Best New Series of 2022


20 The Bear

The Bear

A young chef from the world of fine dining comes home to Chicago to run his family’s Italian beef sandwich shop after the suicide of his older brother, who left behind debts, a rundown kitchen, and an unruly staff.

Directors: Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo
Writers: Alex O’Keefe, Christopher Storer, Joanna Calo
Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri

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19 Black Bird

Black Bird

James «Jimmy» Keene has turned to a life of crime, until he is arrested as part of a wider sting called Operation Snowplow. Once a promising young football star who was offered several college football scholarships; instead he decided to stay in the Chicago area to be close to his thriving business. He accepted a plea deal which he believed to be five years, released with parole after four years. However, in the conspiracy, he was enhanced with possession of a number of illegally held firearms and was sentenced to ten years without parole.

Given Jimmy’s natural charming and charismatic personality and gift for talking, he was offered an opportunity for a fully commuted sentence with a clean record and no conditions by federal authorities. This is the story of the dangerous deal he was offered and what happened next.

Directors: Michaël R. Roskam, Joe Chappelle, Jim McKay
Writers: Riccardo DiLoreto, James Keene, Dennis Lehane
Starring: Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, Sepideh Moafi

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18 Offlayn (Оффлайн)

Оффлайн

«Offline» is a psychological drama about people living a double life. In their first public life, they are beautiful, bright and successful. They have families, loved ones, prestigious jobs and an impeccable reputation. But all these are just masks of those who have earned millions from drug trafficking on the web. They know that if the truth becomes known to the world, they will lose everything. And they are ready for anything so that no one will ever see their real face. But there is a man who knows their secret and who intends to make their life hell.

Directors: Kirill Pletnyov
Writers: Vladislav Kid, Ivan Ermolenko, Timofey Uskov
Starring: Nikita Efremov, Denis Shvedov, Nikita Kologrivyy

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17 Pachinko

Pachinko

Based on the New York Times bestseller, this sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

Directors: Justin Chon, Kogonada
Writers: Soo Hugh, E.J. Koh, Jeong Han-sol
Starring: Kim Min-ha, Lee Min-ho, Jin Ha

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16 Shantaram

Shantaram

Lindsay arrives in Mumbai after escaping from an Australian prison where he was serving a 19-year sentence for armed robberies that had fed his drug habit. In Mumbai, he meets Prabhakar who takes him to his native village where the locals name him Shantaram and teach him Marathi. Lindsay relaunches his criminal career as Shantaram in the city’s notorious underworld.

Directors: Iain B. MacDonald, Bronwen Hughes, Bharat Nalluri
Writers: Aaron Sprecher, Steve Lightfoot, Gregory David Roberts
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Antonia Desplat, Shubham Saraf

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15 Bad Sisters

Bad Sisters

The five Garvey sisters—Eva, Grace, Ursula, Bibi, and Becka—live in present-day Dublin. After Grace’s abusive, controlling husband John Paul dies unexpectedly, the sisters find themselves at the centre of a life insurance investigation. The series flips between timelines—one before John Paul’s death, in which Grace’s sisters plot to murder their brother-in-law, and another after his death, in which a determined insurance agent tries to prove the sisters’ malicious involvement to save his struggling business.

Directors: Rebecca Gatward, Josephine Bornebusch, Dearbhla Walsh
Writers: Malin-Sarah Gozin, Brett Baer, Dave Finkel
Starring: Sharon Horgan, Briain Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff

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14 Tyotya Marta (Тётя Марта)

Тётя Марта

Marta leads a normal life — she looks after the house, takes care of her grandfather, goes shopping and beauty salons, studies and copes with various difficulties on her own. Everything would be fine, only she is only eight years old.

Directors: Evgeniy Shelyakin, Vsevolod Brodskiy
Writers: Andrei Mukhortov, Dmitriy Zverkov, Konstantin Mankovskiy
Starring: Vitaliya Kornienko, Kristina Asmus, Sergey Epishev

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13 The Time Traveler’s Wife

The Time Traveler's Wife

Blending romance and science fiction, the series follows the relationship between Henry DeTamble, a man with a genetic disorder which causes him to sporadically travel through time for short periods, and Clare Abshire, a woman who met an older version of Henry when she was a girl who told her they were married in the future. Much like the novel on which it is based, the series raises questions about determinism, free will, and identity.

Director: David Nutter
Writers: Steven Moffat, Audrey Niffenegger
Starring: Rose Leslie, Theo James, Everleigh McDonell

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12 Julia

Julia

In Oslo in 1961, cookbook author Julia Child and her husband Paul celebrate publishing company Knopf’s offer to publish her book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. One year later, the two live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Julia prepares to go on the public television station WGBH to promote her book. While doing her makeup, Julia meets associate producer Alice Naman, who had the idea to invite her as a guest. During the show, host Albert Duhamel is condescending about her book. Instead of discussing her cookbook, Julia cooks an omelette onscreen.

Directors: Scott Ellis, Jenée LaMarque, Melanie Mayron
Writers: Eboni Booth, Daniel Goldfarb, Christopher Keyser
Starring: Sarah Lancashire, David Hyde Pierce, Bebe Neuwirth

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11 Tulsa King

Tulsa King

Dwight «The General» Manfredi is a New York Mafia capo who has just finished serving a 25-year prison sentence. Upon release, his boss sends him to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to establish criminal operations there. Not knowing anyone in the area, the General seeks a new crew to help establish his empire.

Directors: Ben Semanoff, Allen Coulter, Ben Richardson
Writers: Regina Corrado, David Flebotte, Taylor Sheridan
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr

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