Binge-watching the FX series is ideal as creator Adam Reed is incredibly fond of frequent callback jokes or running gags. Watching H. The show also has a penchant for reinventing itself a season at a time, focusing on one long story arc for the duration of an entire season, which also makes binge-watching this animated series an out and out pleasure.
Seriously, Archer is basically one giant joy-manufacturing machine. God knows, the tantalizing mysteries of Westworld were delicious when doled out at a weekly pace and it was a delight to have enough time between each chapter to work out the pieces of the puzzle Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy lovingly crafted.
That said, the series also rewards tearing through the episodes, especially as a rewatch that allows you to see the full scope of the twisting, time-bending narrative. Set in an Old West theme park where robots are at human disposal for whatever dark urges they may possess, Westworld is a pitch-perfect hybrid of pulpy fantasy and cerebral sci-fi, packing in HBO's signature sex and death spectacle alongside a heavy dose of complex brain-twisters, and whether you're watching it week to week or all in one go, both vantage points offer new facets to appreciate.
Sure, we got our six seasons, but we're still waiting on that movie. In the meantime, a Community binge watch is always a delight. Dan Harmon 's irreverent comedy series had its ups and downs over the seasons, but it was always one of the sharpest and most unusual comedies on television, and it never shied from skewering the conventions of the half-hour comedy structure or completely shattering the mold altogether.
Ostensibly about a study group at a consummately unimpressive community college, Community waltzes through genres with complete chameleon freedom, but never loses sight over the long term arcs. Ultimately, binge-watching Community kind of feels like hanging out with a group of your weirdest friends, and what's not great about that? Castle Rock pays homage to the master of horror, Stephen King , by telling stories within his created world, populated by his famous sometimes infamous characters, locations, and supernatural forces.
This is not a simple wink-and-nudge kind of homage but rather an original tale that feels like it came from the pages of a King story itself. Abrams is no slouch when it comes to unpacking the mystery box. Weeds was unique for a half-hour series, regularly taking ambitious leaps in story and focusing as much on shocking plot twists as it did on characters.
A young boy in a quiet English coastal town goes missing, and then is found dead on the beach. From there, the villagers of Broadchurch see all of their worlds turned upside down by the investigation into the killer, who belonged to this tight-knit community. There are pros and cons to bingeing Rick and Morty. On the pro side, it's a sometimes painfully hilarious series that delivers a crazy amount of laughs per episode along with surprisingly robust character arcs. On the con side, you may break your brain.
Rick and Morty is hard sci-fi with sharp edges, and the bingeing pace can make it hard to keep up with one mind-bending concept after the next. The thing is, you won't be able to help yourself. While it's fun to sit with an episode for a while to break down the layers and implications of everything that buzzes by on-screen in each tight half-hour episode, the series is so propulsive, engaging, and utterly twisted, you just can't ignore the compulsion to hit play on the next bit of insanity.
Watch the reunion when you're done bingeing. Trust us, you'll never look at your local big-box store the same way after watching Superstore. The show follows Ferrera and her fellow retail misfits at a Missouri megastore called Cloud 9.
They're tasked with helping shoppers find bargains, but it's impossible not to crack a smile as you watch them fight to keep their jobs amid all the shenanigans and cleanups on aisle three. Kim's Convenience is the kind of sitcom that will leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling. The show follows a Canadian-Korean family that owns a convenience store as the title would suggest. Expect idiosyncratic customers floating in and out of the store; funny and relatable intergenerational misunderstandings; and a family you wish were real.
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist might just be the definition of "feel good TV. After being briefly freaked out and who wouldn't be? The show has infectious, feel-good energy, thanks to the torrent of hummable music and the cast of characters you can't help but root for.
Unfortunately cancelled after season 2 , the existing episodes are nevertheless heartwarming. Watch Schitt's Creek , and join a fandom. The Canadian sitcom has amassed a devoted following since it premiered in In the riches-to-rags story, the Rose family has to move to a tiny town of Schitt's Creek after losing their entire fortune.
