Jesse Schedeen

Scrubs Season 11 loses none of the momentum of Season 10 in its first two episodes. The series is as effortlessly charming and silly as ever. The show even looks to improve on its predecessor in some key ways.

Get Jiro effortlessly makes the jump from comics to animation in the first installment of the new Adult Swim series.

As fun as this special is, it’s hard not to wonder what would have been possible if it had focused on telling a brand-new story within The Mandalorian universe.

While the central murder mystery in Episode 1 is more serviceable than actively intriguing, the characters and their uneasy dynamics more than justify giving the show a watch. Chandler’s Hal Jordan and Pierre’s John Stewart make for a mighty but very dysfunctional Dynamic Duo, and the prospect of spending seven more hours with them is exciting indeed.

The Ninth Jedi may dabble in many familiar tropes, but it knows how to take advantage of its far-flung setting and spin those tropes into something new.

Season 2 stands out both because of its strong handling of returning favorites like Harley Quinn and newcomers like the enigmatic Joker. That said, the series isn’t without its storytelling problems, some of them involving the fairly flat depiction of Batman himself.

President Curtis is a decent Rick and Morty spinoff, but one whose appeal proves limited. By focusing so much on Curtis tackling the sorts of misadventures that escape Rick Sanchez’s notice, the series plants itself in the shadow of its parent and never fully emerges.

The series continues to be both a love letter to a particular era of the X-Men franchise and a source of deep, enjoyable character drama that can appeal to Marvel fans of all stripes.

Season 9 is an improvement over the relatively weaker Season 8. Certainly, not every episode is a banger, but there are several here that rank among the show’s best.

It’s an approach that doesn’t necessarily do anything new with the character in the MCU (nor does it address any of the shortcomings of that approach), but it’s one that succeeds in stripping away the extraneous fluff of the Netflix series and just giving fans what they crave.