Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Marvel’s strangest swing in years is a Hollywood buddy comedy with almost no superheroing in it. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Simon Williams, a working actor who cannot catch a break, and Ben Kingsley returns as Trevor Slattery, the washed up…
Rob Lowe as a Manhattan firefighter who moves to Austin with his son and takes over a Texas firehouse that does not want him. It is the 9-1-1 formula at maximum soap: city meets country, every call is a catastrophe,…
Shawn Ryan's adaptation of Matthew Quirk's novel became Netflix's surprise smash of 2023, and the reason is simple: it is a straight ahead, professionally built conspiracy thriller with no self importance and no dead weight. Gabriel Basso plays Peter Sutherland, a low level FBI agent stuck monitoring an emergency phone line that never rings, until it rings, and he is suddenly protecting Rose Larkin, a tech CEO played by Luciane Buchanan, while uncovering a mole hunt that reaches the White House. Ten episodes, one escalating night of it, and a full second season set in Bangkok.
Zachary Quinto plays Dr. Oliver Wolf, a brilliant, openly gay neurologist loosely inspired by Oliver Sacks, who loses his hospital job for unconventional methods and starts a practice with a team of young residents at Bronx General, treating the strangest cases in medicine. The premise is House by way of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and the show commits fully to the case format: face blindness, alien hand syndrome, a woman who cannot recognize her own daughter, each treated as a puzzle with a human attached.
A rural Georgia farm, a strange blue circle on the ground, and neighbors who stop being entirely themselves. Teacup takes the Invasion of the Body Snatchers idea, slows it to a crawl, and bolts it to a family drama about…
A series of heinous crimes have unsettled a small community. Detective Lois Tryon feels these crimes are eerily personal, as if someone – or something – is taunting her. At home, Lois grapples with a strained relationship with her daughter,…
Ryan Murphy put Joshua Jackson on a cruise ship as Dr. Max Bankman, the new on board physician for the luxury liner The Odyssey, with Phillipa Soo and Sean Teale as his medical team, and the result is the most gloriously unhinged network drama of the season. Every week brings a themed cruise, singles week, plastic surgery week, a Halloween voyage, and every week the ship's compliment of medical catastrophes escalates from implausible to frankly supernatural. There is a throuple. There are multiple mass casualty events. The season ends on a twist about the nature of reality itself that made national news.
A metropolis in turmoil. From economy to culture, politics to the underworld, everything is in the grip of radical change.Speculation and inflation are already tearing away at the foundations of the still young Weimar Republic. Growing poverty and unemployment stand…
Set in the breath-taking coast of Ireland, Bad Sisters follows the lives of the Garvey sisters, who are bound together by the premature death of their parents and a promise to always protect one another. The tight-knit Garvey sisters have…
Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, scheme, and dream their way toward California, honoring a friend they lost. Every episode plays like a short film, funny one minute, quietly devastating the next. This is one of the best shows…