Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. The 1994 Disney series about a clan of Scottish gargoyles awakened in modern Manhattan remains the single best thing Disney Television Animation ever produced. By day they sleep as stone, by…
The Bones spin-off nobody expected: Geoff Stults as Walter Sherman, a brain damaged Iraq vet with an unshakable gift for finding anything, anyone, or any answer, working out of a Florida keys bar with a paranoid lawyer and a teenage…
The Jilly Cooper adaptation nobody expected and everybody loved: 1980s British TV executives at war over ratings, horses, and each other, with the poshest, horniest soap energy on television. Alex Hassell’s Rupert Campbell Black and David Tennant’s scheming Lord Baddingham…
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…
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…
More animated Star Wars shorts, this time following Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane through the galaxy’s gutters. The Ventress chapters are the stronger half, giving one of the franchise’s best characters an actual redemption arc with room to breathe. Bane’s…
Riri Williams builds her own Iron Man style armor while dealing with grief, money problems, and a very charming villain. Dominique Thorne is great and Alden Ehrenreich’s take on the Hood gives the back half a real jolt. The problem…
What if the Marvel universe got eaten? This animated series answers that with real teeth, letting heroes turn and the survivors actually suffer. It is short, bloody, and refreshingly consequence heavy for a franchise usually afraid to hurt anyone. The…
Two siblings spend a summer with their con man great uncle in a town where every tourist trap hides something real, and the result is the best animated show of its generation. Alex Hirsch built a mystery box that actually…
Sam Witwer has been the voice of Maul for over a decade and this series finally gives the character his proper spotlight. Set between the Clone Wars and his fate on Tatooine, it is a story about a broken man…