TV Shows You Should Watch This Spring
by EGIf you currently have any free time to speak of, prepare for it to be sucked up by the gaping and undeniably magnetic black hole that is television.
April is a particularly packed month for TV, and not just any old TV. We’re talking about the kind of TV worth making time for, the kind you shouldn’t let pile up on your DVR or lie festering in your “Oh, I meant to get around to that” queue. Some of the year’s best shows will bow in the next few weeks, thanks to April’s emergence as TV’s “prestige season” before the Emmy nomination ballots are due in June.
So to help you cut through the oncoming tidal wave, here are our 11 most highly anticipated April television debuts, listed in order of premiere date.
Archer season 8 (April 5, FXX)
A couple times since Archer’s 2009 debut, creator Adam Reed has grown bored with the show’s entire “James Bond, but hilarious” premise, thrown the whole thing out, and tried something new. In season five, it was Archer does Miami Vice; in season seven, it was Archer meets Magnum P.I. In season eight, it’s going to be Archer: Dreamland, as Reed voyages inside Sterling Archer’s comatose brain to act out the 1940s noir fantasy playing out therein.
Better Call Saul (April 10, AMC)
Season two was a banner year for this Breaking Bad prequel, as it both deepened its storytelling and stepped out of its parent show’s shadow. We’ve seen two episodes of Better Call Saul’s third season, and both employ the unexpected, zigzagging storytelling that creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have made famous, with greater confidence than ever before. And as you can tell from the trailer above, another familiar face from Breaking Bad is stopping by.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (April 14, Netflix)
Shout! Factory purchased the rights to Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 2015 and has produced a brand new, Kickstarter-funded season with the oversight of series creator Joel Hodgson alongside a whole new cast. They’ve been keeping mum about the details, but it’s a guy and two robots making fun of bad movies. That seems really, really hard to screw up.
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