Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The greatest prank in television history, played out over an entire season. One regular guy, Matt Kennedy Gould, believes he is competing on a reality show called The Lap of Luxury. Everyone else, every single contestant, host, and crew member,…
The doctors of Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital deal with life-or-death consequences on a daily basis — it’s in one another that they find comfort, friendship and, at times, more than friendship. Together they’re discovering that neither medicine nor relationships can…
A young William Adama, fresh out of the academy, gets posted to a rust bucket of a warship in the first Cylon war, and the result is BSG turned into a space dogfight movie. Luke Pasqualino plays young Adama with…
The Battlestar Galactica prequel that asked a fair question: how did the Cylons begin? The answer it gives is genuinely interesting, a story about grief, monotheism, and a tech dynasty building the first robot consciousness out of a dead daughter’s…
A big swings island adventure from 2008 that tried to turn Robinson Crusoe into an action series: sword fights, pirates, treasure maps, flashbacks to his life in England, and a gorgeous island set built in Yorkshire. Philip Winchester makes a…
An Apple TV+ limited series about a young woman with serious family baggage who gets pulled back into a world she tried to leave behind. It looks fantastic, the performances are committed, and it moves at a clip that respects…
Three indeterminate siblings escape a water tower and inflict 90s pop culture satire on the world, and somehow it still slaps decades later. The writing was always too fast and too smart for kids, which is exactly why adults never…
Nathan Fielder helps small businesses with schemes so elaborate they circle from idiotic to genius, and the results are the most uncomfortable, most brilliant comedy of the decade. The Dumb Starbucks episode, the pig rescue, the finale, Rehearsal spawning from…
A washed 90s sitcom star who is a horse tries to get his career back and instead unravels, taking the audience somewhere no cartoon has gone: an honest portrait of depression, addiction, and the fear that you are the problem.…
Donald Glover’s masterpiece follows a rapper’s cousin managing his career through an Atlanta that slides between comedy, drama, and outright horror without warning. The first two seasons are two of the best seasons of television this century, and the standalone…