Binge It!
Celebrities are just like the rest of us — they also like to plop down in front of the TV (or mobile device), presumably with their favorite snacks, and binge-watch the best of what the small screen has to offer… or a good old-fashioned guilty pleasure, in some cases.
Ahead, see which shows your favorite stars can’t get enough of.
Sterling K. Brown | The Americans
“I just took down 75 episodes of The Americans. That show is off the chain,” This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown tells EW. “I knew Matthew Rhys was going to be in contention for [the Best Actor Emmy], and I said, ‘I’ve got to see it, and if he wins, I want to be able to authentically celebrate him.’ And my God if he didn’t blow me away, if he didn’t exceed expectations…. What a complicated and wonderful character to embody, this reluctant spy, a spy with a conscience. And the juxtaposition between him and his wife, Elizabeth [Keri Russell], and that they had to deal with each other and love each other from opposite sides of the humanity of what they were being asked to do…I was floored by it.”
The Americans is available on Amazon Prime Video.
Ilana Glazer | Westworld
“My husband made me binge-watch Westworld. It freaks me out,” Broad City co-creator and star Ilana Glazer admitted to EW on the Emmys gold carpet about the sci-fi thriller set at a high-tech, Wild West-themed amusement park. Run by Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins), it’s inhabited by android “hosts,” Evan Rachel Wood’s Dolores and Thandie Newton’s Maeve among them. Glazer eventually couldn’t get enough: “It’s so good and you’re in a world, but it trips me out. I was like, ‘Stop, for the ninth time, let us stop,’ but I plunged in and it was great.”
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Betty Gabriel | Barry
“Barry is very funny, but it’s got this dark thing to it,” says Get Out actress Betty Gabriel. “I like Bill Hader and Stephen Root — we didn’t work together, but he was also in Get Out. Henry Winkler is great as the acting teacher. Acting classes are just weird, and I think they encapsulate that reality so beautifully.”
Barry is available to stream on HBO NOW and HBO GO.
George R.R. Martin | Ozark
“It’s an amazing, amazing show,” Game of Thrones mastermind George R.R. Martin told EW on the Emmys gold carpet after taking in the second season of this Netflix crime drama starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney. “The characters are what it’s about, I think, in anything — the human heart in conflict with itself. So if a show has great characters, it’ll hook me every time. I want to know what becomes of them.” And if anyone knows how do to that, it’s Martin.
Ozark is available on Netflix.
Olivia Munn | The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
“My one guilty pleasure is all the Housewives. But I always find it funny when people get excited and say they want to meet them or they want to be friends with them,” says Olivia Munn. “I mean, there are a few of them that I think are amazing and epic — like, Erika Jayne seems like a really cool person, Yolanda [Hadid] seems really cool — but for the most part, the rest of them you watch and go, ‘Yeah, that’s how you don’t treat friends.’ [Laughs] It really seems like there are a lot of borderline personality disorders on these shows, you know?”
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is available to stream on Hulu.
Vicki Lawrence | It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
“Charlie Day is our executive producer [on The Cool Kids], and I didn’t know who he was,” admits Vicki Lawrence. A girlfriend said, ‘Oh my God, Always Sunny in Philadelphia is hysterical, this is going to be great!’ I’d never seen it, so I started binge-watching Charlie, and what I love about that show is they’re so ridiculous and silly. They make me laugh out loud, and I don’t feel like I laugh out loud at sitcoms very much anymore. The stuff that they get into, and the trouble they get into — they’re all adorable. So I’m hoping we’re going to be an older version of that, just getting into ridiculous situations where you as the audience go, ‘Well, this is not going to work.’”
The Cook Kids is available to stream on Hulu and Yahoo!.
Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks | Narcos
Rita Wilson says she and husband Tom Hanks binge-watched the first three seasons of this crime drama, which chronicles the illegal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar (Golden Globe nominee Wagner Moura). “It was just great performances, good writing, great direction,” Wilson gushes. “I love it.”
Narcos is available to stream on Netflix.
Freddie Highmore | Mum
Lesley Manville stars as a recently widowed woman trying to handle her crazy family. ”The way it sort of fuses comedy and laughter with an underlying sadness of the loss that she is dealing with is remarkable,” says The Good Doctor’s Freddie Highmore.
Mum is available to stream via Britbox.
Carrie Coon | Halt and Catch Fire
“It was a criminally underrated show,” says Fargo’s Carrie Coon. “Twisting that narrative around so that the women became the central story was extraordinary and compelling. Mackenzie Davis, Kerry Bishé, Scoot McNairy, and Lee Pace… their acting is exquisite.”
Halt and Catch Fire is available to stream on Netflix.
Abbi Jacobson | Succession
“I just binge-watched Succession,” Broad City co-creator and star Abbi Jacobson told EW on the Emmys gold carpet. “I had kinda watched it, and a friend was like, ‘Keep going!’ and I loved it. It’s all about greed, and you kinda hate them — you really do hate them — but it’s about the greediest, richest family in the country, which feels appropriate. It was really beautiful, very New York.”
Succession is available to stream on HBO NOW and HBO GO.
Chris Sullivan | The Handmaid’s Tale
Sure, it was an Outstanding Drama Series Emmy contender against his This Is Us, but Chris Sullivan couldn’t get enough of The Handmaid’s Tale. “You gotta rip it off like a Band-Aid, get it over with,” the actor says after binge-watching the dystopian drama’s season 2, which recently won two of the 17 Emmys it was nominated for. “I think it’s a very modern story about women’s rights and the role of women in our society. I thought it was very current, and Elisabeth Moss is probably one of the best actors working today.”
The Handmaid’s Tale is available on Hulu.
Alex Wolff | Rick and Morty
“Everyone should watch Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty is the best,” professes Hereditary star Alex Wolff. “I love Rick and Morty so goddamned much, especially the last season. The episode [‘Rest and Ricklaxation’] where they get their toxins removed and where there’s two personalities is literally the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.”
Rick and Morty is available to stream on Hulu.
Sara Bareilles | Castle Rock
Sounds like Sara Bareilles is a fan of horror and thrills. And now she’s singing a love song for this J.J. Abrams-produced series based on Stephen King’s works. “It’s so bizarre and suspenseful, and the cast is incredible,” she says of the show starring Sissy Spacek, Bill Skarsgård, André Holland, and more. “Each episode I keep coming away going, ‘What happened?!’ and it makes me wanna watch the next one.” For that, we call her… brave?
Castle Rock is available on Hulu.
Andy Cohen | Wild Wild Country
“I love docs,” says Bravo’s Andy Cohen. “I just can’t believe this unbelievably complex story was going on without any of us knowing.”
Wild Wild Country is available to stream on Netflix.
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