What to Watch in March: 30 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – February 25, 2022

March is overstuffed with new and returning shows—easily the biggest single-month haul since the start of the pandemic. Among other titles the month ahead will bring the long-awaited sci-fi series based on the Halo game franchise, the return of what might be TV's best comedy series (Atlanta), a new pirate comedy from the creator of What We Do in the Shadows, Adam McKay's dramatized look at the 1980s Lakers, a new Marvel series and Pixar film on Disney+, spinoffs from The Boys and Big Mouth, and new seasons of Bridgerton and Star Trek: Picard. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

Additional content by Keith Kimbell.

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68 Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty: Season 1

Drama series debuts March 6 on HBO

It's not Showtime; it's HBO. Adam McKay's 10-episode HBO (mini)series takes a fictional look at the glory days of the Los Angeles Lakers during the 1980s, a period that brought the high-scoring team five NBA championships. Adapted from Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime (a nickname for the '80s Lakers and what would have been the title of the TV series if HBO's rival cable network didn't already have that name), the series features a huge ensemble led by John C. Reilly as team owner Jerry Buss, Jason Clarke as GM Jerry West, Tracy Letts, Adrien Brody and Jason Segel as head coaches Jack McKinney, Pat Riley and Paul Westhead, respectively, Gaby Hoffman as arena manager Claire Rothman, and Julianne Nicholson as Cranny McKinney. And taking on the seemingly impossible roles of Lakers stars Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Cooper, and Norm Nixon are Quincy Isaiah, Solomon Hughes, Delante Desouza, and DeVaughn Nixon, though the latter has an advantage (he's Norm Nixon's real-life son).

Though Winning Time was conceived as a limited series, the network is already envisioning additional seasons that could eventually stretch into the Lakers' next dynasty in the early 2000s. Want even more Lakers content? An upcoming documentary miniseries (Apple's They Call Me Magic, which arrives in April) will also focus on Magic Johnson and the Showtime era.

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