1 Ted Lasso
When I found myself choking up at an instant-classic Christmas episode—in the middle of August!—that was so overwhelmingly heartwarming it almost caused acid reflux, I realized what a gift Ted Lasso is for all seasons. This year’s Emmy darling, about a Kansas football coach transplanted to England to lead a soccer team, is a feel-good underdog story that expertly blends saltiness and spice with an underlying sweetness. It’s a welcome tonic forour toxic times. In its second season, as folksy-corny Ted (Jason Sudeikis, center, with Brendan Hunt and Nick Mohammed) faces his demons with the help of a warily compassionate sports psychologist (the terrific Sarah Niles), our love only grows for the show’s deep bench of memorable characters. And for Ted’s way with words: “You are more mysterious than David Blaine reading a Sue Grafton novel at Area 51.” He said it. Streaming on Apple TV+
2 WandaVision
My other favorite show of 2021 is the biggest surprise: a Marvel series that rarely feels like a Marvel series, at its best when it uncannily re-creates classic sitcom tropes—with The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched and The Brady Bunch as obvious models—in equal parts homage, parody and cosmic mystery. Using TV nostalgia as a smokescreen to cushion the grief of “Scarlet Witch” Wanda Maximoff (pitchperfect Elizabeth Olsen, left) over losing her android soulmate Vision (suave, droll Paul Bettany), WandaVision is visionary entertainment. Streaming on Disney+
3 Succession
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NCIS: Origins
A HEARTBROKEN LEROY Jethro Gibbs faces his first Christmas without his murdered wife and daughter in the NCIS prequel's emotional midseason finale.
Elsbeth
MARRIED ACTORS CARRIE Preston and Michael Emerson (above) have happily guest starred on each other's shows before (Lost, Claws).
SOUTHERN CHARMERS
Meet the newest debutants on Charleston's social scene
Is Jamie Really Gone?
And will Claire marry Lord John Grey? Starz's twisty timetravel drama Outlander gets messier than ever before
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS
Eight years after his Daytime Emmy-winning run as lan Ward on The Young and the Restless, Ray Wise is back for a new reign of terror in Genoa City.
Spies Seeing Double
\"MY CHOSEN CAREER is a psychological tightrope walk over a pit of fire,\" says a CIA spook code-named Martian (played with steely intensity by Michael Fassbender) in the solemn spy drama The Agency.
BLITZ FRIDAY, NOV. 22
It is clearly \"the worst of times\" in this stirring Dickensian nail-biter of a movie, set during WWII's early days, when the German Luftwaffe bombed London nightly for months.
INTERIOR CHINATOWN TUESDAY, NOV. 19
Willis Wu (Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang) is stuck.
BEATLES '64 FRIDAY, NOV. 29
In February 1964, the Beatles made their first flight to an America still reeling from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS
\"There's no one else like John Williams,\" says Laurent Bouzereau, director of this documentary.
