Every week, I try to watch as many shows as possible. It’s almost an impossible task due to the sheer volume of TV shows streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Max and more.
As a result, some lower-profile and older shows slip through the cracks. This week, I’m playing catch-up by watching three shows that haven’t received as much attention as Ginny & Georgia or The Bear.
Sherlock & Daughter, Adults and The Mortician may not have anything in common, but they’re all guaranteed to entertain you for a few hours.
‘Sherlock & Daughter’ – HBO Max
Sherlock Holmes (Harry Potter star David Thewlis), the greatest detective of all time, returns for another mystery set in Victorian England — except this time, he’s not alone. Instead of his sometimes partner Watson joining him on his latest adventure, Amelia Rojas (Blu Hunt), an American teenager, joins him to solve two mysteries: her mother’s murder and whether or not he’s her real father.
This comedic crime thriller has been one of Max’s most popular new shows this summer, and it’s not hard to understand why — it’s fun and often funny, and the mysteries are involving enough to keep you guessing until the end. The banter between Thewlis and Hunt as a possible father/daughter crime-solving duo is magical, and I’m already craving a second season. You will too.
Sherlock & Daughter is streaming on HBO Max.
‘Adults’ Season 1 – Hulu
I’ll admit it — I purposefully missed the boat on Adults when it premiered in May on FX. I just couldn’t watch yet another comedy about twentysomethings living the impossibly good life in New York City. Friends poisoned that well long ago, and the recent Gossip Girl reboot killed it for good.
But a lot of people on social media kept singing its praises, and as it turns out, they were right. If you’ve seen Friends or pretty much any youth-skewing sitcom of the last 30 years, you’ll recognize Adults’ premise. The show follows five friends living together in a house in Queens. They’re all equally charming and naive in their own ways, with Jack Innanen’s Paul Baker standing out as the breakout character of the group. He’s like if Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe had a child, only without the minuscule musical talent.
One highlight from my watch is when Daredevil himself, Charlie Cox, unexpectedly shows up as a teacher who is dating one of the housemates. He’s experiencing a midlife crisis, which kinda explains why he uses ketamine for the first time at a house dinner and eats raw chicken breast like it’s his last meal. It’s chaotic and messy, but it’s also very funny, and it encapsulates the slightly cringy appeal of Adults.
Adults can’t escape the shadow of all the shows that influenced it, but the five leads make it work. I’m a sucker for found-family TV shows, and Adults’ circle of sarcastic, vaguely narcissistic friends reminds me of Broad City’s Abbi and Ilana and Happy Endings’ gang of lovable nitwits. It’s a fun hangout show with characters you recognize, even if you’d run screaming in the other direction if you met them in real life.
Adults is streaming on Hulu.
‘The Mortician’ Season 1 – HBO Max
What if the family in Six Feet Under were real and up to no good? That’s the central premise behind The Mortician, a fascinating true crime docuseries that examines the Lamb Family Home, a family-owned California funeral business that allegedly committed crimes to stay in business.
The series features interviews with the accused as well as the victims of the family’s criminal activities, as well as dramatizations that detail some of the gruesome allegations, which include corpse mutilation, mass cremations and more. It’s grisly stuff, but I couldn’t look away throughout its three, roughly one-hour-long episodes.
The Mortician is streaming on HBO Max.
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