No matter what you’re in the mood to watch, Hulu has tons of great shows from which to choose. Hulu not only offers its own slate of originals but linear network shows as well, along with content in partnership with other networks and streaming services like FX and Hulu. Wondering what shows to watch on Hulu in 2023? We have list the best show on Hulu 2023 for you. You’re sure to find something worth adding to the queue. We’ve also rounded up the best movies on Hulu 2023.
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IMDb: 6.9/10 1 Season
Comedy, Drama
Inspired by Tracy McMillan’s life, UnPrisoned is a half-hour comedy about a messy but perfectionist relationship therapist and single mom whose life is turned right-side-up when her dad gets out of prison and moves in with her and her teenage son. Kerry Washington plays Paige Alexander, a marriage and family therapist, and mom to 16-year-old Finn. Delroy Lindo stars as Edwin Alexander, Paige’s father, who has recently been released from prison.
IMDb: 8.2/10 3 Seasons
Comedy, Drama
EMMY® NOMINATED The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. A fictionalized, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl, who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter. Hoping for love and sunshine, she finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court onside. A very modern story about the past which encompasses the many roles she played over her lifetime as lover, teacher, ruler, friend, and fighter. Incorporating historical facts occasionally, the series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Sacha Dhawan, Sebastian de Souza, Bayo Gbadamosi and Belinda Bromilow.
In January 2022, the series was renewed for a third season which is set to premiere on May 12, 2023.
IMDb: 4.7/10 3 Seasons
Reality
The Kardashians is an American reality television series which focuses on the personal lives of the Kardashian–Jenner family. The series premiered on April 14, 2022 on the streaming service Hulu. The new show comes off the heels of their last show called Keeping Up With The Kardashians which concluded in June 2021 after a 20-season.
The family you know and love is here with a brand new series, giving an all-access pass into their lives. Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie bring the cameras back to reveal the truth behind the headlines. From the intense pressures of running billion-dollar businesses to the hilarious joys of playtime and school drop-offs, this series brings viewers into the fold with a rivetingly honest story of love & life in the spotlight.
The Season 3 is set to premiere on May 24, 2023.
Documentaries
FX’s “The Secrets of Hillsong” is a four-part documentary series based on the explosive original reporting on the megachurch’s scandals by Vanity Fair journalists Alex French and Dan Adler. The series features the first interviews with former pastors Carl and Laura Lentz since their public ouster from the church, which for years counted musicians, actors, athletes and other celebrities among its flock. Many of the congregants navigating the global reckoning also offer their perspectives as the church faces a rash of fresh revelations.
IMDb: 7.6/10 5 Seasons
“Mayans M.C.” follows the life of Ezekiel “EZ” Reyes, a newly patched member of the Mayans M.C. charter on the California/Mexico border. Once a golden boy with the American Dream within his grasp, EZ and his brother Angel are closer than ever after uncovering the truth behind their mother’s murder. Faced with carving out a new identity for himself in his small town, EZ’s need for vengeance drives him toward a life he never intended. Meanwhile, their father Felipe struggles to reconcile the choices he and his sons have made.
IMDb: 8.2/10 2 Seasons
Cooking & Food, Lifestyle & Culture
In Taste the Nation, award winning cookbook author, host and executive producer Padma Lakshmi, takes audiences on a journey across America, exploring the rich and diverse food culture of various immigrant groups, seeking out the people who have so heavily shaped what American food is today. From indigenous communities to recent immigrant arrivals, Padma breaks bread with Americans across the nation to uncover the roots and relationship between our food, our humanity and our history – ultimately revealing stories that challenge notions of identity, belonging, and what it means to be American.
IMDb: 7.2/10 1 Season
Drama
Based on the best-selling collection by Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things is about a woman – Clare (KATHRYN HAHN) – who becomes a revered advice columnist when her own life is falling apart.
IMDb: 8.3/10 6 Seasons
Black Stories, Drama
A young street entrepreneur, a Mexican wrestler, a CIA operative, a drug-running couple and other characters are set on a violent collision course during the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic in 1980s Los Angeles.
IMDb: 6.8/10 1 Season
KOALA MAN follows middle-aged dad Kevin and his titular secret identity, whose only superpower is a burning passion for following rules and snuffing out petty crime. Koala Man is on a quest to clean up the town of Dapto, often roping his frustrated family into his increasingly bizarre adventures.
IMDb: 7.9/10 1 Season
Drama, History
A SMALL LIGHT follows Miep Gies, who helped hide Otto Frank and his family
from the Nazis during WWII.
IMDb: 7.2/10 1 Season
Documentaries
A group of bright Sarah Lawrence College students fall under the dark influence of a friend’s father, Larry Ray. With unprecedented access to the survivors who lived with Ray, the film follows the cult from its origins through its still-unfolding aftermath.
