It’s the sweet, sweet time of year where flowers are blooming, ducklings are waddling and the impending doom of mid-sems and group assignments are flourishing.

This obviously manifests into a full-blown crisis that can only be solved with copious amounts of carbs and self-destructive mechanisms. Enter: Binge-watching.

‘What if my budget doesn’t allow for a monthly subscription package to accommodate self-ruin? Or the person I’ve been sponging off for six months has started asking me to contribute to the cost?’ I hear you ask. Fear not!

There are ample opportunities for free viewing that won’t cost a thing or involve the risk, stress and copious amounts of pop-ups of illegal downloads. These shows are so good that before you know it, you’ll be sliding in DMs with the line “iView and chill?”

SBS On Demand

Handmaids Tale: If you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months you might not have heard about this Emmy-winning dystopian epic. Based on the book of the same name, the season is about Offred, one of the remaining fertile women in Gilead, who is forced into servitude in an attempt to repopulate the devastated new society.

Atlanta: We love Donald Glover in Community and as Childish Gambino but Atlanta is next level. So much so that it’s attracting multiple Golden Globes and praise from the critics. It follows Earn Marks (Glover), a father to a two-year-old girl, who tries to break his rapper cousin into the music industry.

The Good Fight: This series will have you shouting ‘YAS QWEEN’ from your couch. Picking up a year on from The Good Wife, this series depicts our favourite girl crush Diane Lockhart in her new firm Lockhart & Lee who experiences a reputation-destroying financial scam.

ABC iView

Glitch (Season 2): This series is so inherently Australian it will have you mistaking characters for your own family. With a healthy two seasons available you’re set for the whole weekend. The story follows a small country town police officer who has to come to terms with six deceased residents returning from the dead in perfect health to settle their scores.

Pulse: Medical drama that is also based on a true story? Yes please! When the high-flying Frankie Bell is given a stark reality check with a diagnosis of chronic liver failure she’s inspired to become a doctor herself by the man that saved her life.

The Edge Of The Bush: Comedian Anna Edmonds has been making us giggle for a while now, so her new original comedy is a must-watch. Described as Kath And Kim meets ‘Scandi Noir’ it’s difficult to resist a binge. Music, dance and family drama will keep you laughing through exam study.

Ten Play

The Late Late Show With James Corden: Everyone needs that one show that you can ‘put on as background noise’ during the lonely late night study sessions. This is the perfect antidote. The birthplace of Youtube sensation ‘Carpool Karaoke’ James Cordon is on every night (read: never ending supply) and will have you giggling to yourself at 2am in the morning when you should be watching lectures instead.

9 Now

Love Child: A look into the lives of young women in 1970s Australia, this long running drama will have you grasping, crying and giggling in no time. Warning: do not watch when exams have you feeling emotionally vulnerable.

Love Island: It’s the trashiest, most entertaining, shallow couples therapy you’ll ever come across. With a daily instalment and apparently-never-ending ‘secrets’ and ‘miscommunication’ between couples this show will have you feeling as though your problems probably aren’t as bad as you think.

Danica Lamb is a Laws Masters kid at UWA. She enjoys cheap coffee and 80s pop music.

(Lead image: Atlanta/FX)