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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account.  by [Judy Berman](https://time.com/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman TV Critic Nov 29, 2024 1:00 PM UTC  Colman Domingo, left, and Deon Cole in The Madness Colman Domingo, left, and Deon Cole in The MadnessAmanda Matlovich—Netflix  by [Judy Berman](https://time.com/author/judy-berman/)  ## Judy Berman TV Critic Nov 29, 2024 1:00 PM UTC Well, that sure was a month, was it not? If November 2024 has left you feeling some kind of way, then at least TV has appropriate options for just about any mood. In search of insight into our chaotic present? Try _The Madness_. A lighthearted take on the health-care crisis? _St. Denis Medical_ is the show for you. New ways of understanding political violence? _Say Nothing_ and _The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth_ present two very different perspectives. And if you just want to escape to a distant time and place, full of romance and melodrama and food porn? Hey, guess what, HBO adapted _Like Water for Chocolate_. ## _Like Water for Chocolate_ (HBO) _Like Water for Chocolate_ is a melodrama in the best possible sense of the word—a larger-than-life historical epic of love and lust, birth and death, duty and destiny. [Six years in the making](https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/like-water-for-chocolate-trailer-salma-hayek-pinault-hbo-1236176732/), HBO’s version justifies its existence, three decades after the release of an excellent big-screen adaptation that became [one of the highest-grossing foreign-language films](https://ew.com/article/1993/08/06/water-chocolate-breaks-records/) in U.S. history, by embracing that melodrama, with all the intensity and sensuality it brings. Head writer Francisco Javier Royo Fernández and showrunner Jerry Rodríguez (part of a team of executive producers that includes [Salma Hayek Pinault](https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2023/6269462/salma-hayek-pinault/)) also make the inspired and smartly executed decision to expand the story’s engagement with the political upheavals of its time. **\[**[**Read the full review**](https://time.com/7160993/like-water-for-chocolate-review-hbo/)**.\]** ## _The Madness_ (Netflix) Muncie Daniels is just trying to make his voice heard over the cacophony that passes for public discourse. An ambitious CNN commentator, the protagonist of the action-packed Netflix conspiracy thriller _The Madness_ has been neglecting his disordered personal life and losing sight of his progressive values. But all that bland, commercially palatable careerism can’t prevent Muncie, played by the versatile Emmy winner [Colman Domingo](https://time.com/6964710/colman-domingo-2/), from getting dragged into a war between the far right and the radical left, edgelord billionaires and misfits living communally at society’s fringes. In fact, that war threatens to annihilate everything he’s achieved. It's a timely premise, following a presidential election that empowered one extreme, alienated the other, and left the U.S. with an even noisier, more chaotic public square than we had before. Creator Stephen Belber (_Tommy_) and his co-showrunner, VJ Boyd ([_Justified_](https://time.com/3820097/walton-goggins-on-the-series-finale-of-justified-and-the-fate-of-boyd-crowder/)), channel our collective exhaustion with the discourse into a ‘70s-style paranoid thriller grounded in the hyperpartisan polarization of today. **\[**[**Read the full review.**](https://time.com/7178603/the-madness-review-netflix/)**\]** ## _Say Nothing_ (FX) In 1972, at the bloody height of the Troubles, home invaders abducted a widowed mother of 10 named Jean McConville from her Belfast apartment. Her children never saw her alive again. The family spent decades demanding answers from the Irish Republican Army, which was known to have “disappeared” fellow Catholics at the time, as to what had become of McConville and why—a quest that propels [Patrick Radden Keefe](https://time.com/5534376/say-nothing-patrick-radden-keefe-interview/)’s acclaimed 2018 book, [_Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland_](https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2019/5724502/say-nothing/). Now the best seller has been adapted into an exceptional nine-episode FX miniseries, also titled _Say Nothing_, that resonates not only as a gripping true-crime drama, but also as an urgently timely work of political art. **\[**[**Read the full review**](https://time.com/7174152/say-nothing-review-fx/)**.\]** ## _St. Denis Medical_ (NBC) There are way too many medical shows on TV right now—without doctors, lawyers, and cops, broadcast prime-time would basically be sports and singing competitions—but this one feels unique among them, and not just because it’s a comedy. A mockumentary in the tradition of [_Abbott Elementary_](https://time.com/6214182/abbott-elementary-season-2-review/)and [_Parks and Recreation_](https://time.com/5829960/parks-and-recreation-reunion-2020-review-recap/), set within a beleaguered public institution populated (mostly) by committed employees, it also has the sly political insight of co-creator [Justin Spitzer](https://time.com/6252825/not-dead-yet-network-comedies/)’s big-box store sitcom _Superstore_. And it’s promising enough to earn those comparisons. If the rest of the season is as strong as the six episodes I was able to screen, _St. Denis_ could be the best network comedy since _Abbott_. **\[**[**Read the full review**](https://time.com/7172266/st-denis-medical-review/)**.\]** ## _The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth_ (Nat Geo) For half a century now, the Stanford Prison Experiment has had pop-psychology buffs convinced of the so-called “power of the situation” to turn apparently good people into tyrants. After transforming the basement of a university building into an ersatz prison, Prof. Philip Zimbardo assigned white, male students to be either inmates or guards, ostensibly to see what happened when they stopped being polite and started getting carceral. Six days into what was supposed to be a two-week study, the cruelty guards were inflicting on prisoners caused him to shut it down. Zimbardo spent the rest of his career promoting his theory that humans are helpless against the evil that lies in wait within us to be triggered by circumstance. He even went so far as to defend American soldiers photographed torturing detainees at [Abu Ghraib](https://time.com/7175830/abu-ghraib-jury-trial-million-contractor/). Yet over the years, colleagues have criticized and debunked the experiment, citing Zimbardo’s interventions and crucial details left out of his portrayal of what happened. In [this invaluable three-part documentary](https://time.com/7175067/stanford-prison-experiment-docuseries-real-story/), featuring interviews with subjects who hadn’t discussed the study for decades, Juliette Eisner begins with the story as most laypeople know it. Then, she complicates it with persuasive dissenting accounts from participants and critics. In its final installment, built around an interview with Zimbardo and a reunion of the inmates and guards, the series attempts to synthesize their divergent perspectives. The structure allows Eisner to build an effective case for the moral agency of individuals regardless of the systemic pressures they must shoulder. [**_Read more about_** **Unlocking the Truth** **_and what the Stanford Prison Experiment really means._**](https://time.com/7175067/stanford-prison-experiment-docuseries-real-story/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/7178754/best-tv-shows-november-2024/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/7178754/best-tv-shows-november-2024/"},"headline":"The 5 Best New TV Shows of November 2024","datePublished":"2024-11-29T13:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-10T23:11:26.729Z","description":"From 'Like Water for Chocolate' to 'The Madness'","url":"https://time.com/7178754/best-tv-shows-november-2024/","keywords":["Television","list","culturepod"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68fecf6f52378e90/698a9c74929fad779bc03ae1/TM_AM_104_062723_04019_R.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Judy Berman","jobTitle":"TV Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/judy-berman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68fecf6f52378e90/698a9c74929fad779bc03ae1/TM_AM_104_062723_04019_R.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"THE MADNESS","caption":"THE MADNESS","creditText":"Amanda Matlovich—Netflix","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/television/","name":"Television"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/7178754/best-tv-shows-november-2024/","name":"The 5 Best New TV Shows of November 2024"}}]}] ```