Hulu's 26 notable original TV shows, ranked from worst to best by critics

Hulu's slate of new original TV has been red-hot this year, and much of it's been led by women . From "Shrill" to "Pen15," Hulu has quietly become the streamer with the highest consistent quality of output.

To give you a full picture of how Hulushows stack up against each other, we turned to Rotten Tomatoes , which pulls incritic (and audience) reviews from around the world.We excluded documentaries, unscripted series, and Hulu originals that had fewer than four critic reviews.

Here are Hulu's 26 original shows (and Hulu-branded coproductions), ordered from worst to best:

John Lynch contributed to a previous version of this post.

"Shut Eye" 37%

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Critics score: 37

Audience score: 88

Hulu description: "Shut Eyetakes a darkly comedic look at the world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. Former magician Charlie Haverford (Jeffrey Donovan) oversees a number of fortune telling parlors on behalf of his violent and domineering Romani kingpin boss, until a blow to the head jars him into a new mindset, making him question everything he has ever believed."

Status: Ended (2 seasons)

What critics said (Season 2): "Shut Eye is a complex web that juggles various side acts that often detract from the main through line of the show." - Entertainment Weekly

"Light as a Feather" 38%

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Critics score: 38

Audience score: 80

Hulu description: "An innocent game of 'Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board' goes wrong when the five teen girls who played start dying off in the exact way that was predicted, forcing the survivors to figure out why they're being targeted - and whether the evil force hunting them down is one of their own."

Status: Current (Season 2 coming)

What critics said: "Separating itself from Hereditary, A Quiet Place, or even Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, the series is a temporary guest that can be a little dramatic-but only sometimes." - Cosmopolitan

"Hard Sun" 48%

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Critics score: 48

Audience score: 76

Hulu description: "Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn play detectives Charlie Hicks and Elaine Renko, partners and enemies, who seek to enforce the law and protect their loved ones in a world that every day slips closer to certain destruction. Charlie Hicks (Sturgess) is a family man and a great, committed officer. He's also profoundly corrupt. Elaine Renko (Deyn) is a difficult and damaged, but utterly incorruptible officer. Thus, the two cops stand on different ends of the social and moral spectrum and also seriously distrust one other and for good reason. But they must somehow learn to work together if they're going to survive until the end of the world."

Status: Ended (1 season)

What critics said: "To make up for the lack of substance, the cast is asked to overact." - Indiewire

"The First" 66%

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Critics score: 66

Audience score: 79

Hulu description: "Sean Penn leads an ensemble cast in this near-future drama about a crew of astronauts attempting to become the first humans on Mars. Under the direction of visionary aerospace magnate Laz Ingram (Natascha McElhone), the crew contends with peril and personal sacrifice as they undertake the greatest pioneering feat in human history."

Status: Ended (1 season)

What critics said: "The First needs to up its game or it's headed for the black hole of oblivion." - Metro

"Into the Dark" 68%

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Critics score: 68

Audience score: 78

Hulu description: "From Blumhouse Television, Into the Dark is a horror series of 12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month."

Status: Current (Season 1)

What critics said: "If only this horror anthology was more, well, horrifying. As is, Into the Dark is more chill than chilling." - Los Angeles Times

"Dimension 404" 75%

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Critics score: 75

Audience score: 63

Hulu description: "In the darkest depths of cyberspace, there is another world. A lost dimension, home to wonders unseen, terrors unspeakable, and stories unlike any ever told. Dimension 404 is a science fiction anthology that explores the wonders - and terrors - of our digital age."

Status: Ended (1 season)

What critics said: "Again, the visual effects are remarkable, but there's little else to be entranced by." - The Atlantic

"Chance" 75%

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Critics score: 75

Audience score: 86

Hulu description: "Based on Kem Nunn's novel, Chance is described as a provocative psychological thriller that focuses on Eldon Chance (Hugh Laurie), a San Francisco-based forensic neuropsychiatrist who reluctantly gets sucked into a violent and dangerous world of mistaken identity, police corruption and mental illness."

Status: Ended (2 seasons)

What critics said (Season 1): "Chance wants to be a kind of seedy California noir, complete with femme fatale but is personality-less instead." - Slate

"The Path" 77%

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The Path

Critics score: 77

Audience score: 82

Hulu description: "The Path follows a family at the center of a controversial cult movement as they struggle with relationships, faith and power. Each episode takes an in-depth look at the gravitational pull of belief and what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want. The series blends elements of mystery-thriller, romance and the supernatural."

