Pallid complexion and muffin tops are about to be the “in” look, at least if the television industry has anything to say about it. More than 100 new or returning series are bombarding your TV sets, streaming services, and 3D oculus mind viewer chip (that’s a thing now, right?) to distract you away from your tans, your beach days or, really, ever having to go outside. Suffice it to say, there’s something for everybody, and we’ve perused all the offerings to curate these 50 series that—should you choose to embrace your inner vampire—are worth checking out. Here they are in chronological order. Set your DVRs accordingly.
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Maria Bamford is odd. She is one of the weirdest, most confusing, and smartest comedians working—and she’s been working for a long time. If you've seen her kooky Target commercials, you know she's a delight. If you've seen her do standup, then you know she's truly special. The amount of respect she’s earned in the comedy world for her self-deprecating comedy, fearless exploration of depression and anxiety, and unusual voices she uses to tell stories is evident by the sheer amount of heavyweight guests (Sarah Silverman, Lennon Parnham, and Ana Gasteyer among them) that will turn up in her new Netflix series Lady Dynamite, a surreal take on Bamford’s own life as a performer perennially on the verge of psychosis.
Premieres May 20 on Netflix.
It’s been a whole two years since Bryan Cranston took home an Emmy Award, a laughably short drought that will be remedied when the Breaking Bad star reprises his role as President Lyndon B. Johnson in All the Way, HBO’s TV adaptation of the play that Cranston—yep!—won the Tony Award for in 2014. The film, which also stars Anthony Mackie as Martin Luther King Jr. and Melissa Leo as Lady Bird Johnson, chronicles President Johnson’s heated conversations with Congress and civil rights groups in order to win support for his Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Premiere May 20 on HBO.
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The tagline for Preacher is intriguing on its face: A small-town preacher, his ex-girlfriend, and an Irish vampire try to literally find God. That it was developed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, whose comedy genius birthed Superbad, Pineapple Express, and This Is the End, along with Sam Catlin, who previously worked on Breaking Bad, makes it all the more interesting. Add in that the series is based on a DC Comics series, and you have the ingredients for a series primed to be your summer TV obsession.
Premieres May 22 on AMC.
The summer TV season used to be about indulging in mindless guilty pleasures that tie you over between vacations, or distract you when you need an air-conditioned escape from the heat. While the flood of prestige programming has now broken the levee and rushed into the summer season too, there are still a handful of reliable trash tentpoles to satisfy your junk TV cravings. Enter The Bachelorette, back for its 12th cycle with recently rejected Bachelor contestant and beacon “Cool Girl” JoJo Fletcher searching for staged—er, I mean true—love. The beauty of late-in-life Bachelor seasons is how the show has leaned into the farce of it all, essentially becoming a comedy series disguised a reality TV love competition. The summer could use a few laughs.
Season 12 returns May 23 on ABC.
The family that kills together stays together. Blood truly is thicker than water, and Season Two of Bloodline has the Rayburn family sweating their way through a murder coverup and the ramifications it has on their once idyllic lives in the Florida Keys. The slow-burn drama, sometimes slooow burn, adds John Leguizamo to kindle that fire a little more quickly this season, playing a mystery man connected to the Rayburns with passionate ideas about justice, privilege, and forgiveness.
Season Two returns May 27 on Netflix.
Torture your beach body aspirations with the veritable foodie porn that is Netflix’s Chef’s Table, a fascinating look into the minds and talents of the world’s most accomplished chefs. This isn’t a series that teaches you how to whip up a family dinner in 30 minutes, or a challenge competition tasking cooks to craft a dish using cow tongue, absinthe, kale, and Twizzlers. It’s a character-driven, intimate look into the psychology of cooking from chefs at the height of their careers, all from the filmmaker behind the hit documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, with Season Two traveling to Brazil, Slovenia, and Thailand for new episodes.
Season Two returns May 27 on Netflix.
The grand tradition of sleazy summer soaps has been upheld these past three years by ABC’s Mistresses, a sudsy drama about four girlfriends that the name of this series can pretty much sum up for you. A little bit of the show’s magic departed along with Alyssa Milano, but Season Four promises the kind of mindless racy relationship drama that has always made the show the televised equivalent of your tawdry beach read. And yes, that’s an endorsement.
