What’s the best TV Series you’ve watched in the last 5 years?

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For me it’s the German Series Dark on Netflix and the American series 1883 which is Paramount + but has now turned up on Netflix.

Dark which was about time travel really made you think and 1883 about Pioneer life/Cowboys was just quietly beautiful

Dark is one of my absolute obsessions, the others being From and Yellowjackets.

Industry
Shogun - loved the book and this is a great adaptation.

The English was brilliant. Loved it.

Yellowstone. Lord and mercy - Rip, need I say more??

Brassic
Big Boys
Detectorists
Ghosts

British drama at its finest with the awesome national treasure Sarah Lancashire: HAPPY VALLEY!

Firefly Lane
The Americans (agree with earlier poster!)
Succession
Only Murders in the Building
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Grace and Frankie

Yes Mr Bates was fab.

But actually my fave: Resident Alien - a genuinely funny US import of sci-fi and drama. Loved it.

Loved all of these, must give Succession a go.

I loved Travellers on Netflix. I think each new series was released on Boxing Day. I loved it

I also liked OA.

Apple has some great stuff. Slow Horses of course, I liked Silo, Severance and Shrinking. We also like Mythic Quest.

St Elsewhere, it led on to E.R. simply superb, and educational.

Bad sisters - not something I would usually watch but loved it. Sharon Horgan is a genius.
Bump - the first time I’ve ever heard of Claudia Karvan and she’s brilliant. Loved it.

There are so many series mentioned that I have watched to a point - Outlander, Handmaids Tale, Ozark - on here that I must really go back to.

Huge fan of Kin. Absolutely amazing series.

Fake. Really good.
ted lasso

This is Us
Derry Girls
Big Bang Theory (currently watching for the first time as recommended by dd3)

Money Heist; Squid Game, Schitts Creek. These were fantastic shows. They have that edgy quality.

I don’t watch much TV so I’m interested in reading other’s recommendations. Most of the programs listed here I’ve never watched. I’ll give a couple a try.

Spooks (old but Gold)
Killing Eve
Kin
Happy Valley
Blue lights
Succession
Fleabag
The Responder

If there has to be #1, in the time-scale, it has to be Dark for me. The uncanny casting, the brilliance of all the cast, of all ages. Like a few, I think, it nearly lost me in S2, but still managed to finesse it briliantly in the final series. And plenty of other great stuff; Mr Bates, Brassic, Motherland...

Hand maids tale (I enjoyed it better as it went on and got less explicit in the sense of rape scenes) which scene was it that put you off?

last season of ‘you’ was v good.

I'm not sure I can remember everything I watched over the past 5 years!

But I really enjoyed Everything I Know About Love

And The Flatshare

I thought the first season of The Handmaid's Tale was brilliantly done (even though I'm not a big fan of Elisabeth Moss), but I didn't like that it went so far past the book.

Station Eleven

After that, Severance (first season) and White Lotus (all seasons)

For something bang up to date, I am currently watching, and really enjoying, Your Friends and Neighbours with Jon Hamm.

Pachinko

Netflix

• Altered Carbon – beyond excellent
• Better Call Saul – beyond excellent
• Breaking Bad – excellent
• Homeland – amazing
• New Amsterdam – Excellent, and even better because it is based on a true story.
• Nobody wants this – very good.
• Queen of the South – very good but violent
• Seven Seconds – very good
• Stranger things – very good
• The Last Kingdom – Fabulous (TV series)
• The Lincoln Lawyer – legal drama. Beyond very good.
• The Resident – hospital drama. Very good.
• Yellowstone – very good

Amazon Prime

• The Expanse – Excellent
• This is US – brilliant
• The Handmaid’s Tale – brilliant but very, very grim.

BBC Iplayer

• Happy Valley – brilliant
• Nightsleeper – excellent
• The Capture – series 1 and 2 – excellent.
• Twin – Totally brilliant

Channel 4

• Frasier – original series – beyond brilliant

Channel 5

• The Drowning - very good
• The Good Wife – very good

ITV

• Douglass is cancelled - excellent
• Orphan Black – beyond excellent

Kaitlyn Dever is such a fantastic actor too! I'd read about the case not long before Unbelievable aired and watched it in a couple of sittings I think partly because I knew what had happened and was interested, obvioulsy, but mostly because it was done so well. It was stand out in the way some of the recent factual dramas that have changed things in the UK have been, but better in terms of the overall feel and of course, the performance of Kaitlyn Dever.