Full of true crime dramas, murder mysteries, and coming-of-age content, Hulu boasts a large number of shows that are not available to watch anywhere else.
From the quirky comedy and amateur crime-solving of Only Murders in the Building to chill-raising workplace drama in The Other Black Girl, Hulu has kept its audiences hooked with engaging plotlines and novel stories in each and every show.
Picking out a few of them, check out the list of 30 Best Shows on Hulu right now for your next binge-fest.
Only Murders in the Building
Only Murders in the Building is a comedy and mystery drama starring Selena Gomez, Martin Short, and Steve Martin. Two old men and a young woman form an unlikely friendship over their shared love of listening to a popular true-crime podcast. When a murder of a young man takes place in the building they live in, these three take it upon themselves to solve the mystery.
A Murder At the End of the World
A Murder At the End of the World is a mystery thriller series starring Emma Corrin, Brit Marling, and Harris Dickinson. Darby, a self-proclaimed detective and hacker, is invited to a retreat with eight other people as guests of a billionaire. When one of them is found dead, the fun retreat turns into an arena of death and survival, with everyone becoming a suspect.
The Patient
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The Patient is a psychological thriller series starring Steve Carell, Domnhall Gleeson, and Andrew Leeds. Alan Strauss is kidnapped by one of his patients, Sam Fortner, who confessed to bringing a serial killer. He keeps Alan in captivity as his therapist to help him control his urges to kill people.
Tiny Beautiful Things
Tiny Beautiful Things | Official Trailer | Hulu
Tiny Beautiful Things is a comedy-drama series starring Kathryn Hahn, Merritt Wever, and Tanzyn Crawford. Clare, a woman whose marital life is falling apart and whose daughter doesn’t even speak to her, gets an offer from an old friend to take over the advice column. Feeling unqualified as her own life is a mess, Clare is slowly made to realize that nobody is perfect.
Reservation Dogs
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Reservation Dogs is a comedy-drama series starring Paulina Alexis, K. Devery Jacobs, and D’Pharaoh Won-A-Tai. In rural Oklahoma, four indigenous teenagers dream of traveling to our if reach and glittering city of California. They form a gang to steal and save enough money to spend on travel and food expenses, but when a rival gang appears, their dreams are in danger of being completed.
Atlanta
Atlanta | Official Series Trailer | FX
Atlanta is a comedy-drama series starring LaKeith Stanfield, Donald Glover, and Brian Tyree Henry. Earn is under pressure to provide for his daughter with his on-and-off girlfriend, Vanessa. So, he starts working for his cousin Alfred, who is a famous rapper going by the name ‘Paper Boi’, and together they explore the world of Atlanta hip hop scene.
Schitt’s Creek
Schitt’s Creek is a comedy-drama series starring Dan Levy, Eugene Levy, and Annie Murphy. The Rose Family is forced into destitution when all of their property and wealth is taken away by a fraud committed by their General manager. Now, they are only left with a useless town named Schitt’s Creek, which they bought as a joke.
What We Do in the Shadows
What We Do in the Shadows is a horror comedy show starring Matt Berry, Kayvan Novak, and Harvey Guillén. In an offbeat comedy scenario, three vampires who have been roaming Earth for hundreds of years find themselves troubled with their daily lives in the middle of New York.
The Other Black Girl
The Other Black Girl is a horror comedy show starring Sinclair Daniel, Ashleigh Murray, and Bellamy Young. Nella Rogers is a young woman who works in the editorial department of Wagner Books company. She feels strange as the only African-American person in the entire company and becomes excited when another African-American girl is hired, but this leads to her discovering the darkness behind the company, which she had been unaware of.
The Great
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The Great is a historical comedy series starring Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning, and Phoebe Fox. Catherine arrives in Russia for her marriage to Peter III, but the dictatorial and overbearing political climate of the country becomes unbearable to her, and she devises a plan to bring certain changes to these strict rules.
Conversations with Friends
Conversations with Friends is a show starring Joe Alwyn, Alison Oliver, and Sasha Lane. Frances and her ex-girlfriend and current best friend, Bobbi, befriend a Dublin couple, Melissa and Nick. But when Bobbi starts an affair with Nick, the friendship between four people takes a chaotic turn.
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian thriller series starring Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, and Madeline Brewer. June Osborne lives in a world where there is a lack of fertile women, and women with fertility are held as slaves by wealthy families June is one of them. Concubine to a high-ranking officer, she is under strict control, but she dreams of one day reuniting with her daughter.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia | Official Series Trailer | FX
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is a comedy-drama series starring Charlie Day, Danny DeVito, and Kaitlin Olson. A gang of five people with sociopathic tendencies run a pub together and spend their day pranking others or each other.
Cruel Summer
Cruel Summer is a mystery thriller series starring Olivia Holt, Chiara Aurelia, and Griffin Gluck. When Kate Wallis, a popular girl in school, disappears, suddenly Jeanette Turner finds her chance to show her presence in town and seemingly takes Kate’s place as the popular girl, but she disturbingly copies Kate’s clothing and habits, making her one of the suspects in Kate’s sudden disappearance.
