When Hulu first launched its service, it was simply a place to catch up on all your cable TV needs (opens in new tab). Since then, however, Hulu has transformed itself into a veritable heavyweight in the so-called streaming wars, responsible for such original hits as The Handmaid's Tale and Little Fires Everywhere (opens in new tab) and the documentary Minding the Gap, for which he was nominated for a 2019 Academy Award, and is now the exclusive distributor of countless Bingeworth favorites. And it remains the place to be for cable cutters looking for a way to catch up with "Saturday Night Live" and "The Masked Diva." [Hulu will also be offering, in the next few months alone, a film adaptation of Sally Rooney's "Normal People" (you know, the book with the blue and green cover that you couldn't see on Instagram for most of 2019) and a satirical look at the process of Catherine the Great's rise to power, starring Elle Fanning. (The Great), a satirical portrayal of the process of Yekaterina the Great's rise to power, starring Elle Fanning.

In short, Hulu is full of gems, some hidden and some aggressively marketed on its landing pages, from empowering originals like "Shrill" and "PEN15" to "Killing Eve" (opens in new tab) and high-octane dramas like "Veronica Mars," to cult favorites like the comedies "30 Rock" and "Letterkenny," Hulu's best TV series for viewers of all tastes.

Starring Zoe Kravitz, Kingsley Ben-Adil, David H. Holmes, Davine Joy Randolph, and Jake Lacy

This gender-swapped remake of the John Cusack classic is exactly what the year 2000 needs in a romantic comedy! Zoe Kravitz plays the gruff, idiosyncratic, and slightly pretentious Rob. In the show's first season, she overanalyzes her "five biggest heartbreaks" and tries to figure out exactly what's wrong with her. It's hilarious, heartbreaking, and backed by a killer soundtrack.

Starring Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strahovski, Alexis Bledel, Ann Dowd, Samira Wiley

If you've been hiding under a rock the last few years and want to catch up on the state of pop culture and American society all in one show We've got you covered (kidding... (sort of). It may be a little too realistic for long viewing, but in small doses, it's a dark, impeccably cast drama about women being freed from the restrictive roles imposed on them by the patriarchy. Just be sure to take plenty of breaks before you notice too many parallels between Gilead and the real world.

Starring Jodie Comer, Sandra Oh, Fiona Shaw, Darren Boyd, Owen McDonnell, Kirby Howell-Baptiste

A psychopathic, high-fashion world-traveling female assassin obsessed with the MI6 agent who hunts her down. Thriller comedy. Come to see Villanelle's coveted closet (minus the crocs she was made to wear in Season 2) and stay for the disturbing moment when assassin and government official run off together and start rooting for them to live happily ever after.

Starring Jared Keyso, Nathan Dales, Michelle Mylett, and K. Trevor Wilson

This quirky sitcom about life in rural Canada has developed a cult following in recent years. It may not be for everyone, and it may take a couple of episodes to get used to Letterkenny's particularly bawdy humor, but if you're looking for an oddball comedy to fill a "Shits Creek" (open in new tab) size hole in your heart, this may be your best bet.

Starring Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni, Percy Daggs III, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra, Ryan Hansen

A 16-year-old girl decides to take over for her former police chief father to investigate the unsolved murder of her best friend. What could possibly go wrong?" Watch Kristen Bell's baby girl become Nancy Drew as she solves a number of difficult cases (and in increasingly embarrassing mid-aughts fashion) from the get-go... Crowd-funded in 2014, the movie "Veronica Mars." Veronica Mars," but you'll also be sucked into a fandom so passionate that it brought the show back to Hulu last year as a reboot in just a few episodes (opens in a new tab). Marshmallow Unity

Starring Lindy West and based on her memoir of the same name, the show is a heartwarming, laugh-out-loud story of a woman who discovers that her confidence and worth come from within, not from those around her. I would love to see more shows like Aidy Bryant, Shrill, and Women Empowering Ourselves.

Starring Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jane Krakowski, Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer, Scott Adsit, Judah Friedlander

My favorite of NBC's golden trio of workplace comedies, who I know: The Office, Parks and Rec, and 30 Rock. This outlandish show about truly lovable weirdos may be the most overlooked of the three, but that doesn't change the fact that it's hilarious, endlessly quotable, and yes, weird (in the best possible way).

Starring Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle

We can all agree that middle school was the worst time of our lives, and this show, in which two 30-year-olds play semi-fictional 13-year-old selves mixed with real 13-year-olds, captures all the awkwardness and earnestness of early adolescence It captures all the awkwardness and poignancy of early adolescence. It will make you laugh, cry, and cringe to the point that your body aches.

Starring Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Nico Tortorella, Peter Herman, Debi Mazar, Miriam Schorr

Sure, a reboot of "Lizzie McGuire" (open in new tab) about the life of 30-year-old Lizzie is in production at Disney+. was, but true "Young" fans know that they have basically been watching a grown-up Lizzie named Kelsey, played by Hilary Duff, take the N.Y.C. publishing world by storm for the past six seasons on this TV Land series. Her glamorous yet familiar storyline is just one of many that make "Younger" feel like a never-ending romantic comedy, with its love triangles, quirky sidekicks, and wacky schemes involving a 40-year-old woman pretending to be 26 for an impossibly long time.

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington, Joshua Jackson, Rosemarie DeWitt, and Lexi Underwood

Reese Witherspoon has turned every book she sees people reading on public transportation into a hit show or movie. She has an uncanny and precise talent for turning them into hit shows and movies. And she's done it again, folks, and if you missed all the hype for 2017's Little Fires Everywhere (opens in a new tab), catch up on it first, then watch Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in two dramatically intertwined lives in Witherspoon and Kerry Washington play the patriarchs of two families whose lives are dramatically intertwined in this miniseries.

Starring Patricia Arquette, Joey King, AnnaSophia Robb, Chloe Sevigny, Callum Worthy

Remember this story that hit the Internet a few years ago about a young woman who teamed up with a man she met online to murder her mother? The mother left her daughter ill, now believed to have had Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. Patricia Arquette and Joey King play the mother and daughter, Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard, respectively, to eerie perfection.

Starring Rami Youssef, Mohammed Amer, Hiam Abbas, Dave Merheje, Amr Waqed, and May Karamawi

Many shows and films still play on Islamophobic beliefs and stereotypes, but not Rami. As a Muslim twenty-something tries to figure out how to balance her family's expectations with her upbringing as an American millennial, the series is a refreshingly nuanced look at the universal struggle of forging one's own path while still respecting one's roots and culture.

Starring Ilana Glaser and Abby Jacobson

Don't cry when it's over, laugh until your face hurts from Abby and Ilana's antics. Seriously, if you try to find another show that not only portrays female friendship so accurately, but also how these friends get trapped in a hole in Central Park, befriend an upset Kelly Ripa, and start a female-centric WeWork on a trashy street corner, you You won't. But thanks to the magic of streaming, you don't have to say goodbye to Broad City.

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