Apartment 46

Looking for stuff to watch? Here’s a list of subjectively decent stuff.

To find out where to watch any of the below series, look them up on wheretowatch.com.

January 2017 update:

• Good new series: The Young Pope, A Series of Unfortunate Events, 3%, The OA, People of Earth, Search Party

Currently Airing

Add these to your TV calendar.

Excellent:

• Arrested Development [half-hour comedy, 4 seasons] (Fox, Netflix; first two seasons were better)
• Billions [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (Showtime)
• Black Mirror [hour-long sci-fi, 3 seasons] (Channel 4, Netflix)
• Broad City [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (Comedy Central)
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine [half-hour police comedy, 4 seasons] (FOX)
• The Circus [half-hour political documentary, 2 seasons] (Showtime)
• The Comeback [half-hour mockumentary, 2 seasons] (HBO)
• Fargo [hour-long crime drama, 3 seasons] (FX)
• Game of Thrones [hour-long medieval fantasy, 6 seasons] (HBO)
• High Maintenance [half-hour drama, 1 season (plus webisodes)] (HBO, Vimeo) A series of very realistic and well-written short profiles of NYC life, weaved together by a weed delivery man
• Homeland [hour-long spy thriller, 6 seasons] (Showtime)
• Inside Amy Schumer [half-hour sketch comedy, 4 seasons] (Comedy Central; leave your morals at the door; fourth season not as good)
• The Last Kingdom [hour-long historical drama, 1 season] (BBC America, Netflix)
• Life in Pieces [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (CBS)
• Master of None [half-hour dramedy] (Netflix)
• Modern Family [half-hour mockumentary, 8 seasons] (ABC)
• Mozart in the Jungle [half-hour dramedy, 2 seasons] (Amazon)
• Mr. Robot [half-hour drama, 2 seasons] (USA)
• Orphan Black [hour-long drama, 4 seasons] (BBC America)
• Shark Tank [reality, 8 seasons] (ABC)
• True Detective [hour-long crime drama, 2 seasons] (HBO; second season was not that good)
• UnREAL [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (Lifetime; second season wasn’t as good)
• Veep [half-hour political comedy, 5 seasons] (HBO)
• Vikings [hour-long period drama, 4 seasons] (History Channel; fourth season wasn’t as good)
• W1A [half-hour mockumentary, 2 seasons] (BBC Two)
• Westworld [hour-long sci-fi, 1 season] (HBO)

Very Good:

