2022’s Best TV Shows You Can’t Miss on Netflix, HBO, Disney Plus and More – CNET [CNET]

Television production was disrupted in 2021, but there’s still a ton of great TV and streaming shows this year. Moon Knight, The Lord of the Rings, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Pam & Tommy, She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel and more make their debut, while Better Call Saul, Killing Eve, Ozark and The Walking Dead go out in a blaze of glory.

HBO Max In 1970s Los Angeles, an earnest young feminist (played by Ophelia Lovibond) joins forces with a low-rent publisher (Jake Johnson) to create the first erotic magazine for women.

Hulu Amy Schumer writes, directs, executive produces and stars in Life & Beth as an apparently successful woman forced to rethink her life.

Apple TV Plus Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway play the oddball founders of WeWork, a Silicon Valley success story that turned into a disaster almost overnight.

Paramount Plus Pablo Schreiber dons the iconic helmet of video game hero Master Chief in the series Halo.

Netflix Lord Anthony Bridgerton will “dominate” season 2 of this period romp. 

Hulu Elle Fanning stars in Hulu drama The Girl from Plainview, uncovering the events leading up to the death of a teenage boy in a notorious “texting suicide” case in 2014.

Disney Plus Oscar Isaac joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Moon Knight, whose multiple personalities get in the way of fighting crime with powers drawn from an Egyptian god.

HBO Max Sarah Lancashire stars as Julia Child, the jovial chef who pioneered the modern cooking show during a pivotal time in American history for women. David Hyde Pierce and Bebe Neuwirth also star.

Apple TV Plus Gary Oldman is a washed-up spy leading a group of failed intelligence agents who stumble into a conspiracy that’s too much for them. Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden and Olivia Cooke also star.

HBO Max This three-part documentary series introduces The Invisible Pilot, a daredevil husband and father who unexpectedly jumped off a bridge in 1977, exposing a mysterious story involving hypnosis, secret identities and a double life of drug smuggling and gun running in a covert war.

AMC / ALLBLK From the producers of The Night Of, Your Honor and Shots Fired, this legal drama stars Courtney B. Vance in a thriller which sees a deadly drug bust unravel the Chicago police department’s code of silence.

Hulu Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall and Kylie and the infamous Kardashian clan bring their reality show to Hulu in the US and Disney Plus elsewhere.

Apple TV Plus Female-driven anthology series Roar is based on a book of short stories by Cecelia Ahern. Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo Issa Rae, Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin and Meera Syal star in this blend of magical realism, familiar domestic and futuristic worlds mirroring the dilemmas of ordinary women finding their deepest resilience.

Amazon Prime Video Outer Range stars Josh Brolin as a rancher fighting for his land and family who discovers a possibly supernatural mystery in Wyoming’s wilderness.

AMC The final season of the acclaimed Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul is expected this year.

HBO The multi-award-winning black comedy returns, starring Bill Hader as a contract killer who just wants to act.

Starz Gaslit examines Watergate through the eyes of Martha Mitchell, played by Julia Roberts, the Arkansan socialite who was the first person to publicly highlight President Richard Nixon’s involvement in the scandal — despite her husband John Mitchell’s role as Nixon’s Attorney General. Sean Penn dons a ton of makeup to play Mitchell.

HBO Based on the book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, We Own This City chronicles the rise and fall of a specialist Baltimore Police task force as the war on drugs got in the way of justice. Jon Bernthal stars.

Miles Teller and Matthew Goode star in a Paramount Plus drama about the creation of epic gangster movie The Godfather.

Apple TV Plus In this adaptation of Lauren Beukes’ novel, Elisabeth Moss stars as the survivor of an attack by a bizarre serial killer, only to discover the murderer pursues women through time.

Paramount Plus The current generation of Star Trek shows return to the USS Enterprise at last as Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) cross over from Discovery to prequel series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Netflix Mike Myers takes on an illuminati-style conspiracy in The Pentaverate. The Austin Powers and Shrek star plays eight, count ’em, eight roles in the Netflix comedy.

Apple TV Plus Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston star in Apple’s adaptation of Sarah Perry’s novel, about a widow who forms an unlikely bond with a village vicar — until locals accuse her of attracting the mythological Essex Serpent. 

Hulu / BBC Like the hit relationship drama Normal People, limited series Conversations with Friends is based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling novel. Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Joe Alwyn, and Jemima Kirke star in another story of a college student navigating love and heartbreak.