IMDb: 8.3/10 3 Seasons
Black Stories, Drama
EMMY® NOMINATED Wu-Tang: An American Saga is inspired by “The Wu-Tang Manual” and “Tao of Wu”, and based on the true story of the Wu-Tang Clan. Set in early ’90s New York at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, the show tracks the Clan’s formation, a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young, black men that are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
IMDb: 7.8/10 1 Season
Comedy, Sitcom
Welcome to a world where everyone over the age of 18 develops a superpower. Everyone except for 25-year-old Jen, who feels like she’s being left behind. Luckily, Jen’s flatmates – Carrie, Kash, and a mysterious stray – keep her from falling into a well of self-pity. Adrift in a big, confusing world, and armed with nothing but a bit of hope and a lot of desperation, Jen begins her journey to find her maybe-superpower. But in doing so, she might discover the joy of being just kind of ok.
IMDb: 7.3/10 1 Season
Crime, Drama
In this sprawling true-crime saga filled with murder and sex, Chippendales founder, Somen ‘Steve’ Banerjee, an Indian immigrant chasing the American dream creates the world’s greatest male-stripping empire – only to burn it all down to the ground.
IMDb: 8.4/10 1 Season
Comedy
Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works alongside a rough-around-the-edges crew that ultimately reveal themselves as his chosen family.
The Bear was nominated for Best Comedy Series at the Critics’ Choice Awards and Golden Globe Awards.
The Bear season 2 will premiere on June 22, 2023, and consist of 10 episodes.
IMDb: 7/10 1 Season
Drama, Thriller
The Patient is a psychological thriller from the minds of Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (The Americans) about a therapist, “Alan Strauss” (Steve Carell), who’s held prisoner by a patient, “Sam Fortner” (Domhnall Gleeson), who reveals himself to be a serial killer. Sam has an unusual therapeutic demand for Alan: curb his homicidal urges.
IMDb: 7.5/10 1 Season
Crime, Drama
Under the Banner of Heaven, a true crime drama television miniseries created by Dustin Lance Black based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer, premiered on Hulu on April 28, 2022. Detectives Jeb Pyre(Andrew Garfield) and Bill Taba(Gil Birmingham) star as two detectives investigating the 1984 murder of Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter Erica, only to encounter the growing influence of Mormon fundamentalism on their community.
The show received highly positive reviews from critics and audiences alike, especially for the enthralling narrative, exploration of Mormon faith and fundamentalism, and Andrew Garfield’s incredible performance as Jeb Pyre. The first season comprises seven episodes with a runtime of 63-89 minutes each.
IMDb: 7.2/10 1 Season
Drama, Crime
Candy is an American biographical crime drama streaming television miniseries created by Nick Antosca and Robin Veith.The series stars Jessica Biel as the real-life Candy Montgomery, who was accused of the axe murder of her neighbor, Betty Gore (played by Melanie Lynskey) in 1980, in Texas. Candy premiered on May 9, 2022, on Hulu.
IMDb: 8.6/10 1 Season
Drama
From Executive Producer Danny Strong and starring and executive produced by Michael Keaton, “Dopesick” examines how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America’s struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Big Pharma, to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA. Defying all the odds, heroes will emerge in an intense and thrilling ride to take down the craven corporate forces behind this national crisis and their allies. The limited series is inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.
From the minds of Steve Martin, Dan Fogelman & John Hoffman comes a comedic murder-mystery series for the ages. Only Murders in the Building follows three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez) who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one. When a grisly death occurs inside their exclusive Upper West Side apartment building, the trio suspects murder and employs their precise knowledge of true crime to investigate the truth. As they record a podcast of their own to document the case, the three unravel the complex secrets of the building which stretch back years. Perhaps even more explosive are the lies they tell one another. Soon, the endangered trio comes to realize a killer might be living amongst them as they race to decipher the mounting clues before it’s too late.
IMDb: 8.5/10 11 Seasons
Modern Family is an American family sitcom created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan for ABC. It aired for 11 seasons from September 23, 2009 to April 8, 2020. It followed the lives of three different families in suburban Los Angeles, brought together by parent Jay Pritchett.
IMDb: 8.8/10 15 Seasons
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (sometimes abbreviated to It’s Always Sunny, Always Sunny, IASIP, or simply Sunny) is an American sitcom that premiered on FX on August 4, 2005. The series’ 15 seasons are available for streaming on Hulu.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia features Mac, Dennis, Charlie, Sweet Dee and Frank, five ne’er-do-wells who own and operate Paddy’s Pub in Philadelphia. Their constant scheming usually lands them in a world of hurt, yet they never seem to learn from their mistakes. As they say, some things never change. So prepare for more depraved schemes, half-baked arguments, and absurdly underhanded plots to subvert one another.
IMDb: 8.6/10 11 Seasons
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Now The X-Files all 11 season, 218 episodes are avialable to stream on Hulu.
