Skip to main content

Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Why trust us?

This is the single best TV show to watch on Hulu in September

Four main teenage characters from Reservation Dogs walking down the street.
Hulu

Picking a great TV show is often a matter of just pulling something out of a hat. Sometimes, you get something great, but more often than not, what you’re watching isn’t really what you were looking for. If you’re finding that you spend hours scrolling through Hulu looking for something great to watch, we have the show for you. While the streamer has plenty of outstanding shows, there is one series that sits above the rest as the best original series that Hulu has to offer, and that show is Reservation Dogs.

The show follows a group of Indigenous teenagers as they navigate their lives together in rural Oklahoma. Iit’s equal parts comedy and drama, with a heavy dose of surrealism thrown into the mix as well. Here are three reasons why this show is absolutely worth your time.

It’s grounded in a perspective that is still rare on TV

Reservation Dogs (FX on Hulu) Trailer HD - Taika Waititi comedy series

One of the huge benefits of Peak TV has been the chance to see shows from perspectives that were previously almost entirely relegated to the background. Reservation Dogs is one of the best examples of this trend, as it’s grounded entirely in the lives of its central characters, which means that it’s also a revelatory look into what it’s like to live on a reservation in the 21st century.

There’s plenty of poverty without it ever feeling like overkill, and plenty of reminders of the generational traumas that have been forced on Indigenous people across the country. Those perspectives can make the show heavy at times, but it knows exactly how to strike the right balance between its various tones.

It features a stellar cast of young talent

Four kids from Reservation Dogs, walking in suits.
Shane Brown / FX / FX on Hulu

You may not know who the central actors are on Reservation Dogs yet, but we can only hope that you’ll become familiar with them as their careers explode in the years ahead. Although they’re playing teenagers, these actors are giving some of the most sophisticated performances on TV. There’s real hurt behind what drives these characters, but the performances also suggest the deep friendship them had ben established long before we met them.

Reservation Dogs is unafraid of varying its approach to the stories it tells, but the cast keeps everything firmly grounded in the emotions of these central characters, even when things start to feel a little outlandish or strange.

It’s one of the boldest shows on TV

The kids from Reservation Dogs sneaking around a corner.
FX on Hulu

Reservation Dogs is fairly lightly serialized, which means that every episode has the chance to veer in directions that are exciting and unexpected. While there have occasionally been some missteps, for the most part, that creative freedom has allowed the show to contain a wide array of situations that reflect the experiences of its characters. Few shows are as daring as this one often is, but every experiment feels like it’s done with real purpose and to add meaning.

Reservation Dogs is one of the best shows not just on Hulu, but on TV more generally, and that’s in large part because it has the confidence to go wherever its story and characters lead it.

Watch Reservation Dogs on Hulu today.

Editors' Recommendations

Joe Allen
Joe Allen is a freelance writer based in upstate New York focused on movies and TV.
The 10 most popular shows on Max right now
The cast of Gangs of London.

For the second week in a row, the Max original animated series, Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake, is on top of the ten most popular shows on Max. And while Harley Quinn and Hard Knocks have fallen out of the top ten, most of this list remains intact from the previous week. As before, the AMC+ shows on loan to Max are outperforming most of the other series on Max. Now that Gangs of New York has earned a place on the list, it has become the fifth AMC+ series to do so. The other four are Killing Eve, Fear the Walking Dead, Interview with the Vampire, and A Discovery of Witches. This makes us wonder what this list will look like at the end of October when all of these shows return to AMC+.

It's also worth noting that this week's No. 2 show, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is still performing well less than a week after its abrupt cancellation. If Winning Time has this kind of sustained popularity then perhaps it was a mistake for HBO to pass on a renewal. We'll see how the show performs next week with no more new episodes. But for today, September 22, these are the 10 most popular shows on Max right now.

Read more
The best movies on Amazon Prime Video (September 2023)
Michael Peña as José in a spacesuit walking down a hall in the movie A Million Miles Away.

There are some surprising additions to the best movies on Amazon Prime Video this month. We expected newly arrived Warner Bros. movies like Elvis and The Batman to dominate Prime Video's streaming charts, but the top film of the week is the inspirational Prime Video original A Million Miles Away, and the little-seen drama A Thousand and One has also marched up the charts. That's in addition to last week's sleeper film, Inside, a thriller that stars Willem Dafoe as an art thief who is stuck after a heist gone wrong.

Prime Video adds a number of new and classic titles throughout the month, and it's not always easy to tell where the latest additions are because of Amazon's clunky interface. Thankfully, we've made it our mission to stay on top of Prime Video's lineup with our weekly update of the best movies on Amazon Prime Video.

Read more
The 50 best shows on Netflix in September 2023
The cast of Sex Education.

Not every Netflix original series gets to go out on its own terms, but the hit comedy Sex Education is coming to a proper end this week with the release of the fourth and final season. That's why we're welcoming it back to our roundup of the best shows on Netflix. And it shouldn't be too long before Sex Education is once again one of the 10 most popular shows on Netflix.

This week's other new addition is the fifth season of New Amsterdam, a medical drama that has now come to its conclusion. That makes it the perfect binge-watch after the summer of Suits, as new fans will have a lot of episodes to enjoy.

Read more