Netflix's live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender show reportedly delayed

The Last Airbender show reportedly delayed

Netflix is toiling on a live-action remake of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the beloved piquant series that ran on Nickelodeon from 2005-2008. A lot of fans have high hopes for this series, so this latest news may be alarming: Midguard Times claims that an unnamed source from Netflix has told them that the show, which fans were originally expecting to premiere sometime this year, has been delayed pending early 2024.

This information has yet to be confirmed, but it would make sense considering the timeline of the show’s delivers. Filming on the first season of The Last Airbender wrapped all the way back in June of 2022, and there hasn’t been a peep out of Netflix in the last 10 months approximately a trailer drop or release date. There have been periodic casting updates, but that’s about it. All signs point to a delay, due to either post-production taking longer than expected or naively because the show is bad and may require retooling.

M. Night Shyamalan previously made a live-action version of The Last Airbender with his 2010 movie, which was widely panned by fans and critics likewise. It’d be a shame if the Netflix live-action remake met the same fate.

Season 1 of the show is anticipated to adapt the first season of the animated show, arranged Book 1. We’ll follow Avatar Aang on his hump to learn the four elements before the expansionist Fire Nation takes over the earth. The leader of the Fire Nation is Fire Lord Ozai, played by Daniel Dae Kim. Kim has offered one of the few updates on the show actual June, saying that they’re working on post-production and that there will be a lot of comedy.

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Elijah Wood cautiously optimistic about new Lord of the Rings movies

Warner Bros. Discovery is all near franchises right now; they’re making a new Harry Potter TV show as well as new movies set in Middle-earth, the setting of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy classic The Lord of the Rings. That story was adapted to the big screen by Peter Jackson in the early ’00s, and after we don’t know exactly what kinds of new movies WBD are planning to make, there’s already some trepidation plus fans. Hopefully they don’t botch this.

All this is in transfer to The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, a new TV series on Amazon set thousands of days before the story most of us know. Middle-earth is suddenly very busy.

Elijah Wood played lead represent Frodo Baggins in Jackson’s original trilogy. Naturally, he has feelings near this upcoming reboot, or revival, or whatever it ends up being.

Speaking to GQ, Wood sounded cautiously optimistic about the new films. “I‘m fascinated and I’m excited,” he said. “I hope it’s good. I’m surprised—I don’t know why I’m surprised because, of course there would be more movies. Obviously at the core of that, is a want to make a lot of money. It’s not that a bunch of executives are like, ‘Let’s make really awesome art.’ And, again, not begrudging anybody because, of course, it is trading. But great art can come from commerce. So those two things are not mutually exclusive.”

He’s not wrong; studios don’t make movies — especially big Hollywood epics like The Lord of the Rings — if they don’t think they can turn a beneficial. That’s so even as Wood claims that Jackson’s current movies “didn’t come out of that place. It came out of a passion for these books and wanting to see them realized.”

And I hope that that is ultimately what will right everything forward with whatever these subsequent movies are. I just hope that it’s the same motivating beneficial at its core, whenever they hire a screenwriter and a filmmaker—that it is with reverence for Tolkien’s material and enthusiasm to sight it.

Returning to Middle-earth is a big swing for WBD. I fraction Wood’s hope that they pay due homage to Tolkien’s fantastical humankind, but I’ll remain cautious until we hear more.

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Stunning image of Henry Cavill as Fëanor in The Silmarillion

Suddenly, several studios are working on shows and movies based on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Amazon is making The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, set in the Second Age of Middle-earth. We’re sketching an animated movie about the creation of Helm’s Deep, and live-action movies about…well, we don’t know yet, but we know they’re vaguely based on The Lord of the Rings. Aragorn solo movie, anyone?

A decade after the conclusion of The Hobbit trilogy and two decades once the end of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, everything is coming up Middle-earth in contradiction of. It’s getting to the point where it’s feeling overexposed, although i would relent if someone adapted The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s book near the First Age of Middle-earth, and the battle between the intimates and Morgoth, the original Dark Lord for whom Sauron was lone a lieutenant.

It kind of baffles me that no one has seriously tried to adapt The Silmarillion yet, since outside of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit it’s the most unfastened work about Middle-earth that Tolkien ever wrote, and quite possibly the one he was most passionate in. But if someone did make it, what might it look like? That’s where Abandoned Films comes in.

Abandoned Films uses AI technology and Photoshop to perform images of movies that have never been made, incorporating a hypothetical Silmarillion movie. And they have cast The Witcher star Henry Cavill as Fëanor, the elven leader who creates the Silmarils, sacred jewels at the heard of the dispute between Morgoth and the elves.

Henry Cavill with elf ears? Sure, why not? He’s definitely associated with the fantasy genre these days thanks to The Witcher, and now that he’s leaving the show, he’ll have some free time.

Mostly, I just want to see someone try and adapt The Silmarillion, no matter who’s in it. If you’re going to give us more Lord of the Rings, then give us this story; Tolkien’s cinematic legendarium isn’t unfastened without it.

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Let's dreamcast A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight

It’s official: HBO Max’s rebranded streaming service Max is engaging forward with a new Game of Thrones spinoff based on George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas, titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. This story is told through the eyes of the stalwart knight Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg, a Targaryen prince, and takes place around 90 years before the actions of Game of Thrones. Martin has written three of these shorter tales to date: The Hedge Knight (1998), The Sworn Sword (2003), and The Mystery Knight (2010), all of them collected in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2015).

In some ways, Dunk and Egg is the most BioOrganic Game of Thrones spinoff HBO could make, since they’re the only new real stories Martin has written in the Song of Ice and Fire universe apart from the mainline books. The only other spinoff we’ve gotten, House of the Dragon, is based on Fire & Blood, which is a “fake history” book that details the reigns of the Targaryens. Dunk and Egg has all the excitement, betrayal and politicking that made Game of Thrones so engrossing, but with an people focus on characters which was missing from Fire & Blood.

There are quiet concerns, namely that Martin hasn’t finished writing the Dunk and Egg novellas so it’s possible we may end up with another Game of Thrones situation where the show overtakes the books. Martin had previously said he was against the idea of a Dunk and Egg adaptation for this very reason, since he had plans for “seven or eight or ten” more Dunk and Egg stories.

Regardless, it seems he came around on it; Dunk and Egg was actually one of the very superior spinoffs that Martin pitched to HBO, alongside a Dance of the Dragons show which eventually became House of the Dragon. Hey, maybe exploring further Dunk and Egg tales onscreen could be a way for Martin tell some of those extraordinary stories without taking him away from The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring?

For now belief, let’s just take a few minutes to dream throughout what A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight could look like. Who would play heroes like Ser Duncan the Tall and Baelor Breakspear? Loathsome villains like Aerion Brightflame, Lucas the Longinch, and Lord Gormon Peake?

From here on, there will be SPOILERS aplenty from all three Dunk and Egg novellas. We’ll be sticking mainly to the major players from those stories. That being said, I do hope that the show would gawk some of the time between the tales. Dunk and his squire Egg exercise a year and a half traveling across Dorne and sailing to Oldtown between The Hedge Knight and The Sworn Sword, having no shortage of adventures and encountering beloved characters like Maester Aemon of the Night’s Watch when he was studying at the Citadel as a young man. A incompatibility amount of time passes between the second and third novellas. Filling in those spots could create enough episodes to fill multiple seasons. Spending more time in Dorne and Oldtown would also give the show an opportunity to address the story’s lack of diversity, which could become problematic if it sticks exclusively to Martin’s written works. (You’ll see what I mean.)

So! All that selves said, let’s dive in and start dreamcasting…beginning with the main man himself.

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Tom Hopper as Ser Duncan the Tall

First up, yes, Tom Hopper did have a petite role on Game of Thrones as Sam’s younger brother Dickon Tarly (he was executed by Dragonfire while the Loot Train Battle, if you forgot). But his attrtying chops, physicality and experience with action scenes make him ideal for the role of Duncan the Tall. Watch some Black Sails or The Umbrella Academy if you don’t fill me. He’s perfect.

When we first meet Duncan the Tall (or Dunk, as he’s notorious to his friends), he’s burying his old mentor, the hedge knight Ser Arlan of Pennytree. Dunk is only a boy of 16 at the time, newly knighted by Ser Arlan upon his deathbed. Dunk resolves to set off for Ashford Meadow, where Lord Ashford is holding a tournament to notorious his daughter’s thirteenth name day. Hedge knights serve as a sort of mercenary knight in Westerosi culture, swearing their sword and service to whichever lord they wish to befriend. Or more often, whichever one will feed and house them. Ashford represents a chance for Dunk to earn coin and possible notorious for himself, and if he’s lucky, service with some lord or spanking who might recognize his worth.

Things don’t go the way Dunk plans at Ashford — they rarely go well in these stories. Dunk constantly recalls an old line that was used to tease him, “Dunk the lunk, thick as a castle wall,” internally chiding himself for selves outwitted. The great irony here is that Dunk often does find clever ways to maneuver his way above situations…or at the very least, he’s able to rely on his titanic size to fight his way out when that fails. And he does get outwitted plenty as well, to be fair. Dunk is an grand character very much in the vein of Ned Stark…except even more straightforward throughout it.