Sure, they're pals and confidantes. But they're also living proof that laughter truly is the best medicine— and an inspiration for aging gracefully. Despite the name change and different faces appearing on the judging panel, the premise remains the same and even more delicious for the week culinary competition. Contestants show off their best cakes, desserts, and breads to be crowned star baker. Even if you don't have a sweet tooth, the addictive series is worth indulging in.
More than 10 years after the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy reality series went off the air, Netflix rebooted the lifestyle makeover show in February It's not often that you see a Black well-to-do family portrayed in such a positive light on network TV, but Kenya Barris's Black-ish is one shining example. Tracee Ellis Ross is comedic gold on the hit ABC series, and the show somehow manages to make audiences laugh while also tackling difficult subjects like divorce and police brutality.
An accidental artificial insemination, a drug kingpin, and family drama? Yes, CW's telenovela is as over the top as it sounds. But it works, mainly because of Gina Rodriguez, who plays the titular character. The name of the show tells you everything you need to know: Jane decides to remain a virgin until marriage, but after a mishap at a clinic, she ends up pregnant.
But that's not even the zaniest part: The sperm donor is her boss. It's a charming show filled with diverse characters. The serialized rom-com doesn't take itself too seriously, as evidenced by Kaling's quirky personality and her knack for wearing outlandish prints. Watching the doctors' funny interactions with each other is the best 30 minutes you'll spend glued to your screen.
After her death, a self-centered New Jersey woman named Eleanor Shellstrop Bell enters the afterlife a. The show offers life lessons in between its characters' hilarious banter and unexpected storylines. In this original Netflix series, Michaela Coel stars as Tracey Gordon, a year-old virgin who is raised in an extremely religious household.
And from there, the British comedy takes its audience on a joyride through Tracey's crazy exploits and journey to self-discovery. Please, please, please let this come out this year. Fingers crossed. Sign up for our newsletters! Gear to safely make it through a pandemic winter. Facial hair is biologically useless. So why do humans have it? My highly unexpected heterosexual pandemic Zoom wedding. The 8 best books about artificial intelligence to read now. Is he a vegan?
Is he actually friends with Sebastian Stan, the Winter Soldier? Anthony answers all these questions and more! Originally airing on BBC, Back to Life is a dark comedy that centres on a woman trying to reintegrate into society after spending almost two decades in prison. The series, which received critical acclaim, perfectly balances humour with drama, and is at turns hilarious, unsettling and poignant.
Now into its fourth season, The Crown shows the British royal at its best and worst. It's a definitely fictional retelling of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, with the first season focussing on the eight years between and , where Elizabeth marries the Duke of Edinburgh. Things move faster in the second series, which covers the Suez Crisis and the resignation of British prime minister Harold Macmillan.
The third season saw Olivia Colman stepping into the role as HRH enters the tricky middle years and the swinging sixties, while the recently released fourth season centres on Princess Diana's tricky relationship with the royals. Stylish, compelling and intensely watchable, this seven-part limited series is based on a novel of the same name, and follows chess prodigy Beth Harmon from an orphanage in Kentucky to duelling with Russians in Moscow.
Anna Taylor-Joy excels as the troubled Harmon, and the series is so surprisingly gripping that it will have you pondering a monthly subscription to Chess. Chewing Gum is gloriously rude, funny and awkward. Created by and starting Michaela Coel, the creative force behind I May Destroy You , the comedy series follows Tracey, a young, black, Londoner who is intent on escaping her Christian upbringing and losing her virginity.
What results is a hilarious but always cringe-inducing zip through the uncertainty of young adulthood. Looking for hidden gem on Netflix? Look no further than Orphan Black. The sci-fi drama grew in prominence after an Emmy win for leading actress Tatiana Maslany in but never quite cracked the mainstream fanbase like Black Mirror and Doctor Who did. After witnessing the suicide of a woman who looks just like her, outsider and orphan Sarah Manning Maslany assumes her identity.
But she soon uncovers a conspiracy that will haunt her past and define her future. Though sometimes a little out there with plot devices and characters, especially in the later seasons, Orphan Black is a great watch for any sci-fi fan craving excellent female-led drama and comedy.
