Working through what’s failing and what’s actually still worth caring about going into the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale.

HBO’s Tiger King team returns with Monsters of God, a reptile-smuggling docuseries featuring cobra intimacy, illicit smuggling, and the so-called Pablo Escobar of reptiles.

House of the Dragon has gotten sloggy and hard to follow, a brutal contrast with the other Game of Thrones prequel, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 3 preview, Negan’s unlikely redemption arc, and a detour into Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jimmi Simpson, and one very memorable Seattle hair salon story?

The new Vanderpump Rules spinoff: will Stassi Schroeder be the Chosen One alum who can make a spinoff actually work?

Will Ferrell’s new Netflix golf comedy The Hawk drops today — is it Talladega Nights retread? Plus: a genuinely good recent golf-based comedy TV show.

Five TV shows that started with hope but ended with nope, including The Boroughs, The Audacity, and Cape Fear.

Anya Taylor-Joy leads a stacked cast in Apple TV’s new heist thriller Lucky — five reasons it could be the streamer’s next big hit.

A ranked look at the best TV of 2026 so far, from Widow’s Bay to Industry to two under-the-radar picks most year-end lists are skipping.

Burning Man documentary The Man Will Burn arrives on HBO Max on July 9th, but its trailer suggests a celebration of the festival rather than a hard look at its recent controversies.

Amazon Prime Video’s Elle is a Legally Blonde prequel set in grunge-era Seattle in 1995 — and it has a real shot at pulling it off.

J.K. Simmons stars as an Irish mob boss in The Westies, a new MGM+ crime drama set in Hell’s Kitchen during the construction of the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

Sugar Season 2 is out now, with a new case, Better Call Saul’s Tony Dalton, and… what about that bonkers twist? 

Taylor Sheridan may have already bolted for NBC Universal, but Lioness and The Agency are the two reasons I haven’t canceled Paramount+… quite yet.

Widow’s Bay on Apple TV is the rare horror-comedy that delivers on both fronts, anchored by a spectacular Matthew Rhys performance.

From the Lorne Michaels biography to Dana Carvey’s podcast to the new Peacock series The Rundown, there’s never been more ways to feed an SNL obsession — and we’re not complaining.

Larry David crashes V-J Day, meets the Wright brothers, and generally ruins history in his new HBO sketch comedy series.

Steve Carell finds his post-Office groove in Rooster, HBO’s new Bill Lawrence comedy — with a surprise Michael Stipe song to sweeten the deal.

Love Is Blind is peak trashtastic TV — but only if you watch it right. Here’s the ultimate guide to fast forwarding your way to the good stuff.

Locked gates, cat poop, and quantum healing: HBO’s Neighbors turns bizarre neighbor disputes into a revealing portrait of Trump’s America.

Industry’s Harper and Eric echo Don Draper and Roger Sterling. Here’s how the Industry-Mad Men parallels run deeper than you think.

Just four episodes in, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms already ranks among the greatest half-hour dramas TV has ever produced.

Jon Hamm, a great cast, and a show that knows exactly what it is — Your Friends & Neighbors is a really good hang and not going anywhere.

How TV captured the national mood during the Biden years — trauma, absurdism, capitalism, and the uneasy calm between Trump eras.

“Currahee,” Band of Brothers’ opening episode, remains a masterclass in full immersion storytelling.

Five astoundingly good TV shows from the 2020s that got lost in the cultural shuffle — and are absolutely worth your time.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms teases a smaller, lighter Westeros story — less dragons, more humor, and a legit good guy at the center.

With Season 8 on the way, here’s Pop Thruster’s take on every Black Mirror episode, revealing what the show does best when it’s scary — and when it’s beautiful.

The best TV episodes of the 2020s so far — 15 unforgettable hours from Succession, Andor, Atlanta, The Last of Us, and beyond.

Tracking the new TV shows heading into 2026 that actually caught our attention, including A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, DTF St. Louis, and RJ Decker.

A modern Las Vegas drama from the Billions creators has Martin Scorsese on board, and that alone is reason to be amped.