Another year has flown by and–I can barely believe this–2023 is almost upon us. I’m super pumped for this coming year–my husband is going to retire and I can’t wait. But that’s not the only thing I’m looking forward to.
Here, in no particular order, are 2023 events I’m excited for:
The final season of Endeavour. I’ve written about my TV crush on Shaun Evans here at AAR and the final season of Endeavour is must see TV for me. I know there won’t be a happy ending–and I haven’t watched Inspector Morse so don’t spoil me, please. Whatever is in Morse’s future, I’m sure I’ll enjoy the finale.
I discovered Leigh Bardugo this year and have read everything she’s written. I adore Ninth House—my review is here–and can’t wait to see what Alex Stern will do next. If you’ve not read Ninth House and love brilliant world-building, snarky women, and a hellaciously smart plot, you’re missing out. When last we saw Alex and the swoon-worthy Darlington, Darlington had literally gone to hell. How Alex will get him out is anyone’s guess but whatever her solution is, I am so down for Hell Bent, the second book in Bardugo’s trilogy, which comes out on January 10th.
I’ve raved here again and again about Holly Black’s The Folk of the Air. That trilogy slays and obviously Black thinks that too because she’s written a new book in Elfhame featuring Jude’s–the heroine of the first trilogy–younger brother Oak. The Stolen Heir comes out on January 3rd so expect nothing from me until the 5th!
I loved Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women so I’m curious to see her feminist take on Barbie. The cast–Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, and America Ferrera–looks fab. Barbie has never been my thing but somehow this movie looks like it will work.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story also looks interesting. I wasn’t wild about Season Two of Bridgerton but I could watch Golda Rosheuvel all day long. Rhimes and Quinn clearly love the alternate Regency world they’ve built and it will be cool to see what they can do when they aren’t limited by the stories the original show is based on.
These are just a few of what’s coming in 2023 that I hope will float my boat! How about you? What about you?
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Thought of another TV show I’m very eager to see: the third season of HAPPY VALLEY. I’m also a bit on edge. Tommy Lee Royce, as portrayed by James Norton, is a seriously frightening character. Sally Wainwright, the writer, has been so insistent that this is the final season that it makes me worry for Catherine Cawood, the police captain who put him in jail, and her family.
And as an aside, Siobhan Finneran plays Catherine’s sister, Clare. In HAPPY VALLEY she is an attractive woman. Finneran also played O’Brien, the Countess’ lady’s maid, in DOWNTON ABBEY, where she was made to look a fright. It’s this kind of transformation that almost gives a gloss of truth to the Romance trope where the plain heroine becomes a beauty through change of hair style and a tiny bit of blush.
I thought Norton in Happy Valley was PHENOMENAL. I can’t wait to see this final season!
TV
I too am eagerly awaiting Endeavor Season 4. Will be a bittersweet parting. Any suggestions for a replacement?
I’m enjoying Miss Scarlet and the Duke. Season 3 January 8
Netflix
January 1 Kaleidoscope
January 4 Madoff The Monster of Wall Street
January 13 Break Point Part 1, A Quiet Place 2
January 19 Woman at War
Film
My #1 anticipated is Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE Part 2 November 17. Epic, masterful adaptation.
The Maid – Announced. Hope it’s released in 2023.
John Wick Chapter 4
Atomic Blond 2
The Old Guard 2
The Little Mermaid
Books
-A Tempest at Sea (Lady Sherlock #7) by Sherry Thomas
-Fate’s Arrow (Rising Wave #3) by Michelle Diener
-Thief of Hearts (Court of Dreams #3) by Bec McMaster
-The Garden of Lost Secrets by Kelly Bowen
-The Emperor’s Bone Palace (Infernal War #2) by Hailey Turner
-Codename Charming (Palace Insiders #2) by Lucy Parker
-A Vocation of Violence (Mahoney Mysteries #3) by Kerrigan Byrne
-Dance of Smoke and Steel (Gathering or Dragons #3) by Milla Vane
-Blood Over Bright Haven by M.L. Wang
-Once a Rogue (Roaring Twenties Magic #2) by Allie Therin
-Two Twisted Crowns (The Shepherd King #2) by Rachel Gillig
Have you watched Peaky Blinders?
Not yet but I’ve heard good things! Will add to my TBW list.
I’m also very eager for Hell Bent and I had no idea there was going to be a new “folk of the air!” Woohoo!
In t.v. I’m dying for the third/last season of “Ted Lasso.” I love that show to pieces. And I’m waiting on the second season of “Somebody Somewhere,” which is just lovely — I hope the new management at Hbo didn’t squash it. :-( And “Heartstopper” and “Resident Alien.” All of these shows are very annoyingly on different streaming services!
I’ve read Hell Bent and I can promise you that Alex is still as fabulous as ever!
I rarely find myself hanging out for a new release and I don’t tend to read complete series, but after loving Samantha Wayland’s Poetry in Motion what seems like ages ago, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the story of two minor characters.
When I’d just about given up hope that book would ever be written, it has finally popped up on Amazon as a Feb release. Weirdly for a MM hockey-ish romance (set in a hockey universe but these characters aren’t players) the title is The Long Game. I know there are oodles of hockey romances out there but surely Rachel Reid’s book is celebrated enough that you would pick another title?
Anyway, I still can’t wait.
That seems even more strange due to the fact that The Long Game by Reid was so highly anticipated and had a lot of visibility just last year. I guess it’s a big industry, but you’d think you’d want your title to be unique and not feel derivative. I was surprised Serena Bell published the Wilder Adventures series that has the same name and set-up (family of brothers headed by a single mother, last name Wilder, with an outdoor adventure company named Wilder Adventures) as a series by Jill Shalvis. I know it was a while ago, but Shalvis is a well known and loved contemporary romance author.
