The Best TV Shows on Hulu Right Now [2022]

Finding something to watch on TV can be difficult, and to be fairrr,  The hilarious Canadian comedy's ninth season is now available on Hulu, and it's moved up our list of the best hulu originals to watch. 

It joins comedies such as PEN15, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Creamerie from New Zealand. For something more serious, Hulu recently added the undervalued crime drama Godfather of Harlem.

Do you want to know how this list was compiled? Our picks are centred on new releases, Hulu and FX original shows, and critical hits that aren't available anywhere else, as well as a few overlooked classics that you won't find on other lists. 

When big titles like Ramy and Snowfall return, you'll be able to pass the time by discovering something new to like. These are the  best hulu originals right now.

Here are the 5 Best Hulu Originals

1. Letterkenny

Feel-good comedies like Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience are popular in Canada, where people grow and gain life lessons via their interactions with one another. That is not the case in Letterkenny. The cult comedy about a little Canadian town full of hicks, tweakers, hockey players, burly natives, and not much more is largely about genitalia, drinking, fighting, and whatever else goes on inside these Canucks' heads, but don't be fooled by the subject matter. Letterkenny is one of the brightest shows on the air, with lightning-fast speech and wordplay akin to Shakespeare on speedballs.

2. PEN15

When the just finished PEN15 aired in 2019, its big gimmick drew a lot of attention: Adult women in their 30s, co-creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, star as middle school-aged versions of themselves, surrounded by a cast of real 13-year-olds. 

But that gimmick isn't the only reason to stick around. It's evident in everything Erskine and Konkle do, from their caved-in stance to their awkward emotions on their faces, that they remember what it's like to be in middle school. 

Maya and Anna have been through the pains and tribulations of sleepovers, pool parties, and first kisses thanks to PEN15. They engage in witchcraft. 

They participate in team sports. They decide to participate in the school play, which results in two of the series' best episodes to date. They — and their buddies — crush your heart in the most subtle, unmistakable ways.

 It feels like the end of the world when Maya is called ugly, or when the girls' new friend Maura (Ashlee Grubbs) is called out for lying about her own popularity, because it is to them at the time. Every TV show tries to make you feel something, but PEN15 burrows down into your bones, adheres to your bones, and ensures that you never forget what it shows you, much like adolescence does.

3. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the pinnacle of escapist television, as if the ordinary person's id ran a long-running cable comedy. 

Sunny is the kind of show that relishes in refusing to let its characters grow as individuals, following the daily lives of a morally bankrupt, self-absorbed, psychologically ill, and often irredeemable foursome who own and operate a bar in Philadelphia. 

As the seasons have progressed, the gang has only succeeded in growing more selfish and ignorant of the world around them. They keep behaving badly and never learning from their mistakes... but in a hilarious way, thanks to the 30-minute sitcom format, which allows the programme to blow up every week and reset the clock in the next episode. 

You'll have a great time after you understand that the Paddy's Pub crew is not someone you'd ever want to interact with in real life. 

The current season begins with the gang revealing that they're inadvertently but directly responsible for the delay in counting Pennsylvania's 2020 election ballots, Rudy Giuliani's dripping hair dye, and the QAnon Shaman.

4.  Godfather of Harlem

In this gripping historical crime drama based on true events, Forest Whitaker plays the titular crime boss Bumpy Johnson. Johnson returns home from a long jail sentence to find his Harlem kingdom has been invaded by the Genovese family in this brutal series from Narcos creator Chris Brancato. 

As a result, Bumpy is forced to go to war with the Italians in order to reclaim what he believes is his. To do so, he joins forces with Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch), whose rise to political and social power Bumpy both aids and complicates. 

Bumpy interacts with historical characters played by renowned character actors like Vincent "The Chin" Gigante (Vincent D'Onofrio), Joe Bonanno (Chazz Palminteri), and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., despite the show's loose adherence to the historical record (Giancarlo Esposito). 

Godfather of Harlem launched in 2019 on the lesser-known streaming site Epix, and Season 2 premiered in 2021; both are available on Epix — but it is produced by Disney-owned company ABC Signature, which may explain why Season 1 is now available on Disney-owned Hulu.

5. The Great

Hulu's most aesthetically stunning comedy series is The Great, and if you enjoy admiring historical costumes and production design, that should be enough to get you in the door. 

But you'll stick around for creator Tony McNamara's smart writing — he's an Oscar nominee for co-writing the screenplay for The Favourite, which The Great is eerily similar to — and the compelling performances from stars Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult.

Catherine the Great (Fanning), now the ruler of Russia after deposing her husband Peter III (Hoult), attempts to reconstruct the country in her image, which proves to be far more difficult than she anticipated. Joanna Elisabeth, Catherine's mother, is played by Gillian Anderson. 

The Great brazenly and consciously skews the historical truth in order to achieve maximum drama and wonderfully anachronistic humour.

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