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Last updated on Nov 22, 2019 5:20 PM EST
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Dolly Parton's Heartstrings
Dolly Parton's greatest hits get adapted into little movies in this sweet anthology series.
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The Crown
Netflix's historical drama gets a cast makeover with Olivia Colman taking over the lead role as the Royals move down the timeline.
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The Man in the High Castle
Amazon's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's story about an alternate universe where the Nazis won World War II moves into Season 3 with Germany losing its power and the truth about the films (and our reality) ready to be exposed.
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The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park
The high-profile 1980s case of a woman murdered in New York gets reexamined in this true crime docuseries.
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The Toys That Made Us
Remember the day when toys were cool? This show, which tracks the origins and history of popular '80s toys, does.
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The Mandalorian
Star Wars gets the Western treatment in this tale of a loner bounty hunter who gets caught up in something big.
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Dublin Murders
Another quality detective series from across the pond is just the moody show you need.
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Rick and Morty
After two years, the Adult Swim hit returns for more interdimensional mayhem.
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The End of the F***ing World
The British dark comedy about sociopathic teens returns with more murder on the mind.
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His Dark Materials
The Golden Compass this is not. In other words, it's a good adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy novels.
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Dickinson
Hailee Steinfeld plays Emily Dickinson in this wonderful period piece with modern flourishes.
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For All Mankind
What if the U.S. wasn't the first to land on the Moon and the space race continued? Ronald D. Moore tries to answer that question in this alt-history drama for space geeks.
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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
Season 2 is better than Season 1 because its hero toughens up and kicks more butt. USA! USA! USA!
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Baroness von Sketch Show
Four Canadian ladies quietly put together one of TV's best sketch comedy shows.
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Silicon Valley
Come for the jokes, stay for Kumail Nanjiani's newly jacked biceps!
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Mrs. Fletcher
Kathryn Hahn is one of the most likable actors working today, even when she's doing uncomfortable stuff like this dark comedy limited series.
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BoJack Horseman
Will the horse stop being depressed and start being nice to people before the show ends?
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The Kominsky Method
Chuck Lorre's newest series stars Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin as friends who are getting up there in age but aren't ready to give up. It has lots more to say than Lorre's CBS sitcoms (except maybe Mom), but it still has plenty of sophomoric humor.
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Watchmen
There's a lot to talk about with this "remix" of the classic comic, starting with: what is even happening?
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Living With Yourself
Double the Paul, double the Rudd!
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Modern Love
Anne Hathaway and other famous people fall in love in incredibly charming and unbelievable ways.
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Looking for Alaska
John Green's YA novel about teens finding themselves (and each other) is finally here.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Jesse Pinkman's very bad day continues in this one-off film wrapping up his Breaking Bad story. It's good!
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Letterkenny
The oddball Canadian comedy is Schitt's Creek, but with more farts.
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Supernatural
Who is your favorite: Sam, Dean, or the swarm of bugs from the episode "Bugs"?
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Rhythm + Flow
Yes, another music competition show, but this one is good.
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Legacies
Vampires will never die, especially on The CW.
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Nancy Drew
No, you did not slip into a time-traveling wormhole. This Nancy is CW-ized and solving mysteries... about ghosts!
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Riverdale
The Nov. 7 episode — a flashback to the early 1990s — features a nifty trick as the actors who play the show's kids get to play their characters' parents when they were young 'uns. Keep an eye on KJ Apa, who delivers one heck of a good Luke Perry impression.
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The Flash
Barry faces his toughest challenge yet: raising a daughter! Oh, we feel your pain, Mr. Flash. Can Barry and Iris corral their daughter from the future and fix the mistakes she made in the timeline?
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Arrow
A billionaire playboy and expert archer becomes a vigilante who is out to right the wrongs created by his family and restore his beloved city back to its former glory after being shipwrecked for five years on a remote island.
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Big Mouth
It's a big Valentine's Day special to get you through the wait for Season 3!
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Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal
This quiet, yet effective animated limited series about a caveman comes from the creator of Samurai Jack.
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Peaky Blinders
The British gangster drama hits the late-1920s, and gang leader Tommy Shelby is up to his ears in enemies.
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Mr. Robot
USA's takedown of corporate capitalism via schizophrenic hackers returns for its fourth and final season.