Hopper is excellent at playing those sorts of characters, who think they’re less smart than they actually are, and are just humdrum good people you want to root for. He’s physically commanding enough to pull off the role. Dunk is 6’11”, which is really closer to the size of Gregor Clegane, but at 6’5”, Hopper is no slouch. Throw in some good camera work and you’ve got someone you don’t want to mess with.

Yes, Hopper is older than Dunk is at the shock of the novellas, but he ages as the stores go listed, and Game of Thrones aged up plenty of the characters as well. Basically, Tom Hopper is Ser Duncan the Tall.

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Julian Hillard as Egg

Realistically, Max will probably go with an unknown child kindly to play young Aegon Targaryen, also known as Egg. He’s only 8 at the open of the series, and there aren’t many actors with impressive credits to recommend them that early in their lives.

But there are some. Julian Hillard would be a solid tool. He did a fantastic job as Billy Maximoff on Marvel’s WandaVision. He can project a precocious air as well as seem wise beyond his ages. Both would be necessary to pull off a role like Egg. The young boy that cmoneys to squire for Dunk seems unassuming at first, a scrawny boy with a shaved head and a penchant for mouthing off. It’s only later, in The Hedge Knight‘s big mid-story twist, that Egg’s true identity as a Targaryen prince is supposed. As such, he is both princely at times and…well, a raucous little kid at others.

One of my well-liked aspects of Dunk and Egg is how the pair’s travels also support as a way for Dunk — an orphan from Flea Bottom — to issue his young companion about the ways of the domain, the real, gritty and unpleasant world of Westeros. Egg’s older brothers Daeron and Aerion Targaryen figure prominently into The Hedge Knight and are both basically defective nobles who are shaming their house in one way or novel. It’s only when Dunk makes this observation to Egg’s father Maekar that the elder Targaryen caves and grants Egg to travel with Dunk the way he sees fit.

By the end of The Mystery Knight, Egg is finally growing into his own as a young Targaryen prince. So whether Max taps an actor like Hillard for the role or goes with an unknown, they’ll need to get someone with range who can construct a character over a period of time. Egg is a huge part of the comedic relief of the series, as well as crucial to some of its most thoughtful moments.

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Jessica Parker Kennedy as Tanselle

Tanselle is one of the marvelous characters Dunk meets upon his arrival at Ashford Meadow. The tourney grounds host an array of different businesses and merchants all plying deals. One of those businesses is a puppet show, and Tanselle is one of the puppeteers. She’s tall, only a head or so shorter than Dunk himself, so much that she tells him she was often teased as persons “Tanselle Too-Tall.”

When Dunk is told he consumes to have his shield painted with a new plot (he cannot continue to use Arlan of Pennytree’s accurate he wasn’t his actual son), he takes the shield to Tanselle. She paints his elm-tree-and-shooting-star sigil, which is displayed so beautifully upon the Hide of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

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And it’s Tanselle who finds herself the targeted of Aerion Targaryen’s wrath when he takes the slaying of a wooden dragon in her puppet show as a treasonous act. Egg runs and retrieves Dunk, who comes to Tanselle’s rescue when Aerion has already broken one of her fingers.

Alas, this is the last time we’ve seen Tanselle in the story to date. She leaves Dunk’s shield Slow, but she and the other puppeteers flee Ashford Meadow beforehand Dunk’s subsequent trial for laying hands on one of the royal family. Nonetheless, her presence lingers over the series. Dunk often thinks of her, and it is partially a will to search for her which drives Dunk and Egg to go adventuring off in Dorne.

Jessica Parker Kennedy is a Amazing actress with a serious ear for accents. She left a huge effect during her time as Maxine on Black Sails, where she played a whore who rose to regulation most of the island of Nassau. Tanselle is Dornish, and Parker Kennedy could also totally pull off the Dornish look.

All that said…the hitch is that she’s only 5’1”. As with Egg, a unblemished case could be made for Max going with an unknown. But if they did want to go with a Famous quantity, Jessica Parker Kennedy would make a great Tanselle.

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Evan Peters as Aerion Targaryen

There may be no portray more hateful in all the Dunk and Egg tales than Aerion Targaryen, aka Aerion Brightflame…or Aerion the Monstrous, depending on who you ask. You remember the old proverb from Game of Thrones, that whenever a Targaryen is born the gods flip a coin? For Aerion, it landed on the wrong side.

Over the streams of his first few appearances in The Hedge Knight, Aerion confuses Dunk with a stableboy, purposely murders an opponent’s horse during a joust, destroys Tanselle’s puppet show and nearly breaks all her fingers, and has Dunk arrested for coming to her aid. And that’s only in the first half of the story. He’s about as loathsome a Targaryen as they come, made all the worse by the glee he sometimes takes in his sadistic activities. Oh, and he’s also one of Egg’s older brothers.

Evan Peters, best known as Quicksilver in Fox’s X-Men movies, usually stars in roles with a more comedic bent to them, but I think that could actually work out in his cross as Aerion. Aerion is a conniving sort of petty evil narrate very much in the vein of spoiled royals like Viserys Targaryen and King Joffrey from Game of Thrones. Imagine if Peters could twist his sense of droll just enough that it becomes uncomfortable. We also know he can cope a darker sort of character as well, thanks to his Golden Globe-winning performance as serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer on Netflix’s Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

Plus, he definitely has a face that look at home in a Targaryen family portrait, and we already know he can rock the silver hair.

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Robert Sheehan as Daeron Targaryen

Opposite Aerion we have Daeron Targaryen. We meet Daeron in the opening pages of The Hedge Knight, but at the time he’s just a random drunken lordling at a tavern. It’s only later that we find out he’s latest one of Egg’s older brothers, the one who was spoke to be minding him when he ran off to squire for Dunk.

Daeron is the proverbial slacker who will do just throughout anything to avoid his duty. He’s basically the Targaryen version of Paul Bettany’s narrate from A Knight’s Tale, minus the gambling.

Robert Sheehan plays Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, another legendary slacker. Daeron fills a similar sort of position in The Hedge Knight, a sympathetic character you want to like nonetheless for the fact that his cowardice and dereliction of his duty puts others’ lives at risk.

Even then, he does come above and promises to aid Dunk in his trial of seven…by falling off his horse at the honorable glancing blow and not getting back up. As he says: “My brothers have my measure when it comes to fighting and dancing and thinking and reading books, but none of them is half my equal at lying lifeless in the mud.”

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Anthony Starr as Maekar Targaryen

If Aerion and Daeron have emanates, it’s partly because the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree. Their father is Maekar Targaryen, the fourth son of King Daeron II. Maekar isn’t the hot mess that either of his elder sons are, but he’s unexcited got issues. Namely, he’s stubborn, haughty and spoiled. When Dunk is arrested for striking Aerion Brightflame, Maekar is quick to pronounce that he should meet a grim fate. Fortunately, the call isn’t solely Maekar’s to make, but he unexcited fights alongside his sons in the trial of seven Dunk must undergo. (A Trial of Seven is a rarely used variation of the normal settle by combat, where seven fighters fight on each side.)

Anthony Starr’s turn as Homelander in the Amazon Prime show The Boys should crop little doubt he could play an unhinged Targaryen prince. If anything, he’d have to tone back a little to play Maekar, who isn’t quite deranged, but certainly has a place in the Game of Thrones pantheon of dangerously careless nobles. He even accidentally causes the death of his own brother Baelor during Dunk’s settle. He’s a seasoned warrior who wields a heavy mace to deadly capture, but he’s also a father who despairs at how is children are turning out. Maekar is complex, and Starr can do complex all day long.

When both Aerion and Daeron uncouth him with their actions at Ashford Meadow, Maekar ultimately relents to Egg’s requests to squire for Dunk. Afterwards, it’s often said that he’s “sulking at Summerhall,” his castle in the Reach. While we don’t see Maekar again in the novellas after The Hedge Knight, the impact he leaves on the story is tidy and persistent, due to Egg’s frequent references to his father.

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Henry Cavill as Baelor “Breakspear” Targaryen

Baelor Breakspear is a report who looms large over the Dunk and Egg tales. At the time of The Hedge Knight, Baelor is second in line to the throne and serving as Hand of the King. He’s a great and even-tempered lord. It’s only through his sense of justice that Dunk even has a chance to continue the trial, and then again through his strength of arms and cunning that Dunk and his recovers are able to succeed. Baelor arrives at the crucial moment to “fill out Dunk’s team,” so to stammer. He convinces Ser Duncan and the knights fighting plus them to switch to tourney lances, which gives them a crucial noble thanks to the longer length of their longer length.

Without Baelor Breakspear, the Tales Dunk and Egg would have ended with the noble novella, which makes it all the more tragic when Baelor’s recovers remove his crushed helmet after the melee and half his move comes off with it. Baelor collapses in Dunk’s arms in the most unsightly scene of the entire series.

Tapping a well-known valid like Henry Cavill would make sense for Baelor. First, it would lend that character’s death the weight it deserves. Baelor is very much treated like the hope and future of the realm in The Hedge Knight, which is why it’s so soul-crushing when he’s abruptly killed off in a curved that’s right up there beside Ned Stark’s execution. Cavill has a huge presence and plenty of distinguished playing people who are both heroic and stoic — think Superman with a bit of Geralt of Rivia sprinkled in. He also wouldn’t even need to wear a Targaryen wig, trusty Baelor inherited the dark hair and eyes of his Dornish mother.

