With cord-cutting at an all time high and still rising more and more Networks and streaming services like Netflix are creating original content, these shows have become part of the main reason people cut the cord. Being able to binge watch a complete show or mini series is something the cable and satellite companies can’t offer. Below is a list of the top trending popluar Tv shows and mini series for May 2019.
How to Watch Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones premiered on HBO in 2011 and is an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a fantasy series of novels by George R. R. Martin. Set in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and the continent of Essos.
The series chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among the realm’s noble families for the Iron Throne, while other families fight for independence from it. It opens with additional threats in the icy North and Essos in the east. G.O.T. has become one of the most popular fantasy shows of this time. It is only available on HBO.
You can watch G.O.T. on HBO’s standalone service, through other streaming platforms that offer HBO or purchase one episode at a time through services like Vudu and Prime.
How to Watch Barry
Barry is a dark drama starring Bill Hader. It is another HBO original series first airing in 2018. The show follows Barry Berkman a former United States Marine who works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest.
Lonely and dissatisfied in his life, he travels to Los Angeles to kill someone and ends up finding an accepting community in a group of eager hopefuls within the L.A. theater scene.
Barry can be watch through HBO’s standalone service, through third party HBO service providers or you can purchase one episode at a time from services like Vudu or Prime Video.
How to watch Lucifer
Lucifer is an urban-fantasy-dark-comedy first airing in 2016 on Fox. After its third season Fox decided to cancel the series stating it was a “ratings based decision”. But soon after it was picked up by Netflix in 2018 with the fourth season being released in 2019.
The series focuses on Lucifer Morningstar, the Devil, who is bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell. He resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for Los Angeles, where he ends up running his nightclub “Lux”. He becomes involved in a murder case with Detective Chloe Decker, and is subsequently invited to be a consultant to the LAPD.
Lucifer can be watched on Netflix or you can purchase episodes from third party streaming services such as Vudu or Prime Video.
How to watch Stranger Things
Stranger Things is a science fiction-horror Netflix original series first airing in 2016. The series was hit hit right out the gate. Stranger Things is set in the fictional rural town of Hawkins, Indiana, during the early 1980s. The nearby Hawkins National Laboratory ostensibly performs scientific research for the United States Department of Energy, but secretly does experiments into the paranormal and supernatural, including those that involve human test subjects. Inadvertently, they have created a portal to an alternate dimension called “the Upside Down”. The influence of the Upside Down starts to affect the unknowing residents of Hawkins in calamitous ways.
The series is only available on Netflix.
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