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Best Hulu Shows and Movies by Tomatometer
Updated January 4, 2021
The top shows on Hulu include some of the most prestigious and binge-worthy series out there. The Handmaid’s Tale’s instant success helped establish itself as one of the best shows on Hulu and the streamer as a major player in the originals game. Other Hulu shows have since become known as buzz-worthy and prestige programs, and the addition of FX on Hulu has added the cable network’s titles to the Hulu list.
New Hulu originals include Animaniacs (pictured) and A Teacher. In addition to the newest additions, popular Hulu originals on the list include Pen15, Castle Rock (based on Stephen King’s works), Harlots, Shrill, Catch-22, and Veronica Mars.
Parent company Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox also means that new Hulu TV shows can appear both on cable channel FX and Hulu, and FX and FXX series like Atlanta, Better Things, Justified, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Nip/Tuck can now be found on the streaming platform too.
Rotten Tomatoes put together a guide to Hulu, FX, FX on Hulu, and National Geographic series you can stream now. Here are all the Fresh-rated original series available on Hulu. To be included in our list of the best Hulu series, titles must be Fresh (60% or higher) and have at least 10 reviews, including episodic reviews like those on horror anthology series Into The Dark.
Updated: Animaniacs and A Teacher added
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Synopsis: In the future, the first human is sent to Mars to explore the possibility of interplanetary colonization....
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Synopsis: A horror event series from prolific, award-winning producer, Jason Blum's independent TV studio. The series includes 12 super-sized episodes, with...
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Synopsis: A Teacher follows Claire Wilson (Kate Mara), a young teacher at a suburban Texas high school and her student, Eric...
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Synopsis: A man's quest for the parents who deserted him leads him to believe his father is the Zodiac Killer, one...
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Synopsis: A thriller centering on a San Francisco forensic neuropsychiatrist who spirals into a perilous world of mistaken identity, police corruption...
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Synopsis: Inspired by the life and work of artist Keith Knight, comedy series Woke takes an absurdly irreverent look at identity...
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Synopsis: Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and...
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Synopsis: A horror anthology series from Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy....
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Synopsis: A family struggles with relationships, marriage and power during a controversial religious movement in this drama series....
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Synopsis: They're back! Warner brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and the Warner sister Dot, have a great time wreaking havoc and mayhem...
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Synopsis: The trials and triumphs of the Getty family, one of America's most iconic dynasties....
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Synopsis: Based on Celeste Ng's 2017 bestseller, Little Fires Everywhere follows the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and an...
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Synopsis: A vampiric virus spreads through New York City....
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Synopsis: In the darkest depths of cyberspace, there is another world. A lost dimension, home to wonders unseen, terrors unspeakable, and...
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Synopsis: A documentary series about the life and 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton....
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Synopsis: Encounters with Gothic beasts, including fallen angels and werewolves, broken people are driven to desperate acts in an attempt to...
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Synopsis: A drama following a gang of professional thieves wrestling with the risks and moral implications of the `profession.'...
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Synopsis: Ensemble comedy about a disparate group of guys (and a gal) involved in a fantasy-football league....
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Synopsis: A young computer engineer investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco,...
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Synopsis: Based on Fosse, the biography written by Sam Wasson, this eight-part limited series tells the story of the singular romantic...
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Synopsis: Wu-Tang: An American Saga is set in 1990s New York City during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic and...
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Synopsis: Breeders, a new comedy series starring Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, explores the paradox that every parent knows but never...
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Synopsis: An English teacher travels back in time to stop JFK's assassination, but many elements threaten his mission....
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Synopsis: U.S. version of an Australian cult sitcom about a meek young man and a pot-smoking talking dog named Wilfred...
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Synopsis: Based on Joseph Heller's seminal novel of the same name, Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian...
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Synopsis: A reality-show parody that centers on six well-pampered ladies living in Orlando, Fla....
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Synopsis: During the Autumn of 1942, in occupied France, U-612 is now ready for its maiden voyage, preparing to head into...
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Synopsis: Dark comedy-drama about a larcenous gypsy family who strike it rich by assuming the identities of a rich couple they...
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Synopsis: A Sons of Anarchy spinoff from Kurt Sutter....
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Synopsis: A female record-store owner in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, uses music to reflect on past relationships in this TV adaptation of...
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Synopsis: A sitcom about an ob-gyn who wishes her personal life were as successful as her professional one and matched the...
