6 TV Shows to Binge Watch Based on Your Mood

Between networks and Netflix, it's a jungle out there in TV land—but the abundant options aren't all created equal. Let pop culture critic Angelica Jade Bastién tune you in to the series most deserving of your time.

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Good Behavior (TNT)

A con artist—Michelle Dockery, a far cry here from her Lady Mary of Downton Abbey—overhears a man hiring someone to kill his wife. Determined to thwart the murder, she becomes entangled with the hit man. Behold the fast-paced sexiness that unfolds when the show premieres this summer.

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The Fall (Netflix)

Gillian Anderson plays an investigator called to Belfast to help solve a murder. As she doggedly pursues her perp, who turns out to be a serial killer, she demands respect from her male colleagues (and gets it, too).

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Humans (AMC)

A sleek science fiction drama in which "synths"—eerily lifelike robots that function as servants and companions—steadily enter daily life, the series envisions a scenario where the divide between us and them becomes unnervingly blurred.

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The Americans (FX)

Perhaps you've heard this show described as a drama about two undercover Russian operatives during the Cold War. Make no mistake: It is, at its heart, a stirring analysis of marriage's many joys and sorrows—starring a real-life couple, no less.

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Marvel's Agent Carter (ABC)

A breezily fun glimpse into a young, single woman's life in the late 1940s—that is, a woman who's a secret agent in a world of superheroes, uncovering nefarious plots and shadowy organizations episode by agonizingly cliff-hanging episode.

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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW)

This series—a musical comedy about a woman so obsessed with her ex that she follows him across the country—really shouldn't work. Yet it oozes goofy charm and refreshing energy, turning an absurd premise into a sincere, affecting delight.

From the April 2016 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine