Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
A morning news program implodes in a Me Too scandal, and Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon fight for the wreckage. The first season is a genuinely sharp drama about power and complicity in media, with Billy Crudup’s network executive stealing…
Four generations of a Korean family living in Japan, told across two timelines, and the result is the most beautiful series Apple has made. Min Jin Lee’s novel becomes a chronicle of discrimination, endurance, and love with a cast led…
Jake Gyllenhaal as a prosecutor accused of murdering his mistress, adapting Scott Turow’s classic into an eight episode whirlwind. The courtroom turns are genuinely shocking, and Gyllenhaal plays ambiguity like an instrument: guilty or not, you will change your mind…
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…
Singles get engaged without ever seeing each other, then meet and have to decide if love really was blind. The experiment is nonsense sociology and irresistible television: the pods conversations are genuine vulnerability and the altar scenes are the best…
In a world where almost everyone has a superpower, a boy born without one inherits the greatest power of all and enrolls in hero school. The shonen formula executed at its highest level: tournaments, rivalries, villains with actual philosophies, and…
A boy searches for the father who abandoned him by taking the world’s deadliest licensing exam, and Yoshihiro Togashi’s masterpiece unfolds arc after arc of escalating genius: a tournament that isn’t, a video game that is real, a war between…
A Viking boy swears revenge for his father’s murder and gets raised by the man who killed him, and the revenge story becomes something no one expects: a meditation on violence, slavery, and whether a warrior can put down the…
Aliens are real, ghosts are real, and the boy who believes in ghosts meets the girl who believes in aliens. Science Saru’s animation makes every fight a jam session, and the leads’ bickering chemistry is instant. The turbo granny arc…
A boy saddled with debt merges with his chainsaw devil dog and becomes a weapon for the government’s devil hunters. MAPPA’s film grade production, the needle drops, and Denji’s simple dreams, real bread, a normal life, make this the coolest…