Comedy series following the exploits of Det. Votes: 99, After a supernatural event at his church, a preacher enlists the help of a vampire and his ex to find God.
Votes: 72, David Haller is a troubled young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, but after a strange encounter, he discovers special powers that will change his life forever. Votes: 87, TV-MA 28 min Comedy.
Follows the struggle of Richard Hendricks, a Silicon Valley engineer trying to build his own company called Pied Piper. Stars: Thomas Middleditch , T. Miller , Josh Brener , Martin Starr. In the 24th century, a group of humans untangle a vast plot which threatens the Solar System's fragile state of detente. TV 42 min Action, Adventure, Drama. After a series of events, the lives of a security operative and an assassin become inextricably linked. A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
Votes: 57, Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London during the War of to rebuild his late father's shipping empire. However, both the government and his biggest competitor want his inheritance at any cost - even murder. The trials and tribulations of criminal lawyer Jimmy McGill in the time before he established his strip-mall law office in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A look into the daily or rather, nightly lives of three vampires, who've lived together for over years, on Staten Island.
Votes: 59, Votes: 90, An injured hitman befriends his kidnapped daughter's imaginary friend - a perky blue flying unicorn. Votes: 36, TV min Comedy. Steve is asked to review restaurants for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend Rob who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart. Josh Jackson. If you have grown tired of the zombie takeover of TV, movies and videogames, revive yourself with In the Flesh.
The specifics of how this would actually play out in a sleepy English village, though, is what gives the series its emotion and charm. The series is a testament to the creativity that can still come out what seems like an oversaturated genre, and the deep truths that manifest through a focus on what it means to be human. Terriers will always be the one that got away. A cautionary tale about show titles was it a reality program about the Westminster Dog Show?
Perhaps it was ahead of its time: Unable to capitalize on the niche audience cable and streaming platforms now cultivate, and before Netflix got into the business of saving cult hits. The pair forms a PI firm, and their rag-tag approach to solving crimes leads them to commit a few of their own, in addition to all sorts of questionable but entertaining adventures.
So I keep holding out hope that Terriers will be back. We have gotten to know Miami, and gotten an inside look at running a hotel, making a telenovela and navigating the American immigration system. We have watched Jane lose the love of her life, then watched her recover from it—twice. We have watched Rafael lose everything and come back with a stronger sense of self. We have watched Petra grow into her own skin and find a love in JR she never knew she could have.
We have met these people. And that, truly, is a gift. One of the most brilliant shows on television, Rick and Morty uses its nerdiness and intelligence not as a gimmick, but as a way to open the literal dimensions of creative possibility, whether the ideas are original interdimensional cable, a sentient gas cloud named Fart or tongue-in-cheek homage to The Purge , Inception , even its own interdimensional cable episode.
Season Two, in particular, took protagonist Rick Sanchez into a profound depression matched only by BoJack Horseman among animated series aimed at adults. Her main character, Sarah Manning, is a young British mother living in Canada. The show is as much about identity and motherhood as it is the consequences of technology. But none of it would work without the humanity Maslany brings to each of the clones she portrays in the show. The guiding hand behind such English hits as Press Gang and Coupling , Steven Moffat has gained the most attention for resuscitating Dr.
Who into the Anglo-Saxon ambassador of science fiction. Calling Sherlock a television show is a tad deceptive, though; the series typically produces only a few movie-length stories each season.
As it has continued, it has dug deeper into the psychological fault lines of Holmes, played with sterile arrogance by Benedict Cumberbatch or as Seth Meyers noted on SNL , the only man with a name more ridiculous than Sherlock Holmes. Maisel are still really fun. The snappy series is wry, witty, and occasionally deeply emotional. But for the most part, it comes down to having a lot of funny words and a lot of beautiful costumes, as our protagonist Midge Rachel Brosnahan navigates her dual lives as a put-together mother of two and a brash standup comedian.
