The Walking Dead
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…
Genre Drama
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
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),…
Doctor Who
A box that is bigger on the inside, a two hearted alien with a police box, and six decades of reinvention. Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction show on Earth for a reason: every few years the Doctor…
Neagley
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…
Lucifer
The Devil quits Hell, opens a piano bar in Los Angeles, and starts solving crimes with the LAPD. It sounds like a joke pitch, and for the first half of season 1 it sort of is. Then the show figures…
Wild Cards
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…
Bad Monkey
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,…
The Old Man
Jeff Bridges as a former CIA operative living off the grid whose past comes calling, and the chase drama is elevated by the best veteran ensemble on TV: Bridges, John Lithgow as his pursuer, and Alia Shawkat as the agent…
The Dropout
Amanda Seyfried becomes Elizabeth Holmes, blinking her way from Stanford dropout to fraudulent billionaire, and the Theranos collapse becomes a tragicomedy about ambition with nothing behind it. Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani matches her beat for beat in shared delusion.…
Dopesick
The opioid catastrophe told through a Virginia mining town, the sales reps who pushed OxyContin, and the regulators who let them. Michael Keaton as a country doctor prescribing his patients into addiction is devastating, and Rosario Dawson’s DEA investigator carries…