25 Best TV Shows Similar to Arcane
Tires
Similar'Allo 'Allo!, Alice, All in the Family, Catterick, Complete Savages,
Executive Stress Fawlty Towers, Hyperdrive, I Dream of Jeannie,
Is It Legal? Joey, Men Behaving Badly, My Hero, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Off Centre, Peep Show, Quark,
Red Dwarf Supernova, Taxi, That '70s Show, The Boys, The Comeback,
The John Larroquette Show The Munsters, The Simpsons, The Thin Blue Line, The War at Home, The Wayans Bros., Two and a Half Men, War and Peace,
After six about 20-minute episodes of the Shane Gillis-Steve Gerben-created sitcom Tires, one can begin to understand why Netflix would want to work with him. He has a certain charisma and some acting chops. In one scene during the first episode, Gillis’ character, also named Shane, tries to snow a very unhappy reporter. In the sequence, Gillis has to convey to the audience that he doesn’t mean a word he’s saying and is using the moment to humiliate his boss and cousin Will (Gerben) while playing authentic convincingly enough that one can see why the reporter might fall for it. It’s not an easy lift, but Gillis makes it work.
The story is fine enough for a hangout comedy. Will is a failure whose father owns several tire stores. Either as punishment or because it’s where he can do the least harm, Dad has exiled Will to manage one of the two lowest-performing branches of the chain. Physically slight and coded as a kind of nerd, Will doesn’t fit in with the mechanics, including their seeming ringleader, Shane. To save the shop and his job and earn his dad’s affection, he spends every episode of a “marketing” idea that derails spectacularly.
Catch a glimpse of Steve Gerben. (Netflix)
The bad news is that, despite a sound enough premise, everything the show says or tries has the shape of jokes without actually including a laugh line. It’s the essence of humor without any of the pesky chuckles. Continue Reading →
Conan O'Brien Must Go
NetworkMax,
SimilarA Dance to the Music of Time, Family Guy, Kamen Rider Zero-One Short Anime: Everyone's Daily Life, Monarch of the Glen, Pompeii, Power Rangers Dino Force Brave, Psych,
Scully The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Wimbledon Poisoner, Tiger Lily, 4 femmes dans la vie, Troubles, What's Wrong with Secretary Kim,
Watch afterAmerican Horror Story, Arcane, Band of Brothers, Big Little Lies,
Black Mirror Breaking Bad Chernobyl Dark Matter,
Dexter Doctor Who, Fallout,
Game of Thrones House of the Dragon It,
Loki Money Heist Monk,
Moon Knight Rick and Morty Severance,
Sex Education Sherlock Shōgun, Spartacus,
Squid Game Stranger Things Supernatural,
The Big Bang Theory The Book of Boba Fett The Boys The Last of Us The Mandalorian The Queen's Gambit The Simpsons WandaVision Wednesday
It's been four long years since Conan O'Brien has graced our television screens, ever since his late-night TBS show, Conan, ended in 2021. Since then, he's kept busy, of course, with podcasts like Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend and guest spots on shows like Murderville. But the late-night legend couldn't possibly keep away from the limelight for long; even at the ripe age of sixty, the guy is still the same spry, lanky chaos demon he always was, a tall column of Irish awkwardness more than willing to play the fool for a laugh. That's most acutely felt in his remote travel segments, like Conan Without Borders, where he travels everywhere from Finland to Ireland to suss out the sights, tastes, and people of Earth. Think of him like Anthony Bourdain, with absolutely zero shame or culinary knowledge.
For those who missed those segments, rest easy, as Max has gifted us with four episodes of full-length travelogue mayhem in the form of Conan O'Brien Must Go. Each installment, funny enough, spins off from an episode of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Fan: He speaks to an interesting new guy or gal from a foreign country, then flies out to meet them and take in the surrounding environs. Of course, he does this the only way he knows how: By making a complete spectacle of himself.
Conan O'Brien Must Go (Max)
In the show's opening minutes, a deceptively Werner Herzog-ian voice purrs to us that to appreciate the grandeur of our mother Earth, you must sometimes defile it. Cut to Conan: "Behold the defiler." That's the tack Must Go takes in its exploration of countries as exotic and beautiful as Norway, Argentina, Thailand, and Ireland: Let Conan loose in these nations, sometimes (but not always) with a game companion or fan along the way, and witness the devastation. One week, he'll make a Norwegian hip-hop song with an enthusiastic fan; the next, he'll try to help another fan get his podcast from four listeners to a whopping five -- all through the power of aggressive ad reads for yerba mate. Continue Reading →
What If...?
Disney+'s animated exploration of what could've been continues to intrigue in Season 2, but not all episodes are created equal.
With What If…? Season 2, the time seems right to take a look at both seasons and rank them for your entertainment. Is it wrong to rank art? Possibly, but we’re of the mind that something that feels this good can’t possibly be bad.
