Dark (German). Awesome series.
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Dark was great. For anyone watching for the first time, Netflix made a great website that helps you keep up with who is who with no spoilers. Select the last episode you've finished and it only gives information to that point.
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Dark was great, it reminded me a bit of Stranger Things in the first season. By the second season you almost need to take notes to keep up with the story line though
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Taskmaster (UK)
As an American, this is 100% my favorite TV show. I'm so happy they got the rights to release every episode on YouTube the day after it airs.
Also, if you enjoy the UK panel show vibe, I really enjoy Would I Lie to You and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Second "8 out of 10 cats died countdown", and also suggest "Would I lie to you?"
I second Cats Countdown.
Many of the international versions are worth watching as well. The New Zealand and Australian versions are in English and so fairly easy to watch. Perhaps not unexpectedly, the US version is not good.
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Letterkenny, Trailer Park Boys....the Canadian loophole
Trailer Park boys is by far the best mockumentary created.
Fuckin way she goes boys
It was fucking great until the last few seasons where they were older and trying to milk the name for some more money.
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Maybe could have framed this "non-US TV shows". Now you're inviting the majority if users to just tell you their favorite US series π€·
I love British comedy. Peep Show, Spaced, and People Just Do Nothing are some of my favorites.
Peep Show is my human litmus test. Seeing how people react to that show can tell you a lot about them.
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Life on Mars (UK)
Please tell me you watched the follow-on series, Ashes to Ashes, with Keeley Hawes. Same concept, but she goes back to the 80s, and also meets Gene Hunt. Great addition to the original series!
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I liked Game of Thrones actually! π Currently going through Star Trek, starting with the original series that I also enjoy!
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I'm in the US. I love the IT Crowd, and most other British comedies. I also really enjoyed Broadchurch, Sherlock (it fell off a bit at the end), and Dr Who, but I've fallen a few seasons back on that.
Babylon Berlin (Germany)
Dr Who, bar none.
Monty Python comes a close second, then The Young Ones.
I guess I just dig British TV a good bit because you have to get down the list a good ways before you find one from anywhere else.
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I really liked La Casa de Papel. Netflix renamed it to βMoney Heist,β which is a terrible name. Still a good series though.
The Bridge (Sweden/Denmark, not the America/Mexico remake).
8oo10Cats and Graham Norton round out the top-three, but any procedural crime show will keep me. Even Midsummer Murders and especially Silent Witness.
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Taskmaster, got into it during Covid because all of their episodes are free on Youtube.
The Chestnut Man
Lupin
Wallander
Poirot with David Suchet
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Sign of Four
Yes, I have a type and I am unashamed.
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A couple I've enjoyed recently:
Kleo - an ex Stasi assassin adjusts to the fall of the Berlin wall and takes revenge for her betrayal by the state (German)
Extraordinary Attorney Woo - a legal procedural following the autistic Woo as she navigates the law and life. You wouldn't think it was my thing but I found it very charming (Korean)
South Korea is really uping their tv game. I really enjoy many of their shows.
Wallander is a really good Swedish crime show, if you like being depressed.
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I remember once, on a random Sunday I was channel surfing at my parents house and found this old British show called "keeping up appearances", it looked like a shitty show for old people, till it watched it and couldn't stop laughing at it.
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- "3%" (2016-2020), hands down !!
A neat Brazilian production; I loved the characters and world-building. Barely, if ever, it's mentioned.
Recently came across the pilot for the webseries that evolved into the Netflix production. It's cool to see how early ideas morphed into whole storylines.
ETA:
- "Dirk Gently" (UK, 2010)
This perfectly scratches the itch for randomness!
- "Totenfrau" (Germany, 2022)
- "Tabula Rasa" (Belgium, 2017)
- "Utopia" (UK, 2013)
...and there must be some thrillers.
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I loved Luther, although wasn't impressed by the recent movie.
I believe the movie was, unfortunately, a rushed conclusion to what was an amazing series, because they just couldn't get enough of Idris Elba's time in between Hollywood flicks. His star had simply risen too far by that point.
It's a real shame, too - we waited so long for that movie.
Sahsiyet. It's like Breaking Bad, but Turkish. Really well produced and binge worthy.
Gogglebox (AU, UK, IE) in that order.
Eat Well For Less (NZ)
Vera (UK) Sometimes on PBS in (US)
Magpie Murders (UK)
Professor T (UK)
Question Everything (AU)
Sort Your Life Out (UK, NZ)
We Interrupt This Broadcast (AU)
WTFAQ (AU)
Mock The Week (UK) this show ended in 2023.
This Country (UK) is so charming and painful at the same time. Even if you don't like Welcome to Flatch, you might still love This Country.
Mr. Inbetween from Australia is pretty good
From Australia, there's Rake, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and The Nowhere Boys, although for that last one only the first 2 seasons.
My current Australian obsession is Bluey.
Doc Martin, Merlin from the UK.
Murdoch Mysteries earlier seasons from Canada.
I also enjoyed a few Korean drama series like Misaeng.
And this is really old from Japan, but Bayside Shakedown drama was really fun.
Other Japanese dramas I liked include Proof of the Man, Aibou, and Shinzanmono. I love Japanese police dramas and mysteries.
I was studying Mandarin a few years ago and I was suggested to watch Taiwanese dramas since they tend to speak Mandarin and to also speak at a conversational level.
There's a lot of romantic comedies, so you can watch meteor garden, substitute princess, my queen, fated to love you, and I have found that all of these are very accessible to me as an American audience but I never got to the point where I could watch them without subtitles.
Another mostly Mandarin show that is definitely worth the watch is called nirvana in fire, and it is legitimately an amazing 40-hour long epic show that has sword fighting and wuxia and political intrigue and romantic subplots and a massive character list of all sorts of different people who all have their own thing going on all woven together into this amazing storytelling tapestry that rivals and in many ways bests anything that you can get in America or Western media.
But unless you're already very fluent in I'm not going to say just Mandarin but in the Chinese languages, you have to watch it with subtitles and it's definitely worth it.
Extraordinary attorney wu
Red Dwarf?
Red Dwarf is pretty good. Fawlty Towers is great. Someone recommended "Yes Minister" and the first season is awesome. The Hallmark of great comedy writing is if it holds up, and Yes Minister still is hilarious 40 years later.
Dark is a German Netflix show. It unfolds into something akin to "Lost" over the first four episodes. The ending doesn't suck, and they set up the end to where it's almost impossible to get it right. It's not an amazing ending, but it's impressive that they managed to make it not terrible, since it builds up to a near-impossible ending.
Squid Game is pretty great but gory. Letterkenny and Trailer Park Boys are quirky comedies with some rough language throughout.
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Der Tatortreiniger (German)
I haven't gotten very far, but I like the comedy and character interactions so far.
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