Documentary Now!
Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and a rotating cast of ringers parody famous documentaries so lovingly and precisely that the joke is how good the fake docs are. Every episode is a new style: Grey Gardens, The Thin Blue Line, Vice…
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Pluribus
A conspiracy thriller that jumps between timelines and perspectives, built around a mystery that keeps pulling you one more episode in. It is dense, occasionally to a fault, but the ambition is welcome and the cast sells every twist. If…
Shoresy
Letterkenny’s trash talking hockey enforcer gets his own show, coaching a doomed Native league team in Sudbury, and it is somehow the most big hearted sports comedy on TV. Every episode is a half hour of chirps that would get…
Gravity Falls
Two siblings spend a summer with their con man great uncle in a town where every tourist trap hides something real, and the result is the best animated show of its generation. Alex Hirsch built a mystery box that actually…
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
The best thing to happen to Westeros since the original show peaked. Based on George R. R. Martin’s Dunk and Egg novellas, it follows a hedge knight and his squire wandering a kingdom in decline, and it swaps Game of…
Spartacus: House of Ashur
The gladiator saga returns with its best villain as the lead: Nick Tarabay’s Ashur, the slave who schemed his way through three seasons of backstabbing, gets his own what if continuation. The blood, the slow motion, the operatic speeches are…
Reaper
A slacker finds out his soul was sold to the devil before he was born, and now he has to work as Satan’s bounty hunter capturing escaped souls with a dirt devil and a vape shop break room. Bret Harrison’s…
Silicon Valley
The best comedy HBO made in its era that nobody puts in the top tier, and that is a crime. A founder’s journey through the tech industry where every genius is also an idiot and every victory immediately breeds its…
Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord
Sam Witwer has been the voice of Maul for over a decade and this series finally gives the character his proper spotlight. Set between the Clone Wars and his fate on Tatooine, it is a story about a broken man…
The Testaments
The Handmaid’s Tale sequel series pulls off something impressive: it feels like a natural next chapter instead of a cash in. Set years after Gilead’s peak, it follows a new generation of young women inside and outside the regime, and…