How I Met Your Mother
How I Met Your Mother is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. It all starts when Ted’s best friend, Marshall drops the bombshell that he’s going to propose to his long-time girlfriend, Lilya kindergarten teacher. At…
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The Joe Schmo Show
The greatest prank in television history, played out over an entire season. One regular guy, Matt Kennedy Gould, believes he is competing on a reality show called The Lap of Luxury. Everyone else, every single contestant, host, and crew member,…
Nathan for You
Nathan Fielder helps small businesses with schemes so elaborate they circle from idiotic to genius, and the results are the most uncomfortable, most brilliant comedy of the decade. The Dumb Starbucks episode, the pig rescue, the finale, Rehearsal spawning from…
Key & Peele
The best sketch show of its generation. Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele play every character under the sun with movie star charisma and surgical precision, from substitute teachers losing their minds to valet fanboys worshipping Liam Neesons. When it…
Upright Citizens Brigade
The UCB four, including a young Amy Poehler, bring their stage improv philosophy to basic cable with sketches about a universe that does not care about your dignity. It is raw, hit or miss, and occasionally years ahead of its…
The Curse
Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone as flippers selling eco conscious homes in New Mexico while a suspected curse erodes their lives, and it is the most uncomfortable show of its year by a mile. The style is slow cinema cranked…
Knuckles
The Sonic universe expands with a series about the echidna learning to relax in rural Montana while training a hapless deputy sheriff in the ways of the warrior. Idris Elba voicing Knuckles with total Shakespearean commitment is the joke, and…
The Agency
A CIA officer goes back undercover in London and everything gets complicated: the job, the woman he loved on a past mission, and the agency’s trust in him. Michael Fassbender does quiet paranoia better than anyone, and the show has…
DMV
Nobody expects much from a show called DMV, and that is exactly the charm. CBS’s single camera comedy follows the clerks, customers, and small tragedies of a California Department of Motor Vehicles office, and it mines the most universal hatred…
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
The newest Trek: the first new series built for a new generation of characters, following cadets at the rebuilt Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. Robert Picardo is back as the Doctor from Voyager (a fan service moment done right),…