Resident Alien
An alien crashes in Colorado, kills the town doctor, takes his form, and plans humanity’s extinction, except he slowly becomes fond of the humans he is meant to destroy. Alan Tudyk does the finest physical comedy of his career as…
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Fantasy Island
The 2021 reboot of the fantasy resort drama updates the wishes with modern anxieties, and the result is a network drama that plays like comfort food with a small sprinkle of meaning. Roselyn Sanchez is a warm presence as the…
Alone
The best survival show on television because it is the only real one: ten people dropped alone in wilderness with ten items and a camera kit, last one standing wins. No crews, no vote offs, just self taped slow starvation…
Invader ZIM
A tiny, loud alien invader and his dysfunctional robot sidekick GIR attempt to conquer Earth while the world’s most paranoid child fails to expose him. Jhonen Vasquez’s nightmare cartoon is gorgeous in its hideousness and funnier than anything Nickelodeon aired…
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…
The Venture Bros.
A failure of a boy adventurer, his bodyguard, and his sons live in the shadow of his father’s legacy while the world of super science and costumed villainy grinds on around them, and it is one of the most intricately…
The Legend of Vox Machina
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…
Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears
The show that proved Disney animation could work on TV: secret medieval bears brew gummiberry juice, bounce like superheroes, and protect their kingdom from ogres. For an 80s cartoon it is remarkably well crafted, with real season long storytelling and…
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…
Metalocalypse
Dethklok, the greatest death metal band in history and the seventh largest economy on Earth, is so popular that their fans die at concerts and their managers secretly plot the apocalypse. Brendon Small’s metal opera parody is played so straight…