Genre Supernatural

Preacher

AMC's adaptation of the Ennis and Dillon Vertigo comic: Dominic Cooper as an outlaw preacher who commands anyone with a word, Graham McTavish as the Saint of Killers. 4 seasons of blasphemy, blood and jokes.

Ghost Whisperer

Melinda Gordon sees dead people at yard sales and estate liquidations in Grant, Ohio, and spends five seasons on CBS doing what network television does best: a gentle procedural where the mystery is how someone died and the payoff is…

Angel

The Buffy spin off moved the vampire with a soul to Los Angeles and quietly became a different, better show than most people remember. Where Buffy was about surviving growing up, Angel is about a grown man trying to atone for a century of atrocities and learning that redemption is not a finish line but a job. Angel Investigations, a detective agency that helps the helpless, gives the series a noir spine Buffy never had, and the early case of the week years use the city's neon rot far better than most LA dramas.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Joss Whedon's high school horror riff did something television had not managed before: it took the dumbest possible premise, a cheerleader kills vampires, and used it as scaffolding for the most literate genre drama of its era. Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a town built on a Hellmouth, and over seven seasons the show treats every monster as a metaphor for something real: first love that literally leaves a scar, the person you sleep with turning into a monster after, a mother's death that no slayer strength can fix. The gimmick was monsters, the subject was growing up.

Harry Potter

The Early Word: HBO is remaking Harry Potter as a television series, one season per book, with an entirely new cast. Season 1 adapts Philosopher’s Stone and premieres December 25, 2026: a Christmas Day arrival that HBO is treating as…

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…

The Good Place

Eleanor Shellstrop dies and ends up in the wrong afterlife, and the show that follows is the smartest high concept comedy ever aired. Every season reinvents itself (the season 1 finale is one of the great TV twists), and underneath…

What We Do in the Shadows

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,…

Chainsaw Man

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…