
The traditional fall network TV season just started, but Netflix is already looking ahead to 2022. The streaming giant has unleashed a torrent of previews, announcements and teases for its upcoming films and series on its global fan event Tudum. (You know, like the sound the Netflix logo makes.) The three-hour stream featured panels with the casts of shows like The Umbrella Academy and Bridgerton, exclusive behind the scenes looks at highly anticipated films like The Harder They Fall and Bruised — not to mention the casts of Queer Eye, Love is Blind and other Netflix reality shows, namely Floor Is Lava.
The full event is still available for anyone to watch, even if you don’t have a Netflix subscription. But we sifted through the whole thing, and these are the highlights.
Stranger Things
The preview for the spooky long-awaited fourth season takes us even
further back in time to the 1950s. While
previous teasers hinted at a further exploration of the top
secret experimental program that gave Eleven (Millie
Bobby Brown) her powers, this one gives us a glimpse at an
entirely new house of horrors: The Creel House. What connection
does the place — and the seemingly happy family who lived there in
the ’50s — have to the Upside Down? We’ll have to wait until 2022
to find out.
jeen-yuhs
From directors Coodie Simmons and Chike Ozah comes this three-part
documentary about one of the most controversial artists of the 21st
century. According to Netflix, “jeen-yuhs is an intimate
and revealing portrait of Kanye’s experience, showcasing both his
formative days trying to break through and his life today as a
global brand and artist.” The doc features footage filmed over two
decades, including this clip of Mos Def and a young West
freestyling in 2002. Considering all his
questionable behavior and
eccentric antics in recent years, at the very least
jeen-yuhs should give some insight into how the
Donda rapper got to where he is today.
Bridgerton
Shondaland’s
regency era romance is set to return next year, and this clip
featuring an encounter between Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey)
and newcomer Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) is giving off major
Pride and Prejudice vibes. The independent minded Kate is
so unimpressed by Anthony’s opinions on what makes a
suitable wife. So, obviously they’re going to fall in love,
right?
Emily in Paris
Forget Paris — for now anyway. Emily (Lily
Collins) is summering in Saint-Tropez with besties Mindy
(Ashley Park) and Camille (Camille Razat) — but possibly not as
many members of the
Hollywood Foreign Press this time — in this first look at
Season 2 of
Emily in Paris. And gasp! she’s not posting
about it! It’s fine. By the time the new episodes drop on December
22, we’ll all be in need of some fun in the sun on the French
Riviera.
The Crown
We’ve already gotten our first looks at
Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, Dominic West as Prince
Charles and — swoon —
Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana. But now, we’re getting our
first official audience with the new queen. Staunton joined the
Tudum stream from her character’s desk on the set of The
Crown’s fifth season to announce that the series will return
in November 2022. What are we supposed to do in the year-plus
between now and then? I can think of a couple
things.
Colin In Black & White
Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick
co-created this upcoming limited series about the activist and
former NFL quarterback’s formative years. In this clip, the real
life Kaepernick narrates the moment that set him on the path from
high school baseball star to the NFL. The limited series drops
October 29.
Don’t Look Up
Director Adam McKay’s latest tour de force follows a pair of
astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio,
Jennifer Lawrence) as they try to warn the world about an
impending disaster, encountering bureaucratic obstacles along the
way. Ahead of the film’s December 10 theatrical release (before
making its way to Netflix on December 24), Lawrence and McKay
joined Tudum for a conversation about the movie. They also
brought along this firecracker of a clip in which Lawrence and
DiCaprio attempt to explain the dire situation to the president
(Meryl Streep) and her chief of staff (Jonah Hill).