• The Affair [hour-long drama, 3 seasons] (Showtime)
• American Horror Story [hour-long supernatural horror, 6 seasons] (FX; 2nd, 4th, and 5th seasons are pretty bad though)
• American Housewife [half-house comedy, 1 season] (ABC)
• The Americans [hour-long spy drama, 4 seasons] (FX)
• Angie Tribeca [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (TBS)
• Archer [half-hour animated spy comedy, 7 seasons] (FX; leave your morals at the door; first 2 seasons were excellent)
• Better Call Saul [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (AMC)
• Black-ish [half-hour comedy, 3 seasons] (ABC; third season isn’t as good)
• Black Jesus [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (Comedy Central)
• BoJack Horseman [hour-long animated comedy, 2 seasons] (Netflix)
• Broadchurch [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (BBC America)
• The Carmichael Show [half-hour sitcom, 2 seasons] (NBC)
• The Crown (hour-long period drama, 1 season] (Netflix)
• Daredevil [hour-long fantasy, 2 seasons] (Netflix; slow pace)
• The Detour [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (TBS)
• Deutschland 83 [hour-long period spy drama, 1 season] (RTL, SundanceTV)
• Episodes [half-hour comedy, 4 seasons] (Showtime)
• The EX-PM [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (Australian ABC)
• The Expanse [hour-long sci-fi, 2 seasons] (SyFy)
• The Frankenstein Chronicles [hour-long fantasy, 1 season] (iTV, A&E)
• The Goldbergs [sitcom, 4 seasons] (ABC)
• Glitch [hour-long sci-fi, 1 season] (ABC1, Netflix)
• The Good Place [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (NBC)
• Halt and Catch Fire [hour-long drama, 3 seasons] (AMC)
• It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia [half-hour comedy, 12 seasons] (FX) A group of degenerates own a bar and think up hare-brained schemes in their ample spare time.
• Jessica Jones [hour-long superhero drama, 1 season] (Netflix) Goth superwoman fights a mind-controlling super-villain mostly using her wits. Give it a few episodes.
• Last Week Tonight [half-hour comedy news show, 3 seasons] (HBO)
• The Leftovers [hour-long fantasy, 2 seasons] (HBO)
• Medici: Masters of Florence [hour-long historical drama, 1 season] (Netflix)
• The Mindy Project [sitcom, 4 seasons] (FOX, Hulu; only the first 2 seasons were good though)
• Narcos [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (Netflix)
• Odd Mom Out [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (Bravo)
• Outlander [hour-long period drama, 2 seasons] (Starz)
• Peaky Blinders [hour-long period gangster drama, 3 seasons] (BBC Two, Netflix)
• People of Earth [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (TBS)
• Portlandia [half-hour comedy, 7 seasons] (IFC)
• Rectify [hour-long drama, 4 seasons] (SundanceTV)
• Search Party [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (TBS)
• Silicon Valley [half-hour dramedy, 3 seasons] (HBO)
• The Simpsons [half-hour animated comedy, 28 seasons] (FOX)
• Sleepy Hollow [hour-long fantasy, 4 seasons] (FOX)
• South Park [half-hour animated comedy, 20 seasons] (Comedy Central)
• UnREAL [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (Lifetime)
• Victoria [hour-long period drama, 1 season] (ITV)
• The Walking Dead [hour-long fantasy, 7 seasons] (AMC; slow pace)

Good:

• 2 Broke Girls [sitcom, 6 seasons] (CBS)
• 12 Monkeys [hour-long sci-fi, 2 seasons] (SyFy)
• The 100 [hour-long sci-fi, 3 seasons] (CW)
• American Dad! [sitcom, 14 seasons] (TBS; first 9 seasons on FOX)
• Arrow [hour-long superhero drama, 5 seasons] (CW)
• Ballers [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (HBO)
• The Blacklist [hour-long adventure, 2 seasons] (NBC)
• Blindspot [hour-long adventure, 2 seasons] (NBC)
• The Big Bang Theory [sitcom, 10 seasons] (CBS; was better earlier seasons)
• Crashing [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (HBO)
• Divorce [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (HBO)
• Doctor Foster [hour-long drama, 1 season] (BBC One, Lifetime, Netflix)
• Empire [hour-long drama, 3 seasons] (FOX; first season was better)
• Family Guy [animated sitcom, 15 seasons] (FOX; much better in early seasons)
• Fear the Walking Dead [hour-long fantasy, 2 seasons] (AMC; slow pace)
• Grace and Frankie [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (Netflix)
• Greenleaf [hour-long drama, 1 season] (OWN)
• Grey’s Anatomy [hour-long medical drama, 11 seasons] (ABC)
• Jane the Virgin [hour-long dramedy, 3 seasons] (CW)
• The Last Ship [hour-long fantasy, 3 seasons] (TNT)
• The Magicians [hour-long fantasy, 2 seasons] (SyFy)
• Nashville [hour-long drama, 5 seasons] (ABC)
• New Girl [sitcom, 6 seasons] (FOX; first season is excellent)
• No Tomorrow [hour-long romantic comedy, 1 season] (CW)
• Playing House [sitcom, 2 seasons] (USA)
• Saturday Night Live [90-minute variety, 42 seasons] (NBC; for the Weekend Update and the occasional funny skit)
• Scorpion [hour-long adventure, 3 seasons] (CBS)
• Stranger Things [hour-long sci-fi, 1 season] (Netflix)
• The Shannara Chronicles [hour-long fantasy, 1 season] (MTV)
• Superstore [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (NBC)
• Teachers [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (TV Land)
• Tosh.0 [half-hour comedy, 8 seasons] (Comedy Central)
• Wayward Pines [hour-long fantasy, 2 seasons] (FOX)
• Workaholics [half-hour comedy, 7 seasons] (Comedy Central)

Formerly Airing

Get these on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/iTunes/wherever.

