A smug hipster guide to shows you’ve never heard of.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to sit in a dark bar, grip an ice-cold IPA, and smugly educate my closest friends and maybe even total strangers on what’s good in TV these days.

But like everyone else, I’ve been trapped inside, running out of quality entertainment faster than I’m running out of the guacamole Takis I hoarded.

Even I know how tempting it is to re-watch the office until you forget what’s real life. But for the sake of our sanity we must retire the go-to's. Even as the outside slowly begins to open up, the future is uncertain and you need a few rays of something bright and original to shine through your television dungeon. The good news is: I’ve got you.

Lucky for you I’ve prided myself on my esoteric television and film taste since college. I was a film major. So. Just sit back and ready your remote…

Peep Show

Watch if you like 30 Rock...

I know you missed this one. It's from England.

From British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Peep Show is not like any show past or present. Shot completely in POV, we hear the hysterical internal monologues of the two main characters Mark and Jeremy as they clumsily navigate the basics of being living adults.

The show ran for 54 episodes from 2003-2015, the production quality improving significantly through the years. The one-liners in this show are unmatched. It is unapologetically bizarre and raunchy as hell but in a way that is unexplainably necessary.

Lip Service

Watch if you like Degrassi...

You missed this one because it was cancelled devastatingly quickly.

For those of us who thought The L Word didn’t contain enough tears, Scottish hotties, and explicit sex scenes that put HBO's most risqué scenes to shame, there is Lip Service.

With two seasons of binge-worthy drama, we follow a group of queer friends through the ups and downs of desperately seeking love. All of the characters are somehow both charming and tragic with intertwined narratives of self-exploration. The lead character, Frankie (played by Ruta Gedmintas), stumbles through a dark identity crisis while trying to win back the love of her life: her high school sweetheart who she betrayed and abandoned only years earlier.

Servant

Watch if you like Black Mirror...

You missed this one because you let someone tell you producer M. Night Shamalan wasn't great.

With one binge-worthy season complete and the next currently in production, what is probably the freshest and original show on television right now is Servant.

A new mother, traumatized and delusional about the condition of her "child", hires a nanny. Her husband slowly realizes the strange young woman they welcomed into their home may exacerbate what is already a disturbing situation.

Starring Toby Kebbel (who you may have seen in Black Mirror’s “The Entire History of You” episode), Lauren Ambrose, and Rupert Grint (Harry Potter's Ron Weasley), this show is a slow-burn, each episode pacing itself as one of the strangest stories in TV history unfolds.

Hopefully at least one of these shows catches your fancy. When the world is back on it's feet and we run into each other in bars and excitedly speak on top of one another about what it is we've seen lately, those of us with superior eclectic taste and knowledge of the art of television can exchange lines as the sheep around us only wonder what we're referencing.