1883
The best thing Taylor Sheridan has made. This prequel follows the original Duttons on a wagon train heading west, and it plays the frontier as the death march it actually was: river crossings, bandits, and grief at every mile. Sam…
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Yellowstone
Kevin Costner’s John Dutton runs the largest ranch in Montana and defends it like a feudal lord: politicians, land developers, and his own children all get the treatment. Taylor Sheridan’s flagship is a soap opera in a cowboy hat, and…
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A boy joins the demon slayer corps after his family is slaughtered and his sister is turned, and the quest to cure her drives a gorgeous, surprisingly emotional adventure. Ufotable’s animation turns every fight into a painting, and the Mugen…
Jujutsu Kaisen
A student swallows a cursed finger and becomes the host of a legendary demon, and the fight against curses begins. MAPPA’s animation is the best in the business right now: every battle is a showcase, and the Shibuya arc is…
Attack on Titan
Humanity’s last city hides behind giant walls from giants that eat people, and the truth behind the walls becomes one of the most ambitious stories anime has ever told. What starts as a monster thriller turns into a war epic…
True Detective
The first season is a legend: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana detectives hunting a killer across seventeen years, with a mood so thick you can taste it. Rust Cohle’s philosophy made half the internet quote it for a…
Chernobyl
Five episodes about the 1986 nuclear disaster, and not one wasted minute. Jared Harris’s scientist, Stellan Skarsgard’s bureaucrat, and Emily Watson’s physicist work to contain a reactor that cannot be contained while the Soviet system lies about everything. The radiation…
Succession
A media dynasty’s awful adult children claw for their father’s approval while he tortures them for sport. Succession is the funniest tragedy on television: every episode is a corporate crisis staged like a war room, and every insult is a…
The Sopranos
The show that built the golden age of television. Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss, starts seeing a therapist after panic attacks, and the series becomes the deepest character study the medium has ever attempted. James Gandolfini does more…
The Wire
The best show ever made, and the least sentimental about it. Each season takes one institution in Baltimore, the police, the docks, city hall, the schools, the press, and shows how it fails the people inside it. David Simon was…