Status: Ended (3 seasons)

What critics said (Season 3): "Those who have kept on The Path are in for fun surprises and wild action." - The Daily Dot

"11.22.63" 80%

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Sven Frenzel

Critics score: 80

Audience score: 88

Hulu description: "Imagine having the power to change history. Would you journey down the 'rabbit hole?' This eight part event series follows Jake Epping (James Franco), an ordinary high school teacher, presented with the unthinkable mission of traveling back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963."

Status : Ended (1 season)

What critics said: "The eight-part miniseries, which begins streaming Monday, immaculately recreates the era - but it's also, at its beating heart, an exquisite romance about sacrifice and the perils of optimism." - Newark Star-Ledger

"The Hotwives of Orlando" 85%

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Critics score: 85

Audience score: 100

Hulu description: "A parody of one of the most popular franchises in reality television, "The Hotwives of Orlando," takes you inside the uber-exclusive and glamorous world of six hot housewives livin' large in Central Florida's sexiest city, Orlando."

Status: Ended (1 season)

What critics said: "The series is amusing enough to qualify as a good summer diversion-if not exactly must-see TV." - Entertainment Weekly

"Catch-22" 86%

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Critics score: 86

Audience score: 76

Hulu description: "Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II. Yossarian, a bombardier, whose frantic obsession every time he goes up on a mission is "to come down alive". His odds of success at such a simple aim keep getting worse because Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. More than the retreating Germans, the real enemy for Yossarian and his rag-tag bunch of friends is the bureaucracy of the military, inverting logic at every turn. The pinnacle of this is Catch-22, a military by-law which states that if you fly your missions, you're crazy, and don't have to fly them; all you have to do is ask. But if you ask not to, then you're sane, and so you have to fly them."

Status: Ended (1 season)

What critics said: "There are good reasons to visit this project, but the big-name actors are, interestingly, not really among them. The lesser-known actors are, in many cases, stronger." - NPR

"The Mindy Project" 86%

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Critics score: 86

Audience score: 85

Hulu description: "A single-camera comedy, starring Mindy Kaling, that follows a skilled OB/GYN navigating the tricky waters of both her personal and professional life, as she pursues her dreams of becoming the perfect woman, finding the perfect man and getting her perfect romantic comedy ending."

Status: Ended (6 seasons)

What critics said (Season 6): "The Mindy Project was messy, but when it worked, boy was it fun." - Uproxx

"Marvels Runaways" 86%

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Critics score: 86

Audience score: 87

Hulu description: "Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Marvel's Runaways is the story of six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other but who must unite against a common foe their parents."

Status: Current (Season 3 coming)

What critics said (Season 1): "The superpowers-as-coming-of-age-story works so well, and why Marvel's Runaways has so much promise despite a slow start." - Observer

"Castle Rock" 87%

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Critics score: 87

Audience score: 80

Hulu description: "A psychological-horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best-loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland. The fictional Maine town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in King's literary career: Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things, as well as novella The Body and numerous short stories such as Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption are either set there or contain references to Castle Rock. Castle Rock is an original suspense/thriller a first-of-its-kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories."

Status: Current (Season 2 coming)

What critics said: "For a purposely misleading series that prided itself on all its enigmas, Castle Rock answered its major questions in unexpected and impressive ways, while once again tying itself to the greater King universe." - Observer

"The Looming Tower" 88%

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Critics score: 88

Audience score: 63

Hulu description: "Based on the Pulitzer-Prize winning book, The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. The series follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., the counter-terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal - trying to prevent an imminent attack on U.S. soil."

Status: Ended (1 season)

What critics said: "It's like watching Tom and Jerry play a testosterone-fueled game of cat and mouse while a venomous snake quietly slithers past them in a suicide vest." - Boston Globe

"The Bisexual" 90%

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Critics score: 90

Hulu description: "After splitting with her long-term girlfriend, Leila is forced to move in with stranger and has-been novelist Gabe. Their worlds collide in deeply awkward and revealing ways as he becomes her unlikely wingman, helping her to navigate her new life dating men as well as women."

Status: Pending (1 season)

What critics said: "The Bisexual's secret weapon is its willingness to be moving. You laugh like a drain, but you care." - Daily Telegraph

"Future Man" 91%

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Critics score: 91

Audience score: 85

Hulu description: "Future Man stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) as 'Josh Futturman,' a janitor by day/gamer by night who is recruited by mysterious visitors to travel through time in order to prevent the extinction of humanity."

