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The best TV of early 2024: Here's what to watch in January

After two long strikes and the pandemic disruption, this is the year everything comes back. True Detective returns, now set in Alaska. And Echo is a Marvel series mostly shorn of superheroes.
After two long strikes and the pandemic disruption, 2024 is the year everything comes back.<em> </em>Above, Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez in<em> Echo.</em>

This is the year everything comes back.

That's the sentiment you can practically feel bursting from show business, as we start a new year freed from the shackles of two Hollywood strikes, easing away from compensation conflicts that threatened to hobble most of the country's film and TV industry permanently.

Given everything that's happened so far, it feels like a miracle to note that there are still a fair number of interesting, powerful and compelling TV shows headed our way in 2024 — from the return of one of the most creatively ambitious crime dramas in recent memory, now set in Alaska, to a Marvel series mostly shorn of superheroes that may demonstrate exactly how the MCU should do TV from now

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