Shonda Rhimes does Regency romance, and the result is the most-watched Netflix original of its era: gorgeous gowns, string quartet covers of pop songs, and a different sibling finding love each season. The Lady Whistledown gossip column narrates it all…
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…
The McLusky family brokers peace in a Michigan prison town where the economy is incarceration. Jeremy Renner’s fixer is a man doing ugly work because no one else will, and the series is the darkest thing in the Sheridan universe:…
Billy Bob Thornton as a crisis fixer for a West Texas oil company, forever talking his way out of explosions, lawsuits, and cartel entanglements. Sheridan’s boomtown series has the best monologues on TV right now: Thornton delivers a speech about…
The Duttons of the 1920s face drought, predatory land developers, and a generation broken by the first war. Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren anchor it as the patriarch and matriarch, and the combination of star power and frontier hardship gives…
The best thing Taylor Sheridan has made. This prequel follows the original Duttons on a wagon train heading west, and it plays the frontier as the death march it actually was: river crossings, bandits, and grief at every mile. Sam…
Kevin Costner’s John Dutton runs the largest ranch in Montana and defends it like a feudal lord: politicians, land developers, and his own children all get the treatment. Taylor Sheridan’s flagship is a soap opera in a cowboy hat, and…
The first season is a legend: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana detectives hunting a killer across seventeen years, with a mood so thick you can taste it. Rust Cohle’s philosophy made half the internet quote it for a…
Five episodes about the 1986 nuclear disaster, and not one wasted minute. Jared Harris’s scientist, Stellan Skarsgard’s bureaucrat, and Emily Watson’s physicist work to contain a reactor that cannot be contained while the Soviet system lies about everything. The radiation…
A media dynasty’s awful adult children claw for their father’s approval while he tortures them for sport. Succession is the funniest tragedy on television: every episode is a corporate crisis staged like a war room, and every insult is a…