5 shows you won’t be able to stop watching
Feeling out of the loop? Not sure what shows people are talking about? There’s no better time for a serious binge on TV shows to catch yourself right up with all that's hot on the box right now.
Here are our top picks for the most binge-worthy shows out there right now:
1. Game of Thrones
If you've been living under a rock for the past six years, or since 1996 when George R. R. Martin's first book came out, you might have missed a little show called Game of Thrones.
We'll catch you up: a bunch of really attractive people, mostly permanently clad in black, want to sit on the Iron Throne - which is currently presided over by a scheming murderess who is in an incestuous relationship with her brother. It is the most illegally-downloaded and most expensive show on television right now – each episode of season six cost around $10 million to make.
There are dragons, an imp, a three-eyed Raven, an army of White Walkers, and the promise of plenty of gruesome, bloody deaths. Winter is here. Make sure you are ready.
Available to watch on Sky On Demand.
2. The Handmaid's Tale
Chances are you've heard chatter recently about The Handmaid's Tale.
The show is set in Gilead, a dystopian, totalitarian society where, in a desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world, the few remaining fertile women are forced to be sex slaves.
Based on the best-selling 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, this series is confronting, harrowing, and absolutely worth the watch.
All nine episodes of The Handmaid's Tale can be watched on Lightbox.
3. Ozark
Money-laundering, Mexican drug cartels, and an otherwise normal suburban family – Ozark is an eye-opener.
Ozark, a relative new-comer among this list, has been touted as Netflix's answer to Breaking Bad.
Marty Byrde, played by Jason Bateman, is a financial adviser who is forced to relocate his family to a summer resort community in the Ozarks after a money-laundering scheme goes wrong.
Their safety is at stake after his business partner skimmed millions from the second-largest Mexican drug cartel. As the FBI close in, Marty must continue to launder millions in cartel cash.
4. Suits
Now in its seventh season, Suits focuses on well-dressed lawyers and their poorly kept secrets.
College-dropout Mike Ross gets a job working for big-wig lawyer Harvey Specter on the basis of being a Harvard law graduate. Spoiler alert: Mike never went to law school.
The best thing about it? There's six whole seasons you can sink your teeth into on Netflix. Goodbye, weekend.
5. Mindhunter
Addicted to true crime dramas? Mindhunter is set to become your new favourite show.
If you loved sitting on the edge of your seat and chewing your fingernails down to nubs while watching Making a Murderer or The Keepers, an upcoming Netflix show is sure to satisfy your true-crime cravings.
Directed by David Fincher, of Fight Club, Se7en and Gone Girl fame, Mindhunter is a serial killer thriller: getting you up close to imprisoned psychopaths during the seminal years of FBI criminal profiling.
The 10-episode series drops on Netflix October 13.
Republished with permission of Stuff.co.nz.