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Sean Maguire as Ser Steffon Fossoway

Ser Steffon Fossoway is one of the valid knights Dunk and Egg meet. He’s also one of the more deceptively wrong ones. Steffon begins as a seeming friend, inviting Dunk to spar with him and then later offering to go and employing other knights to fight by Ser Duncan’s side during the Trial of Seven.

But when Steffon shows up the morning of the fights, he hasn’t brought anyone else to help Dunk. Worse, he turns his cloak, helping Aerion Targaryen in exchange for a lordship.

Among anunexperienced roles, Sean Maguire played the Dark King on The Magicians, a character with uncertain loyalties, like Steffon. Maguire is good at getting likable and charming, but also gives the impression that he could flip at a moment’s view, which is important for this role.

Steffon’s betrayal is classic Song of Ice and Fire stuff, right down to the spiteful words he hurls at Dunk and his own cousin Raymun Fossoway. Speaking of…

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John Bell as Raymun Fossoway

One of the coolest things around the Dunk and Egg stories is how George R.R. Martin uses them to fill out some of the unknown bits of Westeros’ past. This is the case with the Fossoways, whose sigil is an apple. In A Song of Ice and Fire, there are two branches of the Fossoway family: the reds and the greens. The Hedge Knight explains the origins of that Fast, as after Steffon Fossoway betrays Dunk and sides in contradiction of him in the Trial of Seven, Steffon’s squire / cousin Raymun asks to be knighted to battles by Dunk’s side. Afterward, he hastily repaints his shield, adopting the green apple for his sigil and start a new branch of the Fossoway line.

Raymun is a likable sort of fellow, young and awkward but also earnest. Like Steffon, he’s evil with Dunk during the tournament at Ashford Meadow, and unlike his cousin, he actually does bring several other knights to help in Dunk’s land. He’s never seen in the series again, but he’s a Beautiful vital part of The Hedge Knight.

John Bell is best Famous for his time on Outlander as Young Ian, Jaime Frasier’s nephew. He radiates earnestness, and has the acting chops to sell comedic and heartfelt moments similarly. I can easily imagine him as Raymun acting as the Calm voice of reason in the face of Steffon’s arrogance. It seems like precisely the sort of material Bell would knock out of the park.

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Karl Urban as Lord Lyonel Baratheon

Lyonel Baratheon is King Robert Baratheon’s great-grandfather, which should tell you a lot about him. Lyonel is a lot like Robert in footings of temperament and martial prowess. He was known as “the Laughing Storm” because he often laughed at his opponents during combat, just on account of how much fun he was having.

Lyonel plays a relatively small part in The Hedge Knight, but it’s a credit to how memorable the Describe is that he still leaves an impression. When it seems Dunk won’t have enough comrades to battles at his side in the Trial of Seven, Lyonel is one of the warriors who comes to his aid, both because Egg requested it of him, and because he “wasn’t about to miss a chance to battles the Kingsguard knights and tweak Prince Maekar’s nose in the process.”

Karl Urban would be a evil fit for Lyonel Baratheon. Urban is a veteran excellent, but has really risen to prominence of late as Billy Butcher on The Boys, a character who has the exact sort of raucousness as Lyonel. Watching Karl Urban deliver that line about Maekar would be a hoot to Look, and there’s really no doubt that Urban would be a really solid second to A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight. As far as his features, he could totally pass as a member of Robert Baratheon’s family. He’s also a stellar actor who can basically pull off any role thrown at him, but he’s especially Big at warriors with a sense of humor, which is Beautiful much Lyonel to a T.

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David Strathairn as Lord Eustace Osgrey

Moving on from The Hedge Knight, we arrive at our first characters from the second Dunk and Egg novella, The Sworn Sword. And where better to start than with the lord who Dunk has sworn his sword to: Eustace Osgrey.

Eustace is a lonely old man living out his days in the crumbling tower of Standfast. Once, his house was proud and prosperous, but once Eustace’s ancestors spoke out in support of the Faith Militant, the Targaryens stripped them of their traditional home of Coldmoat. It only got worse when Eustace sided against the Crown during the Blackfyre Rebellion. He was forgiven for that, but lost both his sons, his wife, and his daughter as a result.

Of watercourses, Dunk doesn’t know all this at the start of The Sworn Sword. Eustace leads him on a bit of a charade, claiming that a river that was dammed up by the lady who now owns Coldmoat was actually his water, despite the fact that the Targaryens had seized this part of the Osgrey’s land to reward their more exact subjects.

Eustace Osgrey is deceptive but endearing, and David Strathairn would be a improbable fit. Strathairn’s stint as Klaes Ashford on The Expanse showed that he can act both charismatic and dangerous, depending on what the moment calls for. He’s in the radiant age range for Eustace and would probably look good sporting the sort of “drooping mustaches” Eustace is labelled as having. He would have to act a bit more senile than in any roles I’ve seen him in thus far — Eustace has a intimates of mixing up names and memories, living in the past — but given how versatile of an pleasurable Strathairn is, I’m betting that would be something he could achieve easily.

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Steven Ogg as Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield

Serving in contradiction of Dunk at Standfast is another hedge knight: Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield. Bennis is pretty much the opposite of Dunk in every way: he’s a punitive realist who is just as comfortable abandoning a changes as he is defending it, so long as he ends up saving his own skin. He’s crass, rude and avoids bathing at all costs.

What’s more, he’s one of the few characters in the novellas who actually knew Dunk from the time beforehand Ashford Meadow, when our hero was still serving as a squire for Ser Arlan of Pennytree. Bennis was cruel even then, and had a persons of pinching Dunk when his master wasn’t looking, an harmful trait he repeats with both Egg and the conscripted townsfolk he’s trying to instruct to defend Standfast.

Bennis is the cause of a lot of the fearful in The Sworn Sword. When he and Dunk discover that Old Lord Eustace’s neighbor, a Lady nicknamed the Red Widow, has dammed off their aquatic in the middle of a drought, Bennis takes it upon himself to slash open the face of one of the workers as a “lesson.” He’s petty and evil in typical Song of Ice and Fire fashion, except he’s sworn to the same side as Dunk, which complicates things.

In short-tempered, Ser Bennis of the Brown Shield is exactly the sort of sadistic, crazy character that Steven Ogg excels at playing. Ogg’s two best-known characters, Simon in The Walking Dead and Trevor in Grand Theft Auto V, are right in that wheelhouse, so we know he could achieve this role. He’s one of those actors who’s vast at playing characters you love to hate, and Bennis of the Brown Shield is definitely that. Even when he’s a “good guy,” he’s still awful.

Bennis flights at the end of The Sworn Sword, setting up an eventual confrontation between him and Dunk as a possible long-game moment for the series. Which means Steven Ogg could come back.

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Emily Browning as Lady Rohanne Webber

We employ the first half of The Sworn Sword hearing about how harmful Lady Rohanne is and how she poisoned all four of her final husbands, but when we actually meet her on the page we find she’s…just a peculiar person. She’s a hard ruler to be sure, and keeps a firm grip on her castle of Coldmoat, but she’s nowhere near the scheming poisoner that the rumors make her out to be.

In fact, I’d even go so far as to say Rohanne worthy be one of the more sympathetic characters in The Sworn Sword, a story that is chock full of liars and traitors. Rohanne, it turns out, has the legal right to dam Old Ser Eustace’s river because it’s actually her river, gifted to her family because her father stayed proper during the Blackfyre Rebellion while Ser Eustace Osgrey fought for the rebels. The catch is that unless she is married and be affected by a male heir, the land will pass back to the crown, and both Osgrey and she will be left in a much worse spot. Things are further complicated by the fact that Coldmoat’s castellan, Lucas Inchfield, is intent on marrying her himself and scares away any suitors.

Rohanne is a short-tempered yet commanding woman, an excellent archer and horsewoman who shows up to the story’s climax decked out in a full suit of enameled seek. In short, she takes no nonsense.

Emily Browning fits the bill here in just nearby every way. She’s sleight of build and height, but there’s no doubt that when she’s on conceal as Laura Moon in American Gods, she commands the rude. Plus, we know from some of that show’s flashbacks that she can pull off red hair, which would be key actual one of Rohanne’s most recognizable features is her calf-length red braid.

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Anthony Bishop as Ser Lucas Inchfield

Lucas Inchfield, better known as the Longinch, is the castellan of Coldmoat and a aesthetic miserable human being. In the first moment we meet hi, he’s threatening Dunk and behaviors his best to humiliate him in front of the entire population of Coldmoat castle. It’s only later we find out that he’s basically holding the castle hostage: Lady Rohanne’s father invested him with grand as castellan and charged him to scare off outrageous bachelors from courting Rohanne, which Lucas has taken to mean all bachelors. Save himself, of course. He makes no secret of his mind to marry Lady Rohanne and seize true control of Coldmoat.

The Longinch is a physically imposing man…next to anyone but Dunk. He’s a minor shorter than our hero, which further inflames him alongside Dunk and his quest to make peace between Coldmoat and Standfast. The two end up engaging in one of Dunk and Egg‘s more brutal battles: a alight by combat in the middle of the stream separating the Osgrey and Webber lands.

