Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Sam Levinson’s portrait of teenagers navigating addiction, love, and identity is the most visually daring show HBO has aired: makeup as armor, drug sequences as horror, and Zendaya delivering one of the great young performances as Rue, whose relapses the…
A legendary Vegas comedian past her prime hires a young writer canceled for a bad joke, and the war between them becomes the best written friendship on television. Jean Smart is operating at a level no one else touches, and…
Kathy Bates as a septuagenarian lawyer who joins a big firm and turns out to be playing a much longer game than anyone suspects. The title is a bait and switch: this is not a reboot, it is a stealth…
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…
Noah Wyle returns to the hospital and reinvents the medical drama: one fifteen hour shift, one episode per hour, no flashbacks, no romance subplots, just the grind of a Pittsburgh ER. It is the most realistic show about medicine ever…
Peter Morgan’s drama about Queen Elizabeth II’s reign is the gold standard of the Netflix prestige era. Each two season block recasts the royals, Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, and each actress builds the same woman at a different…
Shonda Rhimes does Regency romance, and the result is the most-watched Netflix original of its era: gorgeous gowns, string quartet covers of pop songs, and a different sibling finding love each season. The Lady Whistledown gossip column narrates it all…
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…
The McLusky family brokers peace in a Michigan prison town where the economy is incarceration. Jeremy Renner’s fixer is a man doing ugly work because no one else will, and the series is the darkest thing in the Sheridan universe:…
Billy Bob Thornton as a crisis fixer for a West Texas oil company, forever talking his way out of explosions, lawsuits, and cartel entanglements. Sheridan’s boomtown series has the best monologues on TV right now: Thornton delivers a speech about…