Excellent:

• Battlestar Galactica [hour-long space drama, 4 seasons] (Sci-Fi; even if you don’t like sci-fi)
• Bent [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (ABC)
• Better Off Ted [half-hour office comedy, 2 seasons] (ABC)
• Breaking Bad [hour-long drama, 5 seasons] (AMC)
• Boss [hour-long political drama, 2 seasons] (Starz)
• Damages [hour-long law drama, 5 seasons] (FX/DirecTV’s Audience Network)
• Dexter [hour-long police thriller, 8 seasons] (Showtime; started downhill after the 4th season)
• Downton Abbey [hour-long drama, 6 seasons] (ITV/PBS)
• Galavant [half-hour period musical comedy, 2 seasons] (ABC)
• Gilmore Girls [hour-long drama, 8 seasons] (CW, Netflix)
• House [hour-long medical drama, 8 seasons] (FOX; slow decline after the 4th season)
• In Treatment [half-hour drama, 3 seasons] (HBO; first season was the best)
• The Knick [hour-long period drama, 2 seasons] (Cinemax; first season was better)
• Mad Men [hour-long period drama, 7 seasons] (AMC)
• Mixology [half-hour comedy] (ABC)
• The Newsroom [hour-long news drama, 3 seasons] (HBO)
• Northern Exposure [hour-long drama, 6 seasons] (ABC; went downhill when the creators left after the 4th season)
• The Office (UK) [half-hour mockumentary, 2 seasons] (BBC Two)
• The Sopranos [hour-long mob drama, 6 seasons] (HBO)
• Twenty Twelve [half-hour mockumentary, 2 seasons] (BBC  Four/Two)
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand [hour-long action, 1 season] (Starz)
• Twin Peaks [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (ABC)
• Web Therapy [half-hour mockumentary, 4 seasons] (Showtime)
• The West Wing [hour-long drama, 7 seasons] (NBC; went downhill when Aaron Sorkin stopped writing it after the 4th season)

Very Good:

• 30 Rock [sitcom, 7 seasons] (NBC)
• A to Z [half-hour romantic comedy, 1 season] (NBC)
• Alpha House [half-hour political satire, 2 seasons] (Amazon; first season was better)
• Breaking In [sitcom, 2 seasons] (Fox)
• Bunheads [hour-long drama, 1 season] (ABC Family)
• Crossbones [hour-long drama, 1 season] (NBC)
• Don’t Trust The Bitch In Apt 23 [sitcom, 2 seasons] (ABC)
• Entourage (HBO; really jumped the shark in the 7th season)
• FlashForward
• Friday Night Lights
• Fringe [hour-long sci-fi series, 5 seasons] (FOX)
• Gossip Girl [hour-long drama, 6 seasons] (CW)
• The Grinder [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (FOX)
• Hannibal [half-hour thriller, 3 seasons] (NBC)
• Happy Endings [sitcom, 2 seasons] (ABC, Hulu)
• How To Make It In America [half-hour drama, 2 seasons] (HBO)
• I Just Want My Pants Back [half-hour dramedy, 1 season] (MTV, mtv.com)
• The Jim Gaffigan Show [sitcom, 2 seasons] (TV Land)
• Law And Order
• The League [half-hour comedy, 7 seasons] (FX; leave your morals at the door)
• Lost (was better the first 3 seasons)
• Magic City [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (Starz)
• Man Up!
• Men Of A Certain Age
• The Office (US) [half-hour mockumentary, 9 seasons] (NBC)
• Parks And Recreation [sitcom, 7 seasons] (NBC)
• Perfect Couples
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl [half-hour drama, 4 seasons] (Showtime)
• Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll [half-hour dramedy, 2 seasons] (FX)
• Sin City Saints [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (Yahoo!)
• The Loop [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (FOX; sharp decline after 1st season)
• Traffic Light
• Trophy Wife [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (ABC)
• True Blood [hour-long fantasy, 7 seasons] (HBO; sharp decline after 3rd season)
• Scrubs
• Tyrant [hour-long drama, 3 seasons] (FX)
• Stargate: Universe
• Undateable [sitcom, 3 seasons] (NBC)
• Up All Night [half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (NBC, Hulu)
• Welcome to Sweden [sitcom, 2 seasons] (NBC)

