9 one-season wonders you can start and finish this holiday weekend

Bingeing TV is a full-time job (we speak from experience here). There's far too many shows, seasons, episodes, platforms – you get it.

But on a long holiday weekend, we count our bingeable TV blessings. Some people feel guilty spending a long weekend on a couch, but we find a real sense of pride and accomplishment from crawling into work on Tuesday having finished an entire show.

To help with this simple goal, here are some TV gems that only made it to one season – which means you can start and finish them this weekend.

The Get Down

The Get Down is one of Netflix’s short-lived treasures; a true well of lost potential in its brevity. The Baz Luhrmann-created (and partially directed) musical epic chronicled the last days of disco and the rise of rap through the lives of several teenagers growing up in the Bronx at the end of the '70s, and the costumes, music, and casting were clearly too good for this world to support. There are only 11 episodes and they’re all a blast (the first one is peak Baz Luhrmann).

Where to watch: Netflix

Political Animals

This tragically short-lived USA miniseries about a former Secretary of State aspiring to the Presidency still stings and feels a little close to home, but it's worth a watch for Sigourney Weaver's powerhouse performance and a D.C. caught between House of Cards' morbidity and West Wing idealism. Carla Gugino plays this version's unethical journalist and the white wolf himself, Sebastian Stan, plays Weaver's son who struggled growing up in the public eye.

Where to watch: Amazon Video

Selfie

Perhaps the premise of Pygmalion in the digital age was off-putting to casual viewers in 2014, but four years later, in the throes of the apocalypse, we can't deny its genius or indeed, its charm. Karen Gillan and John Cho are nothing short of irresistible, and we will keep watching and rewatching this until this love story gets an ending.

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Firefly

A show shouldn't need more than the phrase "space cowboy" in its log line to hook you, but that was inexplicably not enough to sustain Firefly. The cheeky Star Trek-esque space caper has one thing so many shows lack, which is dashing scalawag Nathan Fillion leading the Serenity's endearing band of misfits.

Where to watch: Hulu

Kings

If you thought this list had enough Sebastian Stan, you were incorrect! Kings is a war drama with a biblical twist – if you're into that sort of thing! Not a lot of people were, given the unique crossover, and the 12-episode series died not with a bang but with a sputter. We have a feeling it would thrive in 2018.

Where to watch: Amazon Video

Bunheads

If you're in that post-Younger, already-blew-through-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel slump, you can't possibly skip out on Bunheads. Not only does it have Sutton Foster as a former Vegas showgirl, but it's got Emily Gilmore herself and that signature Amy Sherman-Palladino pizzazz. Can we revive this show already??

Where to watch: Hulu

Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown is still streaming and thriving on Netflix, but this adaptation of his best-selling memoir starring Bradley Cooper is worth a watch as well. Beyond the food porn of cooking shows and travel diaries is a seedy underbelly to the culinary industry – the dark political take on food and cooking that you didn't know you needed.

Where to watch: Hulu

The Grinder

FOX's meta-comedy about a TV star who decides to become a lawyer was far too smart and funny for its time, or maybe even for this one. Still, you can catch all 22 episodes streaming in perpetuity. Rob Lowe's performance is one of his best, juxtaposed brilliantly with Fred Savage as the Grinder's tetchy younger brother.

Where to watch: Hulu

Crashing

We could write a whole essay about that – in fact, we did.

Where to watch: Netflix