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The Best TV Shows of Summer, Ever, and Where to Stream Them — Watch. Every week, Indie. Wire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.

The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)This week’s question: What is the perfect summer show? Why? (Note: This doesn’t have to be a current show)Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall), Uproxx. When you’re picking the perfect summer show, you first have to define your terms.

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The OC” and “American Idol” debuted in the summer, but so did “The Wire” and “Mad Men.” So your definition can be wide and varied. And with most of TV history available to us with a few clicks, almost anything can become a summer binge on a boiling day when you really need to stay indoors. That said, while some of the greatest series ever aired at times while school was out, I suspect the spirit of the question is more about what show is perfect to watch when you just need something light and breezy after either a day at the beach or a sweltering day at the office when you wish you had gone to the beach. GLOW,” for instance, is far from the best Netflix original ever, but it’s fun and happy and easy to digest, and makes a far better summer show than, say, “Bo. Jack.”Looking into the past, there are plenty of great network procedurals — “Magnum P.

I.,” say, or “The Rockford Files,” or “Quantum Leap” — that retroactively make for good summer streaming choices now, but those shows originally aired from fall through spring. So if I want to be a stickler about it, I’ll pick USA’s “Burn Notice,” which started out in the summer — its first season aired directly opposite the first year of “Mad Men,” in fact — and never seemed entirely at home when USA started airing half of each season in winter. In many ways the epitome of USA’s “blue skies” era, it took place under the hot Miami sun, mostly featured easy- to- follow cases, leaned heavily on the banter between its four stars, and could always be counted upon to offer a cool new spycraft lesson or three each week, like that time Michael, Fi, and Sam used a coffee can filled with thermite to melt through a bad guy’s engine block. Plus, yogurt is an excellent summer food.“Burn Notice” is streaming on Netflix, along with “Mad Men,” “GLOW,” and “Bo.

Jack Horseman.” “The OC” is streaming on Hulu, along with “The Rockford Files” and “Quantum Leap.” “The Wire” is available on HBO NOW and Amazon Prime. “Animal Kingdom”Eddy Chen/TNTAllison Keene (@Keene. TV), Collider. I have two. First, to define it: a perfect summer series for me is one with plenty of beachfront drama.

The OC” first premiered in the summer of 2. California aesthetic made for a great TV vacation (plus a main character’s name was literally Summer). Even when the show moved away from the beach for certain plots, it remained a key element to the show’s charm. Currently, “Animal Kingdom” is fitting the bill for me — so much pool time, surfing, beach bars, eye candy (for everyone!), and enough drama to keep me engaged even beyond the seaside locale (something that “Bloodline” failed to do after its first season, which notably premiered in winter). It’s a getaway in many forms, which is what I ultimately require from a great summer series: escapism.“The OC” is streaming on Hulu.

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Animal Kingdom” Season 1 is streaming on Amazon Prime, and Season 2 is airing now on TNT. April Neale (@aprilmac), Monsters & Critics. Got to go with “Alone on History.” Shark Week on Discovery seems the right answer, too, and I really want to throw in a huzzah for ABC’s rebooted “The Gong Show.” But “Alone” really captures my eyeballs in a way that most reality survival competitions do not.

Interestingly, the women always seem to be more comfortable in their skin and less mentally stressed out “alone” than the male contestants. I love the inventiveness of how they all conceptualize and construct their shelters, find and forage food and the various survival strategies they come up with in the nothingness of wherever they’ve been dropped off. This is coming from someone who would rather have a root canal than go camping in the woods, too!“Alone” is streaming on History, Amazon Video, and Apple TV.

Daniel Fienberg (@The. Fien. Print), The Hollywood Reporter. I still have a ratty old beach towel from the summer of 2. Fox decided to go all- in on originals including a lot of shows that I remember fondly but nobody else does, shows like “Quintuplets” and “North Shore” and, my favorite of course, “Method & Red.” The show that actually succeeded from that group, pointing to it as an actually appropriate summer show, was “The O. C.” The danger when something succeeds in context is that we come to think all success is the same. Netflix’s “Stranger Things” was the perfect show for last summer, a nostalgia- soaked and perfectly cast bit of generally family amenable (if not quite family *friendly*) science fiction that went down easy either in binge form or spaced over a week or two. Stranger Things” was so perfect for its particular circumstances that awards voters have gotten a little confused and decided all perfection is created equal.

There are FAR better dramas than “Stranger Things” that I would never think to praise as exemplary summer TV and there are FAR worse pieces of summer TV that are way more worthy of Emmy attention than “Stranger Things.”“The O. C.” is streaming on Hulu. Stranger Things” is streaming on Netflix. Liz Shannon Miller (@lizlet), Indie. Wire. I gotta say, the way in which “Orange Is the New Black” originally launched was perfect timing. I wasn’t looking for anything extremely dramatic that summer, and the mix of comedy and drama was just the right sort of tone, one that I found quickly addictive. I’m casually rewatching the series from the beginning right now, and it’s been quite soothing; the big drama executed with a light touch is proving to be a nice come- down after weeks of covering “Better Call Saul” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Which is weird to admit, but that’s how things work.“Orange is the New Black” is streaming on Netflix.“The OC”Snap Stills/REX/Shutterstock.

Joyce Eng (@joyceeng. TVGuide. com. I’d normally say Big Brother, but since I just named it as my guilty pleasure two weeks ago, I’ll go with “The O.

C.” Summer is mindlessness, hazy, dreamy, beachy fun times, suds and sun, and “The O. C.” had that in spades. Maybe because I was a teen, but there was nothing more lazily aspirational than than watching these rich hot people hang out in the California sun.

The show is the summer ideal, yet only aired once during our hottest months (when the series premiered in August 2. Nothing would’ve been better than having “The O. Watch The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause Putlocker# here. C.” declare “Welcome to summer, bitch!” every year.“The O.

C.” is streaming on Hulu. Erik Adams (@Erik. MAdams), A. V. Club. The year- round TV calendar has made vast improvements to our viewing diets, but I do miss the frivolousness and impermanence that summer TV used to signal, the TV equivalent of an ice cream cone on a sunny day.

ABC’s keeping this kind of summertime junk food alive with its Fun And Games block — now with more battling network stars! The Alphabet perfected the form during the initial run of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.” It was ideal viewing for the dog days of August, when “Millionaire”’s notoriously simple early questions represented the most I cared to mentally exert myself, and the precarious nature of later rounds conjured drama out of thin air.