Tag shows you should be watching

The Walking Dead

The show that made zombies prestige television and kept the entire horror genre on the map for over a decade. Rick Grimes wakes from a coma into the apocalypse, and what follows is 177 episodes of survival drama where the…

Dark Matter

The one you meant: the 2015 space opera about six people who wake on a derelict ship with no memories, armed with a pile of weapons and a receipt for murders they cannot remember. Each carries a hidden past, and…

Harry Potter

The Early Word: HBO is remaking Harry Potter as a television series, one season per book, with an entirely new cast. Season 1 adapts Philosopher’s Stone and premieres December 25, 2026: a Christmas Day arrival that HBO is treating as…

Dark Matter

The Apple TV+ sci-fi hit based on Blake Crouch’s novel. A physicist is knocked out one night and wakes up in a life that is not his: same city, same wife, but the choices went differently. The multiverse concept is…

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

The newest Trek: the first new series built for a new generation of characters, following cadets at the rebuilt Starfleet Academy in the 32nd century. Robert Picardo is back as the Doctor from Voyager (a fan service moment done right),…

Star Trek

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…

Doctor Who

A box that is bigger on the inside, a two hearted alien with a police box, and six decades of reinvention. Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction show on Earth for a reason: every few years the Doctor…

Neagley

The Early Word: Frances Neagley finally gets her own show. Maria Sten’s ex military investigator was always the fan favorite part of Reacher, the competent, coffee-averse fixer who could carry a season on her own, and Prime Video agreed: this…

Lucifer

The Devil quits Hell, opens a piano bar in Los Angeles, and starts solving crimes with the LAPD. It sounds like a joke pitch, and for the first half of season 1 it sort of is. Then the show figures…