Shows You Should Be Watching
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Cast & Key People Henry Cavill Clark Kent / Superman Amy Adams Lois Lane Michael Shannon General Zod Diane Lane Martha Kent Kevin Costner Jonathan Kent Russell Crowe Jor-El Laurence Fishburne Perry White Antje Traue Faora Watch the Trailer ▶…
The Buffy spin off moved the vampire with a soul to Los Angeles and quietly became a different, better show than most people remember. Where Buffy was about surviving growing up, Angel is about a grown man trying to atone for a century of atrocities and learning that redemption is not a finish line but a job. Angel Investigations, a detective agency that helps the helpless, gives the series a noir spine Buffy never had, and the early case of the week years use the city's neon rot far better than most LA dramas.
Joss Whedon's high school horror riff did something television had not managed before: it took the dumbest possible premise, a cheerleader kills vampires, and used it as scaffolding for the most literate genre drama of its era. Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a town built on a Hellmouth, and over seven seasons the show treats every monster as a metaphor for something real: first love that literally leaves a scar, the person you sleep with turning into a monster after, a mother's death that no slayer strength can fix. The gimmick was monsters, the subject was growing up.
HBO's three part true crime documentary digs into the 2002 Topeka murders of Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness and the two decade legal saga that followed, and it wisely spends as much time on the amateur investigators as the crime. Eileen and Keen Umbehr, a Kansas couple who became obsessed with the case after reading about it, spent years pushing a theory that prosecutors eventually used to convict Dana Chandler, and director Matthew Galkin builds the series around an uncomfortable question: what happens when true crime fans become part of the story?
Cast & Key People Will Friedle Lion-O Eamon Pirruccello WilyKat Emmanuelle Chriqui Cheetara Kevin Michael Richardson Panthro Madeleine Hall WilyKit Matthew Mercer Tygra Satomi Koorogi Snarf Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review ThunderCats (2011) is a action and adventure series…
Cast & Key People Larry Kenney Jackalman Doug Preis Alluro Lynne Lipton Wilykit Lynne Lipton Luna Earl Hammond Jaga Earl Hammond Vultureman Earl Hammond Amok Earl Hammond Amok Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review ThunderCats (1985) is a action and…
Cast & Key People Keith David Spawn Richard Dysart Cogliostro Todd McFarlane Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1997) is a action and horror series from HBO. It has built a run of 18 episodes at roughly…
Cast & Key People Anthony Bourdain Host Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2013) is a food and travel series from CNN. It has built a run of 95 episodes at roughly 60 minutes each. It…
Cast & Key People Nathan Fielder Nathan Fielder Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review The Rehearsal (2022) is a comedy series from HBO. It has built a run of 12 episodes. It premiered on July 15, 2022. Viewers rate it…
Cast & Key People John Wilson John Wilson Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review How To with John Wilson (2020) is a comedy series from HBO. It has built a run of 18 episodes at roughly 30 minutes each. It…