Best New Series of 2022


10 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

The series is a dramatization of the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers basketball teams. The first season focuses on the 1979-1980 NBA season, Jerry Buss’ first as owner and Magic Johnson’s rookie year. The second season takes place between 1980 and 1984.

Directors: Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Payman Benz, Tanya Hamilton
Writers: Rodney Barnes, Benjamin Klein, Rebecca Bertuch
Starring: John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke

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9 Peacemaker

Peacemaker

After recovering from the injuries he suffered during the events of The Suicide Squad, Christopher Smith / Peacemaker is forced to join the mysterious A.R.G.U.S. black ops squad “Project Butterfly”. They are on a mission to identify and eliminate parasitic butterfly-like creatures who have taken over human bodies around the world.

Directors: James Gunn, Brad Anderson, Jody Hill
Writers: James Gunn, William Moulton Marston, Joe Shuster
Starring: John Cena, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma

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8 This Is Going to Hurt

This Is Going to Hurt

The series is a fictional adaptation of Adam Kay’s book This Is Going To Hurt. Set in London during 2006, it focuses on a group of junior doctors working on a busy obstetrics and gynaecology ward located in an NHS hospital. It has frank honesty in the depiction of working in obstetrics and gynaecology. It fully explores the emotional effects working in a hospital environment has on its staff. It explores the lack of support for junior doctors and how their achievements are unsung. The personal lives of the junior doctors are also explored throughout the episodes.

Directors: Lucy Forbes, Tom Kingsley
Writers: Adam Kay
Starring: Ben Whishaw, Ambika Mod, Rory Fleck Byrne

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7 Alchemy of Souls (Hwanhon)

Hwanhon

Set in a fictional country called Daeho, the series is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a forbidden magic spell known as the “alchemy of souls”, which allows souls to switch bodies.

It follows the story of an elite warrior named Nak-su whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Mu-deok. She becomes entangled with Jang Uk who is from a noble family, becomes his servant and master, and teaches Uk her skills as they both fall in love with each other.

Director: Park Joon-hwa
Writers: Hong Jeong-eun, Hong Mi-ran
Starring: Lee Jae-wook, Jeong So-min, Ko Yoon-jeong

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6 The Offer

The Offer

In 1969 at the Chateau Marmont, Rand Corporation employee Albert S. Ruddy meets and forms a bond with owner Francoise Glazer as well as encounters Sergeant Bilko actor Bernard Fein. Together, the pair successfully pitched the sitcom Hogan’s Heroes to CBS, though Ruddy walks away from the show. He convinces Robert Evans, head of production at Paramount Pictures, to take him on as a film producer. In New York City, struggling author Mario Puzo’s The Godfather becomes a best seller and is optioned for film by Paramount. It is negatively received by the Italian-American community, in particular Frank Sinatra, as it is believed the Johnny Fontane character is based on him. Joe Colombo, one of the heads of the Five Families, begins a crusade to fight injustice towards Italian-Americans, founding the Italian-American Civil Rights League.

Directors: Adam Arkin, Colin Bucksey, Dexter Fletcher
Writers: Albert S. Ruddy, Russell Rothberg, Mona Mira
Starring: Miles Teller, Matthew Goode, Dan Fogler

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5 Wednesday

Wednesday

Wednesday Addams is expelled from her school after dumping live piranhas into the school’s pool in retaliation for the boys’ water polo team bullying her brother Pugsley. Consequently, her parents Gomez and Morticia Addams enroll her at their high school alma mater Nevermore Academy, a private school for monstrous outcasts, in the town of Jericho, Vermont. Wednesday’s cold, emotionless personality and her defiant nature make it difficult for her to connect with her schoolmates and cause her to run afoul of the school’s principal Larissa Weems. However, she discovers she has inherited her mother’s psychic abilities which allow her to solve a local murder mystery.

Directors: Tim Burton, James Marshall, Gandja Monteiro
Writers: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Kayla Alpert
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome

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4 Nulevoy patsiyent (Нулевой пациент)

Нулевой пациент

USSR, 1980s. The Elista Children’s Hospital is experiencing the country’s first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone – doctors, patients, relatives – needs to preserve human dignity in the face of a terrible disease for which there is no cure yet.

Directors: Sergey Trofimov, Evgeniy Stychkin
Writers: Oleg Malovichko, Andrey Gelasimov
Starring: Askar Ilyasov, Nikita Efremov, Elizaveta Shakira

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3 Andor

Andor

Beginning five years before the events of Rogue One (2016) and A New Hope (1977), the series follows an ensemble cast of characters during the time that a Rebel Alliance is forming in opposition to the Galactic Empire. One of these characters is Cassian Andor, a thief who becomes a revolutionary and eventually joins the Rebellion.

Directors: Toby Haynes, Benjamin Caron, Susanna White
Writers: Tony Gilroy, George Lucas, Dan Gilroy
Starring: Diego Luna, Kyle Soller, Stellan Skarsgård

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2 Severance

Severance

A biotechnology corporation, Lumon Industries, uses a mindwipe medical procedure called “severance” to separate the consciousness of their employees between their lives at work and outside of it. Due to their increasingly divergent life experiences, the consciousnesses of the employees in the work place (dubbed “innies”) gradually split from their consciousnesses outside of it (dubbed “outies”), to the point that they become distinct personalities with their own agendas. One severed employee, Mark, gradually uncovers a web of conspiracy at Lumon, and the mysterious project the employees are unknowingly working on.

Directors: Ben Stiller, Aoife McArdle
Writers: Dan Erickson, Mohamad el Masri, Anna Ouyang Moench
Starring: Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, Brittney Lower

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1 House of the Dragon

House of the Dragon

The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 10 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.

Directors: Clare Kilner, Miguel Sapochnik, Greg Yaitanes
Writers: Ryan J. Condal, George R.R. Martin, Charmaine De Grate
Starring: Paddy Considine, Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy

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