You should be watching Outcast, the Robert Kirkman show that isn’t The Walking Dead

In You Should Be Watching, the staff of The A.V. Club advocates on behalf of the hundreds of TV shows you’re not watching but should.
Flashbacks to the Dark Year add a little depth to this season of The 100
When last season’s finale skipped ahead five years and offered us a look at what The 100 might look like after Praimfaya, there was a ton of promise. It was an exciting cliffhanger for a finale, but more importantly it was a much-needed jolt for the storytelling. The fourth season of The 100 vastly improved on the…
Who does the Stranger Things gang trust to rescue them from the Upside Down?
There hasn’t been much news about the third season of Stranger Things, besides a Fast Times At Ridgemont High-esque video at the new mall coming to Hawkins, Indiana. The clip suggests we may have to wait until summer of 2019 for the third season, but we can’t wait that long. In the meantime, we stopped by a fan event…
Stephen King isn’t made for TV—but he could be
On Wednesday, Hulu will premiere Castle Rock, the new series “based on characters and settings” by Stephen King. If that sounds an awful lot like “here’s a bunch of Easter eggs referencing the work of Stephen King,” that’s because it is. But the show is obviously trying to do more than just work in some…
Ghosted dies as it lived: A confused, fitfully funny waste of a fantastic cast
And so we come to it at last: The final episode of Ghosted. (Except for all those other episodes of Ghosted.) The grand resolution to the Agent Checker saga. (Hey, remember him?) And the second series finale this show has somehow managed to air in as many weeks—and the less satisfying of the two by far. Which is all…
Who Is America?'s latest ropes in Dick Cheney, Ted Koppel, and The Bachelor's Corinne Olympios
By now, we’ve all seen the clip (captured above) of former Vice President and Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney signing a waterboard kit. It was the first clip Showtime released of Who Is America?, and for good reason. Cheney so casually and happily writing his name on an instrument of torture more or less affirms his…
A solid Preacher puts Jesse in the box
Oh hey, a pretty good episode! One with a clear arc, some fine set-pieces, a decent sense of wackiness, and legitimate forward momentum. Last week, I went off on how the show has more or less buried itself, its various problems stemming from some basic misunderstandings on how stories are supposed to…
The Affair’s greatest pairing is Helen and AlisonÂ
Season four of The Affair is running into the same problems as season three (have the showrunners learned nothing?). Last year, the show brought in a new character (Professor SexFrench) who received her own viewpoint and storyline, involving her older, very sick husband. Viewers, from what Sarah Treem said in a recent…
In an intense third episode, Sharp Objects delves into the dark power of teenage girls
Sharp Objects is saturated in menace: The ugly, acid-washed lighting that haunts seedy motel rooms, hospital corridors, and fancy manor homes alike; the quick yet hazy cuts between present day troubles and the terrors of the past; and the low and constant thrum of heavy rock music coming out of a cracked iPod conspire…
Even sword horses and Bigfoot can't make a table-setting episode of DuckTales feel necessary
“The Other Bin Of Scrooge McDuck!” has maybe one of the worst intros the show has done so far. DuckTales has been struggling with intros for a while but a loud-whispering, exposition-filled exchange between Lena and Magica while Lena tries to cut the number one dime from Scrooge’s neck is one of the worse. I get the…
Strudel stretches The Great British Baking Show to its breaking point
From one series first to another, The Great British Baking Show is ramping up and delivering one hell of a mid-season run. First Ryan had his remarkable turnaround in “Pies,” going from barely escaping elimination in “Desserts” to Star Baker one week later. The very next episode, in another Baking Show first, no one…
Outcast’s Robert Kirkman and Chris Black try to figure out what's scarier, spiders or snakes
After a two-year hiatus, supernatural horror series Outcast finally brings its second season to the U.S. (it already aired in the U.K.) Created by The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman, Outcast centers around Kyle Barnes, a young father who’s been plagued by demonic possession for his entire life, and the supernatural…
Snowfall returns with renewed confidence and familiar storytelling problems
Late last year, TV critic Alan Sepinwall wrote about the phenomenon of feeling the pressure to catch up on “shows that eventually get good.” We all know those shows; we’ve praised them to friends, or heard about them through family. They’re the shows we’d given up on after watching two or three episodes, only to hear…
Trial & Error returns with a new client, but the lunacy remains the same
When the first season of Trial & Error came to a conclusion on April 18, 2017, there was much rejoicing in regards to how neophyte Northeasterner attorney Josh Segal managed to put his nose to the grindstone and—despite the many, many eccentricities of the denizens of East Peck, South Carolina—successfully save local…




