DYING FOR SEX
FX/Hulu
Emmy winner and five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams comes back to the small screen in this provocative limited series based on a real-life story. She’s a married woman diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer who decides to upend her whole life before it actually comes to an end. She leaves her husband and sets out to find sexual satisfaction before it is too late; Jenny Slate and Jay Duplass co-star in this eye-opening story.
ETOILE
Prime Video
Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, creators of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and multiple Emmy Award winners, return to the small screen with this drama centered around two famed ballet companies and the people in both troupes. It’s a big change from Maisel, but actor (and two-time Emmy winner from that show) Luke Kirby again joins that creative duo in a very different kind of story that also stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didi Conn and Simon Callow.
YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS
Apple TV+
With one Emmy Award and seventeen other nominations, Jon Hamm has got what people like to see on the small screen. Now he’s back in another less-than-likable leading role in this new crime series, playing a desperate financier who turns to burglary to keep his pockets full of cash. Amanda Peet and Olivia Munn join in the neighborhood mayhem that Hamm relishes in creating here.
THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Hulu
After nearly ten years of making women everywhere fear for what can happen in a dystopian world, The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its sixth (and final) season, still with Emmy winning favorites Elisabeth Moss and Ann Dowd leading the female revolt in Gilead. Yvone Strahovski, Bradley Whitford, Samira Wiley and O.T. Fagbenle also come back for one more bone-chilling look at what can happen when fascists take over a country and force women into single-object roles.
THE LAST OF US
HBO
The 2023 first season of The Last of Us took home eight Emmy Awards and garnered millions of rabid fans. Season 2 begins this month, with Pedro Pascal, Bella Ramsey and Gabriel Luna all back to scare the hell out of us once again in this futuristic story of zombies, rebels and the frightening world they are facing. Five years have passed, so be ready for some big plot twists in this much-anticipated return that adds Kaitlyn Dever and Isabela Merced to the new season’s cast.