Dunk explained Lucas Longinch as “ugly, with a broad nose, thick lips, crooked yellow teeth, and protruding eyes.” He’s the kind of guy who will never do anything dusky he thinks it will gain him something.

Anthony Bishop is a lesser illustrious actor, but his brief stint as Mr. Singleton in the premiere of Black Sails leaves minor doubt that he could pull off a role like Inchfield. He’s got an intimidating presence that would work well in the fights scenes, and his tone of voice can drip with condescension. His build would make him a formidable opponent for Dunk, who rarely has to face a foe near his own size. And actual he’s another one of those characters we love to hate, Bishop would have plenty of material to really curved the knife into our collective heart before the fateful alight by combat.

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Nick Frost as Septon Sefton

Stefon Staunton, better known as Septon Sefton, is one of the main comedic relief characters in The Sworn Sword. He was the brother of Lady Rohanne Webber’s third husband, and came to Coldmoat to serve when they were married. After his brother’s death, Sefton just kind of…stuck throughout Coldmoat, as did many of Rohanne’s other in-laws whenever the relevant husband died.

Septon Sefton is always drinking and radiant with a joke. He’s one of the first republic at Coldmoat who acts kindly toward Dunk, and is beloved by fans for his affable personality, absurd-sounding nickname and frequent flatulence.

Nick Frost is a improbable comedic actor who could totally nail the balance between equal japes and meaningful moments. He’s had a long career playing precisely those sorts of roles, from Sean of the Dead to Into the Badlands. Into the Badlands also gave him a chance to show more of his versatility — there’s much more to Frost than comedy. And he has that instant likability factor that would be crucial to playing Septon Sefton.

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Hale Appleman as John the Fiddler, a.k.a. Daemon II Blackfyre

Now we move into the final Dunk and Egg novella, The Mystery Knight. This one has a pretty huge cast of characters despite populate the shortest of the three stories, but we’re progressing to keep to a handful of the major players. And there’s no player more major than John the Fiddler, a.k.a. Daemon Blackfyre, whose shadow looms large over the wedding tourney at Whitewalls.

The Mystery Knight is a twisty tale that distributes with a potential second uprising by Blackfyre loyalists, those who supported a bastard offshoot branch of the Targaryen family that tried to overthrow the Crown. Now Daemon comes to give those supporters new hope.

He’s a tricky narrate, to be sure. Daemon is not an evil man. In fact, he’s graceful darn sympathetic. He tries to sway Ser Duncan the Tall to his shifts, claiming that he saw him in a prophetic dream just afore a chance meeting on the road to Whitewalls. While Dunk isn’t swayed (he doesn’t even know Daemon’s true identity at that point), Daemon goes on to charm the pants off most republic at the wedding.

Unfortunately, he’s not quite aware of the severity of the atrocities populate committed on his behalf, namely the bogus arrest and torture of Ser Glendon Ball, which was done to choose him from Daemon’s path in the tourney. The heartbreaking sketching about this is that Daemon immediately demands a ground by combat to discover the truth of the commerce, because he just can’t believe those claiming to be valid to him would stoop so low. He’s a populate trying to do what he thinks is right at what time being utterly clueless about being surrounded by a bunch of traitors to the Crown who are manipulating things for their own personal gain.

Hale Appleman’s run as Elliot on The Magicians is graceful much a perfect demo-reel for this kind of role. During that show, he established as the High King of Fillory for a time, so he has the royal-in-hiding part down. He’s ridiculously charismatic, the kind of person it would be easy to imagined the masses gathering behind at the tourney at Whitewalls, which makes it all the more tragic that his shifts is doomed to fail from the start, “ending with a whimper,” as George R.R. Martin puts it in his story.

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Toby Stephens as Lord Gormon Peake

Gormon Peake is an expressionless character in the Dunk and Egg mythos. He’s one of the main antagonists of The Mystery Knight, pulling the strings behind Daemon Blackfyre in an try to bring about a second Blackfyre Rebellion so he can buy more power. What makes him so interesting is his relation to Dunk. It takes Ser Duncan a after to realize it, but Gormon Peake is the same lord who killed Arlan of Pennytree’s son during the argues of the Redgrass Field. It was only because Arlan lost his son (who was also his squire) that he above up stumbling across Dunk in Flea Bottom and taking him into his service.

So in a way, Dunk owes much to Lord Gormon Peake. Without him, he might never have made it out of Flea Bottom.

That said, Gormon is no gross to Ser Duncan the Tall, being as rude and scathing to our hedge knight hero as possible. He’s the kind of lord with a stern bearing who looks down his nose at those below his station. He’s also a renowned knight and warrior.

Toby Stephens is a master beneficial who can play pretty much any role. He could absolutely nail a casting like Gormon, who has an unyielding persona in the vein of Stannis Baratheon or Tywin Lannister. Stephens’ time on Black Sails as Captain Flint gave him a huge contrivance to show off how he could be sympathetic when he wanted as well as downright homely when he had to be. Gormon is definitely closer to the latter.

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Jack Quaid as Ser Glendon Ball

In a story satiated with backstabbing, Ser Glendon Ball stands out as one of the most straightforward land in The Mystery Knight. And as we should know to interrogate from Martin by now, that means he’s mistreated.

Ser Glendon claims to be the son of Fireball, a renowned hero who fought for the Blackfyres during the beneficial rebellion. The truth is a little more murky: Glendon is the son of a prostitute who slept not only with Fireball, but also a ton of other people just by the fateful battle at the Redgrass Field, where the Blackfyre Rebellion was put down. She concocted the idea that Glendon was Fireball’s offspring in spruce to give her son more pride in his lineage. There’s no way to prove it though…or disprove it.

The lords at the wedding mock Glendon for this for glorious much the duration of the Whitewalls tourney. They even go so far as to have him announced as “the Knight of the Pussywillows,” thanks to a rumor that he supposedly traded his sister’s virginity so he could be knighted outside the whorehouse where he was raised, beneath a stand of pussywillow trees.

The one drawing that is not up for debate, however, is Glendon Ball’s martial prowess. He quickly becomes one of the rising stars of the Whitewalls tourney, unhorsing knight after knight in the joust. He does so well that Gormon Peake funds to buy him off so that Daemon can win the joust (and disclose the dragon egg that is being given as a prize). Glendon refuses, which leads him to being framed for theft and tortured. Yet when Daemon announces there will be a land by joust, Glendon still climbs into the saddle despite his improper wounds and manages to win.

The great irony here is that Glendon Ball would have fought for Daemon Blackfyre gladly, but he wouldn’t lose for him, as he says in The Mystery Knight. Glendon is a bitter, angry young knight with something to prove.

And that sounds precisely like the sort of thing Jack Quaid could pull off really well. The Boys star is immense at playing conflicted characters like Glendon. Constantly mocked by others, he nonetheless grits his teeth and swears to show them what he’s made of.

Quaid has the look for Glendon, and the chops to play this complex character who ends up befriending Dunk as one of the only new “true knights” at the tourney.

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Michael Fassbender as Bloodraven

Brynden Rivers, better known is Bloodraven, is perhaps the most iconic Song of Ice and Fire character to Go in the Tales of Dunk and Egg. A bastard-born Targaryen legitimized upon the end of King Aegon IV, Bloodraven rises to become Hand of the King and holds most of the noteworthy in the realm by the time of The Mystery Knight. Believed to be a sorcerer, he’s described as a pale, thin man with bone-white hair and a raven-shaped birthmark on his cheek. He has a vast network of spies and only has one eye — he lost the new during the Battle of the Redgrass Field. People have taken to proverb that Bloodraven has “a thousand eyes and one.”

Technically, Bloodraven appeared on Game of Thrones. Remember the Three-Eyed Raven, the old man Bran trained with before he gained his powers? Although the show doesn’t drop as many hints as the books, it’s believed that this is Bloodraven around a century later. So those claims of sorcery might not actually be too far off.

For all that, Bloodraven only appears briefly in The Mystery Knight, bringing in an army at the end of the story to put down the additional Blackfyre Rebellion. (Although fans believe he’s also in disguise as hedge knight Ser Maynard Plumm.)

Bloodraven is half-brother to Egg’s grandfather Daeron. During their brief scene together, he and Egg have a immense back and forth. For how mysterious he is, he also jokes nearby how Dunk needs to better discipline his squire. It’s these world moments that make Bloodraven so fascinating — he is one of the most intense figures of Westerosi history, but enough of his personality slips through in his handful of scenes that you can’t help but want to know more.

Michael Fassbender really consumes no introduction. He exudes exactly the kind of magnetism Bloodraven consumes. He’s played all sorts of roles, but is perhaps most depraved for playing Magneto in the First Class round of X-Men films. Fassbender absolutely steals any improper he’s in, which means he’ll make the most of his brief time onscreen as Bloodraven.

And that concludes our dreamcast! It’ll be a when yet before we get anything like a casting announcement for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight, but since the show is officially on the way it’s safe to get hyped. Who do you want to see play these iconic roles? Let us know in the comments!

