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If you’ve somehow run out of TV to binge on, even the shows you’ll never admit to binging on, may we offer you some shows you probably have never heard of but definitely should watch now?
We know your time is precious so we would never recommend something that wasn’t worth setting aside your usual six-hour drool fest of reruns. Kidding. Not really. But seriously, we’ve racked up 8 shows we think you’ll enjoy, pulled from your usual Netflix, Amazon, Showtime and HBO hubs, along with a couple outsiders, like the History Channel. Don’t worry, it’s a bloodbath history lesson. Picture Sons of Anarchy without all the hugs and crying.
Tune into our picks for TV shows you either only heard about in passing or not at all, including real-life comedy with Pete Holmes, the origins of the 1920s Fitzgeralds, Showtime’s biggest underdog ever and the funniest unlikely comedy trio in TV history. We’ll give you a hint: It involves an old stoner, a young stoner and a fat stoner getting stoned together and then going on crime-solving escapades.
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Unheard of Shows
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"Gangland Undercover" (History)
If you like: Sons of Anarchy & The Wire
An ATF informant spends three years infiltrating his way up the ladder of one of California's most notorious and dangerous motorcycle gangs. Based on the true crime book, Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs, by Charles Falco.
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"Z: The Beginning of Everything" (Amazon)
If you like: Midnight in Paris & The Great Gatsby
"Z" follows Christina Ricci as Zelda Fitzgerald, the loudest yet classiest lass of the 1920s, as she chases the good life, leading her towards the then unpublished writer, F. Scott, in a fictionalized biopic of decadence and debauchery in the Jazz Age.
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"Crashing" (HBO)
If you like: Pete Holmes's goofy laugh and the revival of Artie Lang
Pete Holmes is a terrible wanna-be comedian who gets cheated on by his long-time lady. He then bunks up with Artie Lang in an attempt to do the one thing he loves: comedy, which, if you weren't listening, he's just awful at.
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"Maron" (Netflix/IFC)
If you like: Louie or just Marc Maron in general
What feels like a barely-fictionalized version of Marc Maron's life is essentially one live-action episode of his "WTF" podcast after another, starring Maron. It's dark. It's dry. It'll make you feel better about your life. It's beautiful, just like Marc.
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"Bored to Death" (HBO)
If you like: Three Amigos & City Slickers
If you don't like the unlikely trio of hilarity involving an insecure Jew (Schwartzman), an overweight, self-deprecating cartoonist (Galifianakis) and a silver stoner swinger fox (Danson) getting together to smoke weed and talk women, then we can't help you.
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"I'm Dying Up Here" (Showtime)
If you like: standup comedy
Jim Carrey's 1970s style comedy experience is not only ingenious, it's back for round two. How could you say no to that?
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"Easy" (Netflix)
If you like: Anthologies like Black Mirror & Room 104
We love anthologies that require little emotional attachment and serve up unpredictable, real-life events with a 'who knows, who cares' approach to the next episode. It's addictive in a nonaddictive way. Right?
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"The Affair" (Showtime)
If you like: The Killing & The Wire
The story of a middle-age father who's suddenly a breakout author that leaves his entire family for some young lust has flown under the radar for some time. They're back for the fourth season, each one unique in the way it breaks up its episode to tell the stories from each of the main character's perspective. Plus Ruth Wilson is an absolute babe.
