Looking for something objectively great to stream? Watch some of our favourite series, which all scored above 90% on the critics aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, and are now streaming on Showmax.
Killing It S2
Season 2 of this comedy continues the hilarious (mis)adventures of Craig (Craig Robinson, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Jillian (Emmy-nominated Aussie comedian Claudia O’Doherty) as they attempt to get their farming business off the ground. But a series of unexpected visitors puts everything they’ve worked for in jeopardy, while a new employee proves to be a thorn in their sides.
It has a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes, where the critics’ consensus calls it “scathing as ever and even funnier than before.” Binge it from 1 July, first on Showmax.
Poker Face S1
Natasha Lyonne (Russian Doll) is on the case in Poker Face, a Peacock Original mystery from Oscar-nominated creator Rian Johnson (Knives Out).
Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a casino worker with an extraordinary ability to detect lies. After a close friend is murdered, she hits the road. At every stop, she encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can’t help but investigate and solve.
The all-star cast includes Adrien Brody, Nick Nolte, Chloë Sevigny, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Barkin, Benjamin Bratt, and Ron Perlman. Poker Face scored a 98% critic’s rating.
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show
Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show is a darkly funny documentary series about the Emmy-winning comedian’s tumultuous quest for love, sex, and truth.
As his experiment in radical honesty begins, Jerrod confronts his crush, avoids his mother, and scrambles to find a date to the Emmys.
The HBO Original currently has a 95% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes while Time says, “Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show makes reality TV – hilariously, painfully – real again.”
Curb Your Enthusiasm
A tongue-in-cheek depiction of the fictionalised life of writer/producer/comedian Larry David, the iconic comedy proves how seemingly trivial details of one’s day-to-day life can precipitate a catastrophic chain of events. To keep the narrative spontaneous, the series is shot without a script – cast members are given scene outlines and improvise lines as they go.
Curb Your Enthusiasm scores 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. All 12 seasons are available to stream.
True Detective: Night Country
Stream the first four seasons of True Detective, as well as the latest, True Detective: Night Country, starring two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster.
When the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska, the eight men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station vanish without a trace. To solve the case, police detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.
Night Country is the most-watched season of True Detective, as well as the best-reviewed, with a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The Guardian’s five-star review says, “a blazing Jodie Foster makes this show better than ever before.”
The White Lotus
Dark comedy The White Lotus has already won 15 Emmys and two Golden Globes in its two-season run, which follows two different groups of over-privileged holidaymakers at The White Lotus resort in Hawaii (Season 1) and Sicily (Season 2), and the staff who scurry to serve them. In each season, a series of unfortunate events unfolds that turns the perfect vacation into a nightmare.
Season 2 scores 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the all-star cast includes Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya, Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Theo James (Divergent) and Meghann Fahy (The Bold Type).
In their five-star review, The Times calls this season “a whodunnit like no other”. It has 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
House of the Dragon S2
The second season of House of the Dragon is flying express to Showmax and M-Net every Monday. Based on George RR Martin’s Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon is set 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones and tells the story of House Targaryen, and the opposing factions that threaten to tear it apart. The second season, still in full swing, scores 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Bookie S1
Bookie follows a veteran bookie struggling to survive the looming legalisation of sports gambling, and his increasingly unstable clients, family and co-workers.
Award-winning comedian Sebastian Maniscalco (Green Book) stars as Danny, with Black Reel winner Omar J Dorsey (Power Book III: Raising Kanan) as Ray, with a supporting cast that includes Andrea Anders (Michelle Lasso in Ted Lasso) and guest appearances from the likes of Charlie Sheen and his Two and a Half Men co-star Angus T Jones (as themselves). Bookie scored a 90% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Binge Bookie from Friday, 12 July, first on Showmax.
The best of the best on Showmax
Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the best TV shows of the past 25 years includes a bunch of classic series that are now streaming on Showmax.
2. The Sopranos – 92%
3. The Wire – 94%
5. Succession – 95%
6. The Leftovers – 91%
7. Game of Thrones – 89%
10. Six Feet Under – 81%
19. The Office – 81%
22. Parks and Recreation – 93%
24. Watchmen – 96%
25. Chernobyl – 95%
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