Season Four returns May 30 on ABC.
The 1977 miniseries Roots remains, nearly four decades later, one of the most important television broadcast in our history. It's certainly among the most celebrated, earning 37 Emmy nominations, a Peabody, and record-breaking ratings when it aired. It's hard to recapture such a seminal moment, but History’s remaking of the series this summer does carry with it a cultural temperature that makes airing it timely again. An all-star cast including Anika Noni Rose, Laurence Fishburne, Anna Paquin, and Forest Whitaker bring to life again characters that are seared into the memories of anyone who watched the original, making Roots a must-see event once again.
Premieres May 30 on History.
Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins co-star together for the first time in The Dresser, a union of “sirs” that gives the acting powerhouses the kind of theatrical playground they relish. Set in London during World War II, The Dresser follows the relationship between a personal assistant and an aging actor as they attempt to get through a difficult performance of Shakespeare’s King Lear. Both actors have said they were drawn to the project because of its celebration of Shakespeare, but also because of its uncharacteristic embrace of dialogue and long speeches: theatrical joys rarely seen on the ole boob tube.
Premieres May 30 on Starz
Summer’s most beloved—and, at times, aggravating—reality show is dancing its way to its astonishing 13th season, but this time with a twist: the contestants will all be between the ages of 8 and 13. Dubbed The Next Generation, this iteration of So You Think You Can Dance is a win-lose. The return of sunshine-beam host Cat Deely and this troupe of preternaturally talented dancers is summertime bliss. But SYTYCD has always faltered when it retools its format, relying on gimmicks to freshen up a formula that was never broken in the first place. The dancing will, as always, be astonishing. Whether the show’s new format earns a ticket on the Hot Tamale Train remains to be seen.
Season 13 returns May 30 on Fox.
Last year Maya Rudolph—impersonating Beyoncé—and Martin Short emceed a segment at Saturday Night Live’s 40th Anniversary Special that chronicled the sketch show’s history of musical recurring characters. Turns out, it was actually the test pilot for what would become the duo’s own variety show. Not much is known about the form of the show, but given the duo’s riotous chemistry that night and their enthusiastic love for the genre—Rudolph tried her own variety special in 2015—Maya and Marty should be a comedy nerd’s dream.
Premieres May 31 on NBC.
Kingdom is, to some circles, a riveting family drama about the pressures, rivalries, corruption, and determination it takes to succeed as a MMA fighter. In other circles, it’s that show where Nick Jonas has a hot bod and plays gay. Both are excellent reasons to watch—though there is a certain frustration that those titillated by Jonas’s very public promising of gay scenes don’t necessarily deliver as explicitly as they might like. Nonetheless, it’s a gritty, surprisingly poignant look at this world of fighting.
Season Two returns June 1 on DirecTV.
Hell’s Kitchen meets The Godfather? That’s one way to think about Feed the Beast, an AMC crime drama based on the Danish series Bankerot. David Schwimmer continues his crusade to leave Ross Gellar behind as Tommy while Jim Sturgess continues his push to leave…Jesus?...behind as his best friend Dion. Both down and out in their personal and professional lives, they go all in on an attempt to open a restaurant in the Bronx, only to fall under the thumb of the petty criminals and corrupt officials that populate the seedy underbelly of the restaurant world.
Premieres June 5 on AMC.
UnREAL confirmed what we always suspected: the making of reality TV is often more entertaining than the show itself. Lifetime’s mesmerizing deconstruction of the genre depicts the psychological warfare waged between ruthless reality TV producers of a fictional Bachelor-like dating show and the contestants “looking for love,” who are simultaneously victimized by and complicit in the manipulation. Factor in towering performances by Constance Zimmer and Shiri Appleby as the producers battling their own consciences in their pursuit for epic trash TV, and you have a series that serves as both a reality TV send-up and love letter. Oh, and it recently won a Peabody.
Season Two returns June 6 on Lifetime.
The first season of Angie Tribeca was Shirley an impressive homage to absurdist comedy spoofs like Airplane! and Police Squad. Adding interest was the old-school-meets-new-school way the Rashida Jones-fronted comedy unloaded: first in a 24-hour binge marathon followed by by weekly airings. That allowed for the kind of nyuk-nyuk recurring jokes that this genre lives by, and for the show to breezily accomplish its stated mission, according to its cast and creators: to be so stupid it transcends into smartness.
