With fall almost here, we are not only upon the season of returning to school, but new seasons of our favorite television shows, too. So before professors start drowning us in homework, essays, and all other kinds of assignments, we should use these last few weeks of summer to catch up on or rewatch our favorite shows.

1. How to Get Away with Murder

If you haven't seen this show, you've been missing out. It focuses on prominent defense attorney and law professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) and a select group of law students as they help their clients avoid jail time. All the while, the team of law students and their professor are trying to get away with a murder of their own. You can watch the first two seasons on Netflix before season three premieres in September.

2. Big Brother

If you're into reality shows, this is one to watch. At the beginning of the summer sixteen strangers are put in a house together. Here they must live and compete for power in the house, because each week they will vote to evict one of their fellow houseguests. The show's eighteenth season is currently on CBS Sundays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays each week. But you can rewatch it from the start as well as previous seasons on CBS.com.

3. Scandal

Scandal is a political drama about Olivia Pope, who runs a crisis management firm in Washington D.C. Olivia Pope and her team fix problems for their clients. They do some pretty sketchy stuff to get their clients out of sticky situations. Not only does Olivia have all this drama in her professional life, she's also in love with Fitzgerald Grant, who happens to be the President of the United States. You can watch five seasons of the show on Netflix (PS, I'm totally team Jake Ballard).

4. Malcolm in the Middle

Okay, so this show has long since ended, but it was a major part of my childhood and is always worth the rewatch. It's about Malcolm, a wicked smart kid, with three brothers and crazy parents. Watch this show if you need a good laugh. The show's seven seasons are on Netflix.

5. Criminal Minds

Up until the age of 16 I truly believed I could be an FBI profiler because of this show. A team of agents from the Behavioral Analysis Unit travel across the county solving crimes by getting into the mind's of criminals. If you love Law and Order: SVU, you'll love this show just as much. The show's 12th season premeires, without Derek Morgan, this fall, so catch up on Netflix.

6. Jane the Virgin

Jane is a virgin that is accidentally artificially inseminated with the sperm of her boss and high school crush. Add in her crazy family and her fiance, Michael, and the show will have you laughing out loud. Plus, the love triangle between Jane, Michael, and her baby daddy, Rafael, will have you glued to the television. The first two seasons are available on Netflix.

Here's to binge watching the last few weeks of summer away.