THE WIFE Holiday Guide: What to Binge Watch Over Break

For THE WIFE™ who finds herself on a 23 hour flight to Australia or on a stay-cation this holiday and in need of a lot of mindless entertainment; THE WIFE™ has compiled a list of our favorite TV shows. Series that are perfect for cozy nights in or to keep you occupied on long haul flights around the globe. Click “continue reading” to find out which TV shows are worth catching up on. -Taryn Cox for THE WIFE™

The Affair: The addicting new series is filled with twist and turns that leave you hooked! At once deeply observed and intriguingly elusive, The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher and novelist who is happily married, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of a tragedy. The provocative drama unfolds when Alison and Noah meet in Montauk. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives. Available on Showtime on Demand.

The Knick: Set in downtown New York in 1900, ‘The Knick’ is a new Cinemax drama series from Academy Award and Emmy-winning director Steven Soderbergh. It is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. Soderbergh directs all 10 episodes of the series’ first season. Beware if you have low tolerance for blood and gore. Available on Cinemax on Demand.

Girls: This WIFE™ Favorite is worth starting or catching up on before season 4 premieres just after the new year. Created by and starring Lena Dunham (“Tiny Furniture”), the show is a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their mid-20s. Dunham wrote and directed the pilot of the series, which she executive produces with Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner.  The cast also includes Jemima Kirke, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Adam Driver, Alex Karpovsky, Andrew Rannells and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Available on HBO on Demand

The Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce: Watch the first few episodes of Bravo’s first scripted series which follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband. She starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40’s in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from her divorced friends rather than her married ones and it leads her to some unexpected and life-changing experiences. Available on Bravo on Demand

How To Get Away with Murder: ABC’s breakout hit created by Shonda Rhimes centers around Annalise Keating (Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning actress Viola Davis)  a brilliant, charismatic and seductive professor of defense law, who teaches a class called How to Get Away With Murder. Unexpectedly, she and her students end up having to apply practical knowledge from the course when they become entangled in a murder plot that not only shakes the entire university to the core but also changes the course of each of their lives.

The Newsroom: Follow the final 6 episodes of The Newsroom. From the mind of Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and screenwriter of The Social Network and Moneyball, comes The Newsroom,  a behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor (played by Jeff Daniels), his new executive producer (Emily Mortimer), the newsroom staff (John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Olivia Munn, Dev Patel) and their boss (Sam Waterston), the series tracks their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles-not to mention their own personal entanglements. Available on HBO on Demand

House of Cards: Catch up on Season 2 of the first Netflix original series created by David Fincher. Ruthless and cunning, Congressman Francis Underwood (Oscar® winner Kevin Spacey) and his wife Claire (Robin Wright) stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex, and corruption in modern D.C. Available on Netflix

Shameless: Make sure you’re all caught up on Shameless before it returns this January. Oscar®-nominated William H. Macy and Emmy Rossum star in this fiercely engaging and fearlessly twisted series. Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be… perhaps better off. When Frank’s not at the bar spending what little money they have, he’s passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are. Available in Showtime on Demand