Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Joss Whedon’s Victorian women with strange powers show, minus Whedon partway through, is a gorgeous mess: great cast, great premise, sumptuous production, and plotting that visibly lost its architect halfway through. Laura Donnelly and Ann Skelly are wonderful, and the…
Based on Bruce Lee’s writings, a martial arts drama about Chinese immigrants in 1870s San Francisco, with tong wars, political corruption, and some of the best fight choreography ever filmed for TV. Andrew Koji is a genuine star, and the…
Ten thousand years before Paul Atreides, the sisterhood that becomes the Bene Gesserit is fighting for survival inside the empire’s power games. Emily Watson and Olivia Williams as sisters on opposite sides of that fight are worth the price alone.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Danny McBride’s third HBO trilogy of terrible people is his best: a famous televangelist family that loves Jesus, money, and fighting each other, usually in that order. John Goodman anchors it, Walton Goggins steals entire seasons as Baby Billy, and…
A sequel to the cult adventure series, with a new Librarian pulled from the past into the present. The bones of the old show’s charm are still there: artifacts, puzzles, a team of misfits saving the world with trivia. But…
The best thing to happen to Westeros since the original show peaked. Based on George R. R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg novellas, it follows a hedge knight and his squire wandering a kingdom in decline, and it swaps Game of…