Peak TV Seasons from 2016 You Have to Rewatch

The Good Place additionally caught out among the many sea of cookie cutter community choices due to its inventive premise. The present follows Eleanor Shellstrop, who isn’t precisely an impressive citizen however someway leads to a utopian afterlife and should frantically study ethical philosophy to cover her identification. The collection took its time to develop, with main twists not revealed till the top of the primary batch of episodes. Season 1 additionally showcased the performing chops of its phenomenal forged. The present propelled the careers of William Jackson Harper, Manny Jacinto, Jameela Jamil, and D’Arcy Carden, who’ve all gone on to do superb work.

The present additionally appears like a product of its second, too. It was excellent for 2016 when a considerate and hopeful sitcom may nonetheless discover an viewers with out being instantly written off. Creator Michael Schur has labored on many iconic sitcoms, however there’s a purpose folks level to The Good Place as a second in TV historical past for its high-concept. It’s arduous to think about a present this light and philosophically curious given the identical room to develop immediately, making it a nostalgic rewatch. 

Ladies Season 5

In 2025, younger writers Benito Skinner, Ben Kronengold, and Rebecca Shaw swung arduous with their collection Overcompensating and Adults, exploring the awkward, hilarious, and isolating components of younger maturity. Whereas these collection have been all profitable in their very own proper, they lack the stressed self-reflection that author/actor Lena Dunham poured into Ladies. 

Ladies at giant is a compulsory rewatch on the whole, but when somebody instructed me they solely needed to revisit one season, I’d level them straight to season 5. It carried a sure veil of optimism and denial that completely matched the stage of life the characters have been stumbling via. The relationships, areas, and careers the characters explored didn’t final, however the penalties of their decisions on this season carried via to the top. It was additionally experimental in its formatting, making episodes really feel extra cinematic than typical. 

Dunham, very like her lead character Hannah, didn’t all the time reply nicely to criticism. So when co-star Christopher Abbott left the present as a result of it not him as an actor, she responded to that problem by writing, for my part, two of the very best episodes of tv ever: season 5’s “Panic in Central Park” and “Howdy Kitty.” The 2016 season of Ladies was excellent in each method and laid the groundwork for the collection conclusion the next season.

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 

Many Drag Race followers view season 7 because the weakest installment of the U.S. franchise, so when the present returned, it wanted to come back again robust to shake off that lingering dangerous vitality. Most individuals level to seasons 4 via 6 because the golden period, full of iconic RuGirls who went on to turn out to be Drag Race superstars, regardless in the event that they gained or misplaced. However in that dialog, we regularly overlook what season 8 gave us.