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These are the shows we're looking forward to this fall
If you love shows that could be described as "mystery," "crime," and/or "thriller," you're going to have an amazing time this fall. If you don't, you'll still probably have an amazing time — there are a lot of great TV premieres on the horizon. On the MCT (mystery crime thrillers, obviously) side, there's HBO's Task, starring Mark Ruffalo; the Anne Rice adaptation Talamasca: The Secret Order; and Sarah Snook's new series All Her Fault. That doesn't even cover all of them. If you're looking for something a little lighter, you can check out The Office spin-off The Paper, or Glen Powell's new sports comedy Chad Powers. If you want to focus on returning favorites, Wednesday and Stranger Things both drop new episodes this fall. And if you just want to know what's worth keeping your eye on in general, TV Guide has you covered with our picks for the most anticipated shows of the season.
Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 (Sept. 3, Netflix)
Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) may have been knocked unconscious at the end of Wednesday Season 2 Part 1, but she certainly won't stay incapacitated. In the trailer for the second half of the second season — which, like the first half, contains four episodes — our protagonist is back at Nevermore Academy. In the process of freeing the captives at Willow Hill's secret "Long-term Outcast Integration Study," Wednesday inadvertently created an opportunity for her Season 1 love interest-turned-enemy Tyler (Hunter Doohan) to escape the facility. Now, she must protect her friends and family from Tyler's Hyde form, while continuing to solve the mystery behind her vision of her best friend Enid's (Emma Myers) death. -Kat Moon [Trailer] [Everything to know about Wednesday Season 2 Part 2]
The Paper (Sept. 4, Peacock)
Paper, the 25th most important character on The Office, is finally getting a spin-off. Peacock's new mockumentary The Paper turns its focus to the ragtag team behind the Toledo Truth Teller, a floundering Midwestern newspaper. The link to The Office? They're being followed by the same documentary crew. Also, Oscar (Oscar Nuñez) is involved somehow. Domhnall Gleeson and Sabrina Impacciatore lead the ensemble cast of the new series, which was created by The Office's Greg Daniels and Michael Koman. Tune in to find out if they can turn the sitcom version of identity theft into a joke (again). -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]
Task (Sept. 7, HBO)
It's been a minute since we've gotten a gripping HBO crime drama, which makes Task feel like a breath of fresh air — a really stressful breath of fresh air, but fresh air nonetheless. The new crime thriller limited series comes from Brad Ingelsby, the creator of Mare of Easttown, and stars Mark Ruffalo as an FBI agent who is tapped to lead a task force working to end a string of violent break-ins led by an unassuming family man (played by Tom Pelphrey). -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
The Girlfriend (Sept. 10, Prime Video)
In The Girlfriend, the stereotypical male fantasy of being fought over by two women at once takes a turn for the twisted when Danny (Laurie Davidson) introduces his new girlfriend, Cherry (Olivia Cooke), to his overprotective mother, Laura (Robin Wright, who also directs the series), sparking an uneasy relationship filled with deception, theft, and maybe a little attempted murder between the two ladies. The six-episode series, based on the Michelle Frances novel of the same name, explores the idea of perspective as it juggles the same scenarios through the points of view of Laura and Cherry, showing how they each interpret every encounter differently and obstructing the objective truth from the viewer. Is Cherry hiding ulterior motives to rip Danny away from his family, or is Laura an overbearing mother with a Jocasta complex? Maybe a little of both? -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Gen V Season 2 (Sept. 17, Prime Video)
Sophomore year is about to begin at Godolkin University, but Marie (Jaz Sinclair) and her friends have more than their grades to worry about. In Gen V's Season 1 finale, the then first-years were framed for a campus attack while the true instigators, Cate (Maddie Phillips) and Sam (Asa Germann), were lauded as heroes. Though Marie is allowed to re-enroll in the school, she now faces a new dean (Hamish Linklater) with suspect motives and unknown powers. Besides, The Boys' Annie January (Erin Moriarty) herself is asking for Marie's help in stopping an ominous Vought research program. One thing's for sure: Her ability to manipulate blood is going to be put to the test like never before. -Kat Moon [Trailer] [Everything to know about Gen V Season 2]
The Morning Show Season 4 (Sept. 17, Apple TV+)
Great news for people who love mess: The Morning Show is coming back. The last time we caught up with Alex (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley (Reese Witherspoon), Bradley was off to turn herself in to the FBI and Alex was heading back to UBA, where she now officially has a seat at the table after outsmarting her billionaire boyfriend, Paul Marks (Jon Hamm). Season 4 adds Marion Cotillard, William Jackson Harper, and Jeremy Irons to the ensemble, and will tackle deepfakes and AI. Buckle up. -Allison Picurro [Trailer] [Everything to know about The Morning Show Season 4]
Black Rabbit (Sept. 18, Netflix)