Some writers perfect the cliffhanger — the team behind Prison Break were some of the best at it. Each episode leaves you on the edge of your seat wanting more. While Michael Scofield Wentworth Miller purposefully lands himself in prison to free his brother Lincoln Burrows Dominic Purcell , it is just the beginning of something much bigger.
And darker. Through 90 episodes across five seasons — although the best series are at the beginning — the brothers are involved in prison riots, breakouts, plotting, and tense exchanges with fellow inmates. Last Chance U is one the most successful documentary series on Netflix and Part 5 is the best season yet.
The series, which follows the travails of junior college student athletes aiming to break into big time college football and ultimately the NFL, benefits from shifting its focus from oddball rural towns with outsized ambitions and imported talent, to the inner city Laney College in Oakland, California. The result is a series that shines a light on the growing dislocation and inequality in inner city America as the overflow from neighbouring San Francisco gentrifies the formerly blue collar Oakland.
It goes to some dark places, but is all the better for it. Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are at it again with Dracula , a modern adaptation of the classic novel that draws some inspiration from their previous work on the hugely popular Sherlock. Thankfully, Dracula has more in common with Sherlock's earlier seasons than the clumsy later ones, delivering a delightfully macabre take on the classic tale.
Danish actor Claes Bang delivers a career defining performance as the eponymous vampire, who revels in sparring with an unconventional nun Dolly Wells who is determined to learn his secrets and end his centuries-long trail of terror.
The three-part mini series will have you enthralled from its opening moments and keep you guessing throughout. This mini-series chronicles how Madam C. The Last Dance is simultaneously a ten-part documentary about the greatest basketball team of all time and also a show that really isn't about basketball at all.
It follows the Chicago Bulls' record-breaking NBA championship run, with behind-the-scenes access to documentary footage shot throughout the season, but is really about what it takes to be successful. Underlying the entire show is what motivated Michael Jordan to become, arguably, the greatest of all time — and continue performing at that level.
Top tip: don't get him mad. But things start to unravel when the enigmatic mastermind behind the heist starts getting close to the police detective in charge of securing the safe release of the 67 hostages.
Although the twisting plot stretches the limits of credulity at points, Money Heist is a deliciously frenetic and tension-filled series that makes surprisingly sympathetic figures out of its devilish main characters.
But as she tries to find new friends and make a fresh start in the city, her husband Yanky and his shady cousin Moishe are in pursuit, determined to bring her back. We just wish there were more than four episodes. The Shelbys have come a long way since they debuted in the BBC series back in At the end of April the fifth series dropped onto Netflix for the first time. It now means the streaming service has every episode created. Season five sees Tommy Shelby's gang have considerable power and reach within the UK establishment.
That doesn't mean life has got any easier for the Brummie mobsters. The power of their enemies has also grown and there's a very real risk the family's days are numbered. A strange specimen of a sitcom, this Dan Harmon show set in a community college is the most meta TV comedy since Moonlighting. With a lates cast including Donald Glover, Alison Brie and Gillian Jacobs, plus scene-stealers like Ken Jeong, Community rummages around in pop culture references, clever callbacks and comments on its own existence but never forgets to pop up with a spot of character development or a heartfelt moment.
All six seasons are on Netflix. They go from living in a mansion to sharing two rooms in a rundown motel — and the sitcom derives its charm from them slowly adjusting to their new surroundings over the course of the seasons of which there are five on Netflix. He impersonates a much more serious financial advisor, Marty Byrde, who finds himself relocating his entire family from a Chicago suburb to the Ozark mountains in Missouri. The reason? He has got himself involved with some dodgy money-laundering scheme for Mexican cartels that he is having difficulty disentangling himself from.
The atmosphere, heavy with suspense, guilt and trouble-making drug lords, is reminiscent of Breaking Bad. It's one of Netflix's most popular shows and is now into its third season. Eric Goode was filming a documentary about the reptile trade when he met a guy with a snow leopard in the back of his van. He spent the next five years and in around the big cat community in the United States, where there are more tigers in captivity than exist in the wild.
This seven-part true crime series explores a feud between two of them — a gun-toting, mullet-wearing, country-singing zoo owner from Oklahoma called Joe Exotic, and animal rights activist Carole Baskin, who has some secrets of her own.
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