The Best 2023 TV Shows You’ve Missed To Watch During The Writers Strike

The Writers Strike is about to cause a whole lot of delays of many of your favorite shows, pushing them to 2024 or 2025 and beyond. This is not a complaint against the writers, as they deserve everything they’re asking for after years of getting screwed over by studios in the streaming era. But the reality is yeah, a lot of TV delays are coming up.

However, that means it’s time to catch up on things you’ve missed. And no, I’m not just talking about things like “hey maybe it’s time to finally watch Succession.” I want to spotlight some currently airing or already-aired things that I think are really good and potentially overlooked. Granted, this is based on my own tastes, which lean more toward action, sci-fi, horror, thrillers, comedy, whatever, but it’s all I’ve got.

1. From (horror, MGM Plus) – This is currently airing its second season, and it’s a wild horror series about an isolated town that people get trapped in once they arrive. Every night they’re hunted by monsters and we are slowly learning there are even worse things in the woods. One of the best horror series I’ve seen in a very long time. MGM+ should be rolled up into Amazon Prime now but it isn’t. But it’s worth the cheap price just for this series.

2. Silo (sci-fi, Apple TV Plus) – This is still airing its first season, which I’m tuning in every Friday for. It’s an adaption of the Wool novels by Hugh Howey with the Fallout-like plot of thousands of people trapped in a giant underground Silo with no ability to leave and no idea how they got there. In trying to solve the mysteries of the outside world, people keep getting murdered and it’s up to a newly appointed sheriff to investigate.

3. Jury Duty (comedy, FreeVee) – FreeVee is Amazon’s free content arm with the catch being that you have to watch with commercials. But Jury Duty is worth it, and this may be one you’ve started to hear your friends talking about. The concept is to take one guy, Ronald, and tell him he’s serving jury duty on a specific case. But everyone else involved is an actor and he’s being monitored by secret cameras to see what he does in increasingly absurd situations, many of which involve James Marsden playing himself in what might be his greatest role ever. Heartwarming and hilarious.

4. Beef (Crime Comedy, Netflix) – I’m not going to leave Netflix off the list here just because it’s mainstream and it’s produced a bunch of not-great shows recently. It also has a few really good ones! Beef stars Oscar nominee Steven Yeun and Ali Wong who become inextricably linked after a road rage incident that escalates into true insanity by the end. Both of them deserve Emmys for this.

Shrinking (Comedy, Apple TV Plus) – What can I say, Apple TV Plus has a very high per capita of good shows. This is from the creator of Ted Lasso which explains why this current season of Ted Lasso was weird and kind of bad. But Shrinking has all the charm and heart and comedy of the first, good season of Ted Lasso, following a psychiatrist (Jason Segel) dealing with the loss of his wife. But it’s funny! Harrison Ford co-stars and it’s one of the best roles I’ve ever seen him in.

Those are my picks, feel free to add your own.

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