Best TV 2019: the best 5 shows of March

March has been a fantastic month for television debut. There were so many interesting that I cut a number of series that would have deserved to be hailed.

In addition, the shows listed below – five new programs (OK, four new programs and a show of the second season where the second season is very different from the first) – and seven recurring shows worthy of interest – cover the full range of prestigious wackiness genre dramas at traditional sitcoms. As always, we have badigned stars to shows in which we are likely to give a good rating.

Here are the best TV series that debuted in March, and if you can not find something to watch here, probably choose another random program. Chances are good, it will be at least interesting. (Or you can watch our roundups of the best television of February and January.)

NBC Abby's is not quite there yet, but with this cast and these writers, he has plenty of room to grow

You should know, from the top, that I was in the tank during Abby's before seeing as much as a frame.

For starters, it's a multi-camera sitcom – that is, it's been filmed in front of a live studio audience – and I love multi-camera sitcoms. Second, Natalie Morales (from The mediator and Parks and Recreation) and Neil Flynn (from Scrubs and The environment), two of these actors who are great every time they appear, but who tend to be a little underrated. Finally, the film was shot in front of an audience, yes, but it was shot in front of them. on the outside!!! Why are there no more shows shot outside ?!

Abby (Morales) has opened a bar in her backyard to try to take control of her life and spend time with the ready – made friends that come with all the bars for television. When his new owner, Bill (Nelson Franklin, very funny), comes to ask why a bar is in the yard of the house he inherited from his aunt, complications ensue.

Like many sitcom multi-cameras at the beginning, Abby's will need to grow a little to become his best self. The first episode transpires a bit to set up the premises of the series, and the strike lines of the series can be a little soft. But the designer Josh Malmuth has made his weapons New girl and Hypermarket (two of my recent favorites), and comedian Michael Schur (Parks and Recreation, The right place) is an executive producer. Pamela Fryman, the wonderful director who has directed almost every episode of How did I meet your mother, skilfully keeps the show clipping.

By the second episode, Abby's s' installs in a good rhythm that suggests that after a handful of episodes, it could be as good as any sitcom shot outside (that is to say , very goodbecause turning an outdoor sitcom is a good idea).

Watch Abby's if you want: Cheers (it's a gift), Happy ending, Save me

Where to look: New episodes air on Thursdays at 9:30 pm EST on NBC. Previous episodes are available on Hulu. (The show started on Thursday, March 28, so you only have one episode to catch up!)

Hulu & # 39; s L & # 39; act is incredibly disgusting, but he finds something beautiful in toxic intimacy

Here is an excerpt from my previous article on L & # 39; act, Hulu's new limited series on the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard:

At the heart of the series is a mother-daughter relationship that is distorted and deeply broken. Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette) deeply loves her daughter, Gypsy Rose (Joey King), but Gypsy is very, very sick and Dee Dee has sacrificed everything or abandoned everything in herself, who does not care about all of Gypsy's needs.

To his credit, L & # 39; act do not hide that Gypsy is not really sick and that Dee Dee creates her daughter's ills for reasons that can not be explained, like all those who know this story from a previous Buzzfeed article. L & # 39; act is based on – or with the real HBO documentary about Dee Dee and Gypsy, Mom dead and dear, or the Lifetime movie version of this story – will be remembered.

King, who is great, speaks with a shrill scream. Gypsy therefore seems constantly vulnerable, which allows Dee Dee to better disguise everything about her daughter, from Gypsy's physical well-being to her very age. And Arquette, who knows very well how to play women motivated by an unexplained black impulse in themselves, knows so well to seize the moment during each visit to the doctor, during each stopover at a friend, during every social encounter during Dee Dee overthrows the power dynamics and asks Gypsy to get under his control before others can see what's going on.

Watch L & # 39; act if you want: History of American crime, The servant's tale, all the iterations of Gray Gardens

Where to look: New episodes debut on Wednesday on Hulu.

Netflix L & # 39; OA takes a plunge into an alternate universe in a potentially alienating and rather impressive season 2

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This is to say that L & # 39; OA, who has always challenged the explanations, challenges the explanations even more than usual in the second season, which is a kind of black film shot in the series. This season, the OA (co-creator Brit Marling) has been sucked into the version of another San Francisco universe, where a detective is trying to understand the mystery that surrounds him, the mysterious Hap (Jason Isaacs) and even more mysterious movements. , "Who were gifted for the OA and a handful of others because they continue to die, getting new movements of beings living in the afterlife and then resurrected by force.

Movements may be able to save the world. Or maybe give people super powers. Or maybe just allow people to travel between the universes. They definitely stopped a film school in the first season. Oh. Shit. I did not even mention Tree Internet. Or the giant octopus god. I mean, you want to watch this show now, right?

Look: I gave the first season of this show an enthusiastic critique, but over time, I kept thinking about it. And think about it. And think about it. Until I convinced myself that L & # 39; OA is a genius, while being incredibly stupid. And you know what? I like that! I like his clumsy and goofy atmosphere. And I like how it's not like nothing elsein a television environment where there is so much programming that every show is like something else. do not L & # 39; OA! L & # 39; OA is only like L & # 39; OA!

Oh, yeah, at least, watch this show to see the end of season two. Is. Bonkers.

Watch L & # 39; OA season 2 if you like: L & # 39; OA season one, Twin peaks season three, any YouTube video where someone tries to prove that reptilian extraterrestrials exist and have infiltrated the highest levels of US government power, John from Cincinnati

Where to look: L & # 39; OA is streaming on Netflix.

