Ok, I promise I’ll stop with all the binge-watching posts….right after this one. I know that everyone is talking about The Handmaid’s Tale and This Is Us, both wonderful shows, but while you’re plotting to overthrow the establishment, and/or crying your eyes out, don’t forget to check out my favorite reasons to turn on Hulu:
Fargo (Drama/Thriller)– I really enjoyed the movie Fargo, so it took me a while to give this TV adaptation a chance. How could they do it better than the Coen Brothers? Somehow though, the show’s creator, Noah Hawley, did the impossible. There have been three seasons, the first two are available on Hulu, and they each take place in a different time period, with an entirely different set of characters. They’re all similarly darkly hilarious, and full of the stuff that makes good television: interesting story lines, intriguing characters and strange plot twists.
Top of the Lake (NZ Drama/Thriller)– The always amazing Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men, The Handmaid’s Tale) stars as detective Robin Griffin in this haunting mystery/thriller. In Season 1, Detective Griffin is visiting home in New Zealand when a pregnant 12 year old girl goes missing. I just finished watching Season 2, and it was just as engrossing as the first.
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (British Mystery)– My husband started watching this show and, I’m not going to lie, I made fun of him. However, one night I forced myself to sit through one with him. From then on, I was hooked on this old-fashioned, clever English lady.
Broad City (Comedy)– This series, starring Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, follows the balls to the wall lives of two women living in New York City. You can’t help to laugh, and cringe, at their insane antics.
Arrested Development (Comedy)– This show follows the Bluth family, formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional. Jason Bateman leads an all-star cast. He plays Michael Bluth, the son trying to hold his crazy family together. It offers non-stop quirky fun!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Comedy)– This series revolves around Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg), an immature but talented NYPD detective in Brooklyn’s 99th Precinct, who comes into immediate conflict with his new commanding officer, the serious and stern Captain Raymond Holt (Andre Braugher). I have always been a big fan of Andy Samberg’s goofy style of humor and amazing pop culture references, but the entire crazy cast shines in this sometimes smart and sometimes silly comedy.
The Good Place (Comedy)– After she is struck by a collection of runaway shopping carts, pushed into traffic and run over by a truck, Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) is welcomed into the afterlife by Michael (Ted Danson), the facilitator and architect of Eleanor’s new neighborhood in a “perfect utopia” called “The Good Place”. When Michael tells Eleanor she made it into “The Good Place” as reward for her life of selfless devotion to helping others, she realizes she must have been mistaken for someone else. This show is light and really fun.
Now that I’m done, anyone have any shows I NEED to check out? I always love recommendations! Happy watching!
♥ Erin
