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…
The newest Trek: the first new series built for a new generation of characters, following cadets at the rebuilt Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. Robert Picardo is back as the Doctor from Voyager (a fan service moment done right),…
A box that is bigger on the inside, a two hearted alien with a police box, and six decades of reinvention. Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction show on Earth for a reason: every few years the Doctor…
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 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…