What to Watch: The Best Badass Shows Out Now (and coming soon!)

Next week is our 3rd Annual Super Book Saturday! Your TBR pile is going to be toppling over!  So, in anticipation of that, I am spending this week recommending some great new shows currently out (and a few releasing in the next few weeks).

First, the Grammys are tomorrow night!  It’s like Taylor’s Super Bowl!

Abbott Elementary will be back for Season 3 with a one-hour premiere on Wednesday, February 7th on ABC!

I have just started watching Death and Other Details on Hulu. Really enjoying it – it’s like a locked room mystery, but the locked room is a luxury cruise ship. You can watch the trailer for it here.

Nicole Kidman is back, this time in a long-awaited limited series created by The Farewell’s Lulu Wang, filmed in Hong Kong at the height of COVID-19 restrictions. The series is based on 2016 novel The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee, following three expats in the city and how their lives (and secrets) all intertwine.

Ryan Murphy’s Feud anthology returns for its second season, this time with a dramatized reimagining of the high-society women who were scorned after their friend Truman Capote published scathing stories about their secrets and intimate lives. Based on 2021’s nonfiction account Capote’s Women, this will likely be one of the juiciest and most glamorous television releases of the year. The cast is top rate: Tom Hollander as Capote himself, and the swans played by Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane, Calista Flockhart, Demi Moore, and Molly Ringwald.

This British limited series is based on the popular 2009 novel of the same name. This love story spans two decades and stars This Is Going to Hurt breakout star Ambika Mod and Leo Woodall (The White Lotus) as star-crossed lovers. Premieres Feb. 8th.

This English-language biopic follows a few key fashion designers during and after the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, primarily focusing on Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) and Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn). Premieres February 14th.

Noomi Rapace is at the helm of this psychological thriller about an astronaut who returns to Earth after a disaster in space. Premieres February 21st.

The Good Wife’s Elsbeth Tascioni, a quirky fan favorite character is finally front and center, as she moves to New York City and begins solving murders. Premieres Feb. 29th.

Academy Award winner Kate Winslet returns as the chancellor of a fictional Central European autocracy in this satirical political miniseries. She’s joined by Hugh Grant, Martha Plimpton, and Andrea Riseborough, among others. Premieres March 3rd.

Palm Royale follows underdog Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig), a woman determined to break into Palm Beach high society in 1969. This period-comedy miniseries was created by Abe Sylvia (Dead to Me), adapting the 2018 novel Mr. & Mrs. American Pie, by Juliet McDaniel. The impressive cast includes Carol Burnett (!), Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Leslie Bibb, Kaia Gerber, and Laura Dern. Premieres March 20th.

Based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Liane Moriarty and starring Annette Bening, Apples Never Fall follows a picture-perfect American family navigating the secrets that surface in the wake of their mother’s disappearance. Premieres March TBD.