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

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 10/05/2025 20:59

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

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FagsMagsandBags · 11/05/2025 07:46

I'd love to watch The Gilded Age but don't have that streamer. I love the period and novels written/set in the period.

FagsMagsandBags · 11/05/2025 07:49

Nobody Wants This! Very hot rabbie and I adore Kristen Bell. She's very good at picking her roles.

netmums100 · 11/05/2025 07:50

Succession and more recently Severance.

netmums100 · 11/05/2025 07:52

Oh and Beef. So brilliant.

justasking111 · 11/05/2025 08:02

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 10/05/2025 23:58

Where will I find Dark Winds?

On Sky U ALIBI

PrincessDonut · 11/05/2025 08:02

We don’t seem to watch a lot of TV these days but a few shows have really grabbed our attention. Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, Andor and Severance. Not totally sure if it fits into the 5 years but the whole family were utterly obsessed with The Expanse. Even my adult sons, who are usually doing something more interesting, made time to watch it with us.

WobblyLondoner · 11/05/2025 08:03

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 10/05/2025 21:25

@WaffleParty I gave Severance a go and couldn’t get my head around it

@Kattovitpanic I gave Succession a few episodes but it didn’t grab me, is there a settling in period? Because I LOVE West Wing, seen it at least 4 times

We had the same with Succession - watched a few episodes back when they first came out. Last year tried again - brilliant. Really worth trying again.

Really enjoyed Silo too.

justasking111 · 11/05/2025 08:09

Lincoln lawyer, beyond outstanding.
Trent, amazing series
Bosch, compulsive viewing.
Justified, perfect

I start reading the books off of series like these.

notmoredirtywashing · 11/05/2025 09:31

Harlots: Samantha Morton and Lesley Manville play feuding brothel owners in Georgian London.
it was on U and Yesterday but not sure if it’s still on the app.
absolutely brilliant.

ChessorBuckaroo · 11/05/2025 09:51

ChessorBuckaroo · 10/05/2025 22:50

"Quietly beautiful" you say.

Natives labelled subhuman "savages" in the white settler declaration in 1776 by the slave owning tyrant thomas jefferson. Sam Wolfson in The Guardian writes:

"The declaration's passage has often been cited as an encapsulation of the dehumanizing attitude toward Indigenous Americans that the US was founded on."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/05/facebook-declaration-of-independence-hate-speech

A Native community leader's response to their dehumanization and state sponsored ethnic cleaning by the white settlers (pioneers):

"Any holiday that would refer to my people in such a repugnant, racist manner is certainly not worth celebrating. [July Fourth] is a day we celebrate our resiliency, our culture, our languages, our children and we mourn the millions — literally millions — of indigenous people who have died as a consequence of American imperialism".

https://www.mic.com/articles/121671/native-americans-have-nothing-to-celebrate-on-july-4#.Qst75mbCL

Theodore Roosevelt, 1886 on the continuing ethnic cleansing of Natives by the white settlers:

"I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."

L. Frank Baum (that's the wizard of oz author) in 1890:

"The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians."

Baum days after the Wounded Knee Massacre of men, women and children, Dec 1890:

"The Pioneer has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extermination of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untamable creatures from the face of the earth."

Eyewitness at Wounded Knee, chief of the Oglala Lakota, stated, "A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream ... the nation's hope is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead."

Ethnic cleansing the Native people (not "savages") while moving west was cited as the template for the Nazis and their movement east ("Our Mississippi must be the Volga" - Adolf Hitler in 1941), with Hitler in 1928 praising the white settlers who had "gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage".

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/how-american-racism-influenced-hitler

Martin Luther King Jr in his 1964 book Why We Can't Wait:

"Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folkore all exalt it."

"Quietly beautiful".

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"Our literature, our films, our drama, our folkore all exalt it."

And OP's response is, "so shoot me".

I'm with MLK on this. One of the most wicked periods in human history when a people, not "savages" america, PEOPLE, were systematically ethnically cleansed from their fertile land, land they had worked for thousands of years, gunned down in their millions, with the small remaining number who survived these massacres "now kept under observation in a cage", an act which the Germans would emulate when they did the same to another group of people, and a depiction of this (no doubt a whitewashing depiction as whitewashing is what the white settler entity excels at) is called "quietly beautiful".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(sculpture)

The Rescue depicts a confrontation between a bellicose Native warrior and a pioneer family. Stood outside the Capitiol in washington between 1853 and 1958 and commissioned by the white settler government, its sculptor Horatio Greenough wrote that it was "to convey the idea of the triumph of the whites over the savage tribes".

The Rescue (sculpture) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(sculpture)

Purplebunnie · 11/05/2025 10:48

@Italiangreyhound

Nightsleeper, I forgot that. It was brilliant. My memory is a bit suspect lately. There was another series something to do with a Pier or landing stage, thoroughly enjoyed it

@ChessorBuckaroo

Read Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown. I read this when I was 15 and it broke me completely. I have since acquired the book but it seems to be abridged and not the full version I remember

I was always on the Native Americans side when watching the old Westerns but doubly so after reading the book.

sashh · 11/05/2025 11:18

justasking111 · 11/05/2025 08:09

Lincoln lawyer, beyond outstanding.
Trent, amazing series
Bosch, compulsive viewing.
Justified, perfect

I start reading the books off of series like these.

I'm the other way round, I've read the books, I didn't realise they made a series based on Bosch though - I will need to look out for that.

cannaecookrisotto · 11/05/2025 11:18

All Of Us Are Dead on Netflix. Ticked all my boxes, scary, suspenseful with some light comedy relief thrown in. Cannot wait for S2.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 11/05/