Short-Form Series and Shows to Stream

If you are not willing to commit to binge-watching long-form episodic dramas such as Game of Thrones (totaling 70 hours), the new short-form series — with episodes of seven to 30 minutes — may be for you.

They include Sundance Now's Emmy-winning State of the Union: 10-minute episodes featuring a couple (Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike) wittily arguing about their bad marriage (her affair is his fault?).

The big news in this latest type of TV is Quibi (KWIH'-bee; short for “quick bites"), the new streaming service for smartphones from ex–Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. If you have Apple’s AirPlay, you can also stream Quibi shows to your AirPlay-enabled TV and other devices, and Quibi will be streamable to TVs via Chromecast sometime in June. Among its 50 shows, with episodes of 10 minutes or less, are Thanks a Million, where Jennifer Lopez, 50, and other celebs give unsuspecting people $100,000 each; and Flipped, with Will Forte, 50, as a house flipper kidnapped by gangsters (Andy Garcia, 63, and Eva Longoria, 45) and forced to renovate their home.

Here are more shorties to stream now, on phones and — from services besides Quibi — other devices.

Dramatic: Quibi's #Freerayshawn is the story of a kind cop (Laurence Fishburne, 58) who tries to talk a suspect (Stephan James) into surrendering during a standoff.

Soapy: The Bay, Amazon's glossy, Emmy-winning melodrama about rich and devious folks, stars Mary Beth Evans, 59; Jacklyn Zeman, 67; and Tristan Rogers, 73.

Sketchy: Netflix's I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson features lots of grownup guest hams, such as the late Fred Willard, as the world's worst — and cheeriest — church funeral organist.

Anthology: In Amazon's Modern Love, based on the New York Times column, actors including Anne Hathaway, Judd Hirsch, 85, and Jane Alexander, 80, reenact poignant, fact-inspired tales of real couples, in contained half hours.