Top 10 New Shows and Season Premieres of 2021

New Shows:

1. Them

2. The Problem with Jon Stewart

3. Made for Love

4. The Underground Railroad

5. Reservation Dogs

6. Squid Game

7. Kevin Can F**k Himself

8. CSI: Vegas

9. Hawkeye

10. Yellowjackets

Honorable Mentions:

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

Maid

The White Lotus

Schmigadoon!

Loki

The Shrink Next Door

Chucky

Rutherford Falls

WandaVision

Resident Alien

Brand New Cherry Flavor

American Horror Stories

Maya and the Three

Only Murders in the Building

Star Wars: Visions

Just Beyond

Scenes from a Marriage 2021

Superman & Lois

The Story of Late Night

Star Wars: The Bad Batch

Arcane

What If…?

MacGruber

Marvel Studios: Assembled

Invincible

The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek

Y: The Last Man

Foundation

Young Rock

Ghosts 2021

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Physical

Saturday Morning All Star Hits!

Masters of the Universe: Revelation

The Watch

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Monsters at Work

Midnight Mass

Ordinary Joe

Hit-Monkey

The Serpent

History of Swear Words

iCarly 2021

The Ghost and Molly McGee

Kenan

Nine Perfect Strangers

Season Premieres:

1. Rick and Morty fifth season premiere-Mort Dinner Rick Andre

2. Creepshow second season premiere-Model Kid/Public Television Of The Dead

3. Infinity Train Book Four: Duet premiere-The Twin Tapes

4. Doctor Who series 13 premiere-Flux: The Halloween Apocalypse

5. Fear the Walking Dead seventh season premiere-The Beacon

6. Manifest third season premiere-Tailfin

7. Impeachment: American Crime Story premiere-Exiles

8. 9-1-1 fifth season premiere-Panic

9. What We Do in the Shadows third season premiere-The Prisoner

10. American Masters 35th season premiere-How It Feels To Be Free

Honorable Mentions:

Two Sentence Horror Stories second season premiere-Bag Man

Stargirl second season premiere-Summer School: Chapter One

The Walking Dead eleventh season premiere-Acheron: Part I

The Rookie fourth season premiere-Life and Death

Miracle Workers: Oregon Trail premiere-Hittin' The Trail

Legends of Tomorrow seventh season premiere-The Bullet Blondes

Disenchantment second season premiere-Subterranean Homesick Blues

The Flash 2014 eighth season premiere-Armageddon, Part 1

The Rookie third season premiere-Consequences

Brooklyn Nine-Nine eighth season premiere-The Good Ones

Supergirl sixth season premiere-Rebirth

Are You Afraid of the Dark? 2019: Curse of the Shadows premiere-The Tale of the Haunted Woods

Batwoman second season premiere-Whatever Happened to Kate Kane

Locke & Key second season premiere-The Premiere

NCIS 19th season premiere-Blood in the Water

The Great second season premiere-Head It's Me

Lucifer sixth season premiere-Nothing Ever Changes Around Here

The Last O.G. fourth season premiere-Staying Alive

The Sinner fourth season premiere-Part I

Power Rangers Dino Fury premiere-Destination Dinohenge

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist second season premiere-Zoey's Extraordinary Return

American Horror Story: Double Feature premiere-Cape Fear

Black Lightning fourth season premiere-The Book of Reconstruction: Chapter One: Collateral Damage

Solar Opposites second season premiere-The Sacred Non-repeating Number

Castlevania fourth season premiere-Murder Wakes It Up

Carmen Sandiego fourth season premiere-The Beijing Bullion Caper

Grace and Frankie seventh season premiere-The Roomies

Snowpiercer second season premiere-The Time of Two Engines

Eli Roth's History of Horror third season premiere-Sequels That Don't Suck

On My Block fourth season premiere-Chapter Twenty-Nine

Final Space third season premiere-...And Into The Fire

Nancy Drew third season premiere-The Warning of the Frozen Heart

Selena: The Series second season premiere-Como la Flor

Nancy Drew second season premiere-The Search for the Midnight Wraith

Tiger King: Tiger King 2 premiere-Beg Your Pardon

Ted Lasso second season premiere-Goodbye Earl

Kenan second season premiere-Christmas Show

Robot Chicken eleventh season premiere-May Cause a Whole Lotta Scabs

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series second season premiere-New Year's Eve

Big Mouth fifth season premiere-No Nut November

Crossing Swords second season premiere-Shamrock Shakedown

The Good Doctor fifth season premiere-New Beginnings

The Moodys second season premiere-Episode 201

Lightyear

Pixar's first theatrical release since Onward in early 2020, Lightyear is the movie that inspired the Buzz Lightyear toys in the Toy Story films and from which Andy was highly inspired by to get his own Buzz action figure. Chris Evans takes over from Tim Allen as this Buzz scouts the area of a new planet that his Star Command exploration vessel has landed in. When he and other officers, including his best friend Alisha, are attacked, their attempt to escape causes the vessel to crash and trap the rest of its inhabitants to make a new home in this planet until they figure out a way off. Feeling guilty over these events, Buzz volunteers as a pilot to test out experimental fuel that each time causes him to travel forwards two years in the future. Due to still feeling guilty and obsessed with his mission of finding a way home, Buzz keeps experimenting with the fuel to the point that he witnesses Alisha aging the more he flies out until she dies during one of his flights. With the help of a robotic cat assigned to help him, named Sox, Buzz figures out the right way to use the fuel and despite this last test flight being a better success than before, it caused him to return over twenty years later. When he lands back however, Buzz finds the colony under attack from a robot army led by the mysterious Zurg. With the help of Alisha's granddaughter Izzy and other recruits, they must figure out how to save the colony and defeat Zurg's robots. The story itself may not be entirely new, but being a movie that is apparently from the 90s a lot of that familiarity makes sense. Angus MacLane and Jason Headley's writing has subtle touches that call back to certain story tropes from other films of that era. I do feel that much of it does feel slow at times and some jokes don't land as much, but one thing it does right is the characters and how well written they are. Another strong aspect is the twist over Zurg's identity and how that fits into Buzz's character arc throughout the film. Alongside Evans, you also get strong and fun vocal performances from Keke Palmer, Taika Waititi, James Brolin, and Uzo Aduba. While Pixar's work is always great, this has definitely been some of their strongest work that they've ever done. So much of the background feels so real and the characters are all highly detailed, while the lighting is exquisite. Unlike the Toy Story films, this has Michael Giacchino composing instead of Randy Newman, and his work definitely has a lot of inspiration from other big sci-fi franchises like Star Wars but still being its own. Lightyear is a fun adventure that while not having the most original story ever, doesn't mean it doesn't tell it in its own unique way. Over all: 100%

2022 top list so far:

1. Top Gun: Maverick

2. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent

3. The Northman

4. The Batman

5. Lightyear

6. Dog

7. Everything Everywhere All at Once

8. X 2022

9. Scream 2022

10. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

11. Jurassic World: Dominion

12. Sonic the Hedgehog 2

13. Uncharted