Hazbin Hotel, Found, Reacher, and more new TV this week
15.01.2024 - 21:17
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Often we come to you with these TV dispatches with a focus on the biggest premieres of the week — which we are now doing again. But this week also sees a whole host of finales, all of big shows that started in the tail end of 2023. While none of these three shows made our top 50 of the year, they’re all pretty big in their own way.
Noah Hawley’s Fargo is ending its fifth season this week, concluding yet another chapter of exploring American greed and the violence it spawns. There’s also Reacher, TV’s biggest guy, with what’s sure to be an action-packed finale for the second season (and hopefully teeing up the already greenlit season 3). And then there’s Found, the new splashy procedural following a woman who locates missing people (and with a few dark secrets of her own).
There’s more new and premiering TV to watch, of course — in addition to whatever ongoing shows you might be following, like True Detective: Night Country — but it’s a good reminder that there’s plenty of television worth catching up on, even without the urgency of the new episode.
Here’s the best of those new finales and premieres to watch on TV this week.
Genre: Finding romance reality show
Release date: Jan. 19
Relationship coach: Jodi Rodgers
Cast: A group of people on the spectrum looking for love
Netflix is back with another reality dating show, this time a second season of Love on the Spectrum, a show about exactly what it sounds like: people on the autism spectrum navigating the dating world. Season 2 of the show features some new cast members, alongside some folks from season 1.
Genre: Murder mystery
Release date: Jan. 16, with two episodes
Showrunner/creator: Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams
Cast: Mandy Patinkin, Violett Beane, and more
A locked-room murder mystery on a cruise ship, filled with plenty of staggeringly rich people who all have a motive. Also on board, conveniently: Rufus Cotesworth (Mandy Patinkin), a washed-up detective, who leaps into action — with the help of his also conveniently present former protege Imogene (Violett Beane). Very quickly, though, they learn there’s more to this murder — and its victim — than meets the eye.
Genre: Crime drama
Release date: Jan. 16
Showrunner/creator: Noah Hawley
Cast: Juno Temple, Jon Hamm, and more
It’s all coming to a close, as Dot (Juno Temple) hopes to reassert control over her life and rid herself of her megalomaniac ex-husband, Sheriff Roy Tillman (Jon Hamm). The body count has been rising, and the penultimate episode saw government forces gear up to raid Tillman Ranch, setting up what should be an action-packed, violent finale.
Genre: Animated goth theater kid musical
Release date: Jan. 19, with four episodes
Showrunner/creator: Vivienne Medrano
Cast: Stephanie Beatriz,