Hulu & # 39; s Acute is a warm and fun look at life as a fat woman, based on Lindy West's bestselling book and starring Aidy Bryant

Here is an excerpt from the four-star magazine previously published by Constance Grady on Hulu's new comedy Acute, which is based on Lindy West's book with the same name Saturday Night LiveAidy Bryant:

Acute, the new Hulu series based on Lindy West's 2016 memoir, is anything but acute. It is a calm and sweet show, impregnated with a kind of tender restraint. In this world, a dinner in a striptease club becomes a quiet conversation about silent music about the importance of grooming and about the quality of shrimp. An abortion is completed in a nervous and intimate montage. Against the warm gray of AcuteThe color palette of our heroine, the pink dresses with candy stripes shine like balls of sherbet.

The heroine in question is Annie (Saturday Night LiveAidy Bryant), and she makes sure to stay quiet, sweet and warm, never doing anything that could be described as "high pitched". She is fat and she has no desire to receive the special kind of Hate is reserved for fat women when they become strong and angry, or when they seem confident.

AcuteThe first season of the series lasts six half-hour episodes co-written by Bryant, West and showrunner Ali Rushfield. Her plan is to teach Annie that it does not matter if others think she is acute. It's good if they call him a big bitch. The most important thing is that she stops spending her life apologizing to these people for their existence.

Watch Acute if you want: Better things, Fleabag, Enlightened

Where to look: Acute is streaming on Hulu.

FX What we do in the shade is a hilarious riff about the clbadic cult comedy about dead-free vampires that are so irritated one by the other

Here is an excerpt from Aja Romano's three-and-a-half-star review of the new TV version of the favorite cult movie:

Although the movie version of What we do in the shade (released in 2015) has never achieved a major release in the United States, it has attracted a constant amount of love from fans who later discovered it through the same memes on the Internet and word of mouth. Things that made it a bit difficult to sell at the movies – his seemingly tiny budget, his combination of several genres of tired movies (horror comedy, vampires, pretense), and, most importantly, his focus on comic sketches of situation-kind of plot – all worked wonderfully together online, where the film could be packaged and distributed as a series of hilarious jokes, all in GIF format and in easily digestible format .

The great pleasure of FX's episodic comic version What we do in the shade This is how close he is to the formula established by his equally delicious predecessor. In their story of a hilarious modern milquetoast vampire coven, co-creators Jemaine Clement (Flight of conchords) and Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) proposed a comic formula that is both respectful and irreverent: a love for over 150 years of vampire mythos mingled with a cheeky penchant for horror tropes, dusk, and clumsy colocation situations.

However, the concept of a group of unmotivated vampires battling against old curses, the local town council and a light infestation of werewolves seem to be a laughing matter, entertaining enough to deliver satisfying pleasantries without losing its novelty.

Watch What we do in the shade if you want: Flight of conchords, BoJack Cavalier, The vampire newspaper

Where to look: New episodes aired on Wednesdays at 10 pm EST on FX. Previous episodes are available on FX streaming platforms.

7 recurring shows that you should really consult

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That's true. Seven. Seven shows I came back at least in March and at least some of them I love. It's partly the months of March, April and May, which are the television version of the awards season, but I'm also delighted to be able to listen to a series of television programs that I like to broadcast.

• I am really surprised Barry (HBO, Sunday at 10:30 pm Eastern Time) was able to propose a second season. The comedy about a hitman (Bill Hader) turned actor brilliantly shone the Hollywood claim in his first season, winning Hader and Henry Winkler Emmys. The second season is just as good – and could make my end-of-year list the best TV channel, if it can maintain quality.
• Meanwhile, Billions (Show, Sunday at 9 pm, Eastern Time) remains one of the juiciest treats of television, and the fourth season, featuring the two main actors in the series (Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis) finally aiming for a common goal, offers the kind of toxic masculinity that makes the TV fun, while the poisoned boy's club of the series turns everything to ash, while everyone spits acidic one-liners.
• I've written more about the fourth and final season of Disaster (diffusion on Amazon Video) in this piece about his final series, which is perfect note. The rest of the season is not quite that level, but it's always a moving and fun look at what happens when you fall in love and you have to reconfigure your whole life for another person.
• At some point, I will catch up The good fight (new episodes on Wednesday on CBS All Access)but for the moment, I refer you to all the praise of my critical colleagues on this subject. Good wife As a result, in the best of cases, the wonderful Christine Baranski is employed by a television of quality.
• Similarly, I did not start season two of Good girls (NBC, Sunday at 22:00 Eastern Time)because I'm slowly catching the first season on Netflix. But the crime movie starring Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman skillfully rides the dividing line between comedy and drama.
• To say literally anything about the first episodes of the last season of Jane the Virgin (The CW on Wednesday at 9 pm Eastern Time) would ruin a pretty big plot of land. But the purest and healthiest TV shows are running at full speed when it comes to the final race, and you should be caught immediately (on Netflix).
• In addition, it's been a long time (like … almost two years) since Veep (HBO, Sunday at 10 pm Eastern Time) was with us, thanks to the battle of star Julia Louis Dreyfus against cancer. But what a relief to find one of the strongest comic ensembles in the history of television – directed by Louis Dreyfus, which gives one of the strongest comic performances in the history of television. The last season has only seven episodes, so enjoy while you can.

That's it for the month of March! In April, FX will have its new prestige mini-series on Bob Fosse, CBS All Access The twilight zone with new host Jordan Peele, and HBO is reporting a little show called Game of thrones. Great month!