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This is coming from someone who would rather have a root canal than go camping in the woods, too! I love the inventiveness of how they all conceptualize and construct their shelters, find and forage food and the various survival strategies they come up with in the nothingness of wherever they’ve been dropped off.
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Interestingly, the women always seem to be more comfortable in their skin and less mentally stressed out “alone” than the male contestants. it’s quieter, more introspective and certainly presents interesting situations for each cast member. Got to go with “Alone on History.” Shark Week on Discovery seems the right answer, too, and I really want to throw in a huzzah for ABC’s rebooted “The Gong Show.” But “Alone” really captures my eyeballs in a way that most reality survival competitions do not.
“Animal Kingdom” Season 1 is streaming on Amazon Prime, and Season 2 is airing now on TNT.
It’s a getaway in many forms, which is what I ultimately require from a great summer series: escapism. “Burn Notice” is streaming on Netflix, along with “Mad Men,” “GLOW,” and “BoJack Horseman.” “The OC” is streaming on Hulu, along with “The Rockford Files” and “Quantum Leap.” “The Wire” is available on HBO NOW and Amazon Prime.Ĭurrently, “Animal Kingdom” is fitting the bill for me - so much pool time, surfing, beach bars, eye candy (for everyone!), and enough drama to keep me engaged even beyond the seaside locale (something that “Bloodline” failed to do after its first season, which notably premiered in winter). Plus, yogurt is an excellent summer food. In many ways the epitome of USA’s “blue skies” era, it took place under the hot Miami sun, mostly featured easy-to-follow cases, leaned heavily on the banter between its four stars, and could always be counted upon to offer a cool new spycraft lesson or three each week, like that time Michael, Fi, and Sam used a coffee can filled with thermite to melt through a bad guy’s engine block. So if I want to be a stickler about it, I’ll pick USA’s “Burn Notice,” which started out in the summer - its first season aired directly opposite the first year of “Mad Men,” in fact - and never seemed entirely at home when USA started airing half of each season in winter. Looking into the past, there are plenty of great network procedurals - “Magnum P.I.,” say, or “The Rockford Files,” or “Quantum Leap” - that retroactively make for good summer streaming choices now, but those shows originally aired from fall through spring. “GLOW,” for instance, is far from the best Netflix original ever, but it’s fun and happy and easy to digest, and makes a far better summer show than, say, “BoJack.”
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That said, while some of the greatest series ever aired at times while school was out, I suspect the spirit of the question is more about what show is perfect to watch when you just need something light and breezy after either a day at the beach or a sweltering day at the office when you wish you had gone to the beach.
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And with most of TV history available to us with a few clicks, almost anything can become a summer binge on a boiling day when you really need to stay indoors.
“The OC” and “American Idol” debuted in the summer, but so did “The Wire” and “Mad Men.” So your definition can be wide and varied. When you’re picking the perfect summer show, you first have to define your terms. This week’s question: What is the perfect summer show? Why? (Note: This doesn’t have to be a current show) Alan Sepinwall Uproxx (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.) Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.