'Slip' Is One of TIME's 50 Most Underappreciated TV Shows
Time · LC · trust 26/100
Science fiction doesn’t have to be all spaceships and robots. A romantic comedy also can be weird as hell. And the Roku Channel, it turns out, can be a platform for great original programs. Slip contains all of these unlikely truths (although, as of the summer of 2026, the three-year-old show has moved from Roku to Peacock). Creator Zoe Lister-Jones stars as Mae, an urbanite at a marital impasse, looking ahead to a future that promises only domestic stagnation. Instead of sending her into a customary shame spiral, a desperate act of infidelity launches Mae into a full-on alternate universe where she’s married to the previous night’s hookup. When she tries to fix it by sleeping with someone else, she wakes up with that person as a life partner. And so on through wildly divergent spousal scenarios, featuring such welcome faces as The Decameron dreamboat Amar Chadha-Patel and Emily Hampshire from Schitt’s Creek . Though Mae’s succession of parallel lives is well-suited to television’s episodic structure, Slip is the rare show that feels like a small-screen equivalent to the cool, character-driven indie movies that make up most of Lister-Jones’ filmography. High-concept but low-key, it’s an insightful meditation on adult relationships that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
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