Sometimes you need to just cozy up with a blanket, shut off the lights, and flick on the TV to binge-watch a new show. One of those shoes ones with 100 plus episodes for you to get invested into major storylines and plot points, main characters, and the secondary ones. Follow relationships over lengthy seasons, and gush over your favorite episodes.
Here are a few shows that are perfect for binge-watching this winter.
Fake psychic. Real detectives.
TV-PG
Drama, Comedy, Crime
2006-2014
121 Episodes, 44 Minutes, 8 Seasons
Stream: Prime Video, Peacock, Apple TV
Starring: James Roday Rodriguez, Dule Hill
From TMDB: Thanks to his police officer father’s efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn’s frequent tips to the police led to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.
Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
They’re getting their shift together.
TV-14
Sitcom/Comedy
2015-2021
113 Episodes, 22 Minutes
6 Seasons
Stream: Hulu, Peacock
Starring: Ben Feldman, America Ferrera
From TMDB: A hilarious workplace comedy about a unique family of employees at a super-sized mega store. From the bright-eyed newbies and the seen-it-all veterans to the clueless summer hires and the in-it-for-life managers, together they hilariously tackle the day-to-day grind of the rabid bargain hunters, riot-causing sales, and nap-worthy training sessions.
Own this town.
TV-14
2015-2020
80 Episodes, 22 Minutes
6 Seasons
Stream: Prime Video (free w/ ads), Hulu
Starring: Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Dan Levy
From TMDB: Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, uber-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt’s Creek, a small, depressing town they once bought as a joke.
What the fork?!
TV-PG
2016-2020
50 Episodes, 22 Minutes
4 Seasons
Stream: Prime Video, Apple TV
Starring: Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil
From TMDB: Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she’s determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.
The law. Without the order
TV-14
2013-2021
153 Episodes, 22 Minutes
8 Seasons
Stream: Peacock, Prime Video, Netflix
Starring: Andy Samberg, Melissa Fumero, Terry Crews, Andre Braugher
From TMDB: A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
Boys will be boys. Jess will be Jess.
TV-14
2011-2018
146 Episodes, 22 Minutes
7 Seasons
Stream: Hulu, Peacock, Prime Video
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris
From TMDB: Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn’t. Although she’s dorky and awkward, she’s comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she’s not used to hanging with the boys–especially at home.
Feel better?
TV-14
2007-2012
176 Episodes, 45 Minutes
8 Seasons
Stream: Hulu, Prime Video, Plex
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps
From TMDB: Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
