Lucifer
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…
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The Good Place
Eleanor Shellstrop dies and ends up in the wrong afterlife, and the show that follows is the smartest high concept comedy ever aired. Every season reinvents itself (the season 1 finale is one of the great TV twists), and underneath…
Pokemon
Ash, Pikachu, and 25 plus years of the adventure that defined a generation’s childhood. The Indigo League run is comfort viewing royalty: the nostalgia is load bearing, and the show knows it. The honest take: this is not a prestige…
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
Generations of the Joestar family, each fighting a bizarre battle against an escalating rogues gallery of vampires, Stand users, and men named Dio. No anime has more range: every part swaps protagonist, tone, setting, and art style, and somehow it…
Love Is Blind
Singles get engaged without ever seeing each other, then meet and have to decide if love really was blind. The experiment is nonsense sociology and irresistible television: the pods conversations are genuine vulnerability and the altar scenes are the best…
The Crown
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…
Bridgerton
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 Witcher
Geralt of Rivia, a mutated monster hunter for hire, roams a grimy medieval world where the real monsters are usually the people. Based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s books (not the games, though the games made it famous), the series follows three…
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story tells the story of how one young woman changed what the world believed a killer could be... all it took was an axe.When the repressed daughter of a wealthy New England family and her rebellious maid find themselves trapped in a
Castlevania
Inspired by the classic video game series, Castlevania is a dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepe himself.