The Mob Doctor‘s premise centers around the weird dichotomy of a doctor who is trying to do her job while still paying her family’s debt to the Chicago mob. A too harsh looking Jordana Spiro plays the doctor in question, Grace Devlin.

Revolution is a television version of Stephen King’s The Stand, except instead of a killer flu wiping out the planet, it’s no electricity. For some unknown reason that is part of the show’s draw, the electricity went out in the world 15 years prior.

“Abnormal is the new normal.” This is one of the many snappy lines on The New Normal, a show about an affluent, committed gay couple who are having a baby via surrogate.

A cat flings itself off a New York City skyscraper. This is the dramatic first scene of Animal Practice, a sitcom revolving around an animal hospital.

On Friends, Chandler would revert to humor to deal with anything and everything. Go On has taken that characteristic of Matthew Perry’s most famous role and designed a whole show around it.

This six-part series from Greg Berlanti (Dawson’s Creek, Brothers and Sisters) and Laurence Mark (Dreamgirls, Jerry Maguire) plays like a politically themed reality show. Political Animals is centered around Secretary of State Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver), who is also a former first lady and a failed presidential candidate.

Taking its cues from its spiritual forebear Strangers With Candy, The Sarah Silverman Program was one of the most eccentrically hilarious sitcoms to ever grace the airwaves. Revolving around the absurd travails of the titular protagonist Sarah, seemingly stuck in an emotional moratorium, her struggles are nicely accentuated, or possibly enabled, by a stellar supporting cast of dufus comic foils.

Remarkably, Curb Your Enthusiasm has now wrapped eight seasons of simultaneous self-effacing and self-aggrandizing of writer/creator/actor Larry David’s absurdist travails. His prior crowning glory, the epochal and definitive ‘90s comedy Seinfeld, only completed nine, albeit with considerably lengthier seasons.

For 736 and one-half hours, a woman rigidly sits on a chair in a brightly-lit gallery within New York’s Museum of Modern Art. She does not allow herself to eat, to speak, to stretch out or to rest in any other way.