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,…
US Marshal Raylan Givens, played with perfect laconic cool by Timothy Olyphant, returns to his Kentucky hometown and starts aiming at his own past. Elmore Leonard’s dialogue has never been adapted better, and Walton Goggins’s Boyd Crowder is one of…
Aldis Hodge becomes James Patterson’s Alex Cross, the detective psychologist hunting a killer with a taste for psychological warfare. Hodge brings real gravity to the character Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry played before him, and the DC setting is used…
Jake Gyllenhaal as a prosecutor accused of murdering his mistress, adapting Scott Turow’s classic into an eight episode whirlwind. The courtroom turns are genuinely shocking, and Gyllenhaal plays ambiguity like an instrument: guilty or not, you will change your mind…
Sam Levinson’s portrait of teenagers navigating addiction, love, and identity is the most visually daring show HBO has aired: makeup as armor, drug sequences as horror, and Zendaya delivering one of the great young performances as Rue, whose relapses the…
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:…
Kaitlin Olson plays a single mom of three with a 160 IQ who cleans police stations until she solves a case on a whiteboard, and the mystery genre gets its most charming new lead. The will they won’t they with…
Justin Hartley as a survivalist who finds missing people for reward money, drifting from town to town with a backpack and a smile. It is the number one show on broadcast television, and the reason is simple: Hartley is genuinely…
The 2026 Yellowstone followup that became the number one new show on television: Luke Grimes’s Kayce Dutton trades the ranch for a federal badge, chasing fugitives across the modern west. The procedural frame fits the universe better than expected, and…