The new year has opened with a bang, at least for sports fans with the NFL playoffs and the Winter Olympics.
Now, fresh off victories by the Seattle Seahawks, and U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams, it’s time to fill that championship sports void with some streaming media content. In a few months the NHL and NBA will start their respective playoff seasons, but until then, here are some streaming recommendations to help sports fans and non-sports fans get through the last days of winter and including those late winter season snowstorms.
Narrowing down the choice to five was difficult. There are streaming media shows that could have made the list such as “Fallout” and “Cross” from Prime Video and “Hunting Party,” which is available from both Peacock and Netflix, and the “Lincoln Lawyer” from Netflix.
These choices provide some level of legacy from either prior successful seasons or lineage from other hit shows within a franchise. The one completely new show in this list of five, features a popular actress that’s known as the “mother of dragons.”
5 Streaming Media Shows Worth Watching
Tapping into the libraries of several readily accessible services, here are five choices from HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, and Peacock worth checking out. Other than “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms,” which comes from the “Game of Thrones” universe, there really wasn’t much hype about these series prior to their release dates.
Here are those five streaming media shows to watch to cure those winter blues:
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO Max):” Set in Westeros about 100 years before “Game of Thrones,” (GoT) this new HBO Max series follows Ser Duncan the Tall and his squire Egg. The season is six episodes long, and the reaction by GoT fans has been strong with IMDB giving the show a rating of 9/10.
“The Pitt” (HBO Max): The streaming service summarizes this hit show, which offers two seasons, as a program about the staff at Pittsburgh’s Trauma Medical Center, and its work to save lives 24/7. HBO Max offers the show in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos immersive audio.
“The Night Agent” (Netflix): A few years ago, this streaming media show was a surprise hit with stars Gabriel Basso and Luciane Buchanan. Rotten Tomatoes says the show, which is based on a book by Mattew Quirk has an 81% Tomatometer rating, focuses on a low-level FBI agent that’s suddenly thrown into a government conspiracy with a young tech expert during the first season.
“High Potential” (Hulu): With streaming media dominating the way the public watches television, it is now a surprise when a traditional network TV show becomes a hit. The ABC series “High Potential” is available on Hulu, and it stars Kaitlin Olson as Morgan Gillory and Daniel Sunjata as Adam Karadec. The premise of the show is that Olson’s character is a mom working as a Janitor. Gillory with her high IQ is cleaning the police department and upon her observations about a case, she gets hired as a consultant to the police force. IMDB rates the show a 7.5 and Rotten Tomato rates it 98%.
“Ponies” (Peacock): Recently released, this Peacock streaming media show stars “Game of Thrones” alumni Emilia Clarke as Beatrice Grant and Haley Lu Richardson as Twila Hasbeck. The plot of this show is Grant and Hasbeck are CIA widows that get the opportunity to act as secret government operatives in Moscow. The show is set in the 1970s and the season is eight episodes long.
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