This issue’s picks lean light, fun, and grounded in honest slices of different people’s lives.

Off Campus

Off Campus

A genuinely easy-on-the-eyes show, adapted from the North American romance novel The Deal. With an all-women creative team behind it, it delivers a refreshingly wholesome take on romance — affectionately roasted online as “basically science fiction.” Season one has wrapped.

Not Suitable for Work

Not Suitable for Work

Follows five young people trying to make it in Manhattan. Each is grinding away at their own career, with a bit of relationship drama woven through. I didn’t expect much going in, but it’s turned out to be genuinely good. It’s written by the same writer behind Never Have I Ever, and it’s currently airing.