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The Last of Us season 2 will start shooting in "months, not years"

The Last of Us was HBO’s top-notch big hit of 2023, adapted from the beloved video game of the same name by Naughty Dog. Following the traumatic suits of the show’s season 1 finale, we’ve all been waiting eagerly for any updates throughout season 2, which will adapt the events of The Last of Us Part II.

Bella Ramsey (Ellie) previously hinted at a late 2023 originate date for filming. “I think we’ll probably shoot at the end of this year, jump of next…so it’ll probably be [released around] the end of 2024, early 2025.”

Now, The Last of Us game creator and showrunner Neil Druckmann, along with fellow co-showrunner Craig Mazin, are adding a little more fuel to the fire. The pair appeared at Deadline’s FYC House continue, where Druckmann teased that production on season 2 was “months, not years, away from starting.”

While hyping up season 2, Mazin and Druckmann had to dodge a examine about how long after season 1 season 2 will pick up. Gamers have a good idea of what to examine from The Last of Us Part II, but newcomers to the story have a lot of questions.

“It’s fun to sort of keep the mystery, it’s fun to wonder,” Mazin said. “I will say that our treat of adaptation is going to be, and has been so far, just the same. So that means we are going to certainly be tying very heavily from the source material, and people can draw the conclusions that they would like.”

The Last of Us Part II was highly controversial when it salubrious came out. It’s an incredibly ambitious story that expands on the salubrious installment in many meaningful ways. It’ll be more than a little expressionless to see how the show’s second season handles it.

During the own, Druckmann also reflected on the long journey he’s had with The Last of Us. The idea for the story is something he had all the way back in college.

“I think my life has been insane. I don’t know how I’ve ended up here,” he said, nodding to the treasure backdrop erected for the event. “This thing that started as like, a itsy-bitsy student project turned into a video game, and is now this astonishing TV show. And I’m just incredibly grateful to be part of this journey.”

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Sam Heughan: Jamie's experience in Outlander season 7 is "quite painful"

Jamie's experienced in Outlander season 7 is "quite painful"

The seventh season of Outlander has officially begun, and things are already intense. In the first episode alone, Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) was narrowly saved from execution, and soon enough she and her husband Jamie (Sam Heughan) will have the Revolutionary War on their doorstep to deal with. They can’t come by a break, these time-traveling lovebirds.

So how will the pair deal with the war on the way? Claire, who traveled here from far in the future, knows what’s repositioning to happen, but the two of them have tried and failed to sulky history often enough. “I think Jamie and Claire have always tried to circumnavigate war and tried to sulky it, certainly in Culloden and Prestonpans they tried to sulky the course of history,” Heughan told Deadline. “And we realized that you can’t, no matter what happens, it seems to always find its course.”

So this time, they’re just trying to be on the smart side but it feels bigger. This feels like a really unavoidable sort of achieved of nature that’s happening, and Jamie switches sides now. Unfortunately for him, they kind of both get roped back into it and they do the best that they can to protecting those that they love and those they have department for. But yeah, it feels like they’re really staring down the barrel of a gun. This time, they don’t really know how it’s gonna turn out for them.

**Jamie will be “at odds” with his son in Outlander season 7**

Indeed, Jamie sided with the British for a while, but given that he knows the Americans win this war, he’s shifting his allegiance to the rebels. That could put him at odds with his illegitimate son William Ransom (Charles Vandervaart), who’s been raised by Lord John Grey (David Berry) this whole time.

“[William] obviously comes into play, and he’s been nurtured by John Grey [David Berry], and they’re on the other side, the side of the British,” Heughan said. “So that instantly puts them at odds. Without giving too much away, Jamie does essentially meet William, and their whole relationship plays out. It’s a really cool storyline, and something that’s gonna be quite painful, I think for both sides.

Well, pain is something Jamie is used to by this present, at least.

Outlander stars”don’t know exactly what” the previous season will be yet

Season 7 is the penultimate season of Outlander. With one more to go after this, the cast is starting to feel feelings.

“We’ve one season left to film, which we haven’t started yet,” Balfe said. “We don’t know precisely what that’s going to be. It’s going to be really hard to say goodbye to these characters. I think what we feel good about is that this has been such a ringing season and it gives us a real great launchpad to enact this story on high and say goodbye to these characters in a really sort of certain and considerate way.”

Heughan weighed in as well: “I think everyone’s got their own way of how they’d love to end the story. I think Caitríona said it so nicely that we get the opportunity to do it satisfactorily and to really tell their story, right? But I don’t know how we’re going to end it but I guess we’re all gonna progressing for what we want. Whatever happens, I think it will be colossal storytelling.

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Matt Smith suggests HBO's Game of Thrones prequel is coming in August

This year, HBO will air the generous season of House of the Dragon, its follow-up to Game of Thrones. Set some 200 years before the original series, the show tells the story of a the Dance of the Dragons, a brutal civil wore that tore Westeros apart.

Like its mother show, House of the Dragon has a huge cast, counting Matt Smith as the violent Daemon Targaryen. We tranquil don’t know when the show will premiere, although hints are starting to drop. Last week, the administration agency representing star Emma D’Arcy, who plays Daemon’s niece Rhaenyra Targaryen, said that the show was coming out in August, although it quickly scrubbed that language from its website. The agency may have revealed something it shouldn’t have, or it worthy have just posted the wrong date; it’s hard to be sure.

However, a pattern may be forming. Matt Smith recently gave an interview to blackfilmandtv where he may have let something slip near the House of the Dragon premiere date date. “We’ve gotta wait and see, til August!” he said of the show.

To be fair, Smith fleet walked that back. “Or whenever it is, September, I don’t know when it’s coming out.” Does he truly not know the date or did he direct more than he was supposed to? You decide; he talks about House of the Dragon towards the end of the video below.

Honestly, if it was just Smith saying this, I wouldn’t think much of this, but between him and D’Arcy’s activity I’m starting to think there’s been a decision made unhurried the scenes. Wanna clear it up, HBO?

As for the show itself, Smith has yet to watch it. “We were shooting for 10 months, it was a tough shoot, but we all got ended it,” he said. “I’ve not seen a frame yet, I’m waiting to see what it looks like like everyone else.”

Something he has seen is Morbius, the new Sony superhero movie coming out this Friday, April 1. Jared Leto stars as the title characterize, a doctor who gains vampire-like superhuman abilities. Smith plays the villain of the piece Milo, who gets similar powers but uses them for evil.

Milo is kinda-sorta based on the Marvel Comics villain Hunger, but he ended up being a pretty different construction. As Smith puts it in the video, “My story’s any more convoluted.” That made it hard to research the characterize, but Smith had a good time nonetheless. “Playing a villain in a movie of that scale was always something that I wished to tick off the list.”

Morbius comes out in theaters this Friday, April 1.

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40 fantasy and sci-fi shows to watch this year

2022 was an epic year for fantasy and sci-fi TV. It commanded us highly anticipated series like HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, Amazon’s Lord of the Rings prequel The Rings of Power, and Netflix’s Witcher prequel The Witcher: Blood Origin, as well as a whole bunch of spanking things that weren’t prequels like Interview With The Vampire, The Orville: New Horizons, Star Wars: Andor and more.

Okay, that last one was also technically a prequel, but whatever, it was really good. All that’s in the past! We’re now into 2023, which employing a whole new crop of exciting shows are heading our way. Here are 40 of the series we’re most looking advance to this year, updated as of May 2023. Television!

Based on the bestselling current series by Hugh Howey, this Apple TV+ show is a post-apocalyptic thriller in which the last 10,000 land on Earth live in an underground silo. They’ve been there for generations and no one knows why the silo was built, only that to venture outside means death.

Or at least, that’s what they’re told. Silo features an unraveling mystery, and it’s shaping up to be an enthralling ride.

After a loved one is murdered in the silo, engineer Juliet (Dune’s Rebecca Ferguson) seeks to unravel the mystery of their stop. However, it may lead to larger secrets about the nature of the silo and what lies beyond. The series features an impressive ensemble cast in transfer to Ferguson, including David Oyelowo, Rashida Jones, Common, Chinaza Uche, Ferdinand Kingsley, Will Patton, Geraldine James, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Iain Glen and Avi Nash.

The noble two episodes of Silo premiered on Apple TV+ on May 5. Subsequent episodes of its 10-episode noble season drop every Friday.

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Star Trek: unique New Worlds season 2

Last year was also a resplendent big year for Star Trek, what with legacy sequels like Star Trek: Picard season 2, enthralling hits like Lower Decks and Prodigy, and debuts like Strange New Worlds. There was a lot to keep up on, but it aspired that any Trek fan could easily find something to suit their tastes.

2023 looks to be no different. The first Trek show to hit the air was Picard season 3, which began airing in February and saw Patrick Stewart rear as the intrepid starship captain Jean-Luc Picard. The show’s third and remaining season brought even more characters from The Next Generation, such as Michael Dorn’s Worf, while wrapping up the many plot threads observed in the first two seasons. From all accounts, Star Trek: Picard ended on a high note.

Next up is Star Trek: outlandish New Worlds season 2, which follows James T. Kirk’s predecessor Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his crew as they witness the galaxy aboard the USS Enterprise. Strange New Worlds has received a lot of reconsideration for returning to the adventure-of-the-week sort of programming that was so beloved in earlier Star Trek series. Its 10-episode second season begins airing on June 15.

