5 Highly Bingeable Shows To Share With Your Girlfriends

Even with summer’s arrival and the ability to enjoy the outdoors still being one of the remaining pleasures permitted during quarantine, there’s nothing like having a good list of TV shows to binge-watch at the tip of your fingers.

While sometimes I have a good, solid list at the ready, there are times when I’m in a binge-watch drought in spite of my efforts scouring social media and tapping my friends for ideas. Look no more if you’re searching for the perfect binge. Some are new and some are old; in fact, some are worth watching again. But they all have common themes: girlfriends, mothers, daughters … WOMAN POWER!

But first, here are three must-watch documentaries about race and inequality in America that you should ALSO share with family and girlfriends.

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Netflix has made Ava Duvernay's excellent racial inequality documentary 13th free to watch. In this examination of racism, DuVernay talks about the disproportionate number of African-Americans in jail today being a modern form of slavery.

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Peace Officer, free on IMDB.tv, is a 2015 documentary that chronicles a Utah county sheriff's questioning of the militarization of American law enforcement after his son-in-law is killed in a "no-knock" raid by police.

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Whose Streets? is a 2017 documentary airing on Hulu that's about the chaos that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri after the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown. Many reviews say the film takes you so close to the action you can almost smell the tear gas.

And now, take a peek at a few lighter bingeable shows below:

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Good Girls (Hulu and Netflix)

Although technically classified as a comedy, there are some dark sides, too — with a sprinkling of just the right amount of steaminess. Three “average” women turn out to be not so ordinary as the course of their lives veers off into exciting and treacherous new directions as a result of needing to seek out alternate revenue sources. Although we’ve seen this theme before, nothing compares to the first of many heists and schemes these three best friends encounter.