Hulu is a great platform for classic TV and modern broadcast hits.
But don’t discount its growing catalog of excellent original shows.
These are our 10 favorite Hulu Original Series that no binge queue should be without.
Based on the ever-relevant novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, women are stripped
of all of their rights in a near-future dystopia.
The few women who remain fertile are now Handmaids forced to bear children, and it’s difficult
to tell who really believes and who’s playing a part to stay alive when stepping out of
line could mean death.
Elisabeth Moss gives a stunning performance and leads an all-star cast on a show that
will stay with you long after it ends.
In Difficult People, Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner play self-involved aspiring actors
who hate everyone except each other.
Klausner told the Daily Dot, “I wanted to put on television a female and a gay male
lead who were not supportive, chipper sidekicks.”
And she certainly succeeded, creating a hilarious, modern show about celebrity worship and ultimately,
friendship.
Harlots is the story of a former prostitute who becomes the madam of her own brothel in
18th century London.
As she struggles to better her station in life, she meets resistance from social pressures,
religious zealots, and her biggest rival—who happens to be her own former madam.
Harlots is a breath of fresh air and a bawdy delight.
Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul returned to series television in The Path, a twisty thriller
about life inside a fictional cult known as Meyerism.
Paul plays Eddie Lane, a Meyerist who’s now questioning his faith.
That puts him at odds with both his wife and the charismatic leader of the group.
Hugh Laurie once again plays a troubled medical professional in Chance.
This time, he’s a forensic neuropsychiatrist, who gathers every bit of expertise about both
the human mind and the criminal mind after he finds himself on the bad side of a patient’s
violent spouse.
Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America may look like a traditional late-night talk show,
but the comedian turns the format on its head in a deeply personal quest to understand people
who don’t agree with her.
Instead of celebrity guests and musical acts, Silverman spends time with people on the opposite
side of the political and social spectrum - often conservative, religious, gun-owning
Trump supporters.
The show somehow finds a way to sprinkle comedy into the deep divides that separate people,
and Silverman is always armed with her sharp wit, and heaps of necessary compassion.
Future Man is a science fiction comedy about a janitor recruited by two resistance fighters
from the future, and offers copious nods to its time-travel genre forebears like Back
to the Future and Quantum Leap.
But in addition to its sci-fi premise, the show is absolutely hilarious.
In 1974, a 19-year-old Nebraskan lands a gofer job on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show.
There’s…Johnny! incorporates tons of real footage from The Tonight Show, weaving storylines
in, around, and behind actual events (including an extortion plot that actually happened).
It’s a rose-colored version of what it was probably like working at the legendary late
night show, but that’s what nostalgia is all about.
Into the Dark is an anthology horror series that features a new 90-minute film each month.
Sometimes a slasher, sometimes a ghost story, its best episodes, like one about a woman
cloned every day to teach a man not to kill, are absolutely brilliant.
Muslim-American comedian Ramy Youssef takes a crack at the autobiographical sitcom with
Ramy, a show about a hip New York millennial struggling with his faith in the age of the
Muslim ban.
While it sometimes gets bogged down in semantic comedy, when Ramy is free to focus on Muslim
identity, the show feels fresh, revolutionary, and very funny.
Those are our picks for the best Hulu Original Series, but if you’re binging something
spectacular on Hulu, be sure to shout it out in the comments section below to let other
viewers in on your favorites.
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