2018 is dead, long live 2019. Finally.
If there is one thing to be said for 2018, it's that there was a lot of really good TV on to distract from literally everything else happening in the world; now that the year is over though, it's time to look to the future. What does 2019 hold for TV watchers in the new year?
Here are the most anticipated shows of 2019, both new and returning, in no particular order.
1. Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is one of the most watched TV shows of all time, and with its six-episode final season approaching it stands that they are highly, highly anticipated. Who knows what winter will bring for the Starks, Lannisters, and Targaryens, but whatever happens is sure to dominate everyone’s conversations come spring.
2. The Umbrella Academy
Emo kids and comic fans alike rejoiced when Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s two-volume comic The Umbrella Academy was going to become a Netflix original series. The story of six estranged siblings, all but one with superpowers, who come together after the death of their adopted father and discover a plot to destroy the world is sure to be an exciting and weird blend of family drama, black comedy, and throwback superhero realness.
3. Jane The Virgin
After last season’s shocking finale that brought back a character everyone thought was gone, it seems like Jane The Virgin has truly embraced its telenovela roots. The question of what’s going to happen and where the story will go from there has been on every JTV fan’s mind since those last moments of the finale, and in 2019 everyone’s questions will finally be answered.
4. Good Omens
Neil Gaiman is one of this generation’s greatest storytellers and adaptations of his work are scattered all around the TV and moviesphere — look at American Gods, Stardust, Coraline, and so on for proof of that. Now his fantasy classic Good Omens is coming to screens, and the odd-couple tale of a demon and an angel who are (kind of) friends and are trying to thwart the apocalypse looks to be one of the highlights of 2019’s new TV lineup.
5. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
When Fox canceled fan favorite Brooklyn Nine-Nine, it’s surprising there weren’t actual riots in the street. The beloved cop show, which ended its most recent season with an anticipated wedding episode, spent a few days in cancelation limbo before NBC scooped up the rights to produce future seasons. Brooklyn Nine-Nine will return in 2019 on NBC, much to the relief of everyone who was worried the story of the 99th precinct was over for good.
6. Watchmen
In 2009, the film adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen comic came out and was, generally speaking, a disappointment. The dark take on a post-superhero world makes for a difficult and complex story, and now Damon Lindelof of Lost and The Leftovers fame is taking it in a different direction for an HBO TV show. The show won’t follow the plot of the comic and will instead take place in the same universe, and Moore fans are waiting with bated breath to see if this might be the story they’ve been waiting for.
7. Stranger Things 3
After a year without any updates on our beloved children from Hawkins, Stranger Things 3 is primed to premiere in 2019. The last we saw of the world’s sweetest, bravest little babies they were dancing the night away at the Snow Ball while the Mind Flayer kept a close watch on them from his extra-dimensional plane, but surely the kids can handle whatever the weirdness that their hometown and its incessant wormholes to horrifying alternate dimensions can throw at them. Right?
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