Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The Reluctant Vampire is the BBC's six-part family comedy, adapted by the Alan Partridge writers from Eric Morecambe's 1982 novel: a teen vampire discovers he is actually human. Full review and episode guide, and where to watch.
Too Ugly To Marry, She's a Hidden Beauty! is a DramaBox micro-drama: 30 episodes, released 2026-10-06. Our full recap and review, and where to watch.
The Skinnamarink show, filed properly: 65 episodes across five seasons on CBC, a tuba-voiced elephant, and the year TV Guide ranked it above Sesame Street. No official streaming, the honest way to watch it is the way it always was.
Tim Taylor hosts a home improvement show called Tool Time, grunts at anyone who disagrees with him, and invents power tools that violate three building codes at a time. Tim Allen built the character from stand up timing: the alpha…
The premise was the whole ad campaign: Tony Danza, a former ballplayer, moves into the Greenwich home of Judith Light’s advertising executive as the housekeeper, and America tuned in to watch the gender roles swap and then settle into a…
Before Married… with Children, television families fixed each other over kitchen tables. Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill, selling every shoe counter monologue like a solo stage act) hated his wife, his kids, his couch, his job, and the audience was expected…
The family sitcom of its decade, done with a mockumentary sheen and a cast with chemistry most shows would kill for. Three branches of one big family: the traditional Dunphys, the older man with the younger wife, and the gay…
The Belcher family runs a burger restaurant that never quite succeeds, and the show around them is the warmest thing in adult animation. Where its peers went for edge, Bob’s Burgers went for heart: a family that genuinely likes each…
The most important animated show ever made, and it is not particularly close. Thirty plus seasons in, The Simpsons invented the modern animated sitcom twice over: once as a phenomenon that dominated the 90s, and again as the foundation every…
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…