe.

Richard Linklater is a truly original voice in the landscape of American cinema on which he has left his eclectic mark with films like Dazed and Confused, School of Rock, Before Sunrise, Waking Life and last year’s Golden Globe winning, 12-years in the making, Boyhood (it won best Drama, Best Director and Best Actress Comedy for Patricia Arquette). He now returns to semiautobiographical coming of age material with Everybody Wants Some, a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, which picks up that movie’s high school antics with a tale of freshman UT baseball recruit Jake (Blake Jenner) as he navigates the novel landscape of friends, girls, sports and girls in the days preceding the start of classes.

This season is shaping up as heavily loaded with musical biopics. Marc Abraham’s I Saw The Light with Tom Hiddleston as seminal country crooner Hank Williams, Robert Budreau’s Born to Be Blue forlorn jazzman Chet Baker with Ethan Hawke in the title role and Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead on jazz trumpeter and iconoclast Miles Davis, amount to an alignment of musical planets to please any fan and that make the music biography this Spring’s dominant trend.

After notching its first Golden Globe nomination with comedy half-hour Casual, Hulu now steps up its original drama game with The Path. The hour-long drama series from playwright creator Jessica Goldberg is set among the followers of a spiritual sect based in New York State.

Jazz musicians are in season right now – next week Don Cheadle is coming out with his passion project Miles Ahead, a Miles Davis biopic in which he’s both actor and director.   And right now Canadian director Robert Budreau offers us what he calls “an anti-biography” of another jazz legend, Chet Baker – Born To Be Blue.

When My Big Fat Greek Wedding burst on the scene 13 years ago it became one of the biggest grossing comedies of all time, garnering Golden Globe nominations as Best Comedy or Musical as well as for the young woman who penned and starred in it as Toula Potokalos, an endearingly awkward Chicagoan of Greek descent who fell for and, yes, married “gentile” John Corbett while having to overcome the skepticism of her loud and lovable Greek family. Given the film’s success, there was immediate buzz about a sequel but somehow it never came … until now.

After Man of Steel Zack Snyder dives deeper into DC’s super-mythology with the first installment of the Justice League trilogy. Snyder has delved into the darker hues of superherodom before, notably with The Watchmen.

With 12 nominations and two Best Actress wins to her credit (for Norma Rae in 1980 and Places in the Heart in 1985) Sally Field is Golden Globe royalty, let alone one of the best American actors working. The last time she got on the Globe board was in 2013 with a Best Supporting Actress nom for her portrayal of Mary Todd in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln.

Chameleon-like Golden Globe winner Sacha Baron Cohen stars in The Brothers Grimsby in which he plays Nobby, a beer swilling football hooligan from the eponymous working class town in England. Uncouth and slobbish Nobby is dim and happily oblivious to that fact, and at the same time good-hearted.