The Old Man
Jeff Bridges as a former CIA operative living off the grid whose past comes calling, and the chase drama is elevated by the best veteran ensemble on TV: Bridges, John Lithgow as his pursuer, and Alia Shawkat as the agent…
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The Dropout
Amanda Seyfried becomes Elizabeth Holmes, blinking her way from Stanford dropout to fraudulent billionaire, and the Theranos collapse becomes a tragicomedy about ambition with nothing behind it. Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani matches her beat for beat in shared delusion.…
Dopesick
The opioid catastrophe told through a Virginia mining town, the sales reps who pushed OxyContin, and the regulators who let them. Michael Keaton as a country doctor prescribing his patients into addiction is devastating, and Rosario Dawson’s DEA investigator carries…
Justified
US Marshal Raylan Givens, played with perfect laconic cool by Timothy Olyphant, returns to his Kentucky hometown and starts aiming at his own past. Elmore Leonard’s dialogue has never been adapted better, and Walton Goggins’s Boyd Crowder is one of…
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
The 1980s Lakers become showtime, and Adam McKay’s production turns sports history into a neon comedy with a great John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss. Quincy Isaiah’s rookie Magic Johnson and the behind the scenes chaos of a franchise reinventing…
Industry
Young graduates claw for permanent positions at a London investment bank, and the finance drama is really a war story about ambition, drugs, and 3 AM deals. Myha’la’s Harper is one of TV’s great volatile leads, and Ken Leung’s desk…
The Morning Show
A morning news program implodes in a Me Too scandal, and Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon fight for the wreckage. The first season is a genuinely sharp drama about power and complicity in media, with Billy Crudup’s network executive stealing…
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family living in Japan, told across two timelines, and the result is the most beautiful series Apple has made. Min Jin Lee’s novel becomes a chronicle of discrimination, endurance, and love with a cast led…
For All Mankind
The space race never ends in this alternate history where the Soviets land on the moon first and America refuses to lose. Each season jumps a decade: moon bases, Mars, asteroid mining, with the engineers and astronauts aging through it…
The Wheel of Time
Amazon’s adaptation of Robert Jordan’s fourteen novel epic follows Moiraine, an Aes Sedai witch, gathering young villagers who might be the prophesied Dragon Reborn. Rosamund Pike gives it movie star gravity, and the world building is genuinely huge: cities, armies,…