The Best TV Shows Of 2022
New, ongoing and upcoming TV that I can't wait to watch this year.
The following is a non-exhaustive, but still fairly expansive, list of upcoming sci-fi, fantasy and comic book shows (and the occasional non-genre show that I’m interested in covering) headed to streaming services and traditional TV channels in 2022.
I had originally planned a shorter list with more detailed descriptions of each show, but I ended up expanding this to include not just upcoming shows but shows that release throughout 2022 and perhaps won’t air until 2023. While many of these have release dates, a whole bunch are TBA as well.
The shows in the following list range from adult animated titles like Vox Machina to more kid-friendly fare such as the bevy of Star Wars shows headed to Disney Plus. Speaking of Star Wars, The Book Of Boba Fett is kind of a letdown, but I’m still hopeful about The Mandalorian Season 3 and the various other live-action shows headed to Disney Plus set in a galaxy far, far away.
Some titles I’m especially looking forward to include Willow on Disney Plus, Amazon’s twisted superhero show The Boys Season 3 and the Game of Thrones spinoff, House of the Dragon. I’m thrilled that we’re getting another season of the wonderfully hilarious, Alan Tudyk-led Resident Alien, and from what I’ve seen of Amazon’s Critical Role RPG-based Vox Machina so far, that’s going to be a real gem.
I’m also curious to see how Vikings: Valhalla does on Netflix and how it will compare to the original Vikings show (RIP Ragnar, though Travis Fimmel goes even crazier in Raised By Wolves which lands for a second season on HBO in February). Speaking of Netflix, I need to start watching the new Korean zombie show All Of Us Are Dead. Nobody does zombies as good as Koreans for whatever reason. Train To Busan and Kingdom are on a whole nother level.
Later on in the year we have Amazon’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power to look forward to (but ugh, what a mouthful) as well as the raunchy, gory superhero spoof The Boys, also on Amazon Prime. And at long last, Stranger Things 4 will land sometime this summer. The kids are all now in their mid-40s though, so that might be an issue.
Shows that have just wrapped up aren’t on this list, but some honorable mentions include the wonderfully poetic Station Eleven on HBO, the most recent season of Yellowstone (on Peacock / Paramount+—it’s weird) and, well, I guess I need to do a list of best shows of 2021….
Read on for all the most exciting TV shows to stream in 2022!
New And Upcoming Shows
Ongoing Shows
These include shows I’m watching now, like Peacemaker which continues to get better with every episode and the wonderfully irreverant Vox Machina. Raised By Wolves just came out this week also and it’s just as bizarre as I remembered.
Peacemaker — Season 1 (HBO)
The Book Of Boba Fett — Season 1 (Disney Plus)
1883 — Season 1 (Paramount+)
Resident Alien — Season 2 (SyFy, Jan 26th)
Vox Machina - Season 1 (Amazon Prime, Jan 28th)
All Of Us Are Dead — Seaosn 1 (Netflix, January 29th)
Raised By Wolves — Season 2 (HBO Max, Feb 3rd)
Reacher — Season 1 (Amazon Prime, Feb 4th)
Upcoming Shows In The Near Future
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Part II — (Paramount+, Feb 10th)
The Walking Dead — Season 11 Part 2 (AMC, Feb 20th)
Vikings: Valhalla — Season 1 (Netflix, Feb 25th)
Star Trek: Picard — Season 2 (Paramount+, March 3rd)
Outlander — Season 6 (Starz, March 6th)
Halo — Season 1 (Paramount+,March 24th)
Moon Knight — Season 1 (Disney+, March 30th)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — Season 1 (Paramount+, May 5th)
Later In 2022 / TBA
The Boys — Season 3 (Amazon Prime, June 3rd)
Stranger Things — Season 4 (Netflix, Summer TBA)
The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power — Season 1 (Amazon Prime, Sept 2nd)
The Wheel Of Time — Season 2 (Amazon Prime, TBA)
The Witcher: Blood Origin — Limited Series (Netflix, TBA)
House Of The Dragon — Season 1 (HBO, TBA)
The Mandalorian — Season 3 (Disney+, TBA)
Andor — Season 1 (Disney+, TBA)
Obi-Wan Kenobi — Season 1 (Disney+, TBA)
Ms. Marvel — Season 1 (Disney+, TBA)
She-Hulk — Season 1 (Disney+, TBA)
Sandman — Season 1 (Netflix, TBA)
Willow — Season 1 (Disney+, TBA)
Yellowjackets — Season 2 (Showtime, TBA)
Carnival Row — Season 2 (Amazon Prime, TBA)
Possible 2023 TBA Releases
Ahsoka — Season 1 (Disney+, TBA — Could be 2023)
Avatar: The Last Airbender (Live-Action) — Season 1 (Netflix, TBA — possibly 2023)
nd that’s all, folks!
If there’s a cool upcoming TV show headed to traditional TV or streaming services that I missed, please let me know. You can hit me up via on Twitter or Facebook and if it’s something that catches my fancy, I’ll add it to this list!
Check out my latest video on my YouTube channel, all about how amazing the latest episode of The Mandalorian—er, The Book Of Boba Fett—was:
Have you watched Gomorrah on HBOMAX? Best show out there
I don’t know. I’m definitely skipping the House of the Dragon spin-off. I mean, is there even the slightest chance that it’s going to be good? Isn’t the best we can hope for is “it’s ok, not as bad as I was worried it was going to be” which is the same as saying “it’s shit and ruined the franchise for me”? The moment has passed, we ought to let it go and wait for the Winds of Winter.
The Walking Dead is still making new episodes??? Are any of the the original cast members still there?
How are people liking Picard? I was thinking of giving that a shot.
And finally: Vikings has been sitting on my watchlist forever. Is it good? Fun historical fiction or modern American values wearing horned helmets?