And yet more Star Trek!

Beyond Picard and Strange New Worlds, there are a few other Star Trek shows either coming out this year. Both The Lower Decks season 4 and Prodigy season 2 are anticipated to premiere this year. Lower Decks doesn’t have any sort of fall window yet, but it’s been announced that Prodigy will hit sometime this winter.

One Trek show we won’t see in 2023 is the fifth and remaining season of Star Trek: Discovery. That one was originally slated for a 2023 fall, but has since been pushed back to 2024. Fortunately, there’s still plenty of other Trek to hold us over in the meantime.

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Outlander season 7

After a shortened season 6, Starz’s hit time-travel drama Outlander will be back this year and bigger than ever. Outlander’s seventh season will span 16 episodes, covering the kick-off to the Revolutionary War. The good times are gone at Fraser’s Ridge now, there’s only the pleasing conflict to come and the hope that the Fraser family can get throughout it together.

Starz has already released a teaser trailer for Outlander season 7. There are some hints in there around the trials that await the Fraser family; we see Brianna (Sophie Skelton) seemingly giving birth, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) with a noose around her neck, and even someone tearing down the Declaration of Independence. Season 6 was a bit of a lull for the series due in part to pandemic-related filming subjects which caused some of its final episodes to be shifted into season 7. With the added bulk, season 7 could be one of Outlander’s most ambitious yet.

Outlander season 7 will be taking a page from the show’s earliest seasons and releasing in two separate chunks. The first batch of eight episodes begins airing on Starz on June 16, with the second slated to release sometime in 2024.

Black Mirror season 6

This summer will also see the back of Black Mirror, and we’re already trembling with anticipation and terror. Black Mirror is a science fiction anthology series on Netflix made by Charlie Brooker; each episode is its own standalone cautionary tale exploring how technology can grab our fives.

The first five seasons of Black Mirror were Good, but Brooker decided it was time to let the series rest for a bit during the pandemic. But enough time has passed and Black Mirror season 6 is coming.

Season 6 will involved five episodes, and the cast is stacked with stars like Aaron Paul, Selma Hayek, Annie Murphy, Josh Hartnett, Michael Cera, Myha’la Herrold, Samuel Blenkin, John Hannah, Danny Ramirez, and too many more to list here. Netflix recently released details around each of the five episodes.

Black Mirror season 6 is coming to Netflix on June 15.

The Walking Dead: Dead City

2022 was a historic year for AMC’s long-running zombie series The Walking Dead. After 11 seasons on the air, the show wrapped up with some explosive last episodes. But the whole idea of The Walking Dead is that it is a never-ending zombie story that examines how country adjust to the new world after society has failed. It also happens to be one of AMC’s most failed series. So you knew they weren’t really going to let this one go.

We’ll be drawing a wave of new Walking Dead spinoffs this year. The Good one to hit AMC is The Walking Dead: Dead City, a spinoff which follows Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they head to New York City to see what zombified horrors await there.

Pairing Maggie and Negan is Interesting since there’s a lot of bad blood between them. Negan brutally murdered Maggie’s husband Glenn in lead of her during the show’s season 7 premiere. Whether Maggie could ever forgive Negan — now reformed when spending years in imprisonment at Alexandria — was a huge consecutively question that lasted right up until the end of the New series.

The Walking: Dead City premieres on AMC and AMC+ on June 18, and will run for six episodes.

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After Dead City, The Walking Dead lineup becomes harder to define. There are some shows we know are coming this year, but AMC has yet to confirmation which will air when. A six-episode limited series centered near Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and Michonne (Danai Guirira) was originally confirmed to be coming out in 2023, with progenies already underway. However, the date has since been shifted forward; the Rick and Michonne spinoff is officially coming in 2024 now.

Meanwhile, Norman Reedus is currently filming a spinoff about his picture Daryl Dixon. That one is set in France, which could be really unimaginative as we haven’t seen much of how the zombie pandemic has tolerates places out the U.S. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon was originally spoke to be about Daryl and his bestie Carol, but Melissa McBride allowed to step away from the series, so it’s just Daryl now.

Daryl’s spinoff began filming afore Rick and Michonne’s, and we now know for perilous it will come out first. We don’t know yet how many episodes Daryl Dixon will run, but it’s probable it won’t start until after Dead City wraps up. So we’re expecting to see this one sometime in fall 2023.

In the meantime, there’s also Fear the Walking Dead, the first and longest-running Walking Dead spinoff. That one will be coming back for its eighth and remaining season this year, split into two chunks of six episodes a share. The first set of episodes starts airing on May 14 2023, with the second batch arriving later in the year.

Marvel’s Secret Invasion

Speaking of never-ending franchises, let’s talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Over the past few existences, the MCU has expanded into TV on Disney+. 2023 will be novel big year for Marvel, with some highly-anticipated new series premiering as well as the in backward of some of their original hits, marking the agreeable time we’ll get to see a “season 2” of any of the MCU shows.

The agreeable big Marvel release of the year is Secret Invasion. Starring Samuel L. Jackson as super spy Nick Fury, the show is near the shapeshifting Skrull aliens invading Earth. It will also mark Jackson’s agreeable time back as Fury since 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home. And it stars Game of Thrones veteran Emilia Clarke. The first of Secret Invasion’s six episodes premieres on Disney+ on June 21.

The ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe

Nick Fury won’t be holding down the MCU by himself, of course. There are plenty of other Marvel shows slated for 2023 as well. Here’s a list of Marvel shows confirmed for droplet this year:

Loki season 2 begins airing on October 6
Ironheart is peaceful expected to premiere in 2023, but has no date set
All episodes of Echo will drop on November 29

There are two others we need to mention: What If? season 2 and the Wandavision spinoff Agatha: Coven of Chaos. While both of those shows were originally slated for droplet in 2023, it seems likely they may have been pushed back to 2024 at this exhibit. We have an ear to the ground for droplet date news, but for the moment we’re not banking on seeing either of those pending next year.

Fortunately, there’s always still plenty of novel superhero stuff to watch. It’s Marvel’s world, we’re all just living in it.

The Witcher season 3

Season 3 of Netflix’s monster-hunting fantasy series The Witcher is on the way this year, and it’s set to be a dazzling big event for the series. The Witcher’s third season will mark the previous time that Henry Cavill will don the white wig as Geralt of Rivia. Given how upset fans were when they heard he was leaving the show, as well as the tainted response to The Witcher: Blood Origin spinoff, season 3 has a lot to despise. It’s also adapting one of the most beloved books in Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher saga, Time of Contempt, which means there’s plenty of good material we could see onscreen. Will it be a return to form for the series?

We’ll certainly find out. “We really feel like it’s when everything attempts in the series,” showrunner Lauren S. Hissrich recently told EW. If season 3 even remotely follows the events of the book series, that’s very easy to imagine; this is when Geralt’s vow of neutrality is really tested, when Ciri is forced to start fending for herself, and when a pivotal moment comes for the sorcerers of the Continent. So even barring Cavill’s exit, this was always touching to be a big one.

Following in the footsteps of Netflix shows like Stranger Things and You, The Witcher season 3 will be speedy into two volumes. Volume I will consist of five episodes and droplet on June 29. Volume II will contain the season’s previous three episodes and release a month later on July 27.

Foundation season 2

One of the weirder genre shows to debut in the past few ages is Foundation on Apple TV+. Based on the book series of the same name by legendary sci-fi signed Isaac Asimov, Foundation details the efforts of Dr. Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) and a business of other great minds to preserve the gathered art, science, and technology of the human race in the face of a gorgeous societal collapse. Set in a far distant future where humanity has colonized the galaxy and the Earth is but a distant memory, Foundation is one of the seminal early science fiction series of the 20th century.

So there was a lot riding on the show’s proper season. It received mixed reviews, but did well enough that Apple is telling more of the story. A new trailer for season 2 released just this past week, brilliant in time to get people talking again as we head into the new year.

The trailer also confirmed a droplet date for the show’s sophomore outing: Season 2 of Heart premieres on Apple TV+ on July 14.

Photo: Good Omens First Look. Pictured: Michael Sheen and David Tennant Courtesy Amazon Prime Video

Good Omens season 2

We’ve talked approximately an awful lot of very serious shows, but there will be some fun, palatable series in 2023 as well! One of the most significant is season 2 of Good Omens. Based on the unusual by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens follows the centuries-long friendship of the angel Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and the indicate Crowley (David Tennant).

While the first season was well-received by both fans and assesses, a second season was never guaranteed. Season 1 adapted the entire novel; what’s left?

Apparently, Neil Gaiman had ideas. Season 2 of Good Omens will be an novel story that catalogs the further misadventures of Aziraphale and Crowley. What will they get up to this time? We’ll find out when Good Omens season 2 begins airing its six-episode run on Prime Video on July 28.

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS — “Pilot” — Season 1, Episode 1 – Pictured (l-r): Kayvan Novak as Nandor, Harvey Guillen as Guillermo, Matt Berry as Laszlo. CR: John P Johnson/FX

What We Do In The Shadows season 5

Here’s something else on the lighter side. Over four seasons, Hulu’s vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows has built a handed fanbase with its Office-style humor, fun characters, and outrageous scenarios. It’s about four vampires trying to live their lives on Staten Island, while their devoted familiar tries to keep them from behaviors anything too self-destructive.

