US release date: January 9, Max
The White Lotus
While Jennifer Coolidge will most definitely be missed, Mike White has assembled yet another stacked cast for Season 3 of The White Lotus, including HBO’s unofficial king, Walton Goggins. Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Aimee Lou Wood, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Jason Isaacs, and Nicholas Duvernay are among the other series newcomers, while Natasha Rothwell—who played spa manager Brenda in Season 1—will be returning. No firm details have been released, but expect death to be on the menu.
US release date: February 16, HBO
Daredevil: Born Again
Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) has been through a lot in the past decade: a Netflix series that was unceremoniously canceled after three seasons; a reboot series at Disney that then got a major reboot of its own after several episodes had already been shot; and a writers strike that delayed the project even further. Good thing this guy has got superpowers, and that Cox has kept busy keeping his Daredevil in the conversation with a cameo in Spider-Man: No Way Home and appearances in She-Hulk and Echo (plus the aforementioned and upcoming Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man). Expect to see Murdock’s blind lawyer kick ass in the courtroom and beyond when he goes toe-to-toe with notorious New York City crime boss Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio).
US release date: March 4, Disney+
Dope Thief
Brian Tyree Henry trades Atlanta for Philadelphia and comedy for drama in this limited crime series based on Dennis Tafoya’s 2009 novel of the same name. Ray (Tyree Henry) and Manny (Wagner Moura) are longtime pals whose preferred way of getting drugs is to pose as DEA agents and rob local drug dealers. But when they decide to take their grift outside of the city, they fail to realize that the “small-time” dealers they thought they were getting one over on happen to be a part of one of the nation’s largest, and most dangerous, criminal enterprises. Oops.
US release date: March 14, Apple TV+
Stranger Things
It’s been a long time since we’ve seen the kids of Hawkins, Indiana. So long, in fact, that calling them “kids” might be a bit of a stretch. Nearly a decade after it made its debut in the summer of 2016, Stranger Things is back for its fifth and final season. As usual, the Duffer Brothers are keeping a lid on any of the major details of the upcoming season. What we do know is that The Terminator’s Linda Hamilton will be joining the cast; that it will be set in the fall of 1987, a year after the events of Season 4; and that the final episode (there are eight in all) is titled “The Rightside Up,” which seems like a happy ending could be in sight.
