Welcome to 2023, a year full of quality TV shows. Superheroes, detectives, cowboys, Jedis, teenage girls in the woods, and a**holes with going-to-work-in-a-helicopter-money will tell stories that will make us sit in front of our TV, theorize, discuss, laugh, and love 2023. Some shows are coming back with new seasons, others haven’t even started and already have big expectations surrounding them, and all of them look like a great time. Here are 10 shows we can’t wait to see in 2023.
10) Justified: City Primeval
Timothy Olyphant is back as Raylan Givens, the coolest, smartest, craziest, most charismatic U.S. Marshal there ever was. The ending of Justified was pure perfection (“we dug coal together”), so if Olyphant and the creative team want to tell a new story, it must be worth it. We can’t wait to listen to Elmore Leonard’s dialogue and meet new quirky, unique characters as the miniseries is inspired by his book City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit.
There’s not much known about the new season yet. Being Justified, it will probably involve peculiar criminals, Raylan being pulled into a case he doesn’t want while giving sarcastic quips, her daughter being in danger, and showing Detroit in a different, new light.
The new season has a great cast. Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard), Vondie Curtis Hall (Chicago Hope), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Norbert Leo Butz (Bloodline), and Olyphant’s daughter, Vivian, playing the role of Raylan’s daughter. It’s also rumored that Quentin Tarantino himself is going to direct some of the episodes of the miniseries. Olyphant, Tarantino, Leonard. We can’t wait!
Justified: City Primeval will premiere on FX during the summer.
9) Poker Face
Rian Johnson is more than a whodunnit aficionado, and after breathing new life into the Agatha christie inspired mystery, his new objective is to reinvent the detective drama with the help of Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll).
Lyonne will play Charlie Cale, a woman who can tell when someone is lying in this case of the week series. Watching the trailer, it looks like if Columbo and Jessica fletcher had a daughter with a raspy voice (even more than Colombo) and blonde hair, it would be the character Natasha Lyonne is playing in this show.
Knowing Johnson’s love for changing genres and subverting them, Poker Face will probably be something unique and unexpected. The director’s Rolodex of friends will also help as incredible actors will be appearing in every episode: from Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Looper) to Adrien Brody (The Pianist), Jameela Jamil (The Good Place), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Stephanie Hsu (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), and Chloë Sevigny (Big Love).
Poker Face will premiere in Peacock on Jan. 26.
8) Agatha: Coven of Chaos
As her song said, It was Agatha all along. Her appearance in WandaVision as the big bad was so magnetic that she earned her own show. The character of Agatha Harkness has never had her own comic book and now is getting a TV series. That’s the power of actress Kathryn Hahn, who improves anything she’s in by 20%.
Agatha ended WandaVision being trapped in Westview, but after everything that happened to the Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, she might be free to do all the witchy evil she wants. Will her shenanigans be the reason for the X-Men or the Fantastic Four appearing in the MCU? One can only hope for it.
If Kathryn Hahn wasn’t enough, they have surrounded her with an interesting cast, one that might indicate this show is going to be a comedy. Aubrey Plaza is the biggest star they cast after her charismatic appearance in White Lotus. The rest of the actors in the series are Joe Locke (Heartstopper), Eric Andre (Man Seeking Woman), Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live), and musical legend Patti LuPone (Witness).
Agatha: Coven of Chaos will premiere on Disney+ during the winter.
7) Ahsoka
Ahsoka Tano was a character first introduced in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars as one of Anakin Skywalker’s Jedi padawan and became an instant fan-favorite. Enough for people doing fan castings and clamoring for the character to appear in real live-action. Their demands were satisfied when Rosario Dawson appeared as Ahsoka in both The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.