New York Undercover
A 90s Dick Wolf cop show with a difference: two detectives in Harlem, a soundtrack that was basically a hip hop and R&B chart, and a club as the office. Malik Yoba and Michael DeLorenzo had real chemistry, and the…
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The Franchise
Armando Iannucci’s team takes on superhero moviemaking, following the abused crew of a franchise film as it falls apart one catastrophic day at a time. Himesh Patel is great as the first AD holding it all together, and the satire…
Rick and Morty: The Anime
Rick and Morty reimagined as an anime with a serialized sci fi plot about time loops and memory. It looks great and takes real swings, but the voice work loses the live cast’s comic timing and the humor mostly evaporates…
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…
Happy Tree Friends
The internet’s favorite cute animals dying horribly, in web short form. What started as a joke became genuinely influential: the contrast between the cuddly art style and the over the top carnage is still the whole joke, and it still…
Flight of the Conchords
Two Kiwi musicians try to make it in New York with one fan, one manager, and no money. The deadpan is immaculate, the songs are legitimately great, and Bret and Jemaine remain two of the most lovable losers television has…
Bookie
Danny McBride’s other other show: Sebastian Maniscalco as a bookie scrambling through a collapsing industry while the world legalizes gambling out from under him. It is rougher and smaller scale than his HBO work, more shaggy dog than saga. Maniscalco’s…
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
A back to basics Spider-Man cartoon that feels like the classic comics: Peter Parker, broke teenager, juggling school, a job, and supervillains who keep robbing the place he works. The friendly retro art style is a breath of fresh air…
Creature Commandos
James Gunn’s first DC project is exactly what you would hope: a black ops team of monsters nobody would miss, sent on missions nobody else can do. It is crude, funny, and sneakily emotional, with each monster getting a flashback…
Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches
AMC’s take on Rice’s witch saga is gothic soap done with real atmosphere: New Orleans haze, family curses, and Alexandra Daddario leading as a surgeon who learns her bloodline has a very attached passenger. Jack Huston’s Lasher is suitably seductive…