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Whereas Breaking Bad slowly made its downtrodden hero one of the most vile villains on TV, you can’t help but root for Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill (aka Saul Goodman). Sure, Walter White was dealt a poor hand, but ultimately he dug his own grave. Slippery Jim, on the other hand, try as he might, can’t seem to dig himself out, and it’s honestly heart-breaking to see his best intentions crumble to dust. If, like us, you’ve left it too long to catch up with Better Call Saul, Stan’s got all five seasons to catch up with before the “intense season six finale”. This is no small part thanks to Alia Shawkat’s electric (and sometimes frightening) performance. Like the Disney fish that bears her namesake, Dory starts the series somewhat adrift. Knocked back from job after job, she finds herself carrying the weight of existential boredom until a mystery comes knocking at her door. When a former college friend (well, acquaintance) is declared missing, Dory enlists her boyfriend, Drew, and their two best friends for a mission to find the missing woman. But things get blurry as Dory’s single-minded pursuit for purpose takes over all reason. Over three seasons, Dory’s insatiable desire to be seen, needed, takes some very dark turns, and her doting friends become backseat passengers on the bumpy ride. The experience of watching Search Party is similarly turbulent. One moment it will have you in stitches, and in the next, the white-knuckled tension makes you forget you were ever watching a comedy at all. When God loses all hope for his creation, he decides to open a restaurant, and it’s up to the worker drones responsible for answering prayers (Daniel Radcliffe and Geraldine Viswanathan) to help God see that Earth is worth saving. Radcliffe, Viswanathan, and Karan Soni (Deadpool) are magnetic as the series’ leads, but Steve Buscemi steals the show with the limited screen time he has. The second season, Miracle Workers: Dark Ages, is also available on Stan. It features most of the same main cast but in a totally different setting. It follows 13-year old social outcasts Maya and Anna (both playing the younger versions of themselves) as they awkwardly stumble their way through painfully relatable high school scenarios that you’ve probably had nightmares about well into adulthood. Erskine and Konkle’s performances as their teenage selves are hilarious and uncanny. A few episodes in and you almost forget you’re watching two 33-year olds relive some of their most cringeworthy (and occasionally heartfelt) childhood memories. PEN15 is only two seasons in and it’s already one of the best comedies you can stream. Currently on Stan, the series stars Adam Scott, Lizzy Caplan, and Ken Marino, and the fact that it managed to fly under the radar for the most is one of the greatest tragedies in television. Now all we need is for someone to nab the streaming rights for Marino’s Burning Love and we’ll be good. While some of the production values and storytelling twists haven’t aged especially well in the years since, Ronald D. Moore’s remix of Battlestar Galactica still mostly sticks the landing. From Tricia Helfer to Edward James Olmos, the cast of Galactica is full of charismatic performances that are fun to watch bounce off one another. Even if the series’ final destination remains divisive, the meat-and-potatoes storytelling involved in getting there holds up surprisingly well. Station Eleven is a must-watch for fans of shows like The Leftovers and books like Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. The BBC America-produced series puts nature versus nurture to the test, with con artist Sarah Manning (Tatiana Maslany) stumbling onto a sinister conspiracy that reveals she is one of many clones. Manning and her clone sisters quickly join forces to face threats both within and without. The five-season saga sees Maslany juggle an ever-expanding medley of performances as the mystery deepens and the stakes are raised. What we actually got was one of the most rewatchable comedies of all time. Michael Shur followed Parks and Rec up with two more bangers: Brooklyn Nine-Nine and The Good Place (both available on Netflix Australia), proving he can do no wrong. The US remake, which features Tim Meadows, Suniti Mani, and Jason Mantzoukas, is also available to stream on Stan. Tied together by energetic performances, a killer soundtrack and a tight script, It’s A Sin is just as likely to make you laugh as it is make you cry, but it’s worth watching all the same. Dan Harmon’s fish-out-of-water comedy follows a disgraced lawyer (Joel McHale) who is forced to attend a community college in order to obtain his degree. What starts as a study group fabricated to woo social activist Britta Perry quickly becomes a tight-knit family of students. Peep Show is one of the most quotable comedies in history and introduced most people to the wonderful David Mitchell and Robert Webb. Mad Men’s Elizabeth Moss plays the lead role as June Osborne, a Handmaid to two of the biggest political figures in the fascist, theonomous political party that’s taken power. Set amidst the glitz and glamor of Las Vegas, Hacks tries to explore the unusual common ground between someone at the start of their career and someone who might be nearing the end while having a few laughs along the way. The West Wing is late 90s/early 2000s for this feel good political drama about the President of the United States (Martin Sheen) and the staffers, advisers and family that support him. After that, check out Sorkin’s latest, The Trial of Chicago 7 on Netflix. Everything you know about the action superstar can be tracked back to his performance as the hard-nosed detective John Luther (well, everything except for the curiously ripped Macavity in Cats). Even if aspects of Spaced have aged in the decades since it first came out, fans of Wright’s later films, especially Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, are still likely to find a lot of mileage with the cast, writing and shenanigans involved. Since 25 December 2019, the full eight-part series has been available on Stan. Set in a world where the bureaucracy of Berlin hides a secret doorway to a parallel version of Earth, Counterpart is an espionage thriller that stars JK Simmons as Howard Silk. In one world, Silk is a humble office drone with few ambitions. In the other, Silk is a ruthless spymaster tangled in a web of trans-dimensional intrigue. Counterpart only ran for two seasons, but the series does a great job of fully exploring this premise and pushing the setup to logical and satisfying conclusions. If you’ve already drained The Vampire Diaries dry, Stan is also streaming the spin-off The Originals.
