Shows to Watch

These are based on suggestions from Real Mom Nutrition readers plus my own suggestions. Please use your discretion and consult CommonSenseMedia for reviews and advice on what’s age-appropriate when watching with your kids! (I have marked shows I’ve watched and liked with a *)

SHOWS FOR ADULTS (+ POSSIBLY TEENS)

NETFLIX

  • Cheer*
  • Last Chance U.*
  • The Crown*
  • Great British Baking Show*
  • Firefly Lane*
  • Person of Interest
  • Wentworth
  • Bodyguard
  • The English Game
  • Heartland 
  • Love is Blind
  • Good Girls
  • Grace and Frankie
  • Call the Midwife
  • Mad Men*
  • Atypical
  • The Circle
  • Virgin River
  • Ozark
  • Bloodline
  • Broadchurch
  • Unbelievable
  • Arrested Development
  • Mind Hunter 
  • Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings
  • Sex Education
  • End of the F-ing World
  • I Am Not Okay With This*
  • Schitt’s Creek
  • The Magicians
  • Making a Murderer*
  • The Good Place
  • Godless
  • Peaky Blinders*
  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend*
  • The Social Dilemma* (+ tweens/teens)
  • Queen’s Gambit*
  • Outlander*
  • Nadiya Bakes*
  • Offspring*

HULU

  • Shrill*
  • Little Fires Everywhere*
  • Handmaid’s Tale
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Justified
  • The Mindy Project*
  • The Good Wife*
  • This is Us*
  • Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist 
  • Mary Berry’s Britain’s Best Home Cook
  • CSI
  • Shots Fired
  • Killing Eve
  • Brooklyn 99
  • Black-ish
  • Superstore
  • Difficult People
  • Chicago series: PD, Med and Fire
  • Better Things 
  • Law & Order: SVU
  • M*A*S*H
  • Pen 15
  • The Pact
  • High Fidelity (series)*
  • Younger*

AMAZON 

  • Jack Ryan
  • Marvelous Mrs Maisel 
  • Downton Abbey*
  • The Middle
  • Vikings
  • Catastrophe*
  • The Wire
  • Miss Fisher’s murder mysteries
  • Fleabag*
  • Man in the High Castle

APPLE TV

  • Morning Show*
  • Ted Lasso

HBO

  • Big Little Lies*
  • Righteous Gemstones 
  • Game of Thrones*
  • Plot Against America*
  • The Undoing*
  • The Flight Attendant*
  • Search Party*

SHOWTIME

  • Homeland*
  • The Affair*

DISNEY

  • Marvel: Agents of Shield
  • Fairytale Weddings

SHOWS FOR KIDS & FAMILIES

NETFLIX

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events
  • Locke & Key (12 & up)
  • Anne with an E.
  • Fuller House
  • Nailed It!
  • The InBESTigators
  • Heartland
  • When Calls The Heart 
  • Princess Sofia
  • Brainchild
  • Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
  • Our Planet
  • Stranger Things (older kids)*
  • Letter For The King*
  • Healing Powers of Dude*
  • Shadow & Bone (teens)*

AMAZON PRIME

  • Survivor*
  • Just Add Magic
  • The Grand Tour
  • Roadkill 
  • Shuan the Sheep
  • Timmy Time
  • Nowhere Boys* (for tweens and up)
  • Gortimer Gibbon’s Life on Normal Street*

DISNEY

  • The Mandalorian (not for young kids)
  • National Geographic shows
  • Jane Goodall documentary
  • Bluey
  • Unlikely Animal Friends
  • Dr. Pol
  • Phineas & Ferb*
  • Hamilton*

HULU

  • Amazing Race*
  • Alone
  • Little Big Shots
  • Songland
  • Lego Masters
  • Making It 
  • Lost (not for young kids)*
  • On Pointe*

HBO

  • Sesame Street
  • His Dark Materials (teens)*