Disney Plus Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen return as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker (as he turns into Darth Vader) for this continuation of the Star Wars prequels.

Amazon Prime Video The Boys are back and badder than ever in this gory and glorious tale of superheroes behaving horribly.

Disney Plus Marvel comic book star Kamala Khan is a teenage superhero, played by Iman Vellani in a new series.

Amazon Prime Video Amazon has put unheard-of amounts of cash into a new TV prequel series based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, entitled The Rings of Power.

Netflix Imelda Staunton takes the throne as an older Queen Elizabeth II in the fifth season of The Crown.

HBO Based on a real-life murder (which you’ll know from a hit Netflix documentary), new drama The Staircase stars Colin Firth as accused novelist Michael Peterson. Toni Collette and Sophie Turner also appear.

HBO Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon stars Paddy Considine, Emma D’Arcy and Matt Smith in this series about the scheming Targaryen family.

HBO 2013 video game The Last of Us gets adapted in this tale of a teenager navigating a zombie apocalypse with the help of a grizzled smuggler played by Pedro Pascal. Craig Mazin, creator of HBO’s bleak hit Chernobyl, is in charge.

Netflix Based on Neil Gaiman’s acclaimed comic, The Sandman is a supernatural series in which Tom Sturridge is the lord of dreams, Gwendoline Christie is Lucifer and Kirby Howell-Baptiste is Death. Jenna Coleman and Charles Dance also star.

Disney Plus Diego Luna reprises his Rogue One role as rebel spy Cassian Andor in this Star Wars series.

Disney Plus Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is Jennifer Walters, a lawyer with green superpowers in Marvel series She-Hulk.

Paramount Plus The junior officers of Star Trek: Lower Decks boldly go into trouble again in a third season in 2022, with a fourth already confirmed.

Paramount Plus Star Trek: Prodigy follows a crew of young misfits guided by Voyager’s Captain Janeway. The second batch of Season 1 episodes stream this year. 

Netflix The Witcher: Blood Origin is a prequel to the monster-hunting series, starring Michelle Yeoh. 

HBO The enigmatic steampunk/superpowers adventure The Nevers returns. 

Epix This eight-episode Western series recounts the myth of the famous American gunslinger and outlaw Billy the Kid, written by the creator of Vikings and The Tudors.

AMC Plus That Dirty Black Bag reimagines the violent, vibrant spaghetti Western genre, with Douglas Booth as an infamous Wild West bounty hunter who stuffs his victims’ heads into a dirty black bag, because “heads weigh less than bodies.” 

BBC Sofia Boutella, Connor Swindells, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Allen and Dominic West star as World War II’s maverick special forces pioneers in a new series from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

Kiernan Shipka plays a scheming Hollywood player in Roku’s gender-flipped take on the ’90s movie Swimming with Sharks.

FX True crime drama Under the Banner of Heaven, from Oscar-winning creator Dustin Lance Black and starring Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones, explores a 1984 murder in Utah that strikes at the heart of a detective’s Mormon faith.

HBO Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat adapts Audrey Niffenegger’s novel The Time Traveler’s Wife, starring Rose Leslie.

Amazon Prime Video An animated spin-off from Prime Video’s hit The Boys, which features superheroes behaving very badly in a short episodes from creators including Awkwafina, Garth Ennis, Ilana Glazer, Seth Rogen, Justin Roiland and Andy Samberg. 

Paramount Plus Patrick Stewart is back in charge as Star Trek: Picard returns to the streaming service formerly known as CBS All Access.

Hulu Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes founded her company Theranos on lies, in a true story adapted into Hulu series The Dropout stars Amanda Seyfried as Holmes.

BBC America The final season of this riveting spy thriller airs on BBC America and AMC, as Eve (Sandra Oh) seeks revenge, while Villanelle (Jodie Comer) tries to prove she’s not a monster.

Disney Plus Drop in on Penny Proud and her raucous folks in The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, a return to the animated series which ran from 2001 to 2005. Guest stars include Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Tiffany Haddish, Lena Waithe, Anthony Anderson and Eva Longoria.

Showtime From the people behind Billions, Super Pumped is another tale of wealthy people behaving badly, but this time it’s a true story. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as ruthless Uber founder Travis Kalanick, with Uma Thurman as Arianna Huffington.

Epix Harold Perrineau investigates the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter… until the sun goes down and the monsters emerge.

Netflix The surreal video game becomes a short-form animated series on Netflix, featuring Cuphead and his brother Mugman facing the devil in a retro cartoon world.

