Search Party was great. Alia Shawkat, John Early, Ron Livingston, eventually Jeff Goldblum. This show goes in some absolutely wild directions.

If you like Search Party, you’ll notice a lot of the same actors in both The Characters (particularly John Early’s episode) as well as I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson. Some of them also show up on Difficult People, which I adore. If you like Difficult People, you’ll probably love to watch Billy Eichner shouting at New Yorkers about pop culture on Billie on the Street.

If you find you want more Ron Livingston, Loudermilk is a great series.

For a little more Alia Shawkat, check out Izzie Gets the Fuck Across Town. Great movie starring Mackenzie Davis. Speaking of movies with Mackenzie Davis, Tully was also pretty good, and confusingly has both Ron Livingston and his doppelganger Mark Duplass in the same movie. Duck Butter is another good movie with Alia Shawkat that Mark and Jay Duplass show up in.

Speaking of the Duplass brothers, their movies are great. If you want some interesting low-tech weird scifi, check out both The Endless and The Resolution. These two movies co-exist, but you can really watch them in any order, though the Resolution came out first. They also put out a new movie this year called Something in the Dirt, which seems to be sort of related also. Personally, The Endless is my favorite of the three.

One of my favorites this year has been Pokerface, which features Natasha Lyonne as a drifter who wanders around solving murders. It feels kind of like Colombo or the old Incredible Hulk show. Typically they show you the murder at the beginning of the episode and then you get to see where Natasha fits in and how she goes about solving it. It’s great. Fantastic guest stars. It’s also very episodic, so you can easily just pick one up and watch it after not having seen the others for a while. There’s a plot that goes across the seasons, but it’s not a huge component of most of them or like heavily serialized. Still binge-worthy, but also a show that you can savor if you want to!

Staying on Natasha Lyonne for a moment, if you haven’t seen Russian Doll I can’t recommend it enough. It’s been out for a bit, but it’s absolutely amazing. I could watch Natasha all day. She’s also a major character in Orange is the New Black, if you haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. Highly recommended.

Others have mentioned Severance, which is definitely a must-watch also. The new season comes out in November.

If you want to watch some engaging trash TV, check out the Circle. It’s extremely entertaining low-stakes reality game show fun.

One more to throw out there, if you haven’t seen it, which I’ve been really enjoying lately, is Baroness Von Sketch Show. Canadian sketch show featuring four women that I literally have trouble believing I haven’t seen in much else. They’re amazing and should have as many shows as they want. It has kind of Portlandia vibes, but with a somewhat more modern sensibility? I don’t know. It’s great.

I could literally go on about movies and TV for days. If there’s anything more specific like genre-wise you’re looking for, let me know!