Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The first of the Paramount+ exclusive events jumps forty years into a future where the pandemic finally ended, everyone got older, meaner, and sadder, and the boys stopped speaking to each other. Stan sells insurance, Kyle is a lonely counselor, Cartman found God and spends his life rabbi cringe comedy, and Kenny became the scientist whose death pulls everyone back to South Park for one last attempt at fixing the world.
Alex Horne invented a joke task for the Edinburgh Fringe, Greg Davies agreed to play the tyrant judge, and the result became the best comedy panel show on television. Five comedians per series attempt absurd tasks, bring an item to the studio, destroy a cake in the most creative way possible, camouflage themselves in a field, and Greg awards points based on a combination of rules adherence and his own arbitrary whims. That is the whole show, and it has produced a decade of television funnier than nearly anything scripted.
The premise is a perfect sitcom engine: Ashley and Gordon, two flawed, funny strangers in Sydney, are brought together when a spontaneous car moment leads to them hitting and jointly caring for an injured dog they name Colin. The dog is the McGuffin; the show is about two people who keep choosing each other despite every sensible reason not to. Real life married couple Harriet Dyer and Patrick Brammall write and star, and the chemistry is not acted, it is just documented.
FOX's American remake of Doc Martin transplants the grumpy surgeon to the fishing village of Port Wenn, and the results are exactly as mixed as every transatlantic comedy transplant before it. Josh Charles plays Dr. Martin Best, a brilliant Boston surgeon who flees to the small coastal town where he spent childhood summers, only to discover he has developed a phobia of blood, which is a problem for a country doctor. The premise survives the move; the tone is the question.
The show about nothing is actually a show about everything people will not say out loud, and thirty-five years on it has not softened one bit. Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Cosmo Kramer and Elaine Benes are four selfish friends auditing…
Scott Aukerman's talk show parody is the alt comedy treasure of its decade: 110 episodes of guests arriving as the weirdest versions of themselves. IMDb 7.6.
Nobody expects much from a show called DMV, and that is exactly the charm. CBS’s single camera comedy follows the clerks, customers, and small tragedies of a California Department of Motor Vehicles office, and it mines the most universal hatred…
One for the true crime shelf: Netflix’s summer 2026 limited series digs into the case that haunted the Pacific Northwest, told with the docudrama polish the streamer does best. It arrived in July with little fanfare and quietly became one…
Guy Ritchie does television, and somehow it works. Theo James plays the aristocrat who inherits a title along with the family business: a cannabis empire tucked into the grounds of a country estate. Kaya Scodelario is the brilliant, terrifying business…
The most easygoing procedural on TV right now. A demoted detective and a con man doing community service get forced into a partnership, and their casework quickly becomes a con artist’s playbook applied to solving crimes. It is a CBC…