Nobody Wants This
An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall for each other, and the show about their impossible relationship is the surprise romantic comedy hit of its year. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody have the kind of chemistry you…
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Documentary Now!
Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and a rotating cast of ringers parody famous documentaries so lovingly and precisely that the joke is how good the fake docs are. Every episode is a new style: Grey Gardens, The Thin Blue Line, Vice…
Pluribus
A conspiracy thriller that jumps between timelines and perspectives, built around a mystery that keeps pulling you one more episode in. It is dense, occasionally to a fault, but the ambition is welcome and the cast sells every twist. If…
Shoresy
Letterkenny’s trash talking hockey enforcer gets his own show, coaching a doomed Native league team in Sudbury, and it is somehow the most big hearted sports comedy on TV. Every episode is a half hour of chirps that would get…
Gravity Falls
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…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
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…
Spartacus: House of Ashur
The gladiator saga returns with its best villain as the lead: Nick Tarabay’s Ashur, the slave who schemed his way through three seasons of backstabbing, gets his own what if continuation. The blood, the slow motion, the operatic speeches are…
Reaper
A slacker finds out his soul was sold to the devil before he was born, and now he has to work as Satan’s bounty hunter capturing escaped souls with a dirt devil and a vape shop break room. Bret Harrison’s…
Silicon Valley
The best comedy HBO made in its era that nobody puts in the top tier, and that is a crime. A founder’s journey through the tech industry where every genius is also an idiot and every victory immediately breeds its…
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord
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…