2018 TV Preview: 25 Shows to Watch This Winter
If you opt to heat up your winter months with television's warm, glowing, warming glow, you certainly won't run out of options. January and February will see the arrival of new shows from Steven Soderbergh, Alan Ball, Ryan Murphy, Ronald D. Moore, Cary Fukunaga, Alex Gibney, and more. Expect a pair of promising sci-fi shows, a new (but different) DC Comics series, the return of favorites like The X-Files, and even a cartoon look at the Trump presidency. Preview each of the season's most promising new and returning shows in the gallery above.
Debuts February 11 on HBO. Alan Ball already has a pair of long-running HBO series under his belt in Six Feet Under and True Blood. His latest is a darkly comedic look at contemporary society—and, in particular, two households in Portland, Oregon. One is an idealistic, "progressive multi-ethnic family" led by a philosophy professor (Tim Robbins) and his attorney wife (Holly Hunter), who have adopted children from around the world, and the other is a Muslim family headed by a psychiatrist. There's a major (and possibly supernatural) twist as well, though HBO is being cagey about what it may be.