Clockwise from top left: 'Shoresy,' 'Widow’s Bay,' 'DTF St. Louis' and 'Margo’s Got Money Troubles.'
New Metric Media/Lindsay Sarazin; Courtesy of Apple TV+ (2); Courtesy of HBO
Faves from the first half of the year include a spooky Apple TV genre-bender, an HBO drama in deliciously nasty form and a Netflix adaptation that infuses a classic text with harrowing freshness.
June 16, 2026
Only the brilliant oddball behind Los Espookys and Problemista could have come up with something like this HBO special. Styled like a Dr. Seuss character and speaking in his signature deadpan, the comic delivers what begins as a whimsical exercise in synesthesia but becomes a cogent reflection on the systems guiding our nonsensical world. — ANGIE HAN
