Mythic Quest
The best comedy about making video games ever made, and one of the best workplace comedies period. Rob McElhenney’s Ian is a glorious ego monster, and the show around him finds a balance of dumb comedy and real heart that…
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Side Quest
An anthology spinoff from Mythic Quest that explores the wider world of the studio and its people, one self contained story at a time. Without the main cast anchoring every episode, it plays like a collection of short films about…
Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld
More animated Star Wars shorts, this time following Asajj Ventress and Cad Bane through the galaxy’s gutters. The Ventress chapters are the stronger half, giving one of the franchise’s best characters an actual redemption arc with room to breathe. Bane’s…
The Righteous Gemstones
Danny McBride’s third HBO trilogy of terrible people is his best: a famous televangelist family that loves Jesus, money, and fighting each other, usually in that order. John Goodman anchors it, Walton Goggins steals entire seasons as Baby Billy, and…
The Handmaid’s Tale
Elisabeth Moss built one of television’s great performances as June, a woman surviving a nightmare theocracy that dresses its cruelty in scripture. The first three seasons are some of the most tense and beautifully made drama of its era, and…
The Librarians: The Next Chapter
A sequel to the cult adventure series, with a new Librarian pulled from the past into the present. The bones of the old show’s charm are still there: artifacts, puzzles, a team of misfits saving the world with trivia. But…
Ironheart
Riri Williams builds her own Iron Man style armor while dealing with grief, money problems, and a very charming villain. Dominique Thorne is great and Alden Ehrenreich’s take on the Hood gives the back half a real jolt. The problem…
Murderbot
An action comedy about a security android that hacked its own governor module and would honestly rather watch soap operas than protect humans, except it keeps accidentally caring about them. Alexander Skarsgard plays Murderbot with perfect deadpan exhaustion, and the…
Marvel Zombies
What if the Marvel universe got eaten? This animated series answers that with real teeth, letting heroes turn and the survivors actually suffer. It is short, bloody, and refreshingly consequence heavy for a franchise usually afraid to hurt anyone. The…
Nobody Wants This
An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall for each other, and the show about their impossible relationship is the surprise romantic comedy hit of its year. Kristen Bell and Adam Brody have the kind of chemistry you…