Netflix is pulling a Black Rabbit out of its hat, but you don't need magic when you have Jason Bateman in front of and behind the camera. In this crime thriller, the Ozark mastermind plays the troubled brother of a New York City restaurateur (Jude Law) who causes problems for his brother's business when his gambling debts come back to haunt him. Take some Ozark crime, add some Uncut Gems tension, and throw in some of the chaos of The Bear while you're at it, and *poof!* Black Rabbit. Come for Bateman looking like he just woke up from a two-year coma, stay for Law's character, who is a former indie rocker, starring in a pitch-perfect, grungy, black-and-white music video from the '90s. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
The Lowdown (Sept. 23, FX)
Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo might have another TV miracle up his sleeve. The Lowdown, Harjo's next series, is a Tulsa noir starring Ethan Hawke as "a guy who knows too much" — a description so perfect in its simplicity that it's tempting to stop right there. But if you'd also like to know too much, we do have more details: Hawke plays citizen journalist Lee Raybon, who lives and works in a rare bookstore while digging into Tulsa's underbelly on the side. When his latest exposé on a powerful local family leads to the death of that family's black sheep (Tim Blake Nelson), he finds that the rot goes deeper than he expected. Kyle MacLachlan, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Keith David, Kaniehtiio Horn, and Ryan Kiera Armstrong also star. -Kelly Connolly [Trailer]
Alice in Borderland Season 3 (Sept. 25, Netflix)
Two and a half years ago, Alice in Borderland Season 2 answered the main question viewers were asking: What is borderland? Turns out, the death games that Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) had been forced to play since the show's first moments did not take place in reality. The truth is that Arisu and all of the other players were gravely injured by a meteorite strike in Tokyo. Many of their hearts, including Arisu's, stopped beating for an entire minute. Season 2's finale suggested that within that minute, they, being at the border of life and death, unknowingly entered borderland. Only the hearts of those who survived the games started beating again in real life. Season 3, though it no longer adapts the original manga by Haro Aso, follows the story of these survivors as they face yet another set of death games. -Kat Moon [Trailer] [Alice in Borderland Season 2 ending explained]
Chad Powers (Sept. 30, Hulu)
Hulu watched Apple make a sports comedy based on a made-up character and turn it into more than 60 Emmy nominations and 13 wins, and figured, "We can do that." Chad Powers is based on a prank sketch comedy character created by two-time Super Bowl winner Eli Manning, who donned prosthetics to change his appearance and tried out for Penn State as a walk-on for Manning's web series Eli's Places. In Hulu's take, Hollywood It Guy Glen Powell will play Chad, a disgraced college football quarterback who takes a second chance at stardom by adopting a new persona and appearance to try to make a Southern football team. Steve Zahn co-stars as the team's coach. -Tim Surette [Trailer]
Monster: The Ed Gein Story (Oct. 3, Netflix)
Ryan Murphy's hit anthology series about some of the worst killers in history is never without controversy, whether it be a general disregard for the victims, too much glorification of the murderers, or bending the truth under the guise of artistic license to create a new narrative. But it has its moments, like Season 2's "The Hurt Man" and Cooper Koch's Emmy-nominated performance. Season 3, called Monster: The Ed Gein Story, will focus on 1950s convicted killer Ed Gein, who will be played by Sons of Anarchy's Charlie Hunnam. In typical Murphy fashion, he'll be joined by a star-studded cast that includes Laurie Metcalf, Tom Hollander, and Olivia Williams. -Tim Surette [Teaser]
The Last Frontier (Oct. 10, Apple TV+)
The Blacklist creator Jon Bokenkamp is bringing his particular brand of twisty, hardened-criminals-on-the-run drama to your TVs this fall with The Last Frontier, a thriller set in the unforgiving wilderness of Alaska. Jason Clarke plays a U.S. Marshal whose day just got a whole lot busier when a transport plane carrying some of the country's worst prisoners crashes, freeing bad dudes all over his turf. And of course, the crash may not have been an accident. (Dun dun dun!) It's a good-looking dad show for Apple, which happily threw cash at the project to produce one of the most exciting opening scenes of the year. (Watch the teaser trailer for a preview.) Dominic Cooper and Haley Bennett also star. -Tim Surette [Teaser]
IT: Welcome to Derry (Oct. 26, HBO)
Will Bill Skarsgård ever be freed from the Pennywise makeup? Well, not anytime soon, considering that the arrival of IT: Welcome to Derry is imminent. The series acts as a prequel to Andy Muschietti's IT films, which were in turn based on Stephen King's 1986 novel about a malevolent clown who targets a group of kids in a small town in Maine. Set in 1962, Welcome to Derry stars Taylour Paige and Jovan Adepo as a young couple who move to Derry with their son, just as children begin mysteriously disappearing. I'll give you one clue as to who's behind it. -Allison Picurro [Teaser]
Talamasca: The Secret Order (Oct. 26, AMC and AMC+)