Season Two returns June 6 on TBS.
Not only does Devious Maids have all the sordid, heightened sex-and-murder-and-backstabbing-and-gossip drama that you crave in a summer soap opera, it assembles a troop of TV’s most talented Hispanic and Latina actresses to do it, including Judy Reyes, Ana Ortiz, and Naya Rivera. The season also boasts a first appearance from the show’s executive producer, Eva Longoria. It’s all camp and fun and certainly not good television. But that’s precisely why it’s so addicting.
Season Four returns June 6 on Lifetime.
Abs, sexual tension, testosterone-fueled aggression, family warfare, and Ellen Barkin provide the sweat-soaked reasons to tune in to TNT’s adaptation/continuation of the critically hailed 2010 Australian film Animal Kingdom, which won an Oscar nomination for Jacki Weaver as the matriarch Barkin portrays in the series. The crime-meets-family drama meets Scott Speedman’s frequently on-display abs to warrant a DVR booking this June.
Premieres June 7 on TNT.
For all the alternately moody, zippy, spoofy, hopeful, cynical, and keen depictions of romance and dating in the age of Tinder, few shows graduate from the plight of the millennial looking for love and explore what it’s like for an actual grown-up to try to make intimate connections in a dating world that values digital distance. Casual explores romance, perspective, and self-worth through the prism of three family members of different ages, making dark, brutally real, and even sometimes hopeful statements about what it means to be “looking” in 2016.
Season Two premieres June 7 on Hulu.
It’s been two decades and O.J. Simpson is having another cultural moment. The renewed interest in the NFL legend turned cultural lightning rod and walking morality play extends from this winter’s monster-hit FX miniseries to a new 7.5 hour documentary from ESPN. Easily the most ambitious project to date from a network shrined in sports doc excellence, O.J. Made in America will chronicle Simpson’s rise and fall in epic detail, from his days growing up through his football career and the eventual murder trial that captivated the nation.
Premieres June 11 on ABC, with subsequent episodes airing throughout the week on ESPN.
Fresh off the slap heard ‘round the world (not to mention seven-year-long shepherding one of the greatest network dramas of the decade), The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King return to CBS with a political dramedy set in Capitol Hill amidst an attack on the government’s politicos by aliens who are eating their brains. As a pointed allegory alone for the intelligence level at which our lawmakers often seem to operating, BrainDead is already operating at a vital pulse.
Premieres June 13 on CBS.
Turning to cherished film classics as inspiration for new TV series is always an anxiety-inducing risk for networks. For every Friday Night Lights there’s a Rush Hour. But ABC’s gamble adapting the beloved 1989 John Hughes film Uncle Buck into a new sitcom includes a creative twist big enough to warrant the dice roll. The new series will star an all-black cast, with Michael Epps filling the shoes of John Candy as out-of-work Uncle Buck, forced to move in with his brother and sister-in-law and help care for the kids.
Premieres June 14 on ABC.
What if LOST was a comedy? That’s the six-word pitch for Wrecked, a new TBS comedy that injects the plane-crashes-on-a-deserted-island premise with a twisted bit of Gilligan’s Island humor. Played with a demented, though realistic, edge, the show should reveal the challenges a group of strangers face trying to survive together in a makeshift society devoid of wi-fi and Chipotle. (Also, um, plumbing.) If a polar bear walks by, is it a meta acknowledgement that LOST was a comedy all along?
Premieres June 14 on TBS.
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The simple joys of Jerry Seinfeld chauffeuring around and chatting with his famous friends can sometimes be over-simplistic—as in, a bit of a bore—but at its best it provides a fascinating and often hilarious look into the minds of some of the funniest and brightest people in the world, with the intimacy attained only by the easy comfort of talking with Seinfeld. It might be hard to top last season's installments featuring Barack Obama and Garry Shandling, but Seinfeld will drive on and try.
Season Eight returns June 15 on Crackle.
One of the joys of Orange Is the New Black—and the show boasts so many—is that each season brings with it the ambition and the surprise of a new tonal direction. So nimbly does the show vacillate between comedy and drama each season that the awards groups often disagree about which category to nominate it in. Entering its fourth season, the show deserves accolades in any category for the way it explores our justice system, sexuality, womanhood, race, privilege, and paranoia through a rainbow of stunning performances from its sprawling ensemble. Nothing is ever status quo at Litchfield Prison. This season’s twist—the budget is downsizing while the prison population is supersizing—should ensure that remains more true than ever.
