Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
FOX's American remake of Doc Martin transplants the grumpy surgeon to the fishing village of Port Wenn, and the results are exactly as mixed as every transatlantic comedy transplant before it. Josh Charles plays Dr. Martin Best, a brilliant Boston surgeon who flees to the small coastal town where he spent childhood summers, only to discover he has developed a phobia of blood, which is a problem for a country doctor. The premise survives the move; the tone is the question.
Nobody expects much from a show called DMV, and that is exactly the charm. CBS’s single camera comedy follows the clerks, customers, and small tragedies of a California Department of Motor Vehicles office, and it mines the most universal hatred…
One for the true crime shelf: Netflix’s summer 2026 limited series digs into the case that haunted the Pacific Northwest, told with the docudrama polish the streamer does best. It arrived in July with little fanfare and quietly became one…
Guy Ritchie does television, and somehow it works. Theo James plays the aristocrat who inherits a title along with the family business: a cannabis empire tucked into the grounds of a country estate. Kaya Scodelario is the brilliant, terrifying business…
The most easygoing procedural on TV right now. A demoted detective and a con man doing community service get forced into a partnership, and their casework quickly becomes a con artist’s playbook applied to solving crimes. It is a CBC…
A rich family loses everything except a small town they bought as a joke, and six seasons later you will cry at a wedding. The setup is a fish out of water sitcom; the show it becomes is one of…
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…
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…
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…
Two idiots laugh at music videos. That was the whole pitch in 1993, and somehow Mike Judge built one of the most influential animated shows ever out of it, then handed the culture the template for idiot comedy that everything…