Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Mel Brooks’ sketch show sequel arrives 42 years later with a whole writers room of comedy ringers doing bits across history. When it hits, it is very funny, and when it misses it is still trying something, which is more…
Chris Elliott as a 30 year old paperboy living above his parents’ garage in one of TV’s first truly weird anti sitcoms. It deliberately looks like a 50s sitcom and behaves like a fever dream, killing off its lead repeatedly…
A 90s Dick Wolf cop show with a difference: two detectives in Harlem, a soundtrack that was basically a hip hop and R&B chart, and a club as the office. Malik Yoba and Michael DeLorenzo had real chemistry, and the…
Elisabeth Moss built one of television’s great performances as June, a woman surviving a nightmare theocracy that dresses its cruelty in scripture. The first three seasons are some of the most tense and beautifully made drama of its era, and…
The Handmaid’s Tale sequel series pulls off something impressive: it feels like a natural next chapter instead of a cash in. Set years after Gilead’s peak, it follows a new generation of young women inside and outside the regime, and…
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…
The quiet masterpiece of adult animation. Where its loud cousins went for shock, King of the Hill built a sitcom about a Texas propane salesman and his family that plays like a live action show that happens to be drawn.…
The Belcher family runs a burger restaurant that never quite succeeds, and the show around them is the warmest thing in adult animation. Where its peers went for edge, Bob’s Burgers went for heart: a family that genuinely likes each…
FX’s adaptation of James Clavell’s novel is a genuine epic and the best new show in years. In 1600s Japan an English pilot lands in a country on the edge of civil war, and the series builds a political chess…
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…