10. Everything that
got delayed from 2020: Unfortunately
due to the Coronapocalypse, many things on my most anticipated list from last
year never actually happened. Hopefully
movies like Ghostbusters: Afterlife, West Side Story. Black Widow, as well as
the Olympics actually happens this year.
9. Mr. Mayor (January 7): National treasure Ted Danson is back on a NBC
sitcom about a year after the end of The Good Place from the team that brought
us 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Should be good.
8. 8. In the Heights (June 18): There are a lot of things this year that are
written in pencil, but Warner Bros. have already announced their entire slate
of movies will get a simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max release. So we should see some of these movies no matter
how long the vaccine rollout takes. Many
people know Lin-Manuel Miranda for Hamilton, but before the cultural
phenomenon, there was In the Height. And
unlike the Disney Ploose version of Hamilton which was just the stage play,
this is a full blown adaption.
7. The Book of Boba Fett (December): There was some confusion as if this would be
its own thing or if it would be the third season of The Mandalorian, but it
turns out to be a mini-series and the first of the many live action spin-off from
the first show. Boba was awesome in his
limited run and Ming-Na Wen is always a welcome addition to any cast. Plus this show will be run by famed director
Robert Rodriquez who directed the big Boba Fett return. Maybe we will finally learn how he got out of
the Sarlac Pit and what he has been up to since then and now. This is likely the only new Star Wars live action
show we get this year, but animated show The Bad Batch (a spin-off of the Clone
Wars which will also feature the voice of Wen) and anthology show Visions are also
supposed to air this year but no date for either.
6. Marvel Television on Disney Ploose: The MCU was a sprawling cinematic universe that
spanned ABC, Netflix, Hulu, and Freeform.
Granted none of the shows really had any influence on the movies and Marvel
TV studio was shut down, all the existing shows were canceled. All of this was to consolidate the televised
show onto Disney Ploose (sorry sister site Hulu who was planning a whole
Adventure into Fear series of shows when this decree when down). Now all these new shows for The Ploose
supposedly will be tied directly into the MCU and the first couple features characters from the movies. We have dates for WandaVision
(1/15) and Falcon and Winter Soldier (3/19) but just loose dates after that
including Loki (May). Later this year is
the show I am most excited for, Hawkeye which features the titular character
mentoring Hailee Steinfeld and Lucky the Pizza Dog. The other show that is supposed to happen
this year is the lone show based on a new character Ms. Marvel.
5. Nine Perfect Strangers (TBA): Big Little Lies was such a success for David
E. Kelly and Nicole Kidman; they made a second season and went on to do another
mini-series together, The Undoing. They are
teaming yet again for a Hulu show Nine Perfect Strangers which like Big Little
Lies is based on a book by Lynn Moriarty.
While not one of the titular characters, Kidman plays the director of
the resort than the nine strangers come to relax. But the list of actual strangers is pretty
impressive: Bobby Cannavale, Regina Hall, Michael Shannon, Grace Van Patten, Samara
Weaving, Luke Evans, and Melissa McCarthy (okay have not heard of the last two actors
of the nine). Manny Jacinto
(BORTLES!!!!!!!) and Tiffany Boone also work at the spa with Kidman. Pretty interesting cast.
4. The Suicide Squad
(August 6): A wise man once said, fool
me once, shame on you, fool me twice… won’t be fooled again. Yet I am cautiously optimistic about DC’s
second attempt at the franchise which is sort of a sequel and sort of not (added
only a “The” to the title only adds to the confusion). James Gunn was quickly picked up by DC after
being fired from Guardians of the Galaxy (but quietly rehired) giving him free
reign on a sequel even if it does not quite jive with the original. Back is the best part of the first film
Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Also
returning are Viola Davis (Amanda Walker), Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flag), and, um…
Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang). Idris
Elba was originally cast to replace Will Smith as Deadshot but ends up playing
the much lesser known Bloodsport. He is
not the only D-list villain in the movie, but unlike Elba, I would be fairly
surprised if Pete Davidson’s Blackguard, David Dastmalchian’s Polka Dot Man,
Michael Rooker’s Savant (Gunn has already killed him once), Nathan Fillion’s
T.D.K., Daniela Melchoir’s Ratcatcher 2,
or Fluta Borg’s Javelin make it to the end of the movie. I would have had John Cena’s Peacemaker on that
list, but he was already announced to be starring in a HBO Max spin-off
show. It is still unknown which of the
numerous villains is the main antagonist and which are in the titular group,
but Sylvester Stallone and Taika Waititi are both cast as yet to be announce characters. At the very least, this has to be better than
the first one. Right?
3. Last Night in Soho
(April 23?) – Edgar Wright is one of my favorite working directors so anything
he does goes to the top of my list. This
movie is being listed as a psychological thriller but seems to be much more
serious than his previous horror movies like Shaun of the Dead. The movie star Anya Taylor-Joy after her much
buzzed about show The Queen’s Gambit. No
trailer yet which makes me think this will not make its April date (is had already
been pushed back once) but hopefully it will get released by the end of the year.
2. Only Murders in the Building
(TBA): Steve Martin and Martin Short gave
us one of the funniest movies in the history of cinema in The Three Amigos and
who better to replace Chevy Chase in that threesome than Selena Gomez? The trio star as three strangers with a true
crime obsession who get wrapped up in one.
And of course, then hilarity ensues.
1. No More President Donald Trump (January
20): I cannot think of a more incompetent
person to lead our country through a pandemic and yet Donald Trump somehow
performed worse than I ever expected. Thankfully
there were over eighty million Americans who agreed with me and will be showing
him the door in a couple weeks.
Hopefully Joe Biden can do a better job at the vaccine roll out because
the rate it is happening under trump, it would take a full decade. And it is not only Trump who will be leaving;
also gone will be all his incompetent flunkies.
I look most forward to a new Postmaster General so I no longer will have
to wait weeks to receive a package that was sent through the USPS.
Here is also a list of everything I will be watching as I wait
to go back outside again once everyone gets vaccinated.
Mondays
8:00 - The Neighborhood (CBS, January 4)
9:00 – Snowpiercer (TNT, January 25)
Tuesdays
8:00 – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (NBC, January 5)
9:00 – Black’ish (ABC, January 26)
9:30 – Mix’ish (ABC, January 26)
10:00 – Nurses (NBC, January 5)
10:00 – Big Sky (ABC, January 26)
Wednesdays
8:00 - The Challenge: Double Agents (MTV, already started)
8:00 – The Goldbergs (ABC, January 13)
Thursdays
Search Party (HBO Max, January 14)
8:00 - Mr. Mayor (NBC, January 7)
8:00 – B Positive (CBS, January 7)
8:30 – Superstore (NBC, January 14)
Fridays
Wandavision (Disney Ploose, January 15)
The Falcon and Winter Soldier (Disney Ploose, March 19)
8:00 – The Blacklist (NBC, January 22)
Sundays
9:00 – Shameless (Showtime, January 10)
9:00 – The Waling Dead (AMC, February 28)
10:00 – Your Honor (Showtime, already started)