On that note, let’s not waste a moment more and start counting down from worst to best. The Watcher (Jeffrey Wright) hates to be kept waiting! Continue Reading →
The Wheel of Time
Similar2Moons: The Series, A Dance to the Music of Time, A Touch of Frost,
Agatha Christie's Poirot Ah! My Goddess, Amazing Stories, American Gothic, Animated Classics of Japanese Literature, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Bodies, Brimstone, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cybersix, D.N.Angel, Des, Fate/Apocrypha, Fearless,
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe Hilda Furacão House of Cards, I Dream of Jeannie, In the Land of Leadale, Jewels, Kamichu!,
Little Women Loveless, Lupin,
M*A*S*H Masters of the Universe: Revelation, Monarch of the Glen, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, Mr. Mercedes, Out of This World,
Planet of the Apes Pride and Prejudice Santa Evita,
Sherlock Holmes Spies of Warsaw, Star and Sky: Star in My Mind, Super Pumped,
Tales from the Neverending Story Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills, The Alienist, The Chestnut Man, The Dawn of the Witch, The Family Game,
The Lost World The Old Man, The Serial Killer's Wife, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, The Slime Diaries: That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, The Strain, The Three-Body Problem, Tientsin Mystic, Tira, Unorthodox, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,
Wycliffe
Big-budget fantasy lovers have reason to celebrate this week with Amazon Studio’s The Wheel of Time Season 2's debut. With some careful tweaking by Showrunner Rafe Judkins, Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy of feminine magic and quests of destiny came to life in an impressive if uneven first season. Now, the stakes are higher, the dangers subtler, and the ever-expanding cast of characters more compelling. Continue Reading →
Twisted Metal
NetworkPeacock,
SimilarFate/Zero, Knuckles, Mortal Kombat: Conquest, RUSH: Inspired by Battlefield, Sonic the Hedgehog,
Through the haze of nostalgia, someone might find themselves thinking, “I remember Twisted Metal being a fun video game. I don’t remember there being a story to it though.” If that’s you, good news: your brain is not playing tricks on you. While the series gained complexity over time and each character took on backstory and better-defined goals, the on-screen experience essentially boiled down to a demolition derby in which the victor received an ironic fulfillment of their biggest wish. Continue Reading →
Star Trek: Prodigy
SimilarStar Trek Star Trek: Short Treks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,
StarringDee Bradley Baker,
Can you have Starfleet without Starfleet? That’s the essential question Star Trek: Prodigy asks in the back half of its first season. As the villainous Diviner (John Noble) told his daughter last time, the advanced vessel ferrying the series’ young heroes contains a weapon that could decimate the Federation. If that weren’t enough, the flesh-and-blood Vice Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) has reason to think whoever’s piloting the Protostar stole the ship and marooned her dear friend, Chakotay. So despite how badly the show’s main characters want to join Starfleet, there’s a plethora of reasons to stay far, far away for the time being. Continue Reading →
サイバーパンク:エッジランナーズ
Mike Pondsmith, creator of the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk—which video game studio CD Projekt Red adapted into Cyberpunk 2077 and which in turn led to the creation of Studio TRIGGER (Promare)'s 10-episode anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners—said this: Continue Reading →
The Endgame
For about five years, beginning in the late aughts and ending in the early teens, a favorite plot component emerged. Increasingly, the bad guy was getting captured about halfway through, and then it turning out it was. His. Plan. All. Along! Some, like The Dark Knight and Skyfall, used it to great effect. Others…less so. Continue Reading →
The Beatles: Get Back
Evil (Paramount+)
Frightening, funny, and ffffffffff…Mike Colter in those sweaters! Continue Reading →
Colin in Black and White
I wasn’t alive during the days of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, and Jim Brown’s stands against violent forms of discrimination. Therefore, Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to back down from his principles despite obvious NFL blacklisting makes him the closest my generation has to a genuinely revolutionary athlete. In refusing to stand for the national anthem in the wake of racial discrimination and murder by the U.S. Government, Kaepernick demonstrated he is who certain athletes (I’m looking at you, Kyrie Irving) think they are. Continue Reading →
Dickinson
It's doubtful Dickinson Season 3 will convert any new subscribers to AppleTV+. Still, the final season provides a strong salute to wartime poet Emily Dickinson. Don't think of Dickinson in those terms? You're hardly alone. Continue Reading →
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
SimilarBrimstone, My Holo Love, Stargate Atlantis,
Los Angeles. 2032. 13 years after Blade Runner Rick Deckard completed his last job for the LAPD. Ten years after the nuclear blackout that wiped the city's history clean. Four years before the brilliant but utterly vicious industrialist Niander Wallace will successfully lobby for the re-legalization of the artificial humanoids called Replicants. Seventeen years before Replicant Blade Runner KD6-3.7 will be assigned to retire rogue Replicant Sapper Morton. A young woman named Elle (voiced by Jessica Henwick of the upcoming The Matrix Resurrections) wakes up in the back of an automated shipping truck. Her memory is a shamble. The only clues she has to her identity are a mysterious device she cannot unlock, inexplicable and ferocious combat skills, and a beautiful tattoo of a black lotus on her back. Continue Reading →
Selena + Chef
Season one of Selena + Chef found Selena Gomez picking up the basic skills of cooking during quarantine. Season two followed Gomez as she looked to advance her skills. Season three of Selena + Chef shows us a confident Gomez in the kitchen, exclaiming in episode one “We’re not playing on season three - we’re doing it!” Continue Reading →
Invasion
Invasion, Apple TV+’s newest foray into sci-fi television, follows “ordinary” people around the world as an alien force, well, invades. Created by Simon Kinberg (who writes and directs several episodes) and David Weil (who also created Amazon’s Hunters), Invasion is an engaging slow-burn of a thriller series, building character and atmosphere with the ever-looming threat of an unforeseen enemy. Continue Reading →
Just Beyond
R.L. Stine is best known for those iconic Goosebumps books, but those aren’t the only stories he’s written over the years. That used to be easy to forget about, but the entertainment landscape of 2021 has reaffirmed this longstanding truth. Thanks to titles like Stranger Things popularizing youth-friendly horror in modern pop culture, a series of recent adaptations of Stine’s other works (which fit into that mold nicely) has reminded us all of just how many different projects Stine has written for over the years. Continue Reading →
Midnight Mass
Contains spoilers about Netflix’s Midnight Mass (read our spoiler-free review here) Continue Reading →
Q-Force
As a queer child of the early Internet, I've seen my fair share of gay erotic animation. Netflix's new adult animation series, Q-Force, might be one of the best. Continue Reading →