The Best New Limited Series Of 2022
The most memorable miniseries may be short but they still have big ambitions, and the best miniseries shows of 2022 know how to pack a lot of story into a handful of episodes. From biopics to perfectly proportioned dramas, with only one season these limited series are some of the best shows in 2022.
Two of the biographical miniseries arriving in early 2022 are as far on from each other on the scale of story style as can be. The Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy is a biographical comedy-drama and focuses on the marriage of the it couple of the late 1990s. The historical drama Women of the Movement focuses on the civil rights and justice work of Mamie Till-Mobley. Not all 2022 miniseries are biographical dramas; limited series like The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey and That Dirty Black Bag are deft stories that wring every bit of drama they can out of their short run of episodes.
Vote up the best new miniseries series that are airing for the first time in 2022 and see where your new favorites rank.
- A convict is offered a deal in exchange for coaxing a confession out of a suspected serial killer.
- Actors: Taron Egerton, Ray Liotta, Greg Kinnear, Sepideh Moafi, Paul Walter Hauser
- Premiered: July 8, 2022
- A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates the murder of a woman and her baby.
- Actors: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell
- Premiered: April 28, 2022
- When the pressure of conformity builds up for Candy, her actions scream for a bit of freedom.
- Actors: Jessica Biel, Timothy Simons, Melanie Lynskey, Pablo Schreiber, Raúl Esparza
- Premiered: May 9, 2022
- Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes loses everything in the blink of an eye.
- Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, William H. Macy, Laurie Metcalf, Elizabeth Marvel
- Premiered: March 3, 2022
- Al Ruddy's experience of making the 1972 film "The Godfather" with Francis Ford Coppola.
- Actors: Miles Teller, Matthew Goode, Juno Temple, Giovanni Ribisi, Dan Fogler
- Premiered: April 28, 2022
- An archivist takes a job restoring videotapes and gets pulled into a mystery involving the director.
- Actors: Mamoudou Athie, Dina Shihabi, Evan Jonigkeit, Matt McGorry, Martin Donovan
- Premiered: January 14, 2022