Best TV shows of 2024 so far

Richard Gadd miniseries The film adaptation of the acclaimed one-man play about an obsessive female stalker has not been without controversy, including a lawsuit against Netflix filed by a woman who claims she was based on a real person, but no matter how much of the film is a mix of fact and fiction, Gad tells his story in a fascinating way.

Emmy Award-winning restaurant The show had more ambitions and storylines than it could fit into Season 3, which resulted in it feeling incomplete and sometimes overwhelmed, but its best moments — a flashback to Mikey and Tina’s first meeting, or Carmy’s confrontation with an abuser from her past — were powerful reminders of why this deeply stressful series has become so beloved.

This mashup Part hard-boiled detective story, part romantic comedy, and part relationship drama, the project was a low-key but impressive showcase for creator and star Dearra Kilpatrick, who plays a Motor City teacher who goes to great lengths to find a Tinder hookup that apparently has ignored her.

British science fiction The institution is reborn again with Ncuti Gatwa, the first black and first openly queer actor to play the time-traveling Doctor. Taking the helm of the TARDIS for the first time since the late 2000s, Gatwa and showrunner Russell T. Davies have crafted a Doctor that feels both very dated and like a much-needed throwback. The storyline is just as unsettling as Davies’ first job, but with a hero this fun, who cares?

Another delightful blast of surrealism from writer-star Julio Torres.Los Espukis, ProblemistaIn this series, SNL Alumni navigate a parallel reality where everyone needs official proof of existence. Throw in wacky sketches in which corporate call-center employees engage in psychic battles with one another, women design dresses for restrooms, and Real Housewives take part in disturbing psychology experiments. Don’t try to explain it. Just laugh.

hacking Season 2 ended on a fitting series finale note, but thankfully it wasn’t the end. Season 3 was another big success, giving Deborah and Ava a good excuse to team up again through Deborah’s quest to finally have her own late-night talk show decades after her dreams were shattered. Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder continue to play off each other beautifully. And unlike last time, this season ended on a note where we can’t wait to see what happens next.

Speaking of late night The talk show’s Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival gave John Mulaney an excuse to gather as many famous friends as possible in one place for a week of live stunts. The Tonight Show and a very postmodern menagerie — including hilarious sidekick Richard Kind, who finds himself embroiled in an ongoing feud with delivery robots. Everybody’s in LA It was a lot of fun, and I hope Netflix lets Mulaney make a follow-up.

When it was first announced, The reboot of the 2005 film that gave birth to Brangelina seemed to have no purpose other than to pair two multitalented superstars, Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, but the final version was made without Waller-Bridge, and creative differences led to Francesca Sloane being brought in as Glover’s collaborator and Maya Erskine as his co-star. Smith – Glover Jul 23 ’13 at 14:43 Pen 15 The show, which stars alum Erskine as a group of strangers who are hired by a shady spy company to pose as their spouses, was a perfect mix of thrills, slapstick and powerful relationship drama. Amazon has already ordered another season, but there are rumors that Glover and Erskine will not be returning as leads. Mr. and Mrs. Smith You’ve earned the right to show what you can do, regardless of the talent that comes with it.

All novelists While they’re more than ready to adapt their work for another medium, Candice Carty-Williams has done a fantastic job turning her acclaimed 2019 novel about a young British-Jamaican woman (Dionne Brown) struggling with the trauma of her past and the difficulties of her present into a smart, engaging, and moving limited series.

1999 film version The Talented Mr. RipleyStar Wars: Episode I: The Last Jedi, starring Matt Damon and Jude Law, was so good that it seemed pointless to interpret Patricia Highsmith’s novel any other way. Then writer-director Steve Zaillian turned the material into a fascinating step-by-step guide to how to become a sociopath, hiring Andrew Scott to play an older, more ruthless Tom Ripley and Oscar-winning cinematographer Robert Elswit to craft one stunning black-and-white image after another: gorgeous, chilling, brilliant.

James Clavell’s epic poem This thick novel about feudal Japan was already made for TV in 1980, and its plot was almost exclusively about a white British sailor caught up in Japan’s civil war. This new version still has plenty of the foreign interloper (Cosmo Jarvis) but its heart is decidedly local, played brilliantly by Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano. Showrunners Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks have combined epic scale (those earthquakes!) with intimate character moments and fascinating strategy to evoke a bygone era in Japan. game of thrones.

Robert Downey Jr., Fresh Oppenheimer Oscar-winning, early Sympathizer She drew attention for playing multiple roles (with multiple makeup looks and wigs) in this story of a North Vietnamese spy (Hoa Xuande) living among South Vietnamese migrants in post-war California, but the real star was the way writer-director Park Chan-wook and his creative team captured the satirical tone of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and used the language of cinema to offer a new perspective on a conflict that’s been portrayed on screen many times before, but never in this way.

the time is Flat Circle means HBO’s dormant mystery series is returning with a new showrunner (horror writer-director Issa Lopez), new stars (Jodie Foster and Kali Reis) and a setting entirely different from any previous season (a small Alaskan town at the beginning of perpetual winter darkness). True Detective Creator Nic Pizzolatto Lopez expertly balances graphic earthly violence with supernatural violence, resolving the story in a more satisfying way than any of his previous films.

This British comedy All-female Muslim punk band Malala Made Me Do It received critical acclaim but otherwise little attention upon its 2021 debut. Despite an early renewal, it felt like season two would never come. But it was worth the wait. Season two offered some new, snappy, catchy tunes with titles like “Malala Made Me Do It,” capitalized on lead star Anjana Vasan’s comedic talents while placing an emphasis on the ensemble, and cleverly questioned the question of whether a show about women making “funny Muslim songs” speaks volumes about this particular era. Don’t keep us waiting so long next time.

The only possible One complaint about the third season of this fascinating documentary series about Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds running a Welsh football club is that it has far fewer episodes than the previous year, meaning it’s not as substantial. Welcome to Wrexham Stay a feel-good winner.