The Best Hidden Gem TV Series Soundtracks
Forget Euphoria and Stranger Things, lend an ear to the tunes of these shows with underrated soundtracks!
by Ryan Buynak
You may have noticed that we’re a little bit obsessed with pop culture, and while music is our main squeeze, TV is our side piece. So it makes sense to mix the two in a ménage à trois.
All sexy jokes aside, a show’s soundtrack can play as big of a role as its characters. Sometimes, music translates an emotional range that characters, dialogue, and setting just can’t convey or contain.
But forget the obvious ones, check out these hidden gem Spotify playlists for our personal favorite shows. After reading this, click the show titles to listen!
Adapted from a bunch of novels your stepdad re-reads, Reacher is such an easy, fun show and the soundtrack—featuring everything from hip-hop to Talking Heads, and a bunch of old blues joints—just makes it punch harder.
This Netflix show had two sobering seasons, but the music and the vibe still makes me want to be playing paddleball on Venice Beach.
Recently picked up by Netflix, Loudermilk flows with a sucker punch of music. Everyone’s favorite Ron, Ron Livingston plays grumpy former music critic Sam Loudermilk, who begrudgingly navigates the world of sobriety and tries to guide others in recovery.
The best part is we have had two people from this show on our show (Lissie and Ben Rogers)!
The soundtrack and score are as haunting as the show itself.
One of TV's best shows also has one of TV's best soundtracks…especially when it opened one episode with that fire Brian Eno/John Cale track (“Lay My Love”), and closed another episode with Taylor Swift.
We had to throw this in as a bonus!
This show about a bowling alley lawyer isn’t streaming ANYWHERE because of how good the music was, but if you know you know!