There’s a good chance that, if you’re in front of a screen this March, it’s going to be because you’re watching college basketball. But those student-athletes do, on occasion, have to take breaks to eat and sleep, and what are you supposed to do then? Read?!
If you’re cutting down on your expenses by cancelling ALMOST all your non-hoops streaming subscriptions, let us tell you the ONE you should keep for March: Hulu.
A quick note on our criteria: Since you may well pivot to different platforms each month, we prioritize series that you can watch in their entirety in the current month. And that just happens to be true of all Hulu’s original series premieres this month!
If you have a little extra cash from having fewer nights in February to go out, we also have a suggestion for a second streamer that’s worth the money in March; scroll down to see which and why.
Noteworthy Original Series
__History Of The World, Part II __(Mar 6)
In 1981, writer-director Mel Brooks released History Of The World, Part I, in which he retold significant historical events in the most ridiculous possible way. That film featured some of the most important comic actors of the day, including Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman, Shecky Greene, Madeline Kahn. Forty-odd years later, the Part II promised by the first movie’s title has arrived, as an eight-episode series rolling out on four consecutive days, miniseries-style. Many of the performers in Brooks’s original repertory company have left us, but apparently today’s biggest comedy stars have been eager to work with him: the cast includes Sam Richardson, Pamela Adlon, Jason Mantzoukas, Sarah Silverman, Kumail Nanjiani, Jennifer Lewis, and many more.
__UnPrisoned __(Mar 6)
As a TV star, Kerry Washington has primarily stuck to drama, following her six years on Scandal with the tense miniseries Little Fires Everywhere. Since then, though, she’s gotten a little goofier in fare like the musical comedy The Prom, a guest performance on The Simpsons. Now, she’s headlining her first sitcom. In a story loosely based on the real life of Tracy McMillan, the novelist who also created the series, Washington plays Paige, a single mother who must make room in her life for her father Edwin (Delroy Lindo), who’s just been released from serving a prison term.
__Up Here __(Mar 24)
Husband-and-wife songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have won Oscars, Grammys, and an Emmy (to date) for their work in Coco, Frozen, and WandaVision (so yes, if you’ve ever had to endure a six-year-old’s rendition of “Let It Go,” you have the Lopezes to blame). When they aren’t writing for the screen, they’re making stage musicals, like Up Here, which has now been adapted as a musical rom-com series. In 1999 New York, Lindsay (Mae Whitman) meets Miguel (Carlos Valdes), but can they quiet the doubts in their heads long enough to find love with each other?
Tara Ariano
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