This Is Not Happening
Ari Shaffir’s Comedy Central storytelling show where stand ups sit in a grimy basement and try to out shock each other with true stories. The premise is simple: comedians take the stage not for jokes but for the craziest thing…
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Yo Joe! The 1983 Sunbow animated series that turned a Hasbro toy line into Saturday morning legend. The Joes, America’s elite special missions force, battle Cobra Commander and the forces of Cobra Command week after week with lasers that never…
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
Netflix’s live action take on the impossible: adapting one of the most beloved animated series ever made. Gordon Cormier leads a mostly excellent young cast through a gorgeously realized world of bending nations, and when it works, firebending on a…
Malcolm in the Middle
The anti sitcom of the early 2000s: no laugh track, no hugging, no lessons, just a chaotic lower middle class family seen through the eyes of a genius kid trapped in it. Frankie Muniz’s fourth wall breaks, Bryan Cranston’s career…
The Finder
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…
Mr. Bean
Rowan Atkinson’s near silent masterpiece of physical comedy. Mr. Bean, a selfish man child with a tweed jacket and a turkey on his head, navigates ordinary life as a series of slow burning catastrophes, and almost every gag lands because…
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
The best travel show ever made, and one of the best shows of any kind of its decade. Bourdain went to the Congo, Libya, Iran, Myanmar, the Bronx, and everywhere in between, eating what locals ate and asking the questions…
Halo
The Master Chief finally came to live action and the results were, well, divisive. Pablo Schreiber fills the armor well, the production design brings the games’ hardware to life convincingly, and the space battles are legitimately great spectacle. The controversy…
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
The show where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter, and the funniest half hour on television for over two decades. Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie’s telepathy remains one of comedy’s great partnerships, Wayne Brady proved improv could be…
Hot Ones
The show with hot questions and even hotter wings. Sean Evans interviews celebrities over ten progressively brutal chicken wings, and the format is secretly genius: by wing six the glamour drops, the PR training dissolves, and you get the most…