Is Netflix's Kung Fu Sci-Fi Series Wu Assassins TV's Next "Cool Show"?

"Since the beginning of time, the Wu warlords have brought suffering and death to everyone we know." That's the opening line of the action-packed trailer for the new Netflix series Wu Assassins. As teaser lines go, it's not bad, and early reviews suggest Wu could be TV's next "cool show" -- the latest in a long line of stylish shows going back to Miami Vice that tell good stories without taking themselves too seriously. 

SERIES PREMIERE: So what is Wu Assassins about? Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, Kai Jin (Iko Uwais, The Raid) encounters a mystical spirit and becomes the Wu Assassin, the last in a long line of Chosen Ones. He must protect his power from the villains of the Chinese Triad, including his own father (Byron Mann, Hell on Wheels and The Expanse). Streaming on Netflix

SERIES PREMIERE: Ann Curry acts as executive producer and anchor of Chasing the Cure, a new, interactive TV show that will spotlight people with rare and puzzling illnesses, while crowdsourcing funds for various charitable organizations dedicated to fighting those ailments.  9:00 PM ET on TBS and TNT

SERIES PREMIERE: An intriguing premise for a TV series, The CW's Two Sentence Horror Stories, will take inspiration from a different two-sentence premise in each episode. The anthology series kicks off this week with "She was stiff and cold in my arms. Then the doll blinked." Jim Parrack, Nicole Kang, and Aleyse Shannon star. 9:00 PM ET on The CW

MOVIE PREMIERE: The Netflix original film The Naked Director tracks the turbulent life of director Toru Muranishi (Takayuki Yamada), who pioneered the Japanese pornography boom of the 1980s. Streaming on Netflix

ALSO TONIGHT

• Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are among the five late night talk show hosts scheduled to have a mystery "special guest" tonight. Who will it be? As of this writing, we still don't know. 11:35 PM ET on CBS, NBC and ABC
• Holey Moley welcomes William Shatner to the broadcast booth, where he'll join commentators Rob Riggle and Joe Tessitore as they mock the latest contestants to play the world's most hazardous mini golf course. 8:00 PM ET on ABC
• Hollywood Game Night welcomes a new batch of celebs to Jane Lynch's living room, including Lamorne Morris (New Girl), Thomas Middleditch (Silicon Valley), Mike Colter (Luke Cage), and Lil Rel Howery. 9:00 PM ET on NBC

Joe Reid is the senior writer at Primetimer and co-host of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast. His work has appeared in Decider, NPR, HuffPost, The Atlantic, Slate, Polygon, Vanity Fair, Vulture, The A.V. Club and more.