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Synopsis: From Executive Producers Lorne Michaels and Elizabeth Banks comes Shrill, a comedy series starring Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live) as...
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Synopsis: Drama series set against the early days of the crack-cocaine epidemic....
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Synopsis: The Great is a satirical, comedic drama about the rise of Catherine the Great from outsider to the longest reigning...
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Synopsis: Six teenagers with nothing in common join forces after discovering their parents are evil-doers....
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Synopsis: Generation-spanning drama about a Northern California motorcycle club whose members try to protect their hometown from rival gangs while running...
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Synopsis: Counter-terrorism FBI agent John O'Neill is out to prove his suspicion that the U.S. was targeted by Al Qaeda around...
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Synopsis: A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock is an original story that combines the mythological scale...
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Synopsis: Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of...
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Synopsis: Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town's lifeblood tourist industry. After Mars Investigations is hired...
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Synopsis: This gritty New York-based drama revolves around an alcoholic firefighter who is haunted (quite literally) by ghosts of family and...
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Synopsis: An impressionistic, mosaic portrait of current-day Chicago which delivers a deep, multifaceted look into the soul of America's third-largest city,...
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Synopsis: A painfully funny comedy series that explores the differences between dating men and women from the perspective of a person...
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Synopsis: The Act is a seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories. The first season follows Gypsy Blanchard,...
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Synopsis: Set in the world of the 2018 groundbreaking film "Love, Simon," which was inspired by Becky Albertalli's acclaimed novel, "Simon...
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Synopsis: Based on Sally Rooney's New York Times best-selling novel, Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne and...
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Synopsis: A corrupt and brutal L.A. detective runs an elite squad by his own rules in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs...
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Synopsis: An animated comedy spanning time and place to follow the misadventures of suave spy Sterling Archer and his misguided cohorts...
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Synopsis: A much-loved TV star faces an accusation of historical sexual offenses in this drama series....
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Synopsis: This Way Up is a comedy about moving on, moving forward and trying to find happiness. Aine, played by writer...
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Synopsis: A janitor is called upon to save humanity from alien invaders....
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Synopsis: A legal thriller centering on a take-no-prisoners Manhattan litigator who specializes in corporate-malfeasance cases....
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Synopsis: Legion follows the story of David Haller, a troubled young man who may be more than human. Since he was...
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Synopsis: A not-particularly-responsible ex-cop runs an unlicensed detective agency with his best friend, who's not particularly responsible, either....
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Synopsis: Looking For Alaska is an 8-episode limited series based on the John Green novel of the same name. It centers...
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Synopsis: Chip Baskets has always dreamed of being a classically trained clown. After flunking out of French clown college, he returns...
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Synopsis: A bachelor and his divorced sister raise a teenager together and support each other through the trials of the dating...
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Synopsis: An anthology series inspired by the 1996 Coen brothers film. The first season follows a drifter who brings trouble to...
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Synopsis: Sarah Silverman discusses her views on the current emotional state of the country....
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Synopsis: A crass comedian struggles to seek legitimacy in his life and career....
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Synopsis: Following a naive twentysomething's unrelenting quest for love....
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Synopsis: Four egocentric friends run a bar together in Philadelphia and love to revel in each other's misery....
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Synopsis: In Mr Inbetween, Scott Ryan plays "Ray Shoesmith," a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in...
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Synopsis: Two well-meaning coworkers become entangled in a criminal conspiracy when one of them answers a phone that was left behind...
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Synopsis: A look at love and happiness through the eyes of two people who haven't been successful with either one....
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Synopsis: This comedy series zeros in on two irreverent, people-hating best friends in New York City....
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Synopsis: Mrs. America tells the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led...
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Synopsis: A drama that centers on a brothel owner in 18th-century London as she struggles to raise her daughters while battling...
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Synopsis: Ramy Hassan is a first generation Egyptian-American who is on a spiritual journey in his politically-divided New Jersey neighborhood. RAMY...
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Synopsis: Two 13-year-old middle-school friends deal with the awkwardness of adolescence in 2000....
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Synopsis: Set in New York City, What We Do in the Shadows follows three vampires who have been roommates for hundreds...
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Synopsis: Two cousins try to work their way up through the Atlanta rap scene....
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Synopsis: Sam Fox, a single mom and working actor with no filter, raises her three daughters and cares for her aging...
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Synopsis: A maverick U.S marshal enforces the law his way in his Kentucky hometown....
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