Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The event series that paid off the franchise’s biggest dangling thread: Rick Grimes, taken away by helicopter in the flagship’s final season, and Michonne, who went looking for him. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira return for a six-episode limited run…
Daryl washes ashore in France, and the show somehow turns that into the most beautiful thing the franchise has ever filmed. Shot like a European art film with walker money, the first season follows Daryl shepherding a boy who may…
The anthology experiment: six standalone stories across the timeline and map of the apocalypse, with different tones, casts, and formats. One episode is an odd-couple comedy, one is a deep character piece, and one introduces a major new villain origin…
The coming-of-age chapter of the franchise: two sisters raised behind walls in a post-apocalypse generation leave safety for a cross-country journey, and the story expands the mythology toward the Civic Republic, the helicopter network, and the seeds of the larger…
The first companion series, and the one that answered the question every fan asked: what did the fall of civilization actually look like? The early Los Angeles seasons have a slower, sadder register than the flagship, watching a blended family…
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…
Four vampires and their long suffering familiar share a house on Staten Island, and the mockumentary format turns centuries of horror into the best sitcom of its era. Matt Berry’s energy vampire is the funniest character on television, full stop,…
A boy saddled with debt merges with his chainsaw devil dog and becomes a weapon for the government’s devil hunters. MAPPA’s film grade production, the needle drops, and Denji’s simple dreams, real bread, a normal life, make this the coolest…
A boy joins the demon slayer corps after his family is slaughtered and his sister is turned, and the quest to cure her drives a gorgeous, surprisingly emotional adventure. Ufotable’s animation turns every fight into a painting, and the Mugen…
A student swallows a cursed finger and becomes the host of a legendary demon, and the fight against curses begins. MAPPA’s animation is the best in the business right now: every battle is a showcase, and the Shibuya arc is…