Apple TV Plus From director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson, Severance stars Adam Scott as an office worker whose colleagues have their memories surgically divided between their work and personal lives. But this experiment in work/life balance hides a dark secret.

Sundance TV Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson are a married couple in the second series of the short-form comedy-drama written by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, An Education) and directed by Stephen Frears (The Queen, A Very English Scandal).

AMC The second part of The Walking Dead’s final season shambles onto screens, each episode streaming on AMC Plus before airing on TV a week later.

Netflix Shonda Rhimes tackles the true story of a fraudulent socialite who called herself Anna Delvey.

Paramount Plus Star Trek: Discovery returns after a brief hiatus for the second part of the season starting Feb. 10. 

Disney Plus series Snowdrop is a gripping period drama about a blood-soaked man who bursts into a dormitory in Seoul and turns the life of a young woman upside down. K-Pop star Jisoo from the band Blackpink stars as one of the young lovers threatened by political turmoil.

Amazon Prime Video Superstar comedians including Chris Tucker, Steve Harvey and Tiffany Haddish tell the inspriring and outrageous story of Phat Tuesdays, an all-Black comedy night at The Comedy Store in the 90s that captured the moment and elevated Black voices in the wake of the LA riots.

Amazon Prime Video Alan Ritchson is Jack Reacher in the TV version of the thriller novels by Lee Child.

Apple TV Plus The kidnapping of her son kicks off a thrilling game of cat and mouse for Uma Thurman in Suspicion, also starring Kunal Nayyar (The Big Bang Theory), Noah Emmerich (The Americans) and Elizabeth Henstridge.

Hulu Lily James and Sebastian Stan are Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in this dramatization of the wild true story behind their infamous sex tape.

Apple TV Plus Created and directed by Chris Miller, The Afterparty unites an all-star cast including Tiffany Haddish, Sam Richardson, Zoë Chao, Ben Schwartz, Ike Barinholtz, Ilana Glazer, Jamie Demetriou and Dave Franco. Each episode of this innovative murder mystery follows a different character in the style of a different film genre.

Netflix A former KGB assassin turned loving mom is forced out of retirement when someone with her exact abilities starts killing people.

Amazon Prime Video Based on the popular fantasy gaming livestream Critical Role, animated series The Legend of Vox Machina brings sword and sorcery to Prime Video.

Available on the Roku Channel, adult animation Doomlands is Mad Max meets Cheers in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Well I’m sold!

Apple TV Plus M. Night Shyamalan gives birth to more chills in Servant, a streaming drama about parents facing threats to their baby.

Apple TV Plus Jim Henson’s furry friends return in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock.

AMC Stanley Tucci plunders the depths in La Fortuna, an adventure series about a team recovering stolen sunken treasure. AMC and Movistar Plus present the first television series from Oscar winner Alejandro Amenábar (The Others, The Sea Inside).

Freeform After a public flame-out at a New York media company, a 20-something alcoholic (played by The Mick’s Sofia Black-D’Elia) bounces back to Boston with her mother (Ally Sheedy) and faces the life that made her drink in the first place.

Netflix Based on a podcast of the same name, the horror series Archive 81 explores chilling found footage, with a video archivist striving to restore a mysterious set of tapes as a chilling cult threatens.

Stan and Peacock Isla Fisher and Josh Gad are a couple with animal attraction in Wolf Like Me. 

The CW Clark Kent (Tyler Hoechlin) and Lois Lane (Elizabeth Tulloch) face more parental issues in a new season of this acclaimed Arrowverse show.

The CW Kaci Walfall is Naomi, a high schooler obsessed with Superman in this show set in the Arrowverse, based on DC Comics and produced by Ava DuVernay.

The year kicked off with outrageous action, as John Cena plays The Suicide Squad’s lunkheaded wannabe superhero Peacemaker, streaming now on HBO Max.

Apple TV Plus Three-part animated series El Deafo is based on the poignant bestselling graphic memoir about a girl losing her hearing. Lexi Finigan, who’s also deaf, voices the lead, while Pamela Adlon, Jane Lynch and Clancy Brown also star.

Apple TV Plus Samuel L. Jackson makes a rare TV appearance as Ptolemy Grey, a 93-year-old man sinking into dementia until he’s given the opportunity to regain his memories — and try to solve his nephew’s death. This series is based on the acclaimed novel by bestselling author Walter Mosley, who also adapts the story for the screen.