If it wasn't already obvious, AMC is very much in the Anne Rice business. Talamasca: The Secret Order is the latest addition to the Immortal Universe and follows up on the groundwork laid in Interview with the Vampire Season 2. The series focuses on the titular secret organization that tracks supernatural creatures across the globe, and stars Nicholas Denton as an aspiring lawyer who suddenly finds himself becoming the Talamasca's new recruit. It all sounds a bit Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but at least my friend and yours, Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian), is confirmed to be making a crossover appearance in the new show. -Allison Picurro [Trailer]
Down Cemetery Road (Oct. 29, Apple TV+)
Here's another mystery thriller for your watchlist: Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson star in Down Cemetery Road, Slow Horses writer Morwenna Banks' adaptation of Mick Herron's novel. Set in a quiet suburb in Oxford, the series picks up after a house explodes and a local girl subsequently goes missing. Wilson plays Sarah Tucker, a concerned neighbor who becomes obsessed with the disappearance, and Thompson plays Zoë Boehm, the private investigator Sarah enlists to help her. As the two dig deeper into the case, they find themselves at the center of a vast conspiracy. -Allison Picurro
All Her Fault (Nov. 6, Peacock)
Sarah Snook and Dakota Fanning co-starring in a new show? Say less. OK, fine, we can say a little more: All Her Fault, based on Andrea Mara's novel of the same name, is a Chicago-set thriller series about a mother (played by Snook) who arrives to pick up her young son from his first playdate, only to be met at the door by a woman she doesn't recognize. The stranger doesn't have her son and claims to have never heard of him. -Allison Picurro
Death by Lightning (Nov. 6, Netflix)
Following last year's Lincoln assassination drama Manhunt on Apple TV+, Netflix is launching its own limited series about a presidential assassination. In Death by Lightning, the president at the center of the action is James A. Garfield (Michael Shannon), whose time in office was cut short when he was shot by Charles J. Guiteau (Matthew Macfadyen). The cast also includes Nick Offerman as Garfield's vice president and successor, Chester A. Arthur; Betty Gilpin as Garfield's wife; Bradley Whitford as his secretary of state; and Shea Whigham as a senator who clashed with him. The facial hair on this show is going to be magnificent. -Kelly Connolly
Pluribus (Nov. 7, Apple TV+)
This one is for the Kim Wexler fans, which should be all of you. Better Call Saul MVP Rhea Seehorn stars in Pluribus, a "genre-bending" new series from Breaking Bad creator and Saul co-creator Vince Gilligan in which "the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness." Seehorn plays Carol, who is presumably that miserable person. No further questions! The Better Call Saul reunion is enough of a draw on its own, but it doesn't hurt that Gilligan, a longtime X-Files writer, seems to be getting back in touch with his sci-fi roots, too. -Kelly Connolly [Teaser]
Palm Royale Season 2 (Nov. 12, Apple TV+)
Heading into the second season of Palm Royale, Apple's frothy '60s-set drama, discerning fans need to know: Will the show's best character, Ricky Martin's Robert, survive after being shot while impersonating an astronaut? Will anyone else learn that Carol Burnett's Norma assumed the real Norma's identity decades ago? Will Maxine (Kristen Wiig) recover from her meltdown at the gala? Will Mary (Julia Duffy) try to kill Richard Nixon again? And that's what you missed on Palm Royale Season 1. -Kelly Connolly
The Beast in Me (Nov. 13, Netflix)
Jodie Foster (!) and Conan O'Brien (?!) produce The Beast in Me, a limited series about Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes), a beloved author who retreated from public life after the death of her son. When real estate mogul Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), who was at one point the lead suspect in his wife's disappearance, buys the home next door to Aggie, she's sent spiraling down an obsessive path as she searches for the truth. -Allison Picurro
Landman Season 2 (Nov. 16, Paramount+)
Taylor Sheridan has the Midas touch, and this gritty, unpredictable drama about black gold proves it. Landman, the super-producer's biggest show outside of the Yellowstone franchise, stars Billy Bob Thornton as Tommy Norris, a Michelob-swilling oil company manager dealing with an endless set of personal and professional problems. Season 2 will find expanded roles for Demi Moore (in her first performance after her Oscar nomination) and Andy Garcia, who were both barely in Season 1, and a new role for perpetual cowboy Sam Elliott. Expect more monologues that make you say "I don't agree philosophically, but I see Taylor's point." -Liam Mathews [Teaser] [Everything to know about Landman Season 2]
Stranger Things Season 5 Part 1 (Nov. 26, Netflix)
It's the beginning of the end. The fifth and final season of Stranger Things premieres in three parts: four episodes on Nov. 26, three on Christmas, and the series finale on New Year's Eve. It's been more than three years since Season 4 premiered, and Season 5 picks up over a year after the events of the fourth season. It's the fall of 1987, and Hawkins is in a precarious state after the opening of the rifts. As the government locks down the town and hunts for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), she's forced into hiding — but she and her friends will have to join forces if they want to take down Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). To put it simply, whatever plan the Hawkins crew comes up with to fight the forces of the Upside Down has to work. -Kat Moon [Teaser] [Everything to know about Stranger Things Season 5]