Season Four returns June 17 on Netflix.
This project is so delightfully absurd that it’s hard to believe it’s real. (And all the more wonderful that it actually is.) On the 20th anniversary of one of the ’90s most notoriously absurd woman-in-peril overdramatic movies-of-the-week, James Franco is producing and starring in a TV remake for Lifetime—a partnership so perfect, considering the network’s torch-bearing of the movie-of-the-week ridiculousness. Original stars Tori Spelling and Ivan Sergei will also reunite for the film, which promises to be the serio-camp masterpiece we all are hoping for.
Premieres June 18 on Lifetime.
The groundbreaking drama from Freeform (née ABC Family) about a blended multi-ethnic family comprised of a mix of adopted and biologic kids raised by lesbian mothers could be an entire series of Very Special Episodes about acceptance, diversity, and identity in today’s world. The Fosters is about all those things, but told with such dignity, specificity, and nuance that the only thing “Very Special” about it is that it exists.
Season Four returns June 20 on Freeform.
This sweeping series from OWN treats emotion and dramatics as commandments, and to riveting result. About the lies, betrayal, and, ultimately, faith of a pastor’s family at a Tennessee megachurch, Greenleaf sends its soapiness and melodrama to the heavens when the family’s prodigal daughter returns, both to settle personal debts and ultimate come to terms with her own spirituality. The biggest selling point, though: Oprah Winfrey makes her first recurring acting appearance on a scripted TV series in two decades as the scene-stealing family rabble-rouser. Oprah and God: a pairing that’s heaven-sent.
Premieres June 21 on OWN.
Officially the longest running original series on ABC Family/Freeform, surpassing The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Pretty Little Liars heads into its seventh season with the assumption that it will be its last. That means the “liars” will have 20 episodes to untangle any remaining secrets and mysteries, and unmask “Uber A” once and for all. If that excites you, you’re among those who have turned Pretty Little Liars into one of the most talked-about shows on social media. The youths love this show!
Season Seven returns June 21 on Freeform.
The explosive Queen of the South is USA’s blending of its usual slick-and-polished thriller with the telenovela. Based on the international best-seller La Reina Del Sur—which has already been adapted to a hit series on Telemundo—centers on a woman who, when her drug-dealing boyfriend is murdered in Mexico, flees to the United States. There, she mounts a revenge mission to bring down the leader of the drug trafficking ring that killed her boyfriend and sent her on the run, and in the meantime finds herself the leader of her own cartel.
Premieres June 21 on USA.
Did you ever watch Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, about a woman who spent 15 years trapped in an underground bunker by a cult leader, and in between gut-busting laughs think, “Yikes, that’s dark?” Then Thirteen is for you, a miniseries that leans into the darker elements of a very similar story: a 26-year-old woman escapes from a cellar, where she spent 13 years as a prisoner. It’s a more slowburn tale about rehabilitation and trauma than last year’s Oscar-winner Room, which is both a harrowing and highly enticing thing.
Premieres June 23 on BBC America.
Making its bid for dominance in the ranking of series that start with “American” in its title (thus far its American Crime Story > American Crime > American Idol > American Horror Story > American Odyssey), American Gothic has the fact that it comes from Steven Spielberg’s production in its favor. It’s another family thriller to haunt your summer, centering on a Boston family that discovers its recently deceased patriarch is connected to a murder string spanning decades. No word if a pitchfork and a dour elderly couple are involved.
Premieres June 22 on CBS.
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Reviving the classic 1970s celebrity-driven game show Match Game—and enlisting Alec Baldwin to host it—is a really ____ idea. How you decide to fill in that blank might depend on your opinions on Baldwin, who is making his first regular return to television since the end of 30 Rock. Who will be the Charles Nelson Reilly to his Gene Rayburn remains to be seen, as the celebrity panel guests have yet to be announced. But Match Game will anchor a game show revival night for ABC, with a “Sunday Fun & Games” programming block also set to include a Steve Harvey-hosted Celebrity Family Feud and a reincarnation of The $100,000 Pyramid.
