Glee Season 5

If you are after a comedy that actually makes you laugh out loud, Glee Season 5 is available on and right now. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. 951 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Watch it for Lea Michele — stay for everyone else around them. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Glee Season 5 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Glee Season 5 gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. Finding the right note pales in comparison to navigating real life for the members and alums of William McKinley High School's glee club. Lea Michele and Melissa Benoist lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2013. What keeps Glee Season 5 from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Glee Season 5 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Lea Michele is funny in a way that holds up on rewatch. Put it on when you need something guaranteed to land.