Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The event series that paid off the franchise’s biggest dangling thread: Rick Grimes, taken away by helicopter in the flagship’s final season, and Michonne, who went looking for him. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira return for a six-episode limited run…
Daryl washes ashore in France, and the show somehow turns that into the most beautiful thing the franchise has ever filmed. Shot like a European art film with walker money, the first season follows Daryl shepherding a boy who may…
The first companion series, and the one that answered the question every fan asked: what did the fall of civilization actually look like? The early Los Angeles seasons have a slower, sadder register than the flagship, watching a blended family…
The show that made zombies prestige television and kept the entire horror genre on the map for over a decade. Rick Grimes wakes from a coma into the apocalypse, and what follows is 177 episodes of survival drama where the…
The one you meant: the 2015 space opera about six people who wake on a derelict ship with no memories, armed with a pile of weapons and a receipt for murders they cannot remember. Each carries a hidden past, and…
The newest Trek: the first new series built for a new generation of characters, following cadets at the rebuilt Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. Robert Picardo is back as the Doctor from Voyager (a fan service moment done right),…
The forgotten chapter: the original cast returned in 1973 for two animated seasons that are officially canon and quietly ambitious. Freed from budget limits by animation, the show went places live action never could: alien designs the 60s show could…
The Original Series. Where every bit of it started: William Shatner’s Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, and a five year mission that only ran three seasons but changed television forever. Gene Roddenberry’s optimism, a multiracial crew in the middle of…
The Early Word: Frances Neagley finally gets her own show. Maria Sten’s ex military investigator was always the fan favorite part of Reacher, the competent, coffee-averse fixer who could carry a season on her own, and Prime Video agreed: this…
The precinct sitcom with the best ensemble on broadcast TV. Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta is a manchild detective who is actually great at his job, and around him the show builds one of the deepest comedy benches ever: Holt’s deadpan…