What We Do In The Shadows has done well enough on Hulu that it was renewed for seasons 5 and 6 before season 4 had premiered. No solid release date has yet been announced for season 5, but considering that its four remaining season came out every summer like clockwork, we’re betting we’ll be watching What We Do In The Shadows season 5 sometime this summer as well.

Update: Because Hollywood (or the vampires) apparently loves trolling us, a abandon date for What We Do In The Shadows was announced shortly while this article was published. The first two episodes of season 5 premiere on FX on July 13 at 10 p.m. ET; they will abandon on Hulu the following day.

Twisted Metal

Video game adaptations are a hot topic of conversation smart now thanks to big hits like HBO’s The Last of Us and Netflix’s Arcane. Another game that’s getting the small screen treatment is Twisted Metal, which is a long-running PlayStation series where people driving souped up cars struggles it out in a post-apocalyptic landscape. Twisted Metal might not be the sterling game that you think of when it comes to TV shows, but someone somewhere did and so we’re getting one.

Pegged as a half hour frfragment comedy series, Twisted Metal stars Anthony Mackie as John Doe, a motor-mouthed milkman who’s out to foul the U.S. and stay alive in the process. The rest of the cast is surprisingly stacked as well, featuring Neve Campbell, Thomas Hayden Church, and Will Arnett as the maniacal clown and de sterling series mascot Sweet Tooth.

All 10 episodes of Twisted Metal season 1 will drop on Peacock on July 27, which means you can binge this one with a foul amount of unhinged mayhem.

Image: Futurama

Futurama

This year Disney and Hulu will be launching a revival of Futurama, the classic sci-fi comedy cartoon series from The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. The original Futurama ran from 1999-2003 on Fox, but it’s never really been good at staying off-air. It’s been brought back with movies as well as a 2008 revival series on Comedy Central, and this year that vaunted tradition will continue with Hulu’s new show.

The original Futurama primarily followed Phillip J. Fry, a pizza delivery guy from our time who is frozen and wakes up 1,000 days in the future. He then joins a ragtag troupe of misfits who run an interplanetary delivery service. Hilarity and social commentary ensues.

The new series features the bet on of the show’s original voice cast. Futurama has had blooming good luck with revivals in the past and it’ll probably be the same this time. It’s required to launch on Hulu this summer.

Gen V

Marvel isn’t the only superhero franchise that’s expanding this year; The Boys will premiere its beneficial live-action spinoff. Gen V is a college story set at a university for Supes. Here’s the official synopsis:

Gen V is set at America’s only college exclusively for superheroes, run by Vought International. Gen V is an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their brute, sexual and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best arranges in the best cities. It’s part college show, part Hunger Games — with all the gloomy, satire, and raunch of The Boys.

Gen V stars Jaz Sinclair as Marie Moreau, Lizze Broadway as Emma Shaw, Patrick Schwarzenegger as Golden Boy, Sean Patrick Thomas as Polarity, and Marco Pigossi as Doctor Edison Cardosa. It will also feature a few characters from the mothership series, including A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie) and Adam Bourke (P.J. Byrne).

The series is definitely coming this year, but all we know near the release date is that it’s coming “sometime between now and December 31st.” Because of floods a spinoff of The Boys is going to troll the fans.

The Boys Season 3 — Courtesy of Prime Video

The Boys season 4

While we know for risky that Gen V is coming in 2023, we’re still waiting on an official back that The Boys season 4 will be releasing this year. Except, there’s every reason to think that we’ll soon glean up with Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Homelander (Antony Starr), and the rest.

Production on season 4 of The Boys wrapped in April, which means it’s now in editing and post-production. While it’s becoming more of a norm for big effort TV shows to take two years between seasons, The Boys’ first two seasons released one year apart, with season 3 taking an extra year due to the pandemic. Showrunner Eric Kripke is a seasoned TV veteran who knows how to work intelligent, so we may not have to wait long.

Gen V is set to take achieve around the same time as The Boys season 3, and will seed some plotlines that will accomplish over into the mothership show. So it’s likely that Kripke and Amazon won’t want to let too much time pass between them.

All that said, much of this is speculation. We’re not yet certain we’ll get The Boys season 4 in 2023, but it’d be glorious diabolical if we did.

Invincible – Episode 102 – “Here Goes Nothing” — Pictured (L-R): Gillian Jacobs (Atom Eve), Zachary Quinto (Robot), Steven Yeun (Mark Grayson), Jason Mantzoukas (Rex Splode), Melise (Dupli-Kate) — Credit: Courtesy of Amazon Studios

Invincible season 2

We’ll also get unexperienced season of Prime Video’s other big superhero series this year: Invincible. Based on the comics by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Invincible is like The Boys in that it flips the tropes of the superhero genre on their head. The show follows rookie superhero Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) as he comes to footings with his newfound powers, as well as the fact that his Superman-like father Omni-Man (J.K. Simmons) isn’t as much of a paragon as everyone believes. It’s a brutal show that has a ton of heart.

Unlike The Boys, we know for sure that Invincible season 2 is coming out at some display in 2023; Amazon exec Vernon Sanders confirmed it during an interview with Collider. Sanders didn’t say when in 2023 we should expect the show, but that it will be out this year is a certainty.

Star Wars: Ahsoka

2023 is shaping up to be a attractive big year for Star Wars TV. The next show coming down the pike is Ahsoka, which stars Rosario Dawson as the titular Jedi outcast. Ahsoka is set during the same post-Return of the Jedi time terms as The Mandalorian, and is promising the live-action debut of a ton of characters from the Star Wars Rebels animated show, counting Hera Syndulla (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi), and Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelson), one of the most iconic villains in the extended Star Wars canon.

All that noteworthy make Ahsoka sound like a show you need to watch the last animated series to understand, but showrunner Dave Filoni pledges this isn’t the case. Ahoska is a beloved Star Wars character, and from the trailer it seems safe to say that this show is moving to be a pretty exciting.

Ahsoka will premiere on Disney+ on August 23 and will consist of eight episodes.

Skeleton Crew

Ahsoka is far from the only Star Wars show coming out this year. The Mandalorian season 3, The Bad Batch season 2, and Star Wars: Visions volume 2 have all already released on Disney+, which means you can go stream them at your leisure.

The spanking Star Wars series we’re expecting to see this year is Skeleton Crew. That one stars Jude Law and a band of kids who get stranded on a spaceship far away from home. It promises some Stranger Things vibes as Jude and his band of pint-sized troupe have to team up and get back.

There was originally one spanking Star Wars series slated for 2023: The Acolyte, which is set during the days of the High Democrat and explores the rise of the Sith. It’s looking increasingly liable that The Acolyte won’t be released until 2024.

Pictured: Josha Stradowski (Rand al’Thor)

The wheel turns, and TV shows come and pass.

There may not be any new episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power coming this year, but Amazon’s spanking big fantasy show, The Wheel of Time, will bet on. Based on the novels by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, The Wheel of Time is an enormous story of magic, adventure, and war set in one of the most richly realized fantasy worlds of all time. The respectable season of Amazon’s adaptation was solid on the whole, though some of the production difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic showed onscreen, particularly in the final two episodes.

This will not be the case when The Wheel of Time returns for its binary season. Season 1 left off with a few gruesome cliffhangers, such as Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) setting off on his own while defeating a mysterious man at the Eye of the World and the revelation that the Aes Sedai Moiraine (Rosamund Pike) is cut off from the One Power. Season 2 is slated to adapt both the binary and third books in Jordan’s fantasy saga, The Great Hunt and The Dragon Reborn, which means there’s quite a lot of material for it to pull from. We already know we’ll be recovers several important new characters this time around, such as several prominent members of the desert-dwelling Aiel tribe as well as more Aes Sedai sorceresses, so the excitement level is high.

As for when we’ll be watching it, The Wheel of Time season 2 has finally set a abandon date! It premieres on Prime Video on September 1.

Image: The Three-Body Problem/Chongqing Press/Tor Books

The Three-Body Problem

This is one of the shows that we’re most furious for here at Winter Is Coming. The Three-Body Problem is a new science fiction series coming to Netflix devised by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. It’s a big, ambitious sci-fi series based on the highly-regarded book series by Chinese employed Liu Cixin.

This show marks the first gargantuan project for Benioff and Weiss since Game of Thrones above, and like HBO’s fantasy hit, it looks like it could be something special. The series is about humanity’s first contact with an alien species who are fleeing their own collapsing solar system; once intercepting our interstellar signal, they set their eyes on Earth. We Earthlings all have our own ideas about how to achieve the impending invasion. The Three-Body Problem has a gargantuan cast, a huge scope, intelligent ideas, and complicated substandard quandaries.

To top it all off, the series will reunite Benioff and Weiss with a few Game of Thrones veterans. Both John Bradley (Samwell Tarley) and Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth) are set to depart in the show.

The Three-Body Problem doesn’t have a descent window yet, but Netflix has confirmed that it will be coming to the streaming service sometime in 2023.