The truth is out there. FBI agents Scully and Mulder seek it in this sci-fi phenomenon about their quest to explain the seemingly unexplainable. Their strange cases include UFO sightings, alien encounters and abductions, and just about everything else among the paranormal.
IMDb: 7.7/10 1 Season
Devs is an American science fiction thriller television miniseries created, written, and directed by Alex Garland. It premiered on March 5, 2020, on FX on Hulu. The series explores themes related to free will and determinism, as well as Silicon Valley. It received generally positive reviews, with critics praising its imagination, cinematography, acting, and soundtrack.
In Devs, an FX limited series, a young software engineer, Lily Chan, investigates the secret development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in Silicon Valley, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.
IMDb: 8.1/10 7 Seasons
Malcolm in the Middle is an American family television sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for Fox. The series premiered on January 9, 2000, and ended on May 14, 2006, after seven seasons and 151 episodes.
The Cleavers they ain’t. Mom is a screaming control freak, Dad is a goofy human hairball, oldest son Francis escaped the family at a young age, Reese is just criminal, Dewey is a space cadet and young Jamie is the scapegoat. The middle kid, Malcolm (who delivers the narrative for the capers of this whacked-out clan) is a brainiac who doesn’t want to be burdened by his genius.
IMDb: 4.7/10 2 Seasons
The Kardashians is an American reality television series which focuses on the personal lives of the Kardashian–Jenner family. The series premiered on April 14, 2022 on the streaming service Hulu. The new show comes off the heels of their last show called Keeping Up With The Kardashians which concluded in June 2021 after a 20-season.
The family you know and love is here with a brand new series, giving an all-access pass into their lives. Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall, and Kylie bring the cameras back to reveal the truth behind the headlines. From the intense pressures of running billion-dollar businesses to the hilarious joys of playtime and school drop-offs, this series brings viewers into the fold with a rivetingly honest story of love & life in the spotlight.
IMDb: 8.4/10 10 Seasons
EMMY® WINNING A woman forced into sexual servitude struggles to survive in a terrifying, totalitarian society.
IMDb: 8.2/10 2 Seasons
EMMY® NOMINATED The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning female ruler in Russia’s history. A fictionalized, fun and anachronistic story of an idealistic, romantic young girl, who arrives in Russia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter. Hoping for love and sunshine, she finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military and get the court onside. A very modern story about the past which encompasses the many roles she played over her lifetime as lover, teacher, ruler, friend, and fighter. Incorporating historical facts occasionally, the series stars Elle Fanning as Catherine, Nicholas Hoult, Phoebe Fox, Adam Godley, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield, Douglas Hodge, Sacha Dhawan, Sebastian de Souza, Bayo Gbadamosi and Belinda Bromilow.
IMDb: 7.7/10 1 Season
EMMY® NOMINATED Starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives. Based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestseller, the story explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger in believing that following the rules can avert disaster.
IMDb: 7.5/10 1 Season
Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. From Executive Producer Elizabeth Meriwether, “The Dropout” is the story of Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) and Theranos, an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye?
IMDb: 7.7/10 1 Season
A record store owner revisits past relationships through music and pop culture while trying to get over her one true love.
IMDb: 9.2/10 5 Seasons
Comedy, Animation, Adult Animation, Adventure, Science Fiction
Rick and Morty is a show about a sociopathic scientist who drags his unintelligent grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. Created and executive produced by Dan Harmon (Community, Channel 101) and Justin Roiland (House of Cosbys).
IMDb: 9.1/10 1 Season
Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Anime, Animation, Science Fiction, International
Brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric hoped to resurrect their mother’s corpse when they attempted human transmutation, but their reckless defiance of alchemy’s Law of Equivalent Exchange resulted in no miraculous reunion. Their experimentation with forbidden science plunged the boys into a hellish nightmare; half of Ed’s limbs were torn from his body, and Al awoke to discover his young soul transferred to a suit of armor. There is but one way the Elrics can restore what was lost – find the fabled Philosopher’s Stone. In a land marred by war and persecution, where truth comes only with tragedy, they undertake their desperate search. Every step closer to the mythical Philosopher’s Stone brings the broken brothers deeper into the darkest shadows of reality. Sinful abominations, both unnatural and human, will try to keep the boys from their redemption – but the Elrics must forge ahead if despair is to be transmuted into peace.
IMDb: 9.0/10 1 Season
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure, Western
The Crew of a starship travel through outer space after Earth’s resources have diminished and forced us to look elsewhere in 2517. Captain Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) steers his bandit-crew through anything to keep them alive, and keep flying.
IMDb: 9.0/10 4 Seasons
Action, Animation, Fantasy, International, Anime
From the director of Death Note comes Attack on Titan. Many years ago, humanity was forced to retreat behind the towering walls of a fortified city to escape the massive, man-eating Titans that roamed the land outside their fortress. This is their story.
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