Other times it might be superheroes! Hell, sometimes it may even be traditional-style sitcoms that don't need you to think much but will have you watching with a smile on your face and not a thought in your head. Sometimes that'll be epic dramas that will bring you to tears. Which is why we're here-we want to make sure you're spending your time only on the shows that are deserving of it. In short? There's a lot of TV for us to watch, and a lot of it is going to be good. And that's not even considering traditional TV prestige powerhouses like the O.G. Obviously, Netflix is a powerhouse, but we've now reached a point in the streaming era where HBO Max has hit its stride (Did you see Station Elevenand Peacemaker? ), Hulu is riding a true story wave with The Dropout, The Girl From Plainville, and Pam & Tommy, Peacock is gaining traction, and Apple TV+ has such a massive budget for stars (and Jon Hamm agrees) that you've just always got to be aware of what they've got coming down the pipeline. T.A.Just gonna come right out and say it: there is so much TV. He’s an electrifying antihero, whose downfall has aspects of tragedy and comeuppance in equal measure. Wayne Jenkins, an officer who breaks very very bad, but whose charisma and alpha-male confidence never leave him. If it wasn’t as thrilling as The Wire (what could be?), it was an important reminder of the complexities around police reform, and it had an absolutely lights-out performance by Jon Bernthal as Sgt.
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In the end, We Own This City almost met them-the six-episode series was a complex and unsparing portrait of police corruption that had the seriousness of longform journalism.
News of Simon’s latest show, also about policing, also set in Baltimore, written and produced with the legendary crime novelist George Pelecanos, set expectations sky high. Those of us who remember how exciting it was to watch The Wire for the first time, hold a special place in our cultural hearts for David Simon and Baltimore, a city where issues of policing, race, the drug war, and politics intersect in unforgettable ways. Let’s hope the buzz only continues to build, and we get to see this vicious, twisted delight of a series go all the way to the finish line. The creators of Yellowjackets-a word-of-mouth hit that was made all the better for its weekly drops (and highly active fan theory community on Twitter and Reddit)-have hinted that their vision for the show takes place over a five-season arc. In a stroke of meta casting genius, a who’s who of ’90s teen idols plays the teens as adults, including Christina Ricci, Juliette Lewis, and Melanie Lynskey, all turning in brilliant performances as they grapple with their trauma in their own distinctive ways. The premise might feel vaguely familiar-following a plane crash, a high school girls soccer team in the 1990s tries to survive in the wilderness, quickly descending into Lord of the Flies anarchy-but with its playful mash-up of psychological horror and coming-of-age charm, as well as its clever switches between past and present, Yellowjackets emerged as very much its own beast. The eight-episode series, which just concluded on FX (and is available on Hulu), was better in its first half than its second, but I adored its sophistication and complexities, and its willingness to take its audience seriously. Amy Brenneman plays Zoe, a civilian love interest of Chase’s who gets accidentally and dangerously drawn in, and goes on the run with Chase-and more than rises to the occasion. I’m a sucker for this sort of genre show–an old operative, far out in the cold, who is drawn back into the action by his past. The second episode was equally good, introducing us to the shadowy world of CIA operatives that Bridges’s character Dan Chase was once a part of-led by John Lithgow-and that was now hunting him down. This well-heeled, unusually well-written action drama starring the raffishly handsome, 72-year-old Jeff Bridges, had the best pilot in recent memory-a slow burn hour that culminated in a riveting, hand-to-hand combat sequence that was as beautifully staged as it was brutal.
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