3 Hulu Shows You Should Binge This Weekend (October 17

Hulu is one of the biggest streaming services in the U.S., and now that it’s gone global, replacing the Star tile on Disney+ in international markets, more people are going to get the Hulu experience … and that means more folks than ever trying to decide what to watch.

Well, luckily, the weekend is upon us, and I’ve pulled together three excellent recommendations for Hulu shows to keep you entertained.

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Alien: Earth

I’d been on the edge of my seat waiting for this first season of Alien: Earth to be over, so I could add it to this list of bingeable weekend series. The FX show has emerged as one of my favorites of 2025, and as a fan of the broader Alien franchise, I loved how it not only delivers everything that makes it so iconic—dark, steamy hallways, oozing eggs, facehugging critters, stalking Xenomorphs, clever androids, and more—but brings the horror right here, to Earth.

Set in the year 2120, the eight-episode series sits in the franchise’s timeline between the later prequel films and the original Alien in 1979, when the planet is literally controlled by greedy corporations, all jockeying for power. When the deep-space vessel USCSS Maginot, carrying Xenomorph specimens and other deadly alien lifeforms, dramatically crashes to Earth, two opposing powerhouses go to war over them. At the center of it all is Wendy (the excellent Sydney Chandler), a hybrid humanoid, who somehow develops a bond with a young Xenomorph. Wendy and her fellow synthetic “Lost Boys” are all the property of the corporation Prodigy, but as they evolve, they learn they may have more in common with the captive alien, and the tides start shifting.

Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Justified) is wonderfully cold and calculated as the synthetic Kirsch, as is Babou Ceesay as the deadly android Morrow, who’ll stop at nothing to retrieve the specimens. With one of the best soundtracks of any TV series of recent memory, and some motion picture-worthy effects, there’s real emotional depth to the show, as well as some espically brutal attack scenes. With a 94% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes, you’ll crush through Alien: Earth in a weekend and won’t look back.

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Say Nothing

There’s a moment in an episode of Hulu’s Say Nothing that, as a father of a teenage girl, gave me the chills and really set the stage for the seriousness of the topic at hand—when veteran IRA member Albert Price (Stuart Graham), relaxing in his Belfast home while his two young daughters color away at the table, turns to them and says, “Have I told you girls how to make explosives?”

Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s nonfiction book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, this eight-part historical drama series takes place during the tumultuous decades of Irish history known as The Troubles, but centers around Albert’s girls, Dolours (played young and old by Lola Petticrew and Maxine Peake) and Marian (dually played by Hazel Doupe and Helen Beyhan), and their evolution from idealistic young women to notorious members of the Provisional IRA.

Told from both past and present points of view, Say Nothing has a cool, clandestine feel to many of its scenes, and you feel as though you’re hiding out with its key figures. Chief among them include the Price sisters, of course, but also IRA strategist Brendan Hughes (House of Guinness’ Anthony Boyle) and Gerry Adams (Josh Finan), who, as the series is obliged to disclaim after each episode, “has always denied being a member of the IRA or participating in any IRA-related violence.” But as the series proves, it’s not all cool, safehouse hangouts—bombs are planted, plots are set in motion, people are killed. And as we ride along among the chaos, through the Price sisters’ hunger strike during their London imprisonment and beyond, Say Nothing does a great job at transferring all that weight and circumstance to the viewer.

Say Nothing is an Emmy- and BAFTA-nominated series that still holds a 94% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Shrill

I loved Aidy Bryant on SNL, and I was sad when she departed after her tenth season in 2022 (along with Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson). Her quirky charm and laundry list of hilarious characters (Carrie Crum, 7th Grade Travel Expert, and Cardi B-doppelganger, Aidy B come to mind) made her of of my favorites of that era. Luckily, Bryant had no problems migrating her comedic chops over to Shrill, a character-driven Hulu comedy series co-created by Bryant and based on the popular Lindsey West memoir, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman.

In the Emmy-nominated show, Bryant leads as Annie Easton, a struggling journalist in Portland who is navigating life, love, and a perfection-obsessed world that marginalizes people based on their bodies. It’s the Aidy Bryant show, and I’m here for all her awkward, earnest, often cutting joke delivery, with some pretty great support from her costars—John Cameron Mitchell, who plays Anne’s editor/boss, Gabe, at the alternative weekly magazine where she works, and Lolly Adefope, who plays Annie’s fiercely loyal roommate, Fran.

Shrill had three great seasons on Hulu, and was widely praised by critics for its sharp wit, solid writing, and promotion of body positivity. You’ll rip through its half-hour episodes easily.

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Don’t count Hulu out just yet. While Disney does have plans to eventually drop the standalone Hulu app, it has yet to confirm a timeline for when that will happen. And even when it does, you’ll still find all of Hulu’s great TV shows rolled into the Disney+ app as well, and we’ll be here with all the suggestions for what to watch.