Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The forgotten chapter: the original cast returned in 1973 for two animated seasons that are officially canon and quietly ambitious. Freed from budget limits by animation, the show went places live action never could: alien designs the 60s show could…
The Original Series. Where every bit of it started: William Shatner’s Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, and a five year mission that only ran three seasons but changed television forever. Gene Roddenberry’s optimism, a multiracial crew in the middle of…
The Early Word: Frances Neagley finally gets her own show. Maria Sten’s ex military investigator was always the fan favorite part of Reacher, the competent, coffee-averse fixer who could carry a season on her own, and Prime Video agreed: this…
The precinct sitcom with the best ensemble on broadcast TV. Andy Samberg’s Jake Peralta is a manchild detective who is actually great at his job, and around him the show builds one of the deepest comedy benches ever: Holt’s deadpan…
Generations of the Joestar family, each fighting a bizarre battle against an escalating rogues gallery of vampires, Stand users, and men named Dio. No anime has more range: every part swaps protagonist, tone, setting, and art style, and somehow it…
The sequel everyone warned you about, and the honest verdict is more complicated than the memes. Boruto follows Naruto’s son and a new Team 7, and the anime made a choice that defines the experience: most of its run is…
The greatest long form story in anime, and after more than 1,100 episodes it is still going. Monkey D. Luffy wants to be King of the Pirates, and the journey to that dream is an ocean sized saga that has…
The 2003 original, and the question every new fan asks: which Fullmetal do I watch first? The honest answer: they are two different shows that share a first act. The 2003 series ran while the manga was still being written,…
The final arc of Bleach, adapted a decade after the original series stopped, and it is staggering how good it looks: movie grade animation, brutal choreography, and a story with actual stakes after years of the original show spinning its…
The series that turned Naruto from a popular shonen into a generational one. Shippuden picks up two and a half years later: the kids are older, the stakes are real, and the story builds toward a war that engulfs every…