The 55 Best Shows to Stream Now on Hulu

This mockumentary sitcom is about devoted teachers in an underfunded Philly public school, led by unflinching optimist Janine Teagues (creator Quinta Brunson). The show is adored for its hilarious, realistic depiction of educators as everyday superheroes, and all three seasons are available to watch.

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A dark horror show from the twisted minds of Ryan Murphy (yes, of Glee and Nip/Tuck fame) and Brad Falchuk. Each season of American Horror Story is self-contained, meaning you’ll find new characters in a different spooky setting every eight or so episodes, including a haunted house, an asylum, and the aftermath of the Salem witch trials, among others.

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Earn Marks (played by series creator Donald Glover) is a 30-something Princeton dropout trying to get his cousin Paper Boi’s rap career off the ground in their hometown of Atlanta, a hotbed of industry talent. Smart, cynical, but sometimes reckless, he struggles with homelessness throughout the show’s critically acclaimed four seasons.

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Co-created by Brad Falchuck and Ryan Murphy, this groundbreaking series took its final bow in 2021; sad news, yes, but now it means you can binge all three seasons from beginning to end. And trust us, taking another spin through late-’80s/early-’90s ballroom scene of New York City is a glorious encore. From the dazzling performances to the compelling characters, Pose is a triumphant love letter to the LGBTQ+ community.

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As thought-provoking as it is entertaining, Ramy Youssef’s semiautobiographical series, in which he also stars, is an exploration of self-discovery both in faith and the modern world. An Egyptian-American navigating sex, dating, and prayer, Ramy tries to make ends meet after losing his job at a tech startup. And it all leads to a humorous and relatable look at living, working, and surviving as a Muslim in America.

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A marooned European ship off the coast of Japan. Far-flung cultures that clash, but sometimes mesh. Feudal war and forbidden love. Shōgun is one of FX’s biggest streaming hits to date, and it’s easy to see why. Come for the succession drama, stay for the gorgeous costuming, lush landscapes, and two breakout performances: one by Cosmo Jarvis, the swashbuckling Englishman John Blackthorne, the other by Anna Sawai, as sharp interpreter Lady Mariko.

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Truman Capote (Tom Hollander), the toast of the town following the success of his book In Cold Blood, befriends a coterie of socialites of the highest order in mid-century New York, from Babe Paley (Naomi Watts) to C.Z. Guest (Chloë Sevigny). The limited series, which charts Capote’s rise and fall from the good graces of his “Swans,” is delicious and biting, clever and starry, just like the man himself.

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If you haven’t started watching Grey’s Anatomy yet, and you’re into the idea of having a single show that will take you through 2040, you’re in luck. All seasons (including the latest 20th season, which has new episodes coming out well into this year) are streaming on Hulu. This show is Shonda Rhimes’s brainchild, and it’s the longest running medical drama in the history of television, which practically makes it required viewing. They should show it in the schools.

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After the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Kurc family is cast from their homes in Radom and dispersed around the globe, from Siberia to Brazil. The show follows each of the family members as they endure a variety of atrocities and attempt to reunite. In the end, they were, as the title suggests, one of the few Polish Jewish families to make it out of the horrors alive.

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Moonlighting was one of those rare ’80s classics that never found its way to streaming—until 2024. It’s zany, it’s madcap, it’s technically a detective show, and it made a household name out of Bruce Willis, not as an action star, but as a comedian. Now, 40 years later, audiences can discover the experimental sitcom for the first time, and those who caught it the first time around can bask in nostalgia.

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If you don’t know already, this show will definitively answer a couple of questions for you: “Who is Gypsy Rose Blanchard? And why do I see her name in the news so often these days?” The Act is the true story of Gypsy (Joey King) and her attempt to break away from her mother, Clauddine (Patricia Arquette), who takes what some would call a mother’s natural protectiveness to a toxic level.

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An experiment on the part of director Baz Luhrmann, Faraway Downs is the 2008 film Australia reworked into a miniseries and released on Hulu last year. It even uses footage that had been left on the original film’s cutting room floor. You must judge for yourself how successful the experiment is, but what’s absolutely certain is that Nicole Kidman, who plays the posh English aristocrat, Sarah, and Hugh Jackman, the rugged cattle drover that helps her save her farm in the Australian Outback, look incredible in their 1930s costuming.

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Season two of this popular Hulu original, complete with new characters, started filming in January. (Please welcome to the stage Gossip Girl’s Thomas Doherty.) So now is the perfect time to catch up on season one. Expect sex, lies, toxic relationships, and mid-’00s fashion.

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In Tiny Beautiful Things, Kathryn Hahn is Clare Pierce, the unpaid and anonymous advice columnist who goes by the name “Sugar,” doling out advice to readers while her marriage fails apart. The rest of her life is pretty much in shambles, too. The show is adapted from Cheryl Strayed’s book by the same name including advice from her own indelible tenure as Sugar.

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The best show you need to watch isn’t always the latest, greatest release. The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered in 1970, and proves still foundational to the harried and unmarried career woman character that pops up on screens everywhere seemingly every year. Moore’s charm and heartfelt hilarity as the spunky Mary Richards has a timeless infectiousness.

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There are no throwaway episodes, there is no hook episode: Every single episode of this comedy series from Dan and Eugene Levy is a delight. And at a brief 20-something minutes between credits, bingeing a whole season in one sitting is super doable, and super encouraged. The gist: A rich family loses everything, except a rural town bought as a joke. Thrust from luxury, they make do in their new nightmare reality—which turns out to be more of a dream.

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Strange things start happening at Wagner Books. And it all begins when Nella meets Hazel, the “other Black girl” in her otherwise all-white department. Thrilled at first, the two become friends. But before long, things turn sinister and dark secrets are revealed. An adaptation of Zakiya Dalila Harris’s 2021 novel, this thriller series from executive producer Rashida Jones offers a chilling look at racism in corporate America.

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Vampires are old. Really old. Storytellers have been spinning yarns about the bloodsuckers since tale tales were born. But when it comes to this silly series from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the eternal night dwellers get a revamp. Breathing new life into the tired subgenre, each season plays out like a mockumentary, chronicling the daily life of a group of vampires who live in Staten Island and documenting what they’re up to between meals.

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A dramedy about the day-to-day life of Sam Fox (Pamela Adlon), working actor and single mother to three children, shows an honest depiction of a woman in her middle age and the daily sacrifices of motherhood. Though the award-winning series ended last year, all five seasons are available to binge on the streamer now.

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A sitcom about Dre Johnson (Anthony Anderson) and his wife, Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross), who live a great life in an upper-middle-class, predominantly white neighborhood. As a Black man raising his family, Dre helps them establish a sense of their own cultural identity. This critically acclaimed comedy series has eight seasons for you to binge on.

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