Top 10 Upcoming Disney+ shows!

Alright! Today I'm ranking the Top 10 Upcoming Disney+ shows. This list mostly serves as a reminder of all the things I have to look forward to because sometimes (Especially in Covid times), it feels like nothing is happening and nothing ever will. 

But stuff is happening! And thus this list!

So, some honorable mentions include: 

• Andor
• Armor Wars
• Lando (I need to know which Lando this is about)
• Ahsoka (I need to know more in general. Is Thrawn showing up? Ezra?)

10. Loki - June 9th, 2021

I'm sorry folks, but I'm just not terribly hyped for Loki. Yeah, the dude is fun and all, and I like his character enough, but at the end of the day, the trailers have been rather standard and the marketing familiar. The show comes out in, like, two weeks and we still have no clue what it's about! It almost seems like it's being marketed as "Loki for the sake of Loki" than "Loki's doing something interesting, check it out!", the first of which I personally can't get behind. 

Right now, I'm just hoping that Enchantress, Lady Loki, or Throg appear. That's all I want. Also, it's inspired by Teletubbies? What is going on here? 

9. Hawkeye - 2021

It's Lucky the Pizza Dog!

Just as people are excited for Loki just because it's Loki, I'm excited for Hawkeye for my own personal biases. Hawkeye's been one of my favorite Avengers ever since I saw Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes when I was six-ish, and I've always felt like he's been underutilized in the movies. Plus, I'm really hoping that this series can lean hard into the "He's just a regular guy" hook that is essential to great Hawkeye stories like My Life as a Weapon.

Tack on that he'll probably get a comic accurate costume in a flashback and the black/purple costume upgrade, and Kate Bishop and Echo appearing, and you have a series I can't wait for. 

8. Ms. Marvel - 2021

Listen, I'm excited for Ms. Marvel. She's easily one of the best new characters Marvel has created in the past decade or so (Alongside Miles Morales), and the show is probably going to have to reboot the Inhumans for her origin story to work. Plus, Ms. Marvel is a Pakistani-American Muslim character. Do you know how rare it is that we get Muslim characters? Rare. It's very rare (And the series had better follow through on that). 

I do have several caveats about it though - Ms. Marvel is a high schooler, and if it's renewed for multiple seasons, we might get to CW levels of every single one of her friends has powers and fights crime. The second is that, based off of the set photos, the Ms. Marvel costume doesn't look that great (I wish it had more of a homemade feel). The third is that I don't want this to be another prologue. All of the Marvel Disney+ shows have just been prologues to the movies (WandaVision-Doctor Strange 2, F&TWS-Captain America 4), and this one seems to be a prologue to The Marvels. I just want stand-alone stories with satisfying endings. 

7. Cars series -2022

Yeah, this is just me liking Cars way more than I should. There's, like, no information on this other than that Lightning McQueen and Mater travel together on a road trip. I'm excited. 

6. She-Hulk - 2022

I'm excited for She-Hulk on the concept that I like the She-Hulk character and that I want to see Bruce Banner's arc furthered. I'm not entirely sure about how the "half-hour legal comedy" description, as Marvel, while constantly adding quips, didn't exactly strike gold when WandaVision tried to appropriate the sitcom. Hopefully, they get better. 

Also, they have to nail the character design of She-Hulk. If her costume isn't short of spectacular, this whole thing might flop. It has to look good. 

5. The Acolyte - TBA

The Acolyte is an upcoming Star Wars TV show set during the High Republic. That alone makes me excited. I'm so excited for Star Wars to break away from the 40 years during which the movies take place and do something different. There's no chance for fan-favorite characters to give the show a boost like The Mandalorian did, it has to stand on its own. And there's enough lore to draw on that The Acolyte should easily be some of the coolest Star Wars content we've ever gotten. 

4. The Book of Boba Fett - December 2021

I'm not a big Boba Fett guy, but this series has me interested. After the second season of The Mandalorian, I was really digging this new and improved Boba Fett we got. We don't know a lot about the plot right now, but based off of The Mandalorian's end credit zinger, it looks like Boba Fett has taken Jabba's palace. Is it about his further conquest of Tatooine? Space travel adventures with Fennec Shand? I don't know, but I'm excited to find out. 

3. Moon Knight - 2022

Moon Knight is a show that will make Marvel geeks very happy and likely win over the casual fans, just as Marvel has repeatedly done with relatively obscure properties like Guardians of the Galaxy, Ant-Man, and Black Panther. Moon Knight follows Marc Spector, a former U.S. Marine with dissociative identity disorder, who becomes the conduit for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu. He's basically Batman, but with multiple personalities and more Egyptian mythology. That sounds dope. 

He's played by none other than Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron in Star Wars, Leto Atreides in Dune), so fan favorite leading man is a plus. I'm also really excited to see the Moon Knight costume they come up with. So far, Disney+ has been killing it with the costumes, so I'm really, really hyped for this. 

2. Obi-Wan Kenobi - 2022

Let's be real here - Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi is some of the best casting of all time and the saving grace of the Prequel trilogy. Let's just say that this series has been gestating for years - It was first developed as an anthology film, but after Solo flopped, it seemed like the movies were canceled. Luckily, Disney+ swooped in on the IP and is giving fans what they want - Six hours of Obi-Wan Kenobi watching Luke Skywalker on Tatooine. This is every Star Wars fan's dream. 

And then it just keeps getting better! They confirmed that Hayden Christensen is reprising his role as Darth Vader! Aside from that being amazing already, one can only hope it leads to at least one Clone Wars flashback. 

1. Percy Jackson & the Olympians - 2022

No release date has been announced, but given that they started the casting call for Percy Jackson, it would seem like they're definitely fast-tracking it. I'm guestimating 2022 or 2023 at the latest. Assuming it can film over this fall/next spring, this could very well be a Fall 2022 release or Spring 2023. 

But, yeah. That's the technical side. More importantly, Percy Jackson is an amazing story with millions of fans worldwide, and we are all clamoring to see what Rick Riordan and co. can come up with. And if this first season proves a winner, we could very well get 14 more years of this via adaptations of the rest of the novels, Heroes of Olympus, and The Trials of Apollo.