Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
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…
Neon, fast breaks, and a maverick owner betting the house: the 1980s Lakers get the full spectacle treatment here, and sports history has rarely been this much fun. John C. Reilly is a joy as Jerry Buss, the playboy proprietor…
Young graduates claw for permanent positions at a London investment bank, and the finance drama is really a war story about ambition, drugs, and 3 AM deals. Myha’la’s Harper is one of TV’s great volatile leads, and Ken Leung’s desk…
A morning news program implodes in a Me Too scandal, and Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon fight for the wreckage. The first season is a genuinely sharp drama about power and complicity in media, with Billy Crudup’s network executive stealing…
Four generations of a Korean family living in Japan, told across two timelines, and the result is the most beautiful series Apple has made. Min Jin Lee’s novel becomes a chronicle of discrimination, endurance, and love with a cast led…
The space race never ends in this alternate history where the Soviets land on the moon first and America refuses to lose. Each season jumps a decade: moon bases, Mars, asteroid mining, with the engineers and astronauts aging through it…
Amazon’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fourteen novel epic follows Moiraine, an Aes Sedai witch, gathering young villagers who might be the prophesied Dragon Reborn. Rosamund Pike gives it movie star gravity, and the world building is genuinely huge: cities, armies,…
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 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…