For too long we’ve locked away our shameful TV viewing habits behind popular criminal, doctoral, political, legal and medical procedurals. Don’t get us wrong, these are all entertaining and keep us in the majority when discussing televised programming, but the Game of Thrones and The Walking Deads of this world have more than enough avenues to be revered for riveting storytelling, directing and acting.

This is not one of those.

Guilty Pleasures is for those series you watch under the cover of dark and occasionally chime into conversations to mention but think better of it before the ‘You know what isn’t as bad as you thi…’ is out of our mouths.

Below is our five Guilty Pleasures TV shows of the moment:

1. Powerless

Now, you know we’re lovers of a great, action-packed superhero show but this one is so campy that comparing it to the much grittier Arrow, The Flash or Netflix staples Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Daredevil would be doing an injustice to the series that brought Vanessa Hudgens back to television as Emily Locke, an employee of Wayne Security in Charm. Yes, Wayne. As in subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises, run by Bruce Wayne aka Batman. The promise of a Gotham crossover or Dark Knight feature never materializes but the episodes are just too corny to miss.

Powerless airs on Thursday nights on NBC.

2. Supergirl

Despite multiple crossovers Supergirl has not lived up to the promise of its braver cousins The Flash and Arrow. What it does have, that the others lack, is heart. Melissa Benoist (you may remember her from the less than spectacular final season Glee, another Guilty Pleasures fave) suits up as Kara Zor-El to tackle various terrestrial and extraterrestrial forces but remains human enough to often make you forget “she is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound”. Or at least her more popular cousin can. Check out Supergirl on The CW on Mondays.

3. The Great Indoors

We don’t like to use the term “trite” loosely but what better way to describe Joel McHale’s lukewarm return to television since leaving The Soup on E! just over a year ago? Starring as Jack Gordon, a former adventure reporter who now leads a team of millennials at a web-based magazine, McHale delivers predictable, yet somehow enjoyable, quips that make this Thursday evening CBS staple a must-watch. Or at least a, ‘must watch unless something better is on’.

4. Riverdale

Forget the Archie Comics you grew up on. This is that, and then some. Factor in embezzlement, a pregnant cheerleader and a town with secrets that run deeper than Sweetwater River where the body of the town’s star quarterback was found with a bullet to the head and you have the remake you didn’t know you needed but will take with an order of a fries and soda. Riverdale airs on The CW on Thursdays.

5. Bring It!

We can’t even begin to describe the gargantuan entertainment value that this show delivers, particularly in a traditional ‘Friday night death slot’ as characterised by the viewing habits of young people who would rather be out than watching television on the start of their weekends.

The series chronicles the competition season of the Dancing Dolls, a hip-hop majorette team from Jackson Mississippi, lead by no-nonsense coach Dianna Willams, “Miss D” if you’re lucky. Not only do you get amazing choreography, larger-than-life characters and sass for daaays, your vocabulary now includes words such as ‘buck’ and ‘death drop’. Use them, or not, Fridays were made for Lifetime’s Bring It!