Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is the 1990s sitcom that launched Will Smith and somehow never aged out of rotation. A West Philadelphia teenager moves in with his rich relatives in Bel-Air, and the show runs on the friction between…
Superstore is a workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized megastore. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of rabid…
A big swings island adventure from 2008 that tried to turn Robinson Crusoe into an action series: sword fights, pirates, treasure maps, flashbacks to his life in England, and a gorgeous island set built in Yorkshire. Philip Winchester makes a…
An alien crashes in Colorado, kills the town doctor, takes his form, and plans humanity’s extinction, except he slowly becomes fond of the humans he is meant to destroy. Alan Tudyk does the finest physical comedy of his career as…
The best survival show on television because it is the only real one: ten people dropped alone in wilderness with ten items and a camera kit, last one standing wins. No crews, no vote offs, just self taped slow starvation…
A detective wrongly imprisoned for 12 years returns to the force with a settlement, a zen streak, and an appetite for justice, and nobody makes a show like this anymore. Damian Lewis is magnetic as Charlie Crews, drinking fruit smoothies…
A talkative amnesiac courier drives across a post apocalyptic wasteland delivering a package, with a silent, axe wielding car thief as a passenger and Anthony Mackie clearly having the time of his life. It is a video game adaptation that…
Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale, a human lie detector on the run, drifting through America solving murders Columbo style, and it is the most purely entertaining procedural in decades. Rian Johnson built a show where every episode is a little…
The 2022 revival: a new physicist leaps into lives that need fixing, with the original’s heart updated for a streaming era. Raymond Lee is genuinely winning in the lead, and the connections to Sam Beckett’s story give fans real closure…
Four travelers slide between parallel Earths, finding worlds where the small details of history went differently. The first two seasons are great pulp science fiction: the premise does the heavy lifting and the writers actually explore ideas. Then Fox meddled,…