10 Best New TV Shows Nobody Is Watching
Small screen gems that need your love!
As the Golden Age of TV marches on through increasingly complex times for the medium, 2023 has boasted another impressive clutch of zeitgeist-grabbing shows. From mega hits like The Last of Us to the last season of era-defining drama Succession and new critical darling The Bear, watercooler TV remains alive and well.
With the abundance of streaming services and networks, though, our small screen options have never been spread so wide, and as such, it’s only natural that some fantastic shows go under-viewed, neglected by critics, the public, or both.
From brilliantly strange shows that could never hope to find a wide audience to mainstream fare that has fallen through the cracks, the following ten shows make a great break from the same old franchised programmes and bafflingly long-running network dramas.
Some have been cancelled before their time or taken themselves out to pasture, others run the risk of doing likewise if they don’t get new eyes on them sharpish. By watching these shows, you’ll be keeping yourself entertained with great new work being made - and it doesn’t get much better than that.
10. Love & Death
In one of Hollywood’s surprisingly regular pieces of parallel thinking, not one but two drama series have been released in recent years biographing Candy Montgomery, a Texas woman (in)famous for the 1980 slaying of her love rival.
Love & Death was beaten to the punch by 2022’s Jessica Biel-starring Candy, but the second telling of the story manages, through an extended runtime and greater emphasis on the legal process, to avoid retreading on entirely old ground.
Both versions hinge on the depiction of Montgomery herself, and Love & Death excels on the page and in the performance. Elizabeth Olsen’s performance is steeped in charisma, humanity, and menace, finding in Montgomery a character who is frustrated, reasonably, with the tedium of suburban life, and willing to take extreme measures to change her position.
With a terrific cast that includes Breaking Bad alumni Jesse Plemons and Krysten Ritter, Love & Death takes a story that could lend itself to pulpy bad taste, but its measured and even delicate approach allows for real insight.