Inspiring (Shows), a list by Mulanzo1

7.1

/5459/

67

/338/

67

/46/

50

/18/

85

43

/13/

age 14+

An ensemble workplace comedy about a group of underdogs trying to find their place in the world, set on the Friday night flight from LAX to Vegas and the returning flight on Sunday, who all share the same goal: to come back a winner in the casino of life.

81

80

7.3

/5858/

72

/420/

79

/494/

100

/68/

76

87

/21/

age 10+

In this contemporary take on the beloved book series, five best friends launch a baby-sitting business that's big on fun and adventure.

88

8.4

/23698/

83

/1297/

84

/444/

100

/13/

91

age 7+

Zim dreams of greatness. Unfortunately, though, he's hopelessly inept as a space invader. Desperate to be rid of the annoying Zim, his planet's leaders send him on a mission to infiltrate Earth, providing him with leftover, cobbled-together equipment. To their consternation, Zim succeeds in setting up a base on Earth and infiltrating human culture, posing as a human child as he plots the planet's downfall. Only Zim's archnemesis, Dib, recognizes that Zim is an alien, and of course, nobody believes Dib's claims.

65

6.5

/13234/

67

/868/

65

/150/

68

/24/

79

47

/13/

age 14+

Riley Parks delicately balances two starkly different lives -- one as a single mom in a conservative town struggling to provide for her family and the other as a savvy and ambitious businesswoman working with a rowdy, sexy and unpredictable group of women.

77

7.6

/44606/

78

/2073/

77

/891/

age 11+

He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.

75

7.0

/63683/

69

/2774/

74

/944/

93

/56/

72

72

/21/

age 16+

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

89

8.7

/185322/

87

/14844/

82

/1697/

95

/90/

94

age 14+

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

75

7.4

/82325/

71

/3862/

63

/415/

89

/202/

76

80

/113/

age 18+

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

83

8.5

/276664/

85

/21488/

84

/3582/

89

/119/

86

72

/58/

age 14+

The adventures of a late-20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J. Fry, who, after being unwittingly cryogenically frozen for one thousand years, finds employment at Planet Express, an interplanetary delivery company in the retro-futuristic 31st century.

69

62

7.2

/9135/

70

/247/

65

/63/

age 10+

The Bernie Mac Show is an American sitcom that aired on Fox for five seasons from November 14, 2001 to April 14, 2006. The series featured comic actor Bernie Mac and his wife Wanda raising his sister's three kids: Jordan, Bryana, and Vanessa.

86

8.5

/20115/

85

/1909/

80

/211/

100

/17/

94

77

/10/

age 14+

A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.

71

61

7.1

/8866/

73

/197/

70

/69/

age 12+

A Different World is a spin-off series from The Cosby Show and originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional mixed but historically black college in the state of Virginia. After Bonet's departure in the first season, the remainder of the series primarily focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and mathematics whiz Dwayne Wayne. The series frequently depicted members of the major historically black fraternities and sororities.

79

7.7

/37515/

75

/3365/

72

/418/

96

/130/

82

75

/29/

age 15+

Meet the team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. But in a workplace focused on building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legends, the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game—they happen in the office.

70

7.5

/18902/

73

/903/

78

/308/

59

/17/

90

47

/5/

age 16+

A figure skating Olympic hopeful struggles to balance love, family and fragile mental health as her dream of winning takes a dizzying hold.

66

65

6.3

/8956/

67

/333/

66

/62/

Letterboxd

3.7

/4675/

79

/39/

45

71

/18/

RogerEbert

3.0

age 14+

The life of athlete Colin Kaepernick and his adoptive parents as they navigate the challenges of raising a black son in a white family and community.

83

8.0

/200443/

78

/8804/

85

/2083/

95

/406/

89

77

/138/

age 14+

Three strangers share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one.

68

6.8

/23653/

66

/1714/

72

/382/

age 16+

An eager young rookie joins the ragtag small-town police force led by his dad as they bumble, squabble and snort their way through a big drug case.

68

7.4

/114018/

73

/7225/

71

/1070/

71

/82/

53

71

/39/

age 14+

Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

76

7.6

/25863/

74

/662/

70

/251/

Letterboxd

3.9

/10101/

81

/58/

89

69

/28/

age 17+

Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a man, all the while trying to earn her spoiled, narcissistic daughter's love and respect.