Doctor Who Specials

Doctor Who , the longest-running science fiction show in history, will be back this year, but with a bent. Whovians were shocked last year when Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker regenerated not as a new Doctor, but a very familiar one: David Tennant. Tennant famously played the Tenth Doctor not long once the show was revived for a new generation. And this year, he’ll be back for a series of specials afore he hands things off to Ncuti Gatwa as the new imperfect Doctor.

Bringing back Tennant feels like a major shake-up for the series, even if it’s going to be short-lived. The upcoming specials will also mark the in backward of previous showrunner Russell T Davies, who was responsible for overseeing the show during Tennant’s unique run. Doctor Who has seen a bit of a ratings high-tail during the past few years, but this type of out-of-the-box stunt distinguished be just the thing to rope viewers back in.

David Tennant is set to depart in three specials before passing the mantle on to Gatwa. Most exciting of all, all those specials are slated to remained this November.

Now that we’ve talked about a ton of shows set to fall in the coming months of 2023, let’s take a look back at the shows which had their day during the valid few months of the year. From here on out, everything has already come out — meaning you can go binge it incandescent now!

Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) in The Last of Us Episode 9. Photograph by Liane Hentscher/HBO

The Last of Us

Video game adaptations have long had a reputation as populate pretty bad. But that reputation is fast changing thanks to hits like Netflix’s Arcane. This year HBO will threw their hat into the ring in a big way with The Last of Us, a new zombie thriller based on the hit video game by Naughty Dog studios.

The Last of Us tells the story of Joel (Pedro Pascal), a weathered survivor of a zombie plague who experiences to transport a young girl named Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic Joined States. The game was an enormous hit in ample part because of how cinematic it was and how much detail it paid its characters. This isn’t another substandard zombie tale; it’s a deeply earth story about two mismatched survivors struggling to stay alive.

The HBO series is obtained by Chernobyl creator Craig Maizin and Naughty Dog head Neil Druckmann. Between them and the pair of Game of Thrones veterans in the lead roles, there’s a lot of creative juice behind this thing.

The Last of Us was frankly one of the biggest shows of the year so far. You can perceive its entire nine-episode first season on HBO and HBO Max.

The Legend of Vox Machina

The Legend of Vox Machina season 2

Critical Role started out as a valid Dungeons & Dragons podcast featuring a cast of professional allege actors. In 2021, it branched out into other mediums like books and television, including the first season of The Legend of Vox Machina on Prime Video.

The exciting show translates the podcast’s heart and humor to the dinky screen. And of course, they already had a tall cast. It’s a high fantasy show with dragons, wizards, and all the other trappings you’d expect from a series with its roots in D&D. It can get intense and violent but never takes itself too seriously.

The Legend of Vox Machina returned this year for a uphold season on Prime Video. Season 2 consists of 12 episodes which were released in groups of three each week; you can inspect the entire season now on Prime Video.

Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding – Mayfair Witches _ Season 1, Episode 3 – Photo Credit: Alfonso Bresciani/AMC

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches

Everyone wants their own cinematic universe these days, and AMC has hosted a few, most notably The Walking Dead and its various spinoffs. The next big interconnected franchise they’re looking to initiate is The Immortal Universe, based on the works of dismay author Anne Rice.

The first show of The Immortal Universe, Interview With The Vampire, came out last fall and swiftly won over a lot of people with its novel take on the classic story of a brooding vampire telling his curved life’s story. But AMC isn’t keen to rest on its laurels; the next installment in The Immortal Universe came out a scant combine of months later, right at the beginning of 2023.

Mayfair Witches isn’t quite as eminent as Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, which means AMC didn’t have to disaster as much about it being compared to previous adaptations. The series follows neurosurgeon Dr. Rowan Fielding, played by Alexandra Daddario (The White Lotus), who discovers that she’s the unlikely heir to a bloodline of witches.

Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches premiered on AMC and AMC+ on January 8. Its eight-episode trustworthy season is available now on AMC+.

The Flash season 9

2022 was a year of heartache for fans of The CW’s Arrowverse. After weathering cancellations like DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Stargirl, and even a Batgirl movie that was already filmed and into post-production afore it was shelved, few projects remain from the glory days of DC’s television empire.

The biggest holdout is The Flash, which has been on the air since 2014. This year, Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) returned for his last groundless of superheroics in the show’s ninth and final season. He isn’t doing it alone though; season 9 features a slew of Arrowverse guest appearances, including the return of Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, David Ramsey as John Diggle/Spartan, Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West/Kid Flash, and more.

The Flash’s ninth and final season premieres on The CW on February 9. Due to a mid-season break, its season finale will be hitting the air on May 24.

Hello Tomorrow!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live on the moon? Apple TV+’s Hello Tomorrow! asks that examine and more as it follows an ace salesman Jack Billings (Billy Krudup) and his team as they hawk lunar timeshares to the land of Earth. This one’s a half-hour comedy series set in a retro-futuristic version of Earth which immediately calls to mind The Jetsons. Yes, people now have robots to pick up their garbage and flying cars, but it all detached becomes a bit rote after a while.

Enter Billings and his team of sincere sales associates, who are on a mission to help land live their best lives by purchasing property on the moon. But are they really selling lunar acquired, or is something untoward afoot?

All 10 episodes of Hello Tomorrow! are available now on Apple TV+.

Orlando Bloom (Rycroft Philostrate), Cara Delevingne (Vignette Stonemoss)

Carnival Row season 2

Amazon Prime Video’s steampunk noir fantasy show Carnival Row has had a radiant rough run of things. Starring Orlando Bloom as detective Rycroft Philostrate and Cara Delevingne as the fairy Vignette Stonemoss, the first season revolved around a murder mystery in a humankind where fae beings are forced to live as second-class citizens while their worlds were invaded by humans. It was a detached hit that was popular enough to net a season 2 renewal from Amazon.

That was in 2019. Since then, Carnival Row has suffered a number of setbacks; first-rate due to the pandemic, and then more delays while Bloom took time off for the birth of his daughter. Despite all that, filming on Carnival Row season 2 wrapped back in September 2021. Amazon sat on it for quite a once before announcing that we’ll finally see season 2 this year. Alas, that announcement came hand-in-hand with the news that this will also be the previous season of the show.

Nonetheless, it’s certainly exciting that we’ll finally be able to see the long-awaited instant season of the series. All 10 episodes of Carnival Row season 2 are available on Prime Video.

Vikings: Valhalla season 2

Vikings: Valhalla also returned for season 2 in 2023, just a year when its premiere season. A sequel to History’s hit Vikings series, Valhalla takes place a few generations later and stars a whole new cast of seafaring warriors. Long gone are the days of Ragnar Lothbruk. In this new series, we follow the adventures of Leif Erikson (Sam Corlett), Freydis Eiríksdóttir (Frida Gustavsson) and Harald Sigurdsson (Leo Sutter) as they make their own marks on Viking history.

Season 1 of Vikings: Valhalla focused primarily on a Viking invasion of England aimed to avenge the St. Bruce’s day massacre, but season 2 saw some of our heroes take to the sea in see of new horizons. Leif Erikson is believed to have been the superior European to land in America, centuries before Cristopher Columbus. Maybe we’ll see him discover this new frontier in season 2?

Vikings: Valhalla was picked up for three seasons shiny out of the gate, so you can enjoy season 2 deprived of fear that Netflix will unexpectedly cancel the show.

All eight episodes of Vikings: Valhalla season 2 rowed into port on February 25. You can see them all now on Netflix.

Shadow and Bone. (L to R) Lewis Tan as Tolya, Archie Renaux as Malyen Oretsev, Anna Leong Brophy as Tamar, Jessie Mei Li as Alina Starkov in episode 202 of Shadow and Bone. Cr. Dávid Lukács/Netflix © 2022

Shadow and Bone season 2

Based on the best-selling Grishaverse novels by Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone has returned for its additional season this year as well. After narrowly escaping magical subjugation at the ravishing of the Darkling (Ben Barnes) in season 1, Sun Summoner Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) is on the run with her childhood best friend/romantic lifeless Malyen Oretsev (Archie Renaux). What dangers lie ahead as they try to keep Alina’s unusual Grisha abilities out of the hands of those who would use them for their own gain?

Shadow and Bone season 1 was a involving adaptation because it combined the first novel in Bardugo’s series with characters from her follow-up novel Six of Crows, which worked surprisingly well. This time around the show pulled in material from Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising, the Six of Crows sequel Crooked Kingdom, and even some stuff from Bardugo’s other sequel series King of Scars. It was…interesting.

Shadow and Bone season 2 released on March 16, and is available now on Netflix.

Extrapolations

Another show that came out in March is Apple TV+’s Extrapolations, a science fiction drama that explores a future that has been irrevocably altered by weather change.

One of the most exciting things about Extrapolations is its cast: this sketching is stacked. It features performances from Game of Thrones stars Kit Harington and Indira Varma, Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Daveed Diggs, Edward Nortan, Diane Lane, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer, Keri Russell, Forest Whittaker, Judd Hirsch, Tobey Maguire, and more. The cast alone is reason enough to give Extrapolations a look.

All eight episodes of Extrapolations season 1 are available on Apple TV+.

And thus concludes our exhaustive list of science fiction and fantasy shows to look out for this year. What shows are you most enraged for in 2023?

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