I haven’t regularly watched a television show on television in at least five years. The same goes for most people I know. Everything I watch at home is through some streaming service, and I watch more television now than ever before because I can watch any show I want whenever I want.Here, we offer a list of some of the best things we’ve seen this year that are available to watch right now, this very instant, on a streaming service. Some of these picks will be obvious. Others you might not know about, or might have wanted to watch and forgotten about. Consider this a reminder. —Craig Hubert“Nathan for You” (Hulu)The premise of “Nathan for You,” which recently finished its third season on Comedy Central, is fairly simple: Nathan Fielder, who boasts in the opening credits about the “really good grades” he received in business school, reaches out to local businesses that are struggling and offers to help. The ideas are often terrible, sometimes questionably legal, and always hilarious. You may have heard of his “Dumb Starbucks” stunt from last year, but this season sees Fielder take on electronics megastore Best Buy, devise a way to allow smoking inside bars, and creates a real, but totally fabricated, workout craze based around never going to the gym. “Nathan for You” is the most consistently enjoyable thing on television. —Craig Hubert“Decker” (Adult Swim)To understand what “Decker” is you first need to understand the universe it comes from. “Decker” is the brainchild of Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, and is a spinoff of their other project, “On Cinema,” which started as a podcast, then became a “Siskel & Ebert”-style movie review show that aired on the YouTube channel Adult Swim. In that show, Heidecker and Turkington play versions of themselves, or at least characters who share their names. They often argue over pointless details in the films they review, and more often they’ve clearly not even seen the films they’re talking about. “Decker” is the fictional television show of Heidecker’s character. The actor stars as Jack Decker, an action hero who fights terrorists. The entire show is intentionally complicated, with plots that suddenly end and cliffhangers that are never resolved — going beyond simple parody. —Craig Hubert“Transparent” (Amazon)For a show that has been pigeonholed as something of the “moment,” as if gender nonconformity emerged when Caitlyn Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, “Transparent” is rarely given credit for how it forces questions about viewership. There is often a line of relatability that is being straddled. More than anything else on television right now, “Transparent” presents characters that are often likeable and unlikeable in equal measure, who do and say horrible things but that we relate to not because we necessarily understand them or agree with them but because the whole range of human emotion is on display. —Craig Hubert“Jessica Jones” (Netflix)I’ll admit to a certain allergy regarding superhero franchises, as well as the fact that I once fell asleep in the middle of an “X-Men” movie, despite loud explosions and mutants shooting lasers out of their eyes. But this 13-episode drama, extrapolated from a Marvel comic, is only a superhero vehicle in the broadest sense. The titular protagonist has “abilities” — most notably, extreme strength — but isn’t always eager to use them. She works as a private investigator in New York, sporting a bad attitude rivaled only by certain Swedish girls with dragon-shaped tattoos. The concerns of Jones’s workaday clients, most of them looking for dirt on cheating spouses, are soon replaced by a proper nemesis: Kilgrave, a deceptively mild-mannered man whose “ability” involves being able to convince anyone around him to do his bidding. (He’d been pulling this evil-puppeteer act on Jones herself, before the series begins.) Also on tap: Weirdly incestuous brother-sister duos; a love interest whose skin is literally unbreakable; a deranged cop wired on experimental amphetamine pills; and enough sex, violence, and dark secrets to fuel several seasons of proudly campy, noir-inflected television. —Scott Indrisek“Master of None” (Netflix)At first, this Aziz Ansari-helmed show seems to have an identity crisis. Ansari plays Dev, a young urbanite looking for love in all the usual places. One of his closest friends, Arnold — played by Eric Wareheim of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” fame, with characteristically awkward aplomb — seems like he’s visiting from another show entirely. But the chemistry starts to gel soon enough, and the result is, well, basically a whipsmart romantic comedy, one that is ultimately unafraid to tackle big issues (like the representations of Indian-Americans in popular culture) while charting the course of a relationship with uncommon, and uncomfortable, honesty. And Lena Waithe is brilliant as Denise, Dev’s lesbian wingwoman. —Scott Indrisek“Fargo” (Hulu)I won’t argue that this was the best thing on television this year, but it might have been the most fun — or at least the most gripping. Some of the best storytelling existed in the show’s second season, which went back in time from the first season and weaved another lean and mean snowbound crime tale around a murder in a diner and the battle between Midwest criminal families. What also separated “Fargo” from everything else is that it’s a show that almost insists on having fun. —Craig Hubert“The Jinx” (HBO Go)I don’t think I need to say much about this one except that if you haven’t seen it you probably know all about it. But even so, you should still watch it. It’s far from perfect, and many of the choices made by the filmmakers are highly questionable, but there’s no getting around that the story is one of the most bizarre and fascinating in recent memory, and the way the film became a major part of the story it was telling just makes it more complicated and interesting. — Craig Hubert“Silicon Valley” (HBO Go)Mike Judge is one of the most underappreciated comic artists alive — “Beavis and Butthead” is still great — and, after a series of terrific movies that most people didn’t care about, it’s good to have him return to television. “Silicon Valley” isn’t perfect, and its close connection to those it mocks is questionable, but in the end it really has nothing to do with tech world. This is a show about friendship and male bonding that’s funny but never cruel. —Craig Hubert“Mad Men” (Netflix)Just putting this out there in case anyone on the planet has not seen the final season of this show. Watch, and follow along with my old cultural references column, which I miss dearly. — Craig Hubert
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