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Ouch Magazine Best Tv Shows of 2022

Ouch Magazine Best Tv Shows of 2022

THE HANDMAID'S TALE 

Based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States. Gilead is ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property of the state, and is faced with environmental disasters and a plummeting birth rate. In a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude. One of these women, Offered, is determined to survive the terrifying world she lives in, and find the daughter that was taken from her. 

Creator: Bruce Miller
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Samira Wiley, Alexis Bledel

Wednesday

While attending Nevermore Academy, Wednesday Addams attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a killing spree and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago.

Creators: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Riki Lindhome,
 Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan

 

White Lotus

An all-star cast head to a resort and unleash their worst, most privileged impulses. The series is a sharp social satire following the exploits of various guests and employees of the fictional White Lotus resort chain, whose stay becomes affected by their various dysfunctions. A week in the life of vacationers is unravelled as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise. With each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel's cheerful employees, and the idyllic locale itself.
Creator: Mike White
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam DiMarco, 
Meghann Fahy, Beatrice Grannò

EMILY IN PARIS

Chicago marketing executive Emily Cooper is hired to provide an American perspective at a marketing firm in Paris.

Creator: Darren Star
Starring: Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold

THE PERIPHERAL

Set in the future when technology has subtly altered society, a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own.

Creator: Scott B. Smith
Starring: Chloë Grace Moretz, Gary Carr, Jack Reynor, Charlotte Riley, J.J. Field

KINDRED

A young Black woman and aspiring writer has uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles; before she can settle into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time.

Creator: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Starring: Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, David Alexander Kaplan

THE BEAR

A young chef from the fine dining world comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop after a heartbreaking death in his family. A world away from what he's used to, Carmy must balance the soul-crushing realities of small business ownership, his strong-willed and recalcitrant kitchen staff and his strained familial relationships, all while grappling with the impact of his brother's suicide. As Carmy fights to transform both the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges kitchen crew that ultimately reveals itself as his chosen family.

Creator: Christopher Storer
Starring: Jeremy Allen White, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce

ONE OF US IS LYING

"One of Us Is Lying" is based on Karen M. McManus' New York Times best-selling novel of the same name. Mystery surrounds Bayview High when five students walk into detention and only four walk out alive, leaving one dead just as he was about to reveal life-changing secrets about the others in a gossip app. Each of the students, Bronwyn, Addy, Nate and Cooper, had the opportunity and individual motives to murder their classmate, but all claim to be innocent as the case revolves around which one of them is lying.

Starring: Annalisa Cochrane, Chibuikem Uche, Marianly Tejada, Barrett Carnahan, Cooper van Grootel

 

THE RESORT

An anniversary trip puts a marriage to the test when a couple finds themselves embroiled in one of Yucatan's most bizarre unsolved mysteries from 15 years prior involving the disappearance of two young adults, a murder and a once in a century hurricane; with everything connected, solving the crime requires unraveling some of life's biggest questions.

 

Creator: Andy Siara
Starring: William Jackson Harper, Cristin Milioti, Nick Offerman, Skyler Gisondo, Luis Gerardo Méndez

THE OLD MAN 

Dan Chase absconded from the CIA and lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past. The FBI's Harold Harper is called on to hunt him down because of his complicated past with the rogue fugitive. When Chase proves to be more difficult to apprehend than the authorities expected, a highly trained special ops contractor is sent to pursue him as well. While on the run, Chase rents a room from Zoe McDonald, who draws on reserves she never knew she had to survive the day when she learns the truth about her new tenant.

Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, Amy Brenneman, Alia Shawkat, E.J. Bonilla

 

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY

A group of dedicated, passionate teachers -- and a slightly tone-deaf principal -- find themselves thrown together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do -- even if they don't love the school district's less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

Starring: Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Chris Perfetti, Lisa Ann Walter

 

ATLANTA

Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene to better their lives and the lives of their families. Earn Marks is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. Alfred Miles is a rapper who goes by the stage name "Paper Boi," a hot new artist trying to understand the line between real life and street life. Darius, Alfred's right-hand man and visionary, rounds out the entourage along with Van. Van is not only Earn's best friend but the mother of his daughter. Donald Glover and Brian Tyree Henry co-star as Earn and Alfred, respectively.

Creator: Donald Glover
Starring: Donald Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield, Zazie Beetz

ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING 

Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another. Soon, the endangered trio comes to realize a killer might be living among them as they race to decipher the mounting clues before it's too late.

 

Creators: Steve Martin, John Hoffman
Starring: Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez, Aaron Dominguez, Amy Ryan

THE SANDMAN

When the Sandman, aka Dream, the cosmic being who controls all dreams, is captured and held prisoner for more than a century, he must journey across different worlds and timelines to fix the chaos his absence has caused.

Starring: Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance

 

THE WATCHER 

A family moves into their dream home, only to be plagued by ominous letters, strange neighbors and sinister threats.

 

Creators: Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan
Starring: Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Coolidge, Mia Farrow, Terry Kinney