Brosnahan is exceptionally charming, and pulls Maisel back from the brink of occasionally becoming a little too theatrical. Maisel is pure escapism with some occasional well-earned bite. The Gang never change and they never grow, but we love them for it. The historical bent of the show was actually a perfect match for this ordinariness, simply because political and social events are always happening in the background and making up the backdrop of our lives.
The Wire was one of the best plotted shows in the history of television, but whenever Treme attempted to replicate any of this formula, it seemed to stumble. Still, the many crowd-pleasing moments throughout the show felt earned, as did our attachments to some of its unforgettable characters. This was the story of a city in crisis making a comeback, all set to one of the best soundtracks known to man.
Original Network: Netflix, present. By all means, renew Natasha Lyonne. Renew Amy Poehler. Renew Leslye Headland.
Renew Charlie Barnett. Renew Rebecca Henderson and Greta Lee as hot mess hipster art friends ready to make parties across the Netflix spectrum that much spikier and sparklier. Renew sharp, funny women directing sharp, funny women written by sharp, funny women. Renew that hair. Renew every damn thing about Russian Doll that helped make it such a brambly triumph of black comedy, macabre ennui and existential optimism.
Renewing Russian Doll as a whole is trickier. It is, in the eight shaggy, smartly-constructed puzzlebox episodes of its debut season, nearly perfect. Each episode installment has created indelible characters that stay with you long after the last tragic turn of events has unfolded. Hawley deftly explores universal themes like the death of the American dream, the struggle to feel self-worth, and the potential evil that lurks inside many of us. He does this with dark humor, eloquent violence, and thought-provoking plot twists.
Hawley upends our expectations. Things never unfold the way we expect. And we cannot wait for Season Four. Created by: Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. By the time Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. The general principle would be that June was making Chloe better, though it was more that Chloe was making June worse … which may have, in turn, actually made her better.
Sometimes that required Chloe to tranq June or dose her or trick her into signing adoption papers or the original tactic having sex with her boyfriend on her birthday cake.
The two pursue each other from Bedminster to Bruges more or less , in funny, flirty, fascinating fashion. When the breakout hit returned, it did so with a second season that acted as an almost perfect inverse of its first.
Villanelle is knocked off-kilter at least at first , and Eve ready and willing to commit violence— the dynamic fundamentally changed. The show also remained incredibly interesting and stylish, and introduced us to a host of interesting new characters and dilemmas for our core duo to face.
While grandmas and neighbors panic, and drunken youth egg the desperate pyromaniac on, Cawood adopts a pretty lax approach. All good things must come to an end. Besides delivering hours of layered entertainment that simultaneously appeal to both youthful viewers and their savvy adults supervisors, the show also successfully spun some of the most engaging long-term story arcs this side of Lost.
Being in your 20s is like going to war, and no show on television understands that better than Broad City. War is surely ugly, but the going is easier with a trusted, hilarious comrade by your side. Where Meredith and Cristina hugged each other and cried, Abbi and Illana tripped out on mushrooms and crashed parties. Through five seasons of hilarity and shenanigans, joints and jazz singers, guest stars Hi, Hilary Clinton! Some me might even say they one-upped their HBO foremothers.
Easily dismissed as just a Sopranos clone set in the s although gorgeously so , Boardwalk Empire wisely took many of the best elements of its predecessor and expanded its scope. And it only improved over time as it became less concerned with the minutiae of New Jersey politics in favor of featuring a much more compelling national landscape.
As a result, both its characters and its stories became grander, more operatic, and expressionistic. Well, challenge accepted and conquered. Conceived by John Logan the award-winning screenwriter behind Gladiator , Hugo , Skyfall and Rango and executed with great finesse by pilot director J.
Bayona the filmmaker behind the extraordinary horror-drama The Orphanage , the series is set in Victorian London and centers on a trio an explorer, a clairvoyant and a gunslinger who band together to slay monsters threatening their world. Boasting notable performances from the likes of Timothy Dalton, Josh Harnett and Rory Kinnear, the series managed to ground its outlandish premise in an emotional reality.