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Sorry for Your Loss
In between looking at pics of your friends all on vacation while you toil away in your cubicle, use Facebook to watch this new drama starring Elizabeth Olsen as a widow grieving after her husband's death. Yep, now you have to pay attention to Facebook for new shows.
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The Walking Dead
This show will never end, so of course the survivors are running into a group called The Whisperers, who wear the skin of zombies to blend in with the flesh-eaters.
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Raising Dion
Shoutout to the single moms raising young superheroes out there!
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Batwoman
The CW's first superhero show with a LBGTQ lead sees Batman mysteriously vanished and his cousin taking over.
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Godfather of Harlem
This crime drama follows the good and bad of Bumpy Johnson, a Harlem mob boss who, sure, killed people, but also was a social activist.
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Bless the Harts
The latest addition to Fox's Animation Domination block comes from Saturday Night Live writer Emily Spivey.
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The Politician
Ryan Murphy's latest dark comedy is soooooo Ryan Murphy, as a high schooler who aspires to be POTUS runs for class president.
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The Good Place
Can a trash bag from Arizona turn her life around and become good? It's a question that's been asked by philosophers for centuries, and is now asked by a demon from the afterlife and his robotic assistant from The Void. OK, that sounds weird, but watch and find out why we called it the best show on TV.
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The Masked Singer
How often are those costumes dry cleaned?
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Creepshow
This anthology series features original fun and scary stories, based on a classic '80s horror movie.
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This Is Us
Cry like a baby as the Pearsons continue their evil plan to dehydrate you through the emotional ups and downs of life.
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Emergence
This year's "What the heck is going on?" show is about a mysterious girl and the cop who cares for her.
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Evil
Y'all ready for some DEMONS?
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Stumptown
Cobie Smulders elevates this by-the-book private eye procedural.
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mixed-ish
Tihs black-ish spin-off prequel shows the origins of Rainbow Johnson.
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Prodigal Son
Michael Sheen and Tom Payne are having a ton of fun in this kooky serial killer procedural.
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Criminal
This experimental international drama tightens the vice on criminals in the interrogation room with four different stories.
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Disenchantment
A hard-drinking, buck-toothed princess discovers her destiny with a demon and elf in tow in this Matt Groening animated comedy.
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American Horror Story: 1984
The horror anthology moves to the mid-'80s for some slasher film fun.
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Dancing with the Stars
Sean Spicer can dance about as well as he could act as White House Press Secretary.
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Marianne
This French horror series speaks the universal language of scaring the crap out of people, but it's also fun.
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Undone
The trippy animated series about time travel and murder will make you question your own reality.
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Mr. Mercedes
The third and final season of the Stephen King thriller is done with the murderous Mr. Mercedes, but new problems arise for Bill Hodges.
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Couples Therapy
Forget your problems by getting lost in other people's problems in this docuseries that takes you inside the sessions of couples therapy.
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Good Talk with Anthony Jeslenik
What's it like to be interviewed by the Devil? Enlightening, actually!
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The Deuce
The Deuce returns for its third and final season, set in 1985, as the porn industry is transforming once again.
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The Spy
Sacha Baron Cohen takes a dramatic turn in this limited series about an Israeli spy in Syria in the 1960s.
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Elite
The sexy Spanish teen sensation is back for a second season on Netflix.
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Wu-Tang: An American Saga
The origins of the legendary rap group the Wu-Tang Clan get dramatized in this gritty crime drama set in early '90s Staten Island.
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Look at these beautiful puppets!
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13 Reasons Why
The penultimate season adds more murder and the series' trademark mixed messages about how teens should behave.
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Hyperdrive
Whoa! This American Ninja Warrior with cars is surprisingly awesome.
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On Becoming a God in Central Florida
Kirsten Dunst is amazing as a woman taking on a pyramid-scheme business in this dark comedy set in 1990s Florida.
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The Righteous Gemstones
Danny McBride's latest silly comedy takes on megabucks preachers and flashy religion.
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The Affair
This affair is still going, but not for long; this is the final season of the twisty drama.
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The Family
Conspiracy theorists are all over this docuseries about a secret Christian organization that's pulling strings on Capitol Hill.
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David Makes Man
The life of a black teen in Florida is brilliantly portrayed in this visually captivating drama from the creator of Oscar-winner Moonlight.
