Best TV Shows

#121 Amadeus
3.3

Best for commanding performances, lavish design and a bold, provocative rethink of Mozart and Salieri. Skip it if you want tight pacing, restrained adult content, strict history, or Mozart’s music...

Pros: entertainment value, soundtrack quality

Cons: plot originality, season pacing

#122 Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 4
3.3

Choose Season 4 if you enjoy a charismatic ensemble, polished production, and playful standalone genre experiments. Skip it if tonal whiplash, thin plotting, or a short season packed with gimmicks...

Pros: entertainment value, humor

Cons: genre satisfaction, story quality

#123 Best Medicine, Season 1
3.3

Best for Josh Charles, cozy small-town comfort, and a romance that improves as Season 1 goes on. Skip it if you need sharp originality, deep supporting characters, or consistently sophisticated...

Pros: tone consistency, entertainment value

Cons: humor, character development

#124 Brothers (2026)
3.3

Choose Brothers for McConaughey and Harrelson’s easy chemistry, brisk half-hour episodes, and standout turns from Holland Taylor and Lisa Gilroy. Skip it if familiar sitcom plots, uneven laughs, and shallow...

Pros: cast chemistry, supporting cast performance

Cons: humor, story quality

#125 Louis C.K.: Ridiculous
3.2

Good if you want dark, adult stand-up about aging and can tolerate crude taboo jokes. Skip it if repeated sexual shock material or thin accountability will sour the laughs.

Pros: theme depth, genre satisfaction

Cons: humor, sexual content level

#126 Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
3.1

Best for bold performances, gothic period style, and unapologetic camp. Skip it if you want a historically grounded Borden retelling or a restrained eight-episode drama; several reviewers found the inventions,...

Pros: acting quality, entertainment value

Cons: faithfulness to source material, violence level

#127 Not Suitable for Work, Season 1
3.1

Choose Not Suitable for Work if you want a glossy, low-stakes hangout rom-com with some charming cast sparks. Skip it if you need sharp Gen Z realism, consistent jokes, or...

Pros: acting quality, entertainment value

Cons: humor, cast chemistry

#128 The Shards
3.1

Best for glossy 1980s atmosphere, music, and several compelling performances. Skip it if you need tight mystery plotting, consistent tone, or a finale that resolves the season’s biggest questions.

Pros: acting quality, entertainment value

Cons: story quality, suspense

#129 Mating Season, Season 1
3.1

Choose Mating Season if you want raunchy adult animation with strong voice acting, oddball animal dating jokes, and some sincere friendship arcs. Skip it if repetitive sex humor, thin depth,...

Pros: cast chemistry, acting quality

Cons: humor, character development

#130 I Will Find You
3.1

Best for a fast, pulpy Coben mystery with strong binge momentum. Skip it if plot logic, grounded characters, or family-friendly viewing matter most.

Pros: bingeability, suspense

Cons: plot twists, entertainment value

#131 Michael Jackson: The Verdict
3.1

Choose Michael Jackson: The Verdict if you want a courtroom-focused refresher on the 2005 trial and media storm. Skip it if you need major new reporting, a music biography, or...

Pros: media scrutiny portrayal, theme depth

Cons: interview and source material quality, plot originality

#132 Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, Season 1
3.0

Choose it if you love Larry David’s Curb persona in historical dress-up. Skip it if recycled jokes, uneven sketch comedy, or slow, repetitive pacing wear you down.

Pros: supporting cast performance, audience appeal

Cons: humor, writing quality

#133 Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, Season 1
3.0

Best for colorful animation, short episodes, and more time with the young Hawkins crew. Skip it if canon gaps, repetitive monster fights, softened horror, or replacement voices will keep pulling...

Pros: entertainment value, animation quality

Cons: spin-off quality, acting quality

#134 Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, Season 2
3.0

Best for vivid animation, likable young-character chemistry, and a lighter Hawkins mystery. Skip it if you need the live-action show’s emotional weight, consequential stakes, or tight canon continuity.

Pros: animation quality, acting quality

Cons: story quality, character development

#135 Kill Jackie
2.9

Best for Catherine Zeta-Jones, slick action, dark humor, and a confidently Welsh lead performance. Skip it if you need tight plotting, brisk pacing, or emotional depth; the eight-episode revenge story...

Pros: main cast performance, visual style

Cons: story quality, plot originality

#136 The Season (2026), Season 1
2.9

Choose The Season if you want glossy Hong Kong high-society scenery, light summer intrigue, and some engaging cast dynamics. Skip it if stiff dialogue, familiar revenge plotting, thin character work,...

Pros: visual style, main cast performance

Cons: plot originality, story quality

#137 Elle, Season 1
2.9

Choose Elle Season 1 if you want a light, pink-tinted teen dramedy with Lexi Minetree’s warm lead turn. Skip it if a repetitive, canon-straining Legally Blonde prequel or overlong nostalgia...

Pros: main cast performance, supporting cast performance

Cons: entertainment value, franchise connection

#138 The Witcher, Season 4
2.7

Choose it if you want kinetic fights, standout villains, and Regis despite a rough adaptation. Skip it if weak writing, source changes, or the Rats storyline are deal-breakers.

Pros: action quality, villain quality

Cons: entertainment value, faithfulness to source material

#139 The Abandons
2.5

Best for Anderson and Headey’s fierce rivalry, strong production design, and quick seven-episode run. Skip it if you need deep characters, natural dialogue, steady pacing, or a resolved finale.

Pros: main cast performance, production design

Cons: character development, season pacing

#140 Summerwater, Season 1
2.4

Choose Summerwater if you want a relentlessly bleak, mood-heavy Scottish thriller with strong performances and scenic atmosphere. Skip it if you need propulsive plotting, clear supernatural answers, or characters you...

Pros: suspense

Cons: entertainment value, story quality

#141 Ricky Gervais Alley Cats
2.4

Choose it if you enjoy Ricky Gervais’s abrasive, profane banter and want a very short animated binge with occasional tenderness. Skip it if you need sharp plotting, consistent laughs, or...

Pros: main cast performance, episode length

Cons: humor, emotional impact

#142 Calabasas Confidential, Season 1
2.4

Choose Calabasas Confidential if you want a glossy, low-effort rich-kid reality binge with occasional drama. Skip it if you need authentic bonds, sharper stakes, or cast members who feel distinct...

Cons: audience appeal, story quality

#143 The Varnell Hill Show
2.4

Best for familiar sitcom performers and lively guest spots. Skip it if dated jokes, intrusive laugh cues, or a loose story will outweigh the nostalgia.

Pros: guest appearances, acting quality

Cons: humor, fourth-wall narration

#144 Wonka’s The Golden Ticket, Season 1
2.3

Best for the elaborate edible factory and cutthroat reality twists. Skip it if you want Wonka’s warmth, clear game rules, or a human narrator.

Pros: production design, visual style

Cons: entertainment value, faithfulness to source material