65

49

5.9

/4480/

66

/110/

70

/41/

age 14+

The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.

73

66

7.5

/11731/

74

/248/

72

/117/

age 11+

Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from working-class Queens to a ritzy Manhattan apartment. A spin-off of All in the Family.

74

7.2

/35417/

75

/1267/

75

/538/

age 7+

If there's danger or trouble, Kim Possible is there on the double to save the world from villains... and still make it home in time for cheerleading practice! Luckily, Kim has her sidekick Ron Stoppable and his pet naked mole-rat Rufus by her side.

74

8.3

/12977/

76

/587/

81

/286/

58

/6/

age 17+

In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.

78

7.8

/49008/

76

/3124/

80

/2622/

88

/55/

84

65

/18/

age 14+

After years of facing megalomaniacal supervillains, monsters wreaking havoc on Metropolis, and alien invaders intent on wiping out the human race, The Man of Steel aka Clark Kent and Lois Lane come face to face with one of their greatest challenges ever: dealing with all the stress, pressures and complexities that come with being working parents in today's society.

76

74

7.3

/5615/

70

/368/

62

/39/

95

/32/

81

78

/10/

age 15+

Craig Foster, a Miami bank security guard, enters a state-sponsored snake-hunting contest to achieve his American dream of becoming a successful entrepreneur.

78

8.2

/24432/

80

/1496/

72

/184/

81

/93/

89

69

/31/

age 15+

In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.

NEW

74

73

7.5

/10785/

69

/407/

76

/65/

80

/15/

81

64

/6/

age 14+

Set in the world of competitive gymnastics, the series follows a group of teen Olympic hopefuls as they train for their day in the spotlight.

70

62

7.3

/12180/

69

/231/

69

/125/

Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.

74

7.5

/175536/

76

/8698/

74

/1347/

78

/115/

76

70

/42/

age 15+

Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

75

7.5

/17473/

75

/1102/

77

/233/

76

/11/

age 8+

Peter Parker is on his way to becoming a hero, but his path to get there is anything but ordinary.

70

6.6

/7191/

67

/514/

78

/159/

71

/15/

age 14+

Zoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest.

58

5.7

/8895/

62

/928/

63

/149/

50

/14/

69

50

/9/

age 14+

100 years in the future, planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.

83

8.5

/45524/

83

/2592/

83

/697/

92

/86/

93

63

/50/

age 17+

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

77

7.3

/8262/

73

/570/

60

/56/

97

/95/

82

80

/41/

age 13+

When a one-hit-wonder girl group from the '90s gets sampled by a young rapper, its members reunite to give their pop star dreams one more shot. They may be grown women balancing spouses, kids, jobs, debt, aging parents and shoulder pain, but can't they also be Girls5Eva?

77

74

7.5

/6584/

73

/329/

67

/37/

93

/31/

89

66

/9/

age 15+

Black, plus-size and newly single, Mavis unexpectedly finds herself having to rebuild her life after putting all her eggs in one man's basket, but she's determined to not only survive but thrive with the support of her chosen family.

68

6.2

/134054/

68

/9266/

72

/4315/

88

/132/

47

75

/38/

age 14+

Twenty-four-year-old Kara Zor-El, who was taken in by the Danvers family when she was 13 after being sent away from Krypton, must learn to embrace her powers after previously hiding them. The Danvers teach her to be careful with her powers, until she has to reveal them during an unexpected disaster, setting her on her journey of heroism.

86

8.4

/13749/

82

/889/

84

/617/

93

/29/

98

77

/7/

age 8+

Teenage Julie finds her passion for music and life while helping the Phantoms -- a trio of ghostly guys -- become the band they were never able to be.

72

7.8

/29137/

78

/2199/

69

/325/

66

/32/

age 14+

After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and smart, driving international diplomacy, wrangling office politics, and circumventing protocol as she negotiates global and domestic issues, both at the White House and at home.

73

7.0

/31501/

77

/1505/

74

/512/

age 13+

Michael Kyle is a loving husband and modern-day patriarch who rules his household with a unique and distinct parenting style. As he teaches his three children some of life's lessons, he does so with his own brand of humor.

86

8.5

/647938/

83

/24965/

84

/5235/

Letterboxd

4.2

/997696/

96

/104/

94

79

/28/

RogerEbert

3.5

age 15+

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

78

IMDb 84

7.8

/58387/

76

/3522/

75

/290/

86

/70/

84