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Danny's House
Rapper Danny Brown hosts this weird talk show in the vein of Comedy Bang Bang!
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Why Women Kill
This dark comedy shows how women's roles have changed from the '60s to now, but no matter the time period, men still cause stress.
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Mindhunter
More Zodiac: The Series from visionary director David Fincher.
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The Terror: Infamy
Season 2 of this horror anthology tells a ghost story set in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II.
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Lodge 49
AMC's delightfully inexplicable show is returning for its second enigmatic season.
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Succession
The Roy clan is back for more backstabbing and witty, filthy insults in Season 2.
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Rocko's Modern Life
The cult fave '90s cartoon returns with a Netflix movie called Static Cling.
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GLOW
The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling head to 1986 Las Vegas in Season 3.
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BH90210
This weird meta-revival of Beverly Hills, 90210 is probably not what you're expecting, but might be something you didn't know you wanted.
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Bachelor in Paradise
The Bachelor and Bachelorette castaways are washing back up on the beach in Mexico for the Most Dramatic Season Ever.
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Preacher
Only in the current no-rules TV era could a show this insane last for four seasons and have an Oscar-nominated actress in the cast. Now in its final season.
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Dear White People
Netflix's wokest comedy is back for a lighter, funnier third season that still remains sharp.
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Pennyworth
Batman origin stories? NO THANKS. Batman's butler's origin story? Yes please!
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South Side
Two pals recently graduated from community college try to leave their dead-end job in Chicago's South Side. It's funny stuff that lovingly pokes fun at the neighborhood.
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The Boys
Me and The Boys on our way to Amazon to watch this filthy superhero satire.
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Orange Is the New Black
One of Netflix's OG original series is wrapping up with its seventh season.
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Veronica Mars
Detective Kristen Bell is back on the case in this revival of the beloved mid-00s series.
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Pearson
The Suits spin-off sends Jessica Pearson to Chicago where she gets into the dirty world of politics.
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Florida Girls
Florida Man gets all the headlines, but these Florida girls get up to filthy adventures in this fun comedy.
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Top Gear
The British vehicular institution is back with a (sorta) new look 27th season.
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Chasing the Moon
PBS six-hour movie about the space race is the most in-depth of all the moon content celebrating the 50th anniversary of Americans landing on the moon.
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I Love You, Now Die
The case against Michelle Carter, who told her boyfriend to kill himself over text (and he did), is examined in this true crime doc.
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Love Island
The British reality smash gets an American adaptation, five crazy nights a week.
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Stranger Things
This show is so big that it's easy to take the fact that Winona Ryder is in it for granted, but: WINONA FOREVER!
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Young Justice: Outsiders
Though it got canceled after two seasons by Cartoon Network in 2013, the animated series about a band of superhero sidekicks who form a JV Justice League is back on DC's new streaming service.
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The Rook
Missing Counterpart? Well, Starz has a new genre-blending spy series set in a European capital, though this one lacks J.K. Simmons
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The Loudest Voice
Russell Crowe is Fox News architect and all-around horrendous person Roger Ailes in this controversial limited series.
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Are You The One?
The MTV dating show lets the fluidity flow with a groundbreaking twist: All the contestants are sexually fluid, meaning anyone could be a match for each single.
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Years and Years
This British miniseries about a family coping with a gradually self-destructing world lands in America as one of the year's best.
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Curfew
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Street racers compete in an illegal road race to get sanctuary from a city filled with vampiric mutants!
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Legion
The final season of Noah Hawley's X-Men-adjacent series is still confusing and beautiful.
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Big Brother
It's not summer until Big Brother is on!
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Dark
The German sci-fi show is sneakily one of Netflix's best -- and most confusing -- series.
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Yellowstone
The premium soap is back for a second season of family backstabbing, shocking violence, and Kevin Costner's glowers and gravelly growls.
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The Detour
The road-tripping comedy gets even more outrageous this season as the Parkers look for their runaway daughter.
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Grand Hotel
Sex, scandal, and sun intertwine in this summer series that's your new guilty pleasure.
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Das Boot
Your dad's favorite '80s war movie is now your dad's favorite new TV drama. The series adds a story on land in addition to the stellar submarine scenes.
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Alternatino
Broad City and Narcos' brilliant Arturo Castro leads Comedy Central's first sketch show in years.