The true masterstroke, however, is unquestionable Eva Green as the clairvoyant Vanessa Ives. One of the most brilliant and gonzo actresses currently working today, Green attacks her first major TV role with great relish, and Logan and company certainly rise to the occasion in writing great material for her.
Alternating between victim and victimizer, Vanessa firmly deserves to be spoken in the same breath as the likes of Walter White, Tony Soprano, or Don Draper. Instead, in telling the story of a ragtag group of community college students, the show used its vast pop culture vernacular as a vessel for telling surprisingly resonant stories about outcasts attempting to find acceptance, a sense of belonging and, yes, community.
Whether the Greendale study group was participating in an epic game of paintball or being confined to their study room in search of a pen, Harmon and Co. The strange, winding saga of Community will forever stand as the stuff of TV sitcom legends.
No, this is not a show for everyone. But few shows have ever achieved such intoxicating sensations of pure hopefulness and near-simultaneous hopelessness in its plots and themes. Leftovers played like an epic poem of rapture or non-rapture , and, indeed, there was a hero… we think.
The hero shifted with each scene in a way that we rarely see in TV, or even film. These characters are so flawed and human, in a story that both challenges and embraces themes in organized religion, all while being exciting, violent, sexy, smart, and difficult. So perhaps, this is a show for everyone. The series can sometimes be crude and crazy, but never without tying it all back into a bigger metaphor about how we feel when we fall in love.
Created by: Justin Marks Stars: J. The excellent Starz series Counterpart introduces us to a world that has been split in two for decades, as two parallel Earths sharing a single portal in Berlin unbeknownst to all but government spy agencies on either side. It does so through the lens of Howard Silk J. Fringe Fox Though Fringe was often entertaining in its first season and a half, it was never essential.
That all changed abruptly in early , as the show finally grounded its freak-of-the-week weirdness in deep sadness. It only got better from there, as the series expanded its world by further making those concepts concrete. Fringe is that rare blend of inventive ideas, wild ambition, and unexpected soulfulness. With Justified , creator Graham Yost smartly chose a character from a couple of Leonard stories with a big enough hook to build a series around: a U.
Marshal who operates like an Old West gunslinger and has simmering conflicts within himself and with various parties in his native Kentucky. Modern Family ABC Part of what makes Modern Family so charming and lovely is how mightily its characters strive to build and strengthen relationships with people they could easily keep at a respectful distance. Viewers got to see the fruit of that labor in , as those relationships started to live and breathe on their own.
As pundits amped up their desperation, Stewart relentlessly mocked them, armed with some of the finest fact-checking on television. Stewart also spent much of the year savagely mimicking Glenn Beck, while his band of correspondents, as always, argued over inanities.
The media may claim to speak for the people, but through comedy, The Daily Show actually does it. Best episodes: The April 20 episode stands out from the rest. Since shifting the focus to East Dillon, the school on the wrong side of the tracks in its fictional Texas town, Friday Night Lights has dealt with race, economic divides, and abortion, all with the same warmth and close-to-the-ground immediacy that characterized the show from the start.
Its in-progress fifth season, which will sadly be its last, shows no sign of faltering. While some shows retool by reaching out to new audiences, Cougar Town retooled by becoming even more insular, letting its running jokes run amok and indulging in some legitimate absurdity.
Instead of off-putting, this often feels liberating. Not since The West Wing has a TV drama been so frank about the compromises of public and private life, and few shows on the air today are as plugged in to the way we live right now, with text messages, social media, cable news, and viral videos redefining the boundaries of our personal space.
Lost ABC Going into its final season, Lost had a lot of expectations to meet if it wanted to please all its fans. No other sci-fi show this half-year has been as interested in detailing the internal lives of its characters, and no drama about the intricacies of family — both blood-related and really extended — has been as wigged-out experimental. This is what mass-entertainment, broadcast television should be.
The thing about Leonard characters in a good TV show is that they evolve in small, surprising ways. With loud gunfire and quietly hilarious jokes. And by extension, us.
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