Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
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:…
The title is a bait and switch, and that is the point. What looks like a cozy reboot of a beloved old courtroom series is really a stealth thriller about grief, the opioid crisis, and revenge, with Kathy Bates playing…
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…
Noah Wyle returns to the hospital and reinvents the medical drama: one fifteen hour shift, one episode per hour, no flashbacks, no romance subplots, just the grind of a Pittsburgh ER. It is the most realistic show about medicine ever…
Peter Morgan’s drama about Queen Elizabeth II’s reign is the gold standard of the Netflix prestige era. Each two season block recasts the royals, Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, and each actress builds the same woman at a different…
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…