A severed arm washed up in the Keys pulls a suspended detective into a Florida noir, and Vince Vaughn finally gets the role his motormouth was built for. Carl Hiaasen’s brand of environmental crime comedy survives the adaptation fully intact,…
Four vampires and their long suffering familiar share a house on Staten Island, and the mockumentary format turns centuries of horror into the best sitcom of its era. Matt Berry’s energy vampire is the funniest character on television, full stop,…
The 1980s Lakers become showtime, and Adam McKay’s production turns sports history into a neon comedy with a great John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss. Quincy Isaiah’s rookie Magic Johnson and the behind the scenes chaos of a franchise reinventing…
In a world where almost everyone has a superpower, a boy born without one inherits the greatest power of all and enrolls in hero school. The shonen formula executed at its highest level: tournaments, rivalries, villains with actual philosophies, and…
A grieving therapist starts breaking every rule and telling his patients exactly what he thinks, and the result is the warmest show on television. Jason Segel, Harrison Ford, and Jessica Williams are a trio with actual chemistry, and the Bill…
A legendary Vegas comedian past her prime hires a young writer canceled for a bad joke, and the war between them becomes the best written friendship on television. Jean Smart is operating at a level no one else touches, and…
A hitman takes an acting class and discovers he wants to be a different person, which is the funniest and darkest premise HBO has aired. Bill Hader and Henry Winger play the contradiction beautifully, a man committing murder while sincerely…
The Good Wife’s oddball lawyer moves to New York as a consent decree watchdog and starts outthinking NYPD homicide detectives while wearing joyfully deranged outfits. Carrie Preston has been stealing scenes for fifteen years and this is her victory lap:…
Four lifelong friends from Staten Island dare each other to do increasingly humiliating things in public, and the show that came out of it is the most reliable laugh machine on television. Joe, Q, Sal, and Murr have real chemistry…
Glen Powell does double duty as Russ Holliday, a hotshot quarterback whose college career detonated eight years ago, and Chad Powers, the mustachioed walk on alter ego he invents to sneak back onto a roster. Cocreated with Loki’s Michael Waldron…