The best crime series range from stories based on fact to thrilling mysteries too wild to be true, and the best crime series of 2022 know how to steal your attention. As fascinating as new true crime documentaries are, sometimes the added dramatization and distance of fiction can be even more enthralling, and the new crime drama TV series premiering in 2022 are no exeption.
1. Pam and Tommy
Lily James and Sebastian Stan basically turn into Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in this new series about their 1995 sex tape leak. But it also seems to be about the history of the internet—most notably how, as soon as it was born, it became a means for sexploitation.
2. Reacher
“Waiting is a skill like anything else.” And we waited. And now Jack Reacher is back! Alan Ritchson plays our favorite retired military police officer-turned-investigator in this explosive new series.
3. Severance
Not an adaptation of Ling Ma’s towering literary achievement but similarly offering a unique take on a corporate hellscape, Severance is about an office where the workers’ memories about life outside work are inaccessible during work hours. Adam Scott is the lead but I’m even more excited by the presence of both John Turturro and Christopher Walken.
