Spring 2023 tv preview: 14 must-watch shows

Spring 2023 tv preview: 14 must-watch shows


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Spring is not just about warm breezes and fresh blossoms — it’s also about great new TV shows arriving on the networks and on streaming giants like Netflix, HBO Max and Apple TV+. Whether


it’s the series finale of _Succession_ or a juicy new _Bridgerton_ prequel, we’re talking must-watch TV. Don’t miss a thing with our preview. _YELLOWJACKETS,_ SEASON 2 (SHOWTIME, MARCH 24)


In the hotly awaited return of the dazzling show about teen survivors of a 1996 plane crash and their traumatized life today, Melanie Lynskey’s Shauna regrets killing the nice boyfriend she


mistook for a blackmailer, and Lauren Ambrose joins the cast as her old teammate Van, a character who sounds a bit like Ambrose’s_ Six Feet Under_ heroine. Co-showrunner Jonathan Lisco told 


_Entertainment Weekly _that Van is “both a serious-minded person and extremely glib, sarcastic, funny, and lovable all at the same time.” [embedded content] _SUCCESSION, _SEASON 4 (HBO/HBO


MAX, MARCH 26) In the final-season premiere of TV’s most cynically realistic hit, thundering potty-mouthed patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) celebrates his birthday without the children he


recently betrayed before they could betray him. But who will take over their megacorporation? And who gets shivved by Shiv (Sarah Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin), Kendall (Jeremy Strong)


and/or dad? [embedded content] _GREAT EXPECTATIONS_ (FX/HULU, MARCH 26) Not since_ The Favourite_ has Olivia Colman had a role as terrifying and promising as this: the rotting, jilted bride


Miss Havisham, bitterly scheming to destroy the happiness of young Pip and his beloved (Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin) in this six-part miniseries adaptation of Dickens’ ripping


yarn. [embedded content] _THE POWER_ (PRIME VIDEO, MARCH 31) Toni Collette plays the mayor of Seattle in a world where teen girls discover they can electrocute people with their fingertips,


and show older women how, so women aren’t scared of men anymore. Alas, not a documentary. [embedded content] _GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES_ (PARAMOUNT+, APRIL 6) Why see a _Grease_ 


prequel set in 1954? Because nobody’s told a story about the Pink Ladies, the real teen girl gang that helped inspire the 1978 hit film, and because the funniest of grumps, Jackie Hoffman,


62 (_Only Murders in the Building_, _Glass Onion), _plays their assistant principal. [embedded content] _TRANSATLANTIC_ (NETFLIX, APRIL 7) This blockbuster miniseries is a fiction based on


the true story of American journalist Varian Fry (Cory Michael Smith), who led a team in 1940s Marseilles that smuggled thousands of Jewish refugees out from Nazi clutches, including painter


Max Ernst (Alexander Fehling). [embedded content] _THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME_ (APPLE TV+, APRIL 14) In this thriller miniseries, Jennifer Garner’s Hannah has to befriend her teen


stepdaughter to find out why her husband (_Game of Thrones_’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) vanished into thin air.