3 Underrated Hulu Shows I Can’t Wait to Watch This Weekend (October 31-November 2)

One of the best things about streaming is that it gives you the opportunity to come across so many hidden gems.

Watch With Us is always on top of streaming content, and we’d love to highlight a few series on Hulu that we think deserve a little more love, including two that are perfect for Halloween.

This week, we have period horror The Terror, high school comedy Awkward, and Ryan Murphy’s horror comedy Scream Queens.

Watch With Us feels these shows aren’t talked about quite enough, but deserve your full attention.

Read on to see our picks so you can start bingeing them this weekend.

‘The Terror’ (2018-2025)

This supernatural anthology horror series’ first season is based on the 2007 historical novel of the same name, a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition to the Arctic from 1845 to 1848 on the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus. The Terror stars Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies and Ciarán Hinds as officers aboard two doomed ships tasked with finding the Northwest Passage, only to end up frozen and trapped in the ice. As the men succumb to paranoia, infighting and sickness, rumors begin to circulate of a monstrous beast hunting the men down.

While the second season of The Terror wasn’t quite as warmly received as its first, it is overall an affecting and chilling horror series with absorbing period detail, character drama and terror (no pun intended) that absolutely grabs you. The first season, in particular, is led by some career-best performances from its cast of character actors, and the creeping distrust and disease between the crew is almost scarier than any lurking creature.

‘Scream Queens’ (2015-2016)

The prestigious Kappa Kappa Tau sorority at Wallace University is forced to open its exclusive ranks to more students, shepherding in a group of awkward misfits, much to the displeasure of house leader Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts). But the pledges at Kappa House have a much bigger problem on their hands than Chanel and her eponymous minions — there’s a serial killer on the loose dressed like the school mascot, and he’s targeting the sorority sisters.

While short-lived and not quite beloved by all, Scream Queens is a dynamite piece of guilty pleasure viewing. With fantastic comedic performances from Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis and a then-mostly unknown Glen Powell, an amusingly absurd tone and maximalist aesthetic, this underrated Ryan Murphy series leans all the way in to the TV producer’s affinity for camp and excess, creating a fun, diverting and gory show that doesn’t take itself seriously.

‘Awkward’ (2011-2016)

After a summer in which social pariah Jenna Hamilton (Ashley Rickards) loses her virginity to one of the cutest boys at her high school, she suffers from a freak accident that everyone mistakes for a suicide attempt. Suddenly, Jenna has gone from being invisible to being a little too visible, but she realizes it might not be a bad thing. She starts a blog in which she chronicles adapting to her new identity, dealing with mean girls, living with her well-meaning but clueless parents and overall just dealing with the pains of being a teenager.

Awkward manages to be a funny and irreverent series that nevertheless takes high school teenagers’ problems seriously — especially those of teen girls. The series received particular praise for the writing of its characters, which are allowed to grow and given genuine complexity. Some critics compared Awkward favorably to acclaimed teen films such as Mean Girls and Easy A.