Good:

• 11.22.63 [hour-long fantasy, 1 season] (Hulu)
• 24 [hour-long action, 9 seasons] (FOX)
• About a Boy (half-hour comedy, 2 seasons] (NBC)
• Are You There, Chelsea? [sitcom, 1 season]
• Awake [hour-long drama, 1 season]
• The Big C [half-hour drama; 4 seasons] (Showtime)
• Boardwalk Empire [hour-long period drama, 5 seasons] (HBO; slow pace)
• Brickleberry [half-hour animated comedy, 3 seasons] (Comedy Central)
• Californication [half-hour dramedy; 7 seasons] (Showtime; leave your morals at the door)
• Chuck (more nerd-appeal than anything)
• Community [sitcom; 6 seasons] (NBC and Yahoo!; it’s really meta)
• Desperate Housewives
• Donny! [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (USA)
• Extant [hour-long sci-fi, 2 seasons] (CBS; second season was not that good)
• Falling Skies [hour-long sci-fi series, 5 seasons] (TNT)
• The Following [hour-long thriller, 3 seasons] (FOX)
• Franklin and Bash [hour-long law dramedy, 4 seasons] (TNT; season 4 was not that good)
• Gary Unmarried
• GCB [hour-long comedy, 1 season]
• Getting On (US) [half-hour dramedy, 3 seasons] (HBO)
• Glee [hour-long high school dramedy, 6 seasons] (FOX; slow decline after excellent first season)
• Hellcats
• Heroes
• Hindsight [hour-long romantic comedy, 2 seasons] (VH1)
• House of Lies [half-hour drama, 5 seasons] (Showtime; leave your morals at the door)
• How I Met Your Mother [sitcom, 9 seasons] (CBS; first 3 seasons were excellent)
• Intruders [hour-long fantasy, 1 season] (BBC America)
• Kroll Show [half-hour sketch comedy, 3 seasons] (Comedy Central; first season was better)
• Legend Of The Seeker [hour-long fantasy, two seasons]
• Marry Me [half-hour comedy, 1 season] (NBC)
• Masters of Sex [hour-long period drama, 4 seasons] (Showtime; first season is better)
• Men At Work [sitcom, 3 seasons] (TBS)
• Mysteries of Laura [hour-long comedy, 2 seasons] (NBC)
• Resurrection [hour-long supernatural drama, 2 seasons] (ABC)
• The Returned [hour-long supernatural drama, 1 season] (A&E)
• Ringer [hour-long drama, 1 season]
• Salem [hour-long fantasy, 3 seasons] (WGN)
• Satisfaction [hour-long drama, 2 seasons] (USA)
• Secret Diary Of A Call Girl
• Smallville [hour-long adventure, 8 seasons] (WB/CW; started going steadily downhill after the 3rd season)
• Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
• Spartacus: Vengeance
• Stalker [hour-long police procedural, 1 season] (CBS)
• Stargate: Atlantis
• Stargate: SG-1
• Suburgatory [sitcom, 3 seasons] (ABC; 1st season was better)
• Two And A Half Men [sitcom, 12 seasons] (CBS; better early seasons)
• Under The Dome [hour-long fantasy, 3 seasons] (CBS)
• Weeds [half-hour dramedy, 8 seasons] (Showtime)