Barry
A hitman takes an acting class and discovers he wants to be a different person, which is the funniest and darkest premise HBO has aired. Bill Hader and Henry Winger play the contradiction beautifully, a man committing murder while sincerely…
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Elsbeth
The Good Wife’s oddball lawyer moves to New York as a consent decree watchdog and starts outthinking NYPD homicide detectives while wearing joyfully deranged outfits. Carrie Preston has been stealing scenes for fifteen years and this is her victory lap:…
High Potential
Kaitlin Olson plays a single mom of three with a 160 IQ who cleans police stations until she solves a case on a whiteboard, and the mystery genre gets its most charming new lead. The will they won’t they with…
Tracker
Justin Hartley as a survivalist who finds missing people for reward money, drifting from town to town with a backpack and a smile. It is the number one show on broadcast television, and the reason is simple: Hartley is genuinely…
Marshals
The 2026 Yellowstone followup that became the number one new show on television: Luke Grimes’s Kayce Dutton trades the ranch for a federal badge, chasing fugitives across the modern west. The procedural frame fits the universe better than expected, and…
True Detective
The first season is a legend: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana detectives hunting a killer across seventeen years, with a mood so thick you can taste it. Rust Cohle’s philosophy made half the internet quote it for a…
The Sopranos
The show that built the golden age of television. Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss, starts seeing a therapist after panic attacks, and the series becomes the deepest character study the medium has ever attempted. James Gandolfini does more…
The Wire
The best show ever made, and the least sentimental about it. Each season takes one institution in Baltimore, the police, the docks, city hall, the schools, the press, and shows how it fails the people inside it. David Simon was…
Tulsa King
Sylvester Stallone finally comes to television, and it turns out he is perfect for it. He plays Dwight Manfredi, a New York mafia capo who gets out of prison after 25 years and is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma to establish…
MobLand
With the most powerful clients in Europe, MobLand will see family fortunes and reputations at risk, odd alliances unfold, and betrayal around every corner; and while the family might be London's most elite fixers today, the nature of their business means there