November’s most anticipated TV shows: The Crown, The Curse, Fargo, and more
Plus, Scott Pilgrim and Godzilla hit the small screen, Invincible finally returns, and Apple TV+ goes all Bridgerton on us
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Clockwise from top left: Juno Temple in Fargo season 5 (Michelle Faye/FX); Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder in The Curse (Beth Garrabrant/A24/Paramount+); A still from Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters (Apple TV+); A still from Invincible season 2 (Prime Video); Elizabeth Debicki in The Crown season 6 (Daniel Escale/Netflix) Graphic: Libby McGuire
November is a packed month for TV, at least in terms of quality. Several highly anticipated shows make grand returns, as we’re treated to new seasons of The Crown, Fargo, and Invincible. Meanwhile, big stars take to the small screen, too: Emma Stone tops Showtime’s wild The Curse, and Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie lead a World War II drama on Netflix. And there’s more cinematic goodness: Baz Luhrmann’s Australia gets a miniseries expansion, while Scott Pilgrim morphs into an anime (with the whole cast of the original movie returning). To navigate through all of it, here is The A.V. Club’s guide to the month’s viewing essentials.
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I am so happy to see Invincible finally come back. There were a few times I felt like maybe Amazon was quietly cancelling it. It interesting that they seem to have found a niche being the place for Dark superhero works.
Right, but where’s Omni-Man in the trailer, is he sitting out this season? He’s sort of the whole draw to the show, at least for me, so we better not get like a small cameo at the very end of Part 1 that shows what he’s been up to.
Lots of love being expressed for For All Mankind. I assume it’s goodwill left over from the show’s incredible first season and not the soapy garbage of seasons 2-3.
Yeah, I loved the first season but really didn’t care for what FAM had mutated into by the end of the third season.Characters making terrible choices that made no sense in the narrative, unless they became self-aware that they’re actually in a soap opera and have to weigh every decision by first asking what will create the most unnecessary drama.
Karen molesting the boy who she helped raise…
If the new season of Fargo really follows the tone of that teaser — insanely over-the-top accent from Juno Temple, cartoonish weaponry — then it could be the most jumping the sharky “prestige” show season in a good long while.
Season 4 had good ideas, but it was never as good as it was in Season 2. I’ll still watch because “Fargo+Jon Hamm” is a good enough draw, but I think the show is past its relevancy.
Every season has had at least one standout performance that makes it feel not like a waste of time. But I agree, the writing feels like it’s getting close to just going through the generic noir/crime story motions at this point.
It better be Jennifer Jason Leigh. Since Fargo is a Cohen brothers thing (was anyway), if they can recapture the magic, it will be her. She’s been due for something big and cool for a while. All i have seen her in lately is Anihilation, and I see she’s done other TV, but this is primed for her to chew up some scenery and get really weird or great.
Yeah, there’s something vaguely annoying, or at least eye-rolling, about the gun and the taser and the barbed-wire bat. I almost hope that little bit was made exclusively for a teaser or trailer and never actually appears in the show.That said, I’ll still watch it. Especially because the idea of Dave Foley in this is unexpected but intriguing.
Ill give Fargo one or maybe two episodes before I get disappointed.
My guess is Juno Temple’s character is affecting that accent just for that call.
Hope so!
I bet you motherfuckers aren’t going to cover any of these shows.
Just start a rumor that there’s a bonus scene featuring Taylor Swift if you can unscramble the code hidden in the credits of Fargo, and it’ll be wall to wall coverage.
Too busy covering geriatric bachelors.
you spend an awful lot of time hanging out in a place you clearly don’t like. Weird.
The only thing I hate more than current AV club is myself!
Show the the person ‘anticipating’ NCIS: Sydney.Go ahead; I’ll wait.
I didn’t see the movie, but I’m to understand Nicole Kidman’s character is an Englishwoman, that moved to Australia? Weird.
Damn, didn’t even know Planet Earth III was happening and now it’s my most anticipated show. And it only made the honorable mentions. LOL
Hey, hey, Dewey Crowe, look at you now!
Gotta love how Netflix was like, “Sweet, people loved our show about how modern capitalism is so nightmarish that people will play a horrific and terrifying game just to survive! Now…. let’s make them actually play the game!”.
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”
Marvel’s Echo was supposed to be Nov, 30, no? I guess The Artful Dodger is replacing that delay. Admittedly, it doesn’t look bad.
Was going to make a joke about how this Invincible fellow seems to be the only person acknowledging that COVID is NOT over (because he’s shown wearing a breather) but then I looked up Angstrom Levy. Bloody hell, who put Marvel’s Leader and the Shogun of Harlem, into a blender?
South Korea’s Squid Game
was a global phenomenon so, naturally, the decision was made to launch
a reality competition series inspired by the show’s crazy-difficult
(and fatal) challenges. (Sure, why the hell not?)“why the hell not?” wtf? did you see the show? that this thing exist and that somebody comments by saying “why the hell not” is way; way beyond parody. this shouldn’t need explaining if you’re not completely braindead.