Alongside all the exciting new shows premiering in 2022, some of the best series of the past decade are returning for new seasons. Some of them, like Atlanta haven’t been seen on the small screen in years, while others are back for their final seasons. These are our most anticipated returning shows of early 2022.
Search Party
This absolute gem of a quirky comedy has come a long way since its first season on TBS. Back then it was a wry satire of millennial aimlessness in the form of a misguided mystery. In its fifth and final season, Search Party morphs yet again into a tale of narcissistic enlightenment. After her near-death experience at the end of Season 4, Dory (Ali Shawkat) becomes a cult figure with the help of a tech billionaire (Jeff Goldblum) and her trusty Scooby gang of self-involved friends (Meredith Hagner, John Early, John Reynolds). Streaming January 7 on HBO Max
Euphoria
The long-delayed second season of this provocative teen drama finally arrives! Rue (Zendaya) is back on drugs and still obsessed with Jules (Hunter Schafer). The soundtrack is still bangin’, everyone’s eye makeup is still to-die-for, and Euphoria is still every parent’s worst nightmare! Premieres January 9 on HBO and HBO Max.
All Creatures Great and Small
Perhaps the ultimate low-stakes comfort series of the pandemic era is back just in time for another winter wave. Rural veterinarian James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) and co. will still be traipsing around the 1930s Yorkshire countryside tending to sick pups, birthing calves and maybe even falling in love. Premieres January 9 on PBS.
The Righteous Gemstones
Make your souls ready for the second coming of the Gemstone family. After a nearly two-year hiatus, Danny McBride’s comedy about a dysfunctional and corrupt televangelist family is back. While eldest son Jesse (McBride) gets involved in a Christian timeshare scheme with an evangelical entrepreneur (Eric André), patriarch Eli (John Goodman) is busy fending off a reporter (Jason Schwartzman) bent on exposing the family’s dirty laundry. Premieres January 9 on HBO and HBO Max.
Ozark
The two-part final season of this crime drama picks up right where Season 3 left off. Reeling from a very sudden death, money laundering couple Marty (Jason Bateman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) are about to get in even deeper with the Navarro drug cartel. Streaming January 21 on Netflix.
Better Things
Pamela Adlon’s fantastic little slice of life comedy has quietly become one of the best, most under-recognized shows on TV. According to FX, the fifth and final season focuses on the road ahead, with working actor Sam (Adlon), her three daughters and her aging mother (Celia Imrie) looking to the next phase in their lives. Premieres February 28 on FX.
Atlanta
It’s been three years since the second season of Donald Glover’s acclaimed series ended. So what’s the highly anticipated Season 3 going to look like? Well, it’s going to take place mostly on Paper Boi’s (Brian Tyree Henry) European tour, with Earn (Glover), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) trying to adjust to success and life away from Atlanta. Premieres March 24 on FX.
