Every sci-fi and fantasy show you should watch in 2022
By WiC Staff
Obi-Wan Kenobi — Disney+ — May 25
In the history of TV, there have never been more Star Wars series on offer than there are right now. But one in particular has had fans buzzing since it was announced. The new Obi-Wan Kenobi series coming to Disney+ this year sees Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen reprise their roles as Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. It’s the kind of thing that stands to be pretty special if Disney pulls it off.
Obi-Wan Kenobi will be set during a dark period of the titular Jedi Knight’s life: when he’s living in obscurity on Tatooine after the dreaded execution of Order 66 at the end of Revenge of the Sith, which saw the Jedi nearly wiped out. According to the sole teaser that has been released for the show thus far, that leaves Obi-Wan with really just one mission left in his life: to defend the infant Luke Skywalker.
How Obi-Wan and Vader will come to cross paths again remains to be seen, but we’re all here for it. The show is being helmed by The Mandalorian director Deborah Chow.
As for release dates, the only thing that’s been confirmed is that Obi-Wan Kenobi is coming out in 2022. The show wrapped filming in September of 2021, meaning it’s likely already deep into post-production. Add to that the fact that Disney has yet to announce anything for May the 4th (aka Star Wars day), and that a tie-in novel by Mike Chen called Star Wars: Brotherhood — about the relationship between Obi-Wan and Anakin — is slated to come out on May 10…and we’d bet our landspeeder on Obi-Wan Kenobi getting a late spring/early summer 2022 release.
And if reports are to be believed, this isn’t the only Star Wars show we’ll be getting this year…
Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2 — Disney+ — Spring 2022 (reported)
Another Star Wars show we’re expecting in 2022 is the second season of The Bad Batch, the animated series which follows a team of rogue clone troopers who escaped servitude to the Empire after the end of the Clone Wars. The Bad Batch picks up right after the end of the much-beloved Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, and follows this group (almost all of whom are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) as they strike out on their own and take up a slew of mercenary missions.
Per The Direct, a leaked poster for The Bad Batch season 2 made its way to Reddit in late January, reportedly from an upcoming issue of the official Star Wars magazine that tagged the show with a spring 2022 release. Of course, until we get any official confirmation for The Bad Batch we will take all this with a grain of salt. But for now it’s enough to know that it’s on the radar and there’s a solid chance it’s coming to Disney+ in 2022. — Daniel