Slump into your couch and watch series

ACCORDING to Thrilllist Entertainment there are currently more than 500 scripted series that have and will air this year.

Listed below are the top ten TV shows to spice up your viewing:

10 The Chi (Showtime)
Season 1 – 10 episodes.
If you really miss The Wire and are sick of gritty series about urban decay all being set in Baltimore, here’s your new favourite show.

9. Insecure (HBO)
Season 3 – 8 episodes.
Issa Rae’s sitcom about an LA woman with a messed up love life and some hilarious friends, is fun to watch. Sadly, we’ll have to wait another year for more.

8. Sharp Objects (HBO)
Miniseries – 8 episodes.
Amy Adams plays a big city newspaper reporter investigating murders in her small Missouri hometown in this adaptation of Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s 2006 debut novel.

7. Succession (HBO)
Season 1 – 10 episodes.
This series about a media empire headed up by a Murdoch type mogul with a bickering brood, is like The Big Short crossed with Billions – which makes sense if you consider that Adam McKay is an executive producer and it depicts the gleeful machinations of the mega wealthy.

6. Billions (Showtime)
Season 3 – 12 episodes.
The only thing that would make this Showtime drama any more like Face/Off, the beloved 1997 action movie starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, is if Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis switched faces. The glee with which they fool around with each other, sans face-swap, is at the same level of intensity, and it’s just as much fun to watch.

5. Better Call Saul (AMC)
Season 4 – 10 episodes.
We’re getting closer and closer to the time period where Walter White first contacted Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad, and the action is heating up.

4. The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu)
Season 2 – 13 episodes.
The relentlessly grim, yet completely compelling, dystopian drama drops a bigger set of similarly emotionally draining episodes.

3. The Americans (FX)
Season 6 – 10 episodes.
By jumping ahead four years to September 1987, a few months ahead of the looming Washington summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, The Americans is setting itself up for a sure-to-be-killer conclusion. The final season finds Paige grappling with her new double life as a Russian agent, Philip out of action and focused on making the travel agency work, and Elizabeth being, well, Elizabeth. Will there be a happy ending?

2. Atlanta (FX)
Season 2 – 11 episodes.
After a long break, during which creator Donald Glover went off and played Lando Calrissian, Atlanta comes back even stronger in its second season, subtitled Robbin’ Season. There’s higher stakes for everyone involved, but isn’t that always the way?

1. The Good Fight (CBS All Access)
Season 2 – 13 episodes.
This spin-off of The Good Wife delivers the solid procedural legal action everyone craves, while also offering intelligent outrage and eye-rolling over our current political climate. This season, lawyers are being hunted and everyone’s on edge, yet the show handles it all with the appropriate amount of gallows humour. Is the world ending? Maybe! And if it is, The Good Fight wants you to grab a martini, take a swig, and enjoy the ride into the apocalypse.