Better Call Saul continues to demonstrate that the forces that compel bad guys to do bad things are systemic and complex enough that good and bad may not be such useful designations in 21st-century America.

The masterstroke of Better Things is that it ignores 98% of what mainstream television has told us about how families operate and how grown women relate to the world. It is simply truthful about the ambiguous burdens of adulthood, about feeling love, exhaustion and sometimes volcanic anger for the people you can’t live without. By eschewing false sentiment and embracing uncertainty and moments of unexpected empathy, it ends up being deeply affecting.

Big Little Lies is a series built to be as entertaining as it is enlightening, and they’ve pulled off both feats with great zeal.

Seeing Sonia confidently gripping the leopard print-covered steering wheel of her late model Oldsmobile and getting on with her day serves as a potent and especially timely lesson about living a compassionate, vibrant life that doesn’t have any room for hatred and bitterness.

If you’re looking for a new crime drama that’s a step above NCIS but will let you zone out, this foreign language drama is a good option.

After a season of examining the constant awareness of responsibility outside oneself, each episode carries a potency beyond its length, dialogue, or content—especially the last one.