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Euphoria
Zendaya is Meechie no more in this disturbing look at Gen Z life.
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Too Old To Die Young
This Lynchian crime drama is a wholly unique streaming experience, whether you're into it or not.
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Marvel's Jessica Jones
The last gasp of Marvel on Netflix is here, if you want it.
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Baskets
A beautiful tale of a delusional man trying to become a world-class clown. Also, Louie Anderson plays a mom.
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Younger
Can a 40-year-old survive in a world full of millennials? Maybe!
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Pose
Season 2 of this massively important show gets punched up by Madonna's "Vogue," which puts ballroom culture into the mainstream spotlight.
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Strange Angel
Season 2 of this drama dives deeper into rocket scientist Jack Parsons' sexy double life.
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Claws
Don't sleep on this dark comedy about nail salon workers who get deep into organized crime.
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Big Little Lies
Turns out making a second season wasn't such a bad idea as early reviews are very positive for this star-studded miniseries.
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I Am Mother
The sci-fi film is one of Netflix's best originals and will leave you thinking long after the credits roll.
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Designated Survivor
The political thriller's first Netflix season is finally here, and the show is better than ever... because there's cursing!
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The Handmaid's Tale
It's time to get bummed out again.
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Black Mirror
Netflix Presents "What If Phones But Too Much 5" ft. Miley Cyrus
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Perpetual Grace LTD
This neo-noir black comedy is a real hoot as Jimmi Simpson plays a grifter trying to pull one over on a pastor. Things do not go according to plan.
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American Princess
Orange Is the New Black's Jenji Kohan produces this easy dramedy about a woman who cancels her wedding to join a Renaissance Faire. Really!
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Fear the Walking Dead
Because The Walking Dead franchise is bigger than life itself!
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Luther
DJ Idris Elba puts down the wax and picks up a gun in a return to the role that made him a sex symbol. Season 5 is another fast-paced thriller.
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Deadwood: The Movie
Listen up you [censored], David Milch is giving HBO's Western the send-off it's always deserved in this long-awaited movie.
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Good Omens
David Tennant and Michael Sheen are superb in this adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's fun book about the end of the world.
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Swamp Thing
Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear lots of vegetables. This feels more like a horror series than a superhero series, and that's a good thing.
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When They See Us
Ava DuVernay's dramatization of the lives of the Central Park Five is a well-made but hard-to-swallow look at racial bias in the justice system.
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Archer
Sterling and company head to space in the latest season of the insult-slinging animated comedy.
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Pure
This is Season 2 of a show about coke-smuggling Menonnites. Do you even need to know more?
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The Hot Zone
Julianna Margulies plays a scientist trying to contain the Ebola virus in this terrifying miniseries that will keep you coating yourself with Purell.
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What/If
Renee Zellweger is doing Indecent Proposal in this soapy Netflix anthology series.
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She's Gotta Have It
Spike Lee's TV joint returns to Brooklyn (and Netflix) for Season 2.
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Elementary
CBS' reliable procedural is back for its seventh and final season, with a newly-blonde Lucy Liu
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The Name of the Rose
John Turturro stars in, writes, and executive-produces this medieval limited series based on Umberto Eco's famous novel.
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Blood & Treasure
An antiquities expert and an art thief chase a terrorist who funds attacks through stolen treasure in this light summer drama.
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Fleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's dark comedy is back for another -- probably final -- season of hot vicar action.
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Catch-22
George Clooney adapts the book you read in high school and kinda remember as a Hulu miniseries.
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The Big Bang Theory
We are just 20-something episodes away from our last "Bazinga!" How will you survive?
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The Bachelorette
This is what falling in love looks like.
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Line of Duty
No one does cop shows like the Brits, and this is one of the best out there. Stephen Graham joins the cast this year as the season's very mean villain.
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The Society
Teens, and only teens, must rebuild society in very teen-y ways in this young adult sci-fi thriller.
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Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Don't worry, there won't be any Endgame spoilers in here.
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Lucifer
Netflix saved this show from cancellation, so you better watch it!
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Klepper
Former Daily Show dude gets his second show where he makes fun of the news.
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State of the Union
Nick Hornby penned this wonderful short series about a couple going through therapy without showing any of the actual therapy. Each episode is an easy 10 minutes.
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