The Daisy Jones & The Six miniseries. From the moment I opened Taylor Jenkins Reid’s book in 2019, I was transported from my tiny NYC apartment to the chaotic LA music scene of the 1970s. The fictional oral history took me through the rise and fall of a fictional, Fleetwood Mac-esque band (with all the sex and drugs in between) via the perspective of various band members. This spring, my beloved book will become an Amazon Prime miniseries, and while I typically have a love/hate relationship with my favorite novels being turned into TV shows, I can confidently predict that on March 3rd you’ll find me on my couch, pressing play and dying to know how the songs I grew to love on paper actually sound. —Ashley Grates
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The second installment in the Miles Morales-led animated franchise, Across the Spider-Verse is bringing a whole mess of other Spider-Men (Spider-People? Wait, what about Spider-Pig?) into the fold, and I’m obsessing over whose voices will cameo in the sequel just like I hounded Twitter and Reddit to see if Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield would make their way into 2021’s live-action Spider-Man: No Way Home. (Year-old spoiler alert: They did.) We already know there’s going to be a third film in this series next year, so I’ll have something new to obsess over as soon as I see part two on its June 2 opening day. —Tyler Chin
Really Good, Actually, by Monica Heisey. Heisey’s writing has been making me laugh out loud for years, whether on TV, on her Twitter, or when she’s trying to recall the plot of Avatar. She got me again in her tremendously funny and thoughtful debut novel Really Good, Actually, about a young divorcée navigating her marital breakup with the aid of “Night Burgers” and a demented spiral of new hobbies. And we don’t even have to anticipate it for too much of 2023: it’s out on January 17th. –Gabriella Paiella
White House Plumbers. Who better to retell the story of the Watergate break-in and the Nixon-toppling clusterfuck that followed than some of the minds behind Veep? With a cast roster of “Faces We’re Always Happy to See in a Comedy” (Woody Harrelson, Justin Theroux, Ike Barinholtz, Judy Greer), this March HBO miniseries evokes major—and welcome—associations with 1999’s underrated Nixon classic, Dick. I’m still not ready to laugh at our most recent administration of power-grabbing buffoons, but I’m looking forward to laughing at one from 50 years ago. —Josh Wolk
glaive’s new music. Rumor has it that a little birdie who heard it through the grapevine told me we’ll be getting new music from hyperpop breakout glaive this year—which is good because I, for one, am ready for more emotion and more adrenaline in 2023. Also, the 17-year-old musician has employed old paintings made by his mom as cover artwork for his two pre-album singles, “minnesota” and “three wheels and it still drives!”, which is also incredibly tender! All promising signs. —Eileen Cartter
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