Yeah, we get it. There are a lot of streaming services. With so much TV out there (thanks a lot, Netflix), it’s hard to know where to turn your attention. But if we can distract you from the rest for a second, we’d like to point you in the direction of Paramount+. The streamer’s varied television portfolio truly has something for everyone, whether you’re a lifelong Trekkie or have been a loyal Drag Race fan since the BeBe Zahara Benet days.
Perhaps you’re in the market to binge every season of Survivor, or maybe you just heard that Stephen King has a series on the platform. Hell, maybe you’re just in the mood for a classic and are looking for old episodes of Frasier. Might we interest you in Taylor Sheridan’s 1923? No matter what you’re doing, Paramount+ has more to offer than you think. All you have to do is hop in and try it out. We’ll make it easy for you, with 15 of the best offerings listed below.
1923 may be another Yellowstone prequel, but you don’t need any knowledge of the flagship series to enjoy Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren riding horses and shooting shotguns. The spinoff series also breaks out of Montana, taking viewers to see Africa and dangers on the high seas. With Yellowstone, there’s always more on the horizon.
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Starring Jeremy Renner, this prison drama about a town that revolves around incarceration is dark and unforgiving. Tackling themes of systematic oppression, the series follow Renner’s Mike McLusky, a power broker between the gangs and the prisons. As the “Mayor,” he tries to keep everyone in Kingstown happy. It’s no small task.
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Sylvester Stallone is the titular Tulsa King in Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan’s latest series, which follows a New York mafia capo who is sent to Oklahoma after serving a 25-year prison sentence. Establishing a new base of comical criminal operations, Stallone’s Dwight “The General” Manfredi starts to turn Tulsa into his own little kingdom.
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
We really can’t sing praises for Strange New Worlds loudly or enough. “Most of sci-fi TV today suffers from Marvelitis—the sky is always falling, the fate of the galaxy is always at stake,” reads our review of the series. “But the best Trek outing in decades understands the importance of hijinks.” We highly recommend SNW for life-long fans as well as newcomers to the world of Star Trek, alike.
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Coming off the success of The Good Wife, CBS wanted to take a swing with its new streaming service, CBS All Access. While Access wasn’t the most successful venture in its early iterations, the streamer knew it had a gem (even if it remains a relatively under-appreciated one) in The Good Fight. Starring Christine Baranski and Audra McDonald, the legal series is one of the snappiest on television and shines a light on a new chapter for the series and a scrappy up and coming law firm that will draw you in and never let go.
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A phenom that began airing in 2000, the series has now been on for over 20 years, boasting 40 seasons that are all available to watch on Paramount+. A lot has changed over the years (seriously, watch Richard Hatch win season one and then compare it to, literally, almost any other season), but there’s one constant: It’s impossible to ever hear “the tribe has spoken” too many times.
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The Stand is one of Paramount’s early investments, but it boasts incredible names. From the mind of Stephen King, the series follows a pandemic (yikes) into a post-apocalyptic world, with the fate of the world in the hands of a 108-year-old woman (Whoopi Goldberg) (also, rude) and a select group of survivors that include characters played by James Marsden and Greg Kinnear.
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There’s something intoxicating about reality television. There’s also something intoxicating about getting a tattoo. So what if you combined the drama of reality TV with the adrenaline rush of tattoos? That’s where Ink Master comes in—all 11 seasons. It’s a brutal sport to watch, but damn if that doesn’t make for good TV.
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I mean, who doesn’t love a good space opera? Star Trek Discovery kicks off about a decade before the mission of Captain Kirk, which was the story we got back in the 60s when the OG show premiered. This one is fronted by The Walking Dead‘s Sonequa Martin-Green and is worth the watch.
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There’s a reason the series has won Best Competition Reality Show three years running. Hosted by RuPaul, the series lives on Paramount+ now and features 13 regular seasons, six All Stars seasons, and a slew of bonus content through its “Untucked” franchise.
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Listen. It’s Frasier. This is less of a plea to watch and more of a PSA because if you know, you know.
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Hiding in the shadows of Paramount+ is a genius show called Evil that follows the under-appreciated art of exorcism. It’s creepy. It’s full of Catholic church nonsense. Plus, it’s a reason to spend more time with Lost‘s Michael Emerson.
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We love a sports docuseries, and Paramount+ knows it. Texas 6 follows the prototypical championship football team, but the twist is that the six-man team plays in a town of less than 700 people. The series spans two and a half years, following these boys as they bask in their moment of spotlight and age into early adulthood.
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