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1. City So Real

Oct 29, 2020  •  Rated TV-14
The five-part documentary directed by Steve James looks at the city of Chicago and its residents as 21 candidates run for mayor of the Windy City in 2018-19.
93
Metascore

2. The Last Dance

Apr 19, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The 10-part documentary series directed by Jason Hehir about Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls' 1997-98 championship season includes interviews and never-before-seen footage.
90
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3. How to With John Wilson

Oct 23, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The comedic documentary filmed in New York City features commentary and advice on such topics like small talk, scaffolding, memory, check splitting, cooking risotto, and furniture coverings.
90
Metascore

4. Visible: Out on Television

Feb 14, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The documentary series narrated by Janet Mock, Margaret Cho, Asia Kate Dillon, Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Waithe features archival footage and new interviews to look at LGBTQ characters on television and the impact of the LGBTQ movement on the medium.
89
Metascore

5. A Parks and Recreation Special

Apr 30, 2020
Leslie Knope checks in with her friends while under self-isolating at home in this special episode that will raise money for Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund.
89
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6. Lenox Hill

Jun 10, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The eight-part docuseries follows four doctors at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital over an 18-month period as they juggle their personal lives while trying to save lives.
87
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7. The Baby-Sitters Club (2020)

Jul 3, 2020  •  Rated TV-G
Stoneybrook, Connecticut middle schooler Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace) and her friends: Mary-Anne Spier (Malia Baker), Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada), Stacey McGill (Shay Rudolph), and Dawn Schafer (Xochitl Gomez) start a babysitting business in this series based on the popular children's book series by Ann M. Martin.
87
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8. Mrs. America

Apr 15, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
Phyllis Schlafly (Cate Blanchett) seeks to stop the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment championed by feminists such as Gloria Steinem (Rose Byrne), Betty Friedan (Tracy Ullman), Shirley Chisholm (Uzo Aduba), Bella Abzug (Margo Martindale) and Jill Ruckelshaus (Elizabeth Banks) in the limited series created and written by Dahvi Waller. [FX on Hulu]
87
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9. I May Destroy You

Jun 7, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
Arabella (Michaela Coel), an up-and-coming writer was living her best life in London, but after she is assaulted at a nightclub, she begins to reconsider parts of her life.
86
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10. I Hate Suzie

Nov 19, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The life of former teen pop-star-turned-actor Suzie Pickles (Billie Piper) is turned upside down when her phone is hacked and compromising photos are leaked in this dramedy created by Lucy Prebble and Piper. [Premiered originally in the UK on Sky Atlantic on 27 Aug 2020; in the US on HBO Max on 19 Nov 2020]
85
Metascore

11. Between the World and Me

Nov 21, 2020
The HBO special based on the 2018 Apollo Theater staging of Ta-Nehisi Coates' book about white supremacy in America features readings from Coates' book, animation, documentary footage and archival footage.
85
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12. Little America

Jan 17, 2020  •  Rated TV-14
The immigrant comedy anthology series includes stories inspired by real experiences written about in Epic Magazine.
85
Metascore

13. Unorthodox

Mar 26, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The four-part drama inspired by Deborah Feldman's memoir, Esther "Esty" Shapiro (Shira Haas) flees her Hasidic Brooklyn home for Berlin, while her husband Yanky (Amit Rahav) and his cousin Moische (Jeff Wilbusch) seek to bring her back.
85
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14. Feel Good (2020)

Mar 19, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
Canadian comedian Mae (Mae Martin) juggles living in London, dealing with her parents (Adrian Lukis and Lisa Kudrow), her recovery from addiction and falling for heterosexual girl named George (Charlotte Ritchie).
85
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15. The Good Lord Bird

Oct 4, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
A young slave named Onion (Joshua Johnson-Lionel) becomes a part of John Brown's (Ethan Hawke) family, interacting with other abolitionists like Frederick Douglass (Daveed Diggs) and eventually the 1859 raid of the Army depot at Harpers Ferry in this limited series adaptation of James McBride's novel of the same name.
84
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16. Immigration Nation

Aug 3, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The six-part documentary series about America's current immigration system directed by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz features candid interviews with agents of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and detainees as well as footage of raids and the detentions centers.
84
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17. P-Valley

Jul 12, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The half-hour drama from Katori Hall explores the lives of those who work and visit the Mississippi Delta strip club, The Pynk.
83
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18. The Midnight Gospel

Apr 20, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
Podcaster Clancy is forced to leave his home to interview beings in other worlds after his multiverse simulator malfunctions in this adult animated series co-created by Pendleton Ward and Duncan Trussell.
82
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19. Normal People

Apr 29, 2020  •  Rated TV-14
Set in Ireland, the complicated relationship between the wealthy bur lonely Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal), the son of her family's house cleaner, begins in secret as teenagers but everything changes once at Trinity College in this 12-episode limited series based on Sally Rooney's novel of the same name.
82
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20. The Plot Against America

Mar 16, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The six-part miniseries based on novel of the same name by Philip Roth is set in an alternate universe where a President Charles Lindbergh favors anti-Semitism and fascism is experienced by a working-class Jewish-American family (Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector and Winona Ryder).
82
Metascore
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21. Cheer (2020)

Jan 8, 2020  •  Rated TV-MA
The documentary series follows the competitive cheerleading team at Texas's Navarro College as they go for another national title with their coach Monica Aldama.
81
Metascore
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22. Central Park

May 29, 2020  •  Rated TV-PG
Central Park manager Owen Tillerman (voiced by Leslie Odom, Jr.), his wife (voiced by Kathryn Hahn) and two kids Molly (voiced by Kristen Bell) and Cole (voiced by Tituss Burgess) try to stop hotel heiress Bitsy Brandenham (voiced by Stanley Tucci) and her assistant Helen (voiced by Daveed Diggs) from buying the park and turning it into into condos in this animated musical comedy crated by Loren Bouchard, Josh Gad, and Nora Smith.
81
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23. Never Have I Ever

Apr 27, 2020  •  Rated TV-14
First-generation Indian-American teenager Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) deals with issues with high school and growing up in this series inspired by creator Mindy Kaling's childhood.
81
Metascore

24. Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children

Apr 5, 2020
The five-part documentary series looks into the cases of kidnapping and murder of at least 30 African-American children, aged 7 to 17, in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981 that were recently reopened by the Atlanta Police Department in 2019 (and dramatized in the second season of Netflix's Mindhunter).
80
Metascore
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