Shows You Should Be Watching
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A severed arm washed up in the Keys pulls a suspended detective into a Florida noir, and Vince Vaughn finally gets the role his motormouth was built for. Carl Hiaasen’s brand of environmental crime comedy survives the adaptation fully intact,…
Jeff Bridges as a former CIA operative living off the grid whose past comes calling, and the chase drama is elevated by the best veteran ensemble on TV: Bridges, John Lithgow as his pursuer, and Alia Shawkat as the agent…
Amanda Seyfried becomes Elizabeth Holmes, blinking her way from Stanford dropout to fraudulent billionaire, and the Theranos collapse becomes a tragicomedy about ambition with nothing behind it. Naveen Andrews as Sunny Balwani matches her beat for beat in shared delusion.…
The opioid catastrophe told through a Virginia mining town, the sales reps who pushed OxyContin, and the regulators who let them. Michael Keaton as a country doctor prescribing his patients into addiction is devastating, and Rosario Dawson’s DEA investigator carries…
Four vampires and their long suffering familiar share a house on Staten Island, and the mockumentary format turns centuries of horror into the best sitcom of its era. Matt Berry’s energy vampire is the funniest character on television, full stop,…
US Marshal Raylan Givens, played with perfect laconic cool by Timothy Olyphant, returns to his Kentucky hometown and starts aiming at his own past. Elmore Leonard’s dialogue has never been adapted better, and Walton Goggins’s Boyd Crowder is one of…
The 1980s Lakers become showtime, and Adam McKay’s production turns sports history into a neon comedy with a great John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss. Quincy Isaiah’s rookie Magic Johnson and the behind the scenes chaos of a franchise reinventing…
Young graduates claw for permanent positions at a London investment bank, and the finance drama is really a war story about ambition, drugs, and 3 AM deals. Myha’la’s Harper is one of TV’s great volatile leads, and Ken Leung’s desk…
Aldis Hodge becomes James Patterson’s Alex Cross, the detective psychologist hunting a killer with a taste for psychological warfare. Hodge brings real gravity to the character Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry played before him, and the DC setting is used…
A morning news program implodes in a Me Too scandal, and Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon fight for the wreckage. The first season is a genuinely sharp drama about power and complicity in media, with Billy Crudup’s network executive stealing…