The book I’m most looking forward to is ‘Dance of Smoke & Steel’, the third instalment in Milla Vane’s A Gathering of Dragons series. I preordered it in October 2021, I thought it was going to be published in May of the next year. But it looks like it will be releashed in November.
That is one for me too!
Are we a chance of a new Tessa Dare in ’23? If so, that!
Carnival Row season 2. I ADORED the enemies to lovers in season 1.
Upload season 3. My other favourite ongoing romance.
The Teen Wolf movie in about a month… THAT INCLUDES ALLISON.
Indiana Jones, of course. Raiders and Last Crusade are in my top ten movies of all time and I even like Crystal Skull. Temple of Doom? Never heard of it. ;-)
I vaguely recall they are working on a continuation of X-Men the animated series.
I’m looking forward to the Teen Wolf movie too but it won’t be the same without Stiles…
SIGH. Agreed.
What is this Teen Wolf?
A TV show https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1567432/ with 3 great seasons that includes an epic romance and launched the careers of Dylan O’Brien and Tyler Hoechlin (Superman and Lois)
My most anticipated books are:
Foxed by Jay Hogan (M/M; features protagonists in their 50s)
Inevitable Disclosure by Nicky James (M/M; Valor and Doyle book #4)
The New Guy by Sarina Bowen (M/M; her latest hockey romance)
Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood (M/F; features 2 physicists)
Wilder at Last by Serena Bell (M/F; the final book of the Wilder Adventure series)
The Wandering Prince by H.L. Day (M/M; 3rd and final book of the series)
Broadway Butchery by C.S. Poe (M/M; 3rd in the Memento Mori series)
Murder at Haven’s Rock by Kelley Armstrong (suspense; spin off of the Rockton series)
Movies I look forward to are:
Marvel movies – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3; The Marvels
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (didn’t love Indy 4 but love Indy in general)
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One (M:I #7; love the amazing stunts)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (the book was interesting)
Rumored: Legally Blonde 3; a spin-off of the A Quiet Place
Looking forward to latest seasons of these TV series (some are final season):
Ted Lasso
Heartstopper
Never Have I Ever
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Only Murders in the Building
I’m also interested in a new case-of-the-week TV series coming out in January on Peacock called Poker Face. It stars Natasha Lyonne as a detective who has the ability to tell if someone is lying and is directed by Rian Johnson, who directed the Knives Out movies.
My husband loved Lie To Me which sounds like it has a similar premise to Poker Face.
I’m really out of touch with film and TV these days – most of my leisure time is spent reading or listening to books these days, so I can’t say I’m looking forward to anything there because I have no idea what’s coming up! In books, Inevitable Disclosure by Nicky James is on my “eagerly awaiting” list, and it’s out at the end of January, so here’s not too long to wait. C.S.Poe’s Broadway Butchery (May) is, at the moment, probably my most anxiously awaited book of 2023, along with the next instalment in her Magic & Steam series, The Councilman, which I’m hoping will be out later in the year.
The books you’ve mentioned are my “eagerly awaited” books for 2023, as well. I bought the audiobook of Unstable Connections today, so I’ll be listening to that soon, and I can’t wait for the audio of Subway Slayings, hopefully in January.
Although there is no one book I’m eagerly awaiting in 2023 that matches my anticipation in 2022 for Rachel Reid’s THE LONG GAME, there are some books I’m looking forward to in 2023, including: Genevieve Turner’s COWBOY, PROMISE ME ALWAYS (January 19), Kati Wilde’s SHERIFF’S BAD BEAR (January 31), Serena Bell’s WILDER AT LAST (February 7), Zoe York’s REBEL AT HEART (April 25), and Julie Kriss’s REVERB (May 1).
I have only seen a couple seasons of Endeavor but I did enjoy Morse and the spinoff Lewis. There aren’t many TV shows I’m looking forward to seeing in 2023. I like to be pleasantly surprised so I’m hopeful that something will catch my interest. As for books, I’m looking forward to the next book in Mary Balogh’s latest series.
The Barbie movie looks interesting, as does Babylon which also stars Margot Robie. The movie that I’m really excited to see is Killers of the Flower Moon. Martin Scorsese directs and it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro, as well as a host of other great actors. I read the book this movie is based on. Its an incredibly shocking and tragic true story about the murders that took place on the Osage reservation in Oklahoma in the 1910s and 1920s. It was the first big case solved by the fledgling FBI. Oil, power, money, and greed, plus American history about our government’s misguided treatment of indigenous peoples.
I’m looking forward to Legacy Season 2, Bosch, after being left with a cliffhanger in Season 1. I’m also excited for Ted Lasso Season 3 and McDonald and Dodds Mysteries Season 4.
Books at the top of my wish list for 2023 include The Happy Place by Emily Henry, Love Hypothetically by Ali Hazelwood and How to Tame a Wild Rogue by Julie Anne Long.
I totally forgot about that cliffhanger. I too am eagerly awaiting that! I am trying not to have super high expectations for the last Ted Lasso season–but I can’t wait for it all the same.
The Barbie movie trailer you posted looks fun. I hadn’t seen it before and now I’m intrigued
Me too. I had no interest in the Barbie movie until I saw this trailer, but it piqued my interest and I may just have to watch it. I wasn’t into Barbie but my younger sister was big time.
The trailer for Queen Charlotte was charming. I loved the little kicker at the end and may just have to watch the series. Thank you for posting.