Status: Ending (Season 3 coming)

What critics said (Season 1): "Everything feels meticulously, lovingly plotted by the show's creators, but as it's happening it leads to numerous surprises and big laughs. Future Man is what happens when giddy, geeky and inspired storytelling is allowed to go full throttle." - RogerEbert.com

"The Handmaids Tale" 91%

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Critics score: 91

Audience score: 87

Hulu description: "Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized 'return to traditional values'. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander's household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world."

Status: Current (Season 3 coming June 5)

What critics said (Season 2): "The Handmaid's Tale is powerful and propulsive. After the first three episodes, when the horrors become more predictable, it's even pretty watchable." - Slate

"The Act" 91%

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Critics score: 91

Audience score: 91

Hulu description: "The Act is a seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories. Season One follows Gypsy Blanchard (Joey King), a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother, Dee Dee (Patricia Arquette). Her quest for independence opens a Pandora's box of secrets, one that ultimately leads to murder."

Status: Pending (1 season)

What critics said: "This is body horror by way of Walt Disney, a ghoulish fantasia of princess gowns, stuffed animals, prescription drugs, and physical harm." - The Atlantic

"Shrill" 92%

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Critics score: 92

Audience score: 79

Hulu description: "From Executive Producers Lorne Michaels and Elizabeth Banks comes Shrill, a comedy series starring Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live) as Annie, a fat young woman who wants to change her life but not her body. Annie is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and a perfectionist boss."

Status: Current (Season 2 coming)

What critics said: "Bryant, who even when she's playing self-obsessed-becoming a self-actualized human being may require a wee bit of egomania-is extremely appealing." - Slate

"Casual" 92%

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Critics score: 92

Audience score: 87

Hulu description: "From the Academy Award Nominated Director of 'Up in the Air' and 'Juno' comes Casual, a new comedy series about a bachelor brother and his newly divorced sister living under one roof again. Together, they coach each other through the crazy world of dating while raising her teenage daughter."

Status: Ended (4 seasons)

What critics said (Season 4): "It's about love, not hate, so while certain critics may feel the need to lash out in anger at a thing of beauty pulled from us too soon, these four seasons provide a lifetime of moments to treasure." - Indiewire

"Difficult People" 95%

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Critics score: 95

Audience score: 81

Hulu description: "Difficult People hails from Julie Klausner who stars alongside Emmy-nominated Billy on the Street host Billy Eichner. As best friends living in New York City, their typical, irreverent behavior lands them in some very awkward situations."

Status: Ended (3 seasons)

What critics said (Season 3): "It's big, existential stuff, pushing Klausner and Eichner towards their most nuanced performances yet." - Indiewire

"Pen15" 95%

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Critics score: 95

Audience score: 84

Hulu description: "PEN15 is middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen."

Status: Current (Season 2 coming)

What critics said: "It'll sneak up on you, this gem." - NPR

"The Wrong Mans" 95%

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Critics score: 95

Audience score: 91

Hulu description: "Lowly office workers Sam (Matthew Baynton) and Phil (James Corden) have a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. From being dragged into a deadly criminal conspiracy after answering someone else's phone to being thrown into witness protection in Texas, 'The Wrong Mans' is chock-full of plot twists and bold new enemies at every turn."

Status: Ended (2 seasons)

What critics said (Season 2): "It's a slapstick version of Mission Impossible, and nobody but [James] Corden could pull it off." - Daily Mail

"Ramy" 97%

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Critics score: 97

Audience score: 81

Hulu description: "Ramy is a first generation Egyptian-American who is on a spiritual journey in his politically-divided New Jersey neighborhood. RAMY will bring a new perspective to the screen as it explores the challenges of what it's like being caught between a Muslim community that thinks life is a moral test and a millennial generation that thinks life has no consequences."

Status: Current (Season 2 coming)

What critics said: "The writing is rich and layered, the references are topical...and 'Ramy' explores topics and themes that feel quietly revolutionary." - Detroit News

"Harlots" 97%

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Critics score: 97

Audience score: 91

Hulu description: "Margaret Wells struggles to reconcile her roles as brothel owner and mother to daughters Charlotte and Lucy. When her business comes under attack from Lydia Quigley, a rival madam with a ruthless streak, Margaret must fight back even if it means losing her family and possibly her life."

Status: Current (Season 3 coming July 10)

What critics said (Season 2): "It's a show that treats sex and gender dynamics with matter-of-fact horror and humor that feels honest but not solemn." - The Ringer