Premieres June 26 on ABC.
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Showtime’s Liev Schrieber Being Very Intense series returns for a fourth season with California’s most corrupt fixer to L.A.’s rich and famous on another redemption mission, with Ray licking wounds after his Season Three battle with the Armenian mafia. He wants to be a better husband and father, which, ya know, same ole song and dance, my friend.
Season Four premieres June 26 on Showtime.
Perhaps we’re gluttons for punishment or perhaps there’s a hyper-powerful hypnosis sequence in Almost Famous that we were all unaware of, but we just can’t quit Cameron Crowe. At least, we can’t quit our blind optimism. The Say Anything, Jerry Maguire writer (yay!) and Elizabethtown and Aloha laughing stock (boo!) creates and writes his first television series with Roadies, an ensemble dramedy starring Luke Wilson and Carla Gugino about the backstage lives of the road crew for an arena rock band. It seems in the vein of Almost Famous and no one appears to be buying a zoo, so we’re cautiously optimistic!
Premieres June 26 on Showtime.
Originally titled Criminal Justice and set to star James Gandolfini in 2014, the limited series was a passion project of the late Sopranos actor when he died. Robert De Niro had stepped in to lead the crime thriller, a True Detective-like dive into a New York City murder case that reverberates with large cultural and political overtones, but left the series after a scheduling conflict. Gandolfini’s Sopranos co-star John Turturro is finally bringing the series to HBO, with Gandolfini poignantly earning a posthumous executive producer credit.
Premieres July 10 on HBO.
If the 2016 presidential election has seemed like a reality TV show to you, well, now it actually is. OK, better referred to as a docuseries (semantics), The Circus takes each week of this year’s clown-show campaign and distills it in half-narratives featuring political strategist Mark McKinnon and Game Change authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann. Episodes first started airing in January, and will return after a hiatus with new episodes—including those shot at the veritable three-ring national conventions—in July.
Returns July 10 on Showtime.
When Difficult People—the gleefully cranky comedy starring over it pop culture savants Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner—premiered last year, it was described as Will and Grace, if Will and Grace weren’t likable, or Curb Your Enthusiasm had Seinfeld never made Larry David rich and famous. Mostly, though, it was about real people: two friends who have little patience for the tedium of the world, scoff annoyances like enthusiasm or sunniness or social mores, and are unabashed about their obsession with the minutiae of celebrity culture. It’s a show about two people who are getting in their own way, but it doesn’t matter because the world is garbage so they’d be screwed over no matter—but at least they have each other when it happens.
Season Two premieres July 12 on Hulu.
Few freshman series arrive with the zeitgeist-seizing originality of Mr. Robot, a thriller about corruption, paranoia, surveillance, and justice all centered around TV’s most compelling lead character: a vigilante hacker with possible Dissociative Identity Disorder grappling with morphine addiction while attempting to save the world with 1s and 0s. That the most gripping new drama we’ve seen in a long time is finally returning? Hello, friend.
Season Two returns July 13 on USA.
Dysfunctional family dramas are a dime a dozen, but with far more value is The A Word and its brutally honest, poignant depiction of raising a 5-year-old son who is diagnosed with autism. It’s a six-episode limited series produced in conjunction with the BBC, and with a sprawling cast that includes The Leftovers’ Christopher Eccleston, it will explore how the diagnosis doesn’t just challenge the son’s upbringing, but amplifies the family members’ own issues and struggles.
Premieres July 13 on Sundance TV.
Netflix recognized your longing for Winona Ryder in a major role and obliged with a lead in a supernatural thriller, to boot. She plays the mother of a young boy who vanishes into thin air in 1980s Indiana. As Netflix’s logline teases, she must confront “terrifying forces” in order to get him back. There are top-secret experiments, supernatural threats, and a scary weird girl, too. But mostly there is Winona.
Premieres July 15 on Netflix.
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The first season of Ballers picked up right where Entourage left off, a brotastic orgy of escapism, indulgence, and breasts. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his megawatt charisma makes for as delicious a pimp for the proceedings as Jeremy Piven’s walking conniption fit Ari Gold ever did, with the added bonus of Johnson's actual likability as a retired football star adjusting to life as a financial adviser. His charisma co-signs Ballers as a harmless diversion, with a seedy new character portrayed by Andy Garcia adding intrigue to Season Two.
