Everything we’re excited about for Fall 2022

Fall 2022 is going to be weird (literally—Weird: The Al Yankovic Story debuts on November 4). But, even setting aside Yankovic’s delightfully bizarre-looking biopic, film studios, TV networks, record labels, and game developers are taking some big swings this season. And it’s genuinely exciting to see the diversity of what’s on offer: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is already blowing us away with a masterful trailer, Bros is giving us the first queer rom-com from a major film studio, and Taylor Swift is, well, seemingly just living her best life, and it’s hard not to root for that.

The season is also going to be a good one for sequels; Los Espookys, Abbott Elementary, Good Omens, and The White Lotus are all coming back, and the God Of War franchise returns with its latest offering, Ragnarök. Here’s everything we’re excited about in fall 2022, arranged in no particular order, because, honestly, it’s impossible to pick favorites from a deck this stacked.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Release date: in theaters November 11Forget and —obviously the year’s most anticipated sequel is our return to Wakanda. The final installment of the MCU’s Phase Four would be notable enough even without the untimely passing of the beloved T’Challa, Chadwick Boseman, throwing the story into uncertainty. Audiences will be mourning his loss even as they look forward to reuniting with writer-director Ryan Coogler and stars Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, and Angela Bassett, all again kicking ass with cutting-edge technology amid gorgeous African vistas. Sidenote: can we award an early Oscar to whoever so brilliantly blended Tems’ “No Woman, No Cry” cover with Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” in the above teaser trailer? [Jack Smart]