Best of Netflix/Hulu Summer 2015
by Britneylsmall | created - 27 Aug 2015 | updated - 28 Oct 2015 | PublicSummer Sitcom Sizzle list 2015 - A retroactive tasting menu for the summer season.
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1. Playing House (2014–2017)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Childhood best friends Maggie Caruso and Emma Crawford have shared countless adventures growing up together. Now, Maggie and Emma are in store for one of their biggest adventures - raising a baby.
Stars: Lennon Parham, Jessica St. Clair, Keegan-Michael Key, Brad Morris
Votes: 3,062
If you remember BFF (Best Friend Forever) from NBC's 2012 lineup, you'll praise the heaven's for this new resurrected concept over at USA. In its second, the show is trucking along with nice following and hefty social support. I'm thinking it'll stick around this time!
2. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
Follows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981.
Stars: Marguerite Moreau, Zak Orth, Paul Rudd, Michael Showalter
Votes: 25,202
For those of us in the Cult of WHAS, this was all that we could wait for this summer. Personally, I loved everything minute of the miniseries and not a reference was lost on me. Thank you, yet again, Netflix.
3. Grace and Frankie (2015–2022)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
Finding out that their husbands are not just work partners, but have also been romantically involved for the last twenty years, two women with an already strained relationship try to cope with the circumstances together.
Stars: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen
Votes: 57,016
Speaking of Netflix, I can't help but love Jane Fonda + Lily Tomlin, so loving this was all but given. An interesting take on the changes in two marriages/families with business partners reveal they've been love for years- Hilarious and tragic, I'm in.
4. Welcome to Sweden (2014–2015)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
New York City accountant Bruce moves to Sweden in Northern Europe, after falling in love with a Swedish woman.
Stars: Greg Poehler, Josephine Bornebusch, Lena Olin, Christopher Wagelin
Votes: 5,758
Amy Poehler, nuff said? Ok, well also the show is in partially in Sweden, with sweet cameos from Aubrey Plaza, Will Ferrell, and Amy Poehler. I won't spoil it for you, but the good, funny, and refreshing.
5. Resident Advisors (2015)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy
Enter the dorm scene's pseudo-managers -- the resident advisors.
Stars: Jamie Chung, Daryl Sabara, Ryan Hansen, Romy Rosemont
Votes: 866
An interesting take on a familiar premise. A cast of 20 and 30-somethings doing that things that we do. I’d liken it to Community, just in the dorms with a few lesser known yet still beloved faces.
6. The Jim Gaffigan Show (2015–2016)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
Comedy about a husband and wife trying to raise their five kids in a New York City two-bedroom apartment.
Stars: Jim Gaffigan, Ashley Williams, Michael Ian Black, Caitlin Moeller
Votes: 2,803
7. Inside Amy Schumer (2013–2022)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
Amy Schumer switches from sketches to doing stand-up to interviewing people on the street and people of interest, usually following a certain theme.
Stars: Amy Schumer, Kevin Kane, Kyle Dunnigan, Kim Caramele
Votes: 13,801
8. Another Period (2013–2018)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, History
A mockumentary-style period piece comedy that follows members of the wealthy Bellacourt family and their servants in early 20th-century Newport, Rhode Island.
Stars: Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome, Armen Weitzman, Michael Ian Black
Votes: 5,445
9. The Spoils Before Dying (2015)
132 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Fictional author and filmmaker, Eric Jonrosh, adapts his epic tale of a pianist-turned-detective investigating a murder in the 1950s underground jazz scene.
Stars: Michael Kenneth Williams, Kristen Wiig, Bérénice Marlohe, Will Ferrell
Votes: 1,059
10. Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019)
TV-MA | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting drug money, ordinarily law-abiding Piper Chapman is sentenced to 18 months behind bars and quickly discovers the realities of life-changing prison time.
Stars: Taylor Schilling, Danielle Brooks, Taryn Manning, Emma Myles
Votes: 320,085
11. Clipped (2015)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
A group of people who all went to high school together but ran in very different crowds now find themselves working together at a barbershop in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
Stars: Mike Castle, Ashley Tisdale, Lauren Lapkus, Ryan Pinkston
Votes: 1,351
12. Kevin from Work (2015)
21 min | Comedy
Workplace comedy about a young man who announces his love to a co-worker just before accepting another job, only to find out that his offer has been rescinded and he's stuck with his crush.
Stars: Noah Reid, Paige Spara, Jordan Danger, Matt Murray
Votes: 1,777
13. Difficult People (2015–2017)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
Julie and Billy, two jaded aspiring comedians who live together in New York City, navigate through their thirties while dealing with their individual careers and personal relationships.
Stars: Julie Klausner, Billy Eichner, James Urbaniak, Andrea Martin
Votes: 4,581
14. The Comedians (2015)
22 min | Comedy
A veteran comedian is reluctantly paired with a younger, edgier comedian for a late-night comedy sketch show.
Stars: Billy Crystal, Josh Gad, Stephnie Weir, Matt Oberg
Votes: 1,988
15. Miranda (2009–2015)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
Socially inept Miranda always gets into awkward situations; working in her joke shop with best friend Stevie, being hounded by her pushy mother, and around her crush Gary.
Stars: Miranda Hart, Patricia Hodge, Tom Ellis, Sarah Hadland
Votes: 17,138
16. Party Down (2009– )
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of actors move to Los Angeles to make it big, but end up working as caterers.
Stars: Adam Scott, Ken Marino, Ryan Hansen, Martin Starr
Votes: 37,134
17. Melissa & Joey (2010–2015)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Romance
After a family scandal leaves Mel, a local politician, in charge of her niece and nephew, she hires a man named Joe to become the family's male nanny, or "manny."
Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Joey Lawrence, Taylor Spreitler, Nick Robinson
Votes: 19,752
18. The State (1993–2009)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
Each episode contains 30 minutes of extremely bizarre and funny sketch comedy performed by THE STATE, an 11 member sketch comedy troupe who wrote and starred in various sketches seen throughout the program.
Stars: Kevin Allison, Michael Ian Black, Robert Ben Garant, Todd Holoubek
Votes: 3,032
19. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy
A woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and starts life over again in New York City.
Stars: Ellie Kemper, Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess, Carol Kane
Votes: 78,688
20. Portlandia (2011–2018)
TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy
A sketch-comedy series that parodies life in Portland, Oregon.
Stars: Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Adams
Votes: 23,076
21. Veep (2012–2019)
TV-MA | 28 min | Comedy
Former Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.
Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott
Votes: 63,471
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