Saturday, September 26, 2026
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What's your pick for the best TV show of the year so far? If you ask the editors of Esquire's entertainment section, you'll hear one—and this is rare—consensus pick. See what it is below, plus everything else from the small screen we loved this year.—Brady Langmann, senior entertainment editor
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The small screen has been excellent all year—although there’s one show of the year, without question.
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We had a real scorcher of a summer, but finally we’re enjoying the crisp air of autumn. Once upon a time, fall used to mean a slew of brand-new TV shows and new seasons of returning favorites. But these days, great television hits the streamers basically whenever. It’s hell to keep up with, we know. But that just means there are more great shows to watch than ever before.
The show of the year is easily Widow’s Bay. The Apple TV phenom from Kate Dippold broke out big-time as an Emmys juggernaut thanks to an always on-point Matthew Rhys and a revelatory Kate O’Flynn as its MVP. But a close second has to be Furious. The psychological crime drama on Hulu casts Emmy Rossum in one of her most complex roles yet as an FBI agent on the trail of a female serial killer.
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Here at Esquire, we’re not shy about our love of a good, stiff drink. Perhaps that’s why we’ve been so distressed by the data that has been published over the past few years claiming young people don’t imbibe like they used to. Mercifully, that myth has been busted. A recent report from the IWSR has shown that 74 percent of Gen Z adults are enjoying alcohol, up from 66 percent just a few years back. (Did anyone even consider that maybe most of them weren’t 21 yet?)
We’re lucky to be alive at a fruitful time in booze history, when there’s no shortage of delightful options from the bottom to the top shelf. Choice, however, is the enemy of decision. Therefore, we rounded up the best spirits of 2026 to make your drinking life easier. Esquire contributors tasted hundreds—if not thousands—of gins, whiskeys, tequilas, mezcals, vodkas, and more this year, eventually narrowing down our favorites to three top choices across 12 categories.The 36 bottles on our definitive list below aren’t just good. We believe they’re enticing enough to convince the remaining 26 percent of Zoomers to take a sip.
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It’s easier than ever to buy a suit. Mall mainstays like J. Crew make very good ones in a range of fits, with a seasonally rotating selection of new and interesting cloths. Affordable specialists like Suitsupply and Spier & Mackay offer impressive quality while pricing everything from two-button jackets to full-fledged tuxedos for far less than it seems they should be able to. And there’s no shortage of direct-to-consumer brands (Proper Cloth is a favorite of ours) with such an array of sizes that you can tune in your fit to near perfection—though you should still visit an alterationist to ensure that your suit is nipped and tucked for your unique body shape.
Options abound. And even if the suit is less of a fixture in most men’s wardrobes than it was even a couple decades ago, the accessibility and variety of choices are positive things in our book. But that sort of ubiquity cuts both ways. Now that every guy can get his hands on a great-looking suit that he’s wearing not because he has to but because he wants to, how is the devoted fan of tailoring supposed to stand apart from the pack? Get suited up by a brand that the pack hasn’t heard about, of course.
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