The Best TV Shows for Filling Your Long Summer Nights in 2020

Summer vacations mean plenty of time for relaxing on a beach, in a hammock, or on a deck. Vacations like this usually lead to literary goals like reading a book a week or plowing through the book club pick you’ve been sitting on since Memorial Day. But there’s a reason why people don’t reach their summer reading goals: television. This is America—there is so much TV all of the time, and it doesn’t let up just because it’s summer. This summer in particular? You're not going anywhere anyway.

Some of these shows start early, even before summer officially began, but once they have their grip on you, they hold on for the next six weeks. Even if you got hooked on just one show in mid-May, by July you could have several going. Forget summer nights out with your friends—you’ve got to keep up with the several HBO and Hulu shows you’re juggling.

To get a head start on your personal TV guide for the summer, here’s a list of shows that are slated to eat up those days when it's too hot to go outside. This list will, no doubt, grow to include at least half a dozen more, because again, this is America, and we have entirely too much TV. Good luck with your summer reading goals.