Season Two returns July 17 on HBO.
Danny McBride follows up his four seasons as a smalltown burnout on HBO’s Eastbound Down with a new series in which he plays, well, a smalltown burnout—this time one of a group of warring vice principals at a high school vying to to take over for the recently vacated top job. Think of it as secondary education’s version of Veep: the tale of those who almost have a power. Look out for Bill Murray’s cameo in the pilot doing his Bill Murray brief appearance thing as the departing principal who sets the series into motion.
Premieres July 17 on HBO.
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When Power premiered in 2014, the parallels to the perhaps buzzier Empire were inevitable. A New York City nightclub owner named James St. Patrick struggles to leave his position as a major player in a drug ring and go legit, literally leaving his nickname, “Ghost,” behind him. The ensuing two seasons—featuring the requisite relationship drama, shady figures from the past, and tangled family web—earned the juicy soap opera buzz in its own worth. A Season Two cliffhanger involving the fate of Kanan, played by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (who does double duty as producer), drives home the point that, especially when it comes to Ghost, the past and your misdeeds will always come back to haunt you.
Season Three returns in July on Starz.
No TV franchises are as befuddling as the Sharknado phenomenon, which now enters its fourth installment of shark-wielding cyclones terrorizing D-list celebrities with scientifically implausible danger, painful dialogue, and purposefully cheesy special effects. Fans who whip Twitter up into its own storm frenzy every time one of these premieres will be happy to know that Stacey Dash and Wayne Newton are joining the cavalcade of has-beens in the cast, including Gary Busey and David Hasselhoff. The rest of us head to the cellar for shelter from it all.
Premieres July 31 on Syfy.
Forget whether Jon Snow is alive or dead. God help anyone who spoils for me who won the 4 x 100 medley relay before I’m home from work and watching Bob Costas emcee the event time-delayed in primetime. Kicking off with the Opening Ceremony on August 5, exhaustive wall-to-wall coverage of the Summer Olympics from Brazil will, for an oh-so-brief few weeks at the end of the summer, unite TV watchers in their awe of wrestlers, swimmers, gymnasts, tennis players, runners, shot putters, and, above all, the American spirit. Throw your sappy-inspiring clip packages at us, NBC! We’re here for them.
The Olympic Opening Ceremony airs August 5 on NBC.
Few productions are more anticipated than Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Netflix series because, when the maestro behind Moulin Rouge!, Romeo + Juliet, and The Great Gatsby is involved, you know you’re getting a production. Luhrmann’s signature spectacle will focus on a group of South Bronx teenagers navigating the transformation of New York City in the 1970s. Music is expected to be a key part of the series, which arrives with so much buzz that its cast of largely unknown actors walked the red carpet of the Met Gala this spring.
Premieres August 12 on Netflix.
The most popular series in Italy of all-time is heading to American TV screens. About the corrupt members of Naples’ Camorra, which is—what else—the local version of the mafia, and all the violence, drug dealings, sex, and religion involved. It’s a harsh, seedy antidote to those who romanticize Italy and its pious, ebullient people. But what makes Gomorrah tick is its realistic, unglorified portrayal of these crime figures. (Not a Tony Soprano antihero in the bunch.)
Premieres August 24 on Sundance TV.
Guillermo Del Toro’s creepy crawly opus enters its third season of terrorizing zombiepocalypse-fearing Americans with its tale of a viral outbreak that’s basically turning your everyday neighbor into a vicious vampire. When the series returns, the bloodsuckers are continuing their takeover of New York City, with the federal government deciding to react with a scaredy cat shrug: Fend for yourselves.
Season Three returns August 28 on FX.
Sometimes falsely referred to in shorthand as the “anti-romcom,” You’re the Worst has actually morphed itself into the most realistic and poignant love story on TV—and certainly in a TV series that’s also this funny. Gretchen and Jimmy are vile, selfish humans who view each other the same way, but are no match for the love connection that drags them together, kicking and screaming, into settled commitment. But when Season Two explored Gretchen’s crippling depression—and whether these vile, selfish humans were equipped to handle the strain it would have on its relationship—this brutal and honest love story evolved into something even more brutal, more honest, and, especially, more human.
Season Three returns August 31 on FXX.
