one of the decade's best, Justice League Action is currently streaming in Australia on Foxtel Now with a 7/10 audience score that speaks for itself. 52 episodes — the right length to tell the story it is telling. Television that earns its era label is rarer than the number of shows attempting it suggests — most of what gets called prestige TV is really just expensive TV. Justice League Action is one of the genuine examples: the craft is there in the writing, the performances, and the way it handles its subject matter. The cast was assembled to serve the material, and it shows in every scene. Available now on streaming — no excuses left for not watching it.

Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman lead the DC Super Heroes against their most infamous foes. It aired in 2016–2018. The world-building is meticulous enough to sustain multiple rewatches, with details in early episodes that only make sense later in the run. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Satisfying on multiple levels — something to enjoy on screen and something to think about after. The run is exactly the right length for the ideas it is exploring. The best science fiction uses its speculative framework to examine things that matter in the real world, and Justice League Action does this with more subtlety than the genre usually allows itself. The special effects serve the story rather than substituting for it, which is the mark of a production that understands what genre television is actually for. The cast keeps the human element front and centre even when the concepts get ambitious.