Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Fifteen years after James May first visited Japan as a baffled tourist, he’ll be embarking on a quest to understand the unique, extraordinary and complex country. The birthplace of the haiku and classical art forms driven by the principles of…
Gathering in the care home where they now live, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May host three special shows looking back at their favourite Grand Tour moments. Or at least the ones they can remember. Their fading memories stretch…
The Night Manager is John le Carré adapted with an actual budget, and it shows in every frame. Tom Hiddleston plays a hotel manager recruited to infiltrate the inner circle of an arms dealer played by way-too-charming Hugh Laurie. It…
Absentia centers on an FBI agent who, while hunting one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers, disappears without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, she is found in a cabin in the woods, barely alive and with…
This series centers on Loudermilk who is a recovering alcoholic and substance-abuse counselor with an extremely bad attitude about everything. He is unapologetically uncensored and has managed to piss off everyone. Although he has his drinking under control, Loudermilk’s life…
Critical Role’s campaign one becomes an adult animated fantasy about a drunken, dysfunctional mercenary crew who end up saving the world mostly by accident and stubbornness. The first season is raunchy fun, and from season two on it becomes a…
Dropout’s comedy game show where the game changes every episode and the rules exist mostly to embarrass the players, and it is the most reliably funny thing on the internet. Sam Reich hosts with the smug glee of a mad…
The 80s satanic panic as a horror drama: a Michigan town’s teenager dies, a metal band leeches the occult rumors for fame, and the whole town spirals. The period detail is thick, the cast is game, and it is smarter…
Eddie Redmayne as a precision assassin and Lashana Lynch as the officer hunting him, in a globetrotting cat and mouse that updates the classic novel with real style. The tradecraft is detailed, the identities are layered, and both leads are…
The one you meant: the 2015 space opera about six people who wake on a derelict ship with no memories, armed with a pile of weapons and a receipt for murders they cannot remember. Each carries a hidden past, and…