Spring TV Preview: 20 Notable New & Returning Shows

Debuts May 17 on Amazon. Before she created Killing Eve, Phoebe Waller-Bridge wowed critics with her 2016 series Fleabag, which adapted her own one-woman play (which she will perform in New York this month) into six sublime episodes of what ultimately was a deeply moving drama disguised in the form of a raunchy black comedy. That season told a complete story, and Waller-Bridge had no plans for a follow-up—until, suddenly, she did. Kristin Scott Thomas and Fiona Shaw guest in this second season (along with returning co-stars Olivia Colman, Sian Clifford, and Brett Gelman, among others), which finds Waller-Bridge's character changing her worldview after meeting a priest played by Andrew Scott. The first episode just debuted in the UK, where reviews were once again stellar, with The Guardian's Lucy Mangan calling it "immaculately scripted ... certainly up there with the best of the first series, and probably up with the best of TV comedy-drama entire."