Netflix & Sky - any recommendations for my quiet weekend?

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Netflix/Sky recommendations for my quiet weekend of tv indulging?

Things I love:

The Crown
Peaky Blinders
Greys Anatomy
Scandal
Station 19
Handmaids Tale
Game Of Thrones
Downtown Abbey
Derry Girls
Prison Break

Things I liked but didn’t love:

Suits
Walking Dead
Breaking Bad
Orange Is the New Black

I don’t know if that helps at all. I have a very stressful job and find more and more these days that I need to gripped quickly or can’t get into it. I like strong female characters, a good romance plot, but otherwise a real mix.

Any suggestions? I have sky and netflix.

Watched the first episode of Chernobyl twice - on second episode now - but it's just not grabbing me!

If you like cop / crime dramas, The Shield is now on All 4 and IMO is one of the best TV shows of all time.

If Barry is available on Sky, watch that - brilliant, dark and funny

When They See Us

It's outstanding

Thanks both!

Is the Shield fairly new or more of a classic?

I've heard of When they See Us, all good things!

Good Girls is brilliant, as is Justified but that's Prime

The Shield is amazing, quite old now and not very light viewing but sooo good

I'm amazed Chernobyl didn't grab you.

I've loved big little lies recently

A simple favour is a great film on Netflix.

Killing Eve (iPlayer)

Loved Good Girls and Big Little Lies. Also Dead to me and You.

The Shield is a classic (aired from 2002-2008). I only saw it for the first time about 2014 / 2015 and we blitzed through it all because we couldn’t stop watching. It just gets better and better until the end. We’ve been rewatching it recently and down to the last few episodes and I’ve bitten off all my fingernails and I know what’s coming

Stranger Things on Netflix
Big Little Lies on Sky
Lucifer is great but the earlier series are on Prime and only the most recent on Netflix.

Big little lies also and riviera

I’ve just watched Chernobyl this week and found it so gripping - it was hard to stop thinking about it, it really stayed with me and it’s a long time since I’ve watched anything like it. I also watched bits of episode one again after the last as it made more sense when things were explained more in later episodes (the science was a bit beyond me at first). Episode 3 is really harrowing. So maybe worth another try?

I also watched Alias Grace on Netflix a while ago, also very gripping.

If you don’t mind subtitles, the Swedish series ‘Bonus Family’ is good viewing - well developed characters you grow to love and some humour and tragedy woven in.

I recommend Good Girls too, especially as you like strong female characters.

Also the second series of Keeping Faith starts on Tuesday so you could watch series 1 on BBC iplayer ready for then.

another vote for good girls. Dead to me and you, me, her on Netflix are also fab.

When they see us, big little lies, good girls
Watch these!

And Dead To Me

I've put a Simple favour on.

@FredaFrogspawn I love Bonus Family too. It's so funny, touching and real - very observant about family life. Strong female characters too. Best thing I've watched for years. And because it's in Swedish and you have to read the subtitles it stops me looking at my phone, so it's much more absorbing!

The alienist on Netflix

Killing Eve series 1&2 iplayer
The last czars, Netflix
Dark money, iplayer

queer eye 4!

I just watched two episodes of Chernobyl, good but heavy of course.

Second Killing Eve.

Two very different suggestions here

Madam Secretary

And The Haunting of Hill House. But....that one is really scary.

I’m hearing good things about the Kominsky brothers, next on my list.