Candy
Candy is a crime drama mini-series starring Jessica Biel, Melanie Lynskey, and Pablo Schreiber. Candy Montgomery is a normal Texan suburban wife and mother on her surface, but when she is suddenly accused of murdering her neighbor, Betty Gore, with an ax, it shocks everyone.
Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi
Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi Season 2 | Official Trailer | Hulu
Taste the Nation is a reality TV show produced by and featuring Padma Lakshmi, who travels across America to explore various cuisines that have been brought from immigrants outside America but now these cuisines make and shape the map of American food today.
Kindred
Kindred | Official Trailer | FX
Kindred is a science-fiction show starring Mallori Johnson, Micah Stock, and Gayle Rankin. Dana shifts to Los Angeles to the shock of her uncle and aunt, but she is determined to start a new life. But when a series of dreams that feel more and more like time travel start to occur, Dana is thrown back into time to relive an old historical event.
Class of ‘09
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Class of ‘09 is a thriller drama mini-series starring Kate Mara, Sepideh Moafi, and Brian Tyree Henry. Taking place across three different time periods in 2009,2003-2005, and 2034, the show explores the lives of the FBI recruit class of ‘09 and their changing careers and relationship with crime over decades of changing American laws and growing use of AI.
Welcome to Chippendales
Welcome to Chippendales is a biographical drama mini-series starring Kumail Nanjiani, Murray Bartlett, and Spencer Boldman. Steve Banerjee, an Indian immigrant with a wish of the American dream in his eyes, opened the first male strip joint called Chippendales successfully. But his future takes a turn for the dark when he becomes an accessory to murder.
UnPrisoned
UnPrisoned | Official Trailer | Hulu
UnPrisoned is a comedy-drama show starring Kerry Washington, Delroy Lindo, and Jordyn McIntosh. Paige Alexander, a single mom, works as a relationship therapist, but her normal life takes a chaotic turn when her father is released from prison and now desires to live with her and her son.
Fleishman is in Trouble
Fleishman is in Trouble is a comedy-drama starring Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Claire Danes. Toby Fleishman has a lot on his mind, what with his newly discovered dating life fresh after divorce, his two young children left behind to parent by his disappeared wife, and the hectic work at the hospital, for he is waiting to be promoted soon. But as the pressures pile up, Toby realizes he has to find the whereabouts of his ex-wife and figure out what actually happened to them.
A Small Light
A Small Light | Official Trailer | National Geographic
A Small Light is a historical drama show starring Bel Powley, Liev Schreiber, and Billie Boullet. Miep Gies worked as a secretary for Otto Frank, a Jewish businessman who had traveled to the Netherlands with his family in order to escape persecution. But as the search starts for Jews in the Netherlands, Miep Gies decides to protect the Frank family by helping them hide.
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence
Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence | February 9 | Hulu
Stolen Youth is a crime documentary show about Larry Ray and how he built a cult at Sarah Lawrence. Directed by Zach Heinzerling, the documentary shows witnesses, victims, their families, and friends’ accounts of how Larry Ray, a father of one of the students at Sarah Lawrence, duped and coerced them into a cult, extorting them both physically and emotionally.
Saint X
Saint X is a psychological thriller starring West Duchovny, Alycia Debnam-Carey, and Jayden Elijah. Emily Thomas, an environmentalist documentary editor, is always disturbed by what exactly happened to her older sister, who went on a trip to the Caribbean but was later found murdered and violated. Emily sets out to find the truth twenty years later.
Welcome to Wrexham
Welcome to Wrexham is a light-hearted documentary following actors Ryan Reynolds and Robert McElhenney, who bought the failing football team of Wrexham. The documentary shows the club’s gradual development and how much Ryan Reynolds and Robert McElhenney work to raise the team towards success in the next few years.
Extraordinary
Extraordinary | Official Trailer | Hulu
Extraordinary is a comedy-drama starring Máiréad Tyers, Luke Rollason, and Sofia Oxenham. In a world of superpowers and superheroes, Jen, a 25-year-old woman, works at a costume shop that designs superhero clothing and desires to find a power for herself too.
Under the Banner of Heaven
Under the Banner of Heaven is a mystery drama starring Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Rory Culkin. Jeb Pyre is sent on an investigation of the murder of a woman and her daughter but finds himself entangled with the LDS religion, its origin, and the dark side of faith.
Love, Victor
Love, Victor is a comedy-drama starring Michael Cimino, George Sear, and Mason Gooding. Victor, a teenager who is half Puerto Rican and half-Colombian American, struggles with sexual orientation and the new environment at high school and reaches out to another boy called Simon, who has just outed himself as gay.
Pose
Pose is an LGBTQ drama series starring Evan Peters, Kate Mara, and James Van Der Beek. Following the lives of the LGBTQ community of Latin and African Americans in the period of 1987-98 in the narrow-minded society of New York society.
The Americans
The Americans | Official Series Trailer | FX
The Americans is a historical thriller series starring Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, and Holly Taylor. Elizabeth and Phillip, two Russian spies sent to spy on Americans and their government during the Cold War, marry each other and gradually have children to assimilate themselves without bringing unwanted attention to themselves in order to continue their work.
