Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The forgotten chapter: the original cast returned in 1973 for two animated seasons that are officially canon and quietly ambitious. Freed from budget limits by animation, the show went places live action never could: alien designs the 60s show could…
The Original Series. Where every bit of it started: William Shatner’s Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy’s Spock, and a five year mission that only ran three seasons but changed television forever. Gene Roddenberry’s optimism, a multiracial crew in the middle of…
Two idiots laugh at music videos. That was the whole pitch in 1993, and somehow Mike Judge built one of the most influential animated shows ever out of it, then handed the culture the template for idiot comedy that everything…
Still the sharpest satire on television after 25 plus years, which is almost impossible. South Park’s superpower is speed: a six day production cycle that lets an episode about Tuesday’s news air that same week, and a willingness to attack…
The blueprint for everything reality television became, and still the best pure strategy game ever put on screen. Outwit, outplay, outlast is not a slogan, it is a complete philosophy of social manipulation, and forty plus seasons in, a well…
The Good Wife’s oddball lawyer moves to New York as a consent decree watchdog and starts outthinking NYPD homicide detectives while wearing joyfully deranged outfits. Carrie Preston has been stealing scenes for fifteen years and this is her victory lap:…
Kathy Bates as a septuagenarian lawyer who joins a big firm and turns out to be playing a much longer game than anyone suspects. The title is a bait and switch: this is not a reboot, it is a stealth…
Justin Hartley as a survivalist who finds missing people for reward money, drifting from town to town with a backpack and a smile. It is the number one show on broadcast television, and the reason is simple: Hartley is genuinely…
The 2026 Yellowstone followup that became the number one new show on television: Luke Grimes’s Kayce Dutton trades the ranch for a federal badge, chasing fugitives across the modern west. The procedural frame fits the universe better than expected, and…
The McLusky family brokers peace in a Michigan prison town where the economy is incarceration. Jeremy Renner’s fixer is a man doing ugly work because no one else will, and the series is the darkest thing in the Sheridan universe:…