15 Best Movies and TV Shows to Stream on Peacock Right Now

NBCUniversal was late to the streaming game when it launched Peacock, but the service just got a big boost from its wall-to-wall coverage of this summer’s Paris Olympics. There’s plenty of other content to explore, too, from classic movies like Martin Scorsese’s Casino and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing to beloved TV hits like Murder, She Wrote and 30 Rock. Here are our picks of some of the streamer’s best offerings.

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30 Rock (2006–2013, 7 Seasons)

Tina Fey’s behind-the-scenes comedy, inspired by her former SNL workplace, is like a live-action Simpsons, with visual Easter eggs and self-referential jokes landing at the speed of sound. But all that wit wouldn’t work without the development of characters as solid as a 30 Rock: Alec Baldwin’s arrogant executive, Jane Krakowski’s insecure starlet, Tracy Morgan’s oblivious man-child.

Watch it: 30 Rock

Burning (2018)

Like the Haruki Murakami story it’s based on, this Korean thriller creeps up on you in unexpected ways. American actor Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Beef) plays an enigmatic, wealthy man who insinuates himself into the lives of a young woman and her quasi boyfriend. It’s a slow-burn character study with a fiery payoff.

Watch it: Burning

Casino (1995)

Nobody depicts the Mafia quite like Martin Scorsese, and here he goes deep on the Mob’s infiltration of Las Vegas. Scorsese regulars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci are in top form, and Sharon Stone delivers a career-best performance as a streetwise hustler who weds De Niro’s casino operator and later turns on him.

Watch it: Casino

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Spike Lee’s breakout film is an explosive depiction of racial tensions in Brooklyn that seems every bit as relevant 35 years later. A simple dispute between a white pizzeria owner (Danny Aiello) and a Black customer (Bill Nunn) escalates into tragedy.

Watch it: Do the Right Thing

Downton Abbey (2010–2015, 6 Seasons)

Stuffy English drawing rooms have seldom been better drawn — or drawn in audiences better — than in this delightful saga about the aristocratic Crawley family and their army of below-stairs staff in the early 20th century. (Sadly for completists, the two follow-up feature films aren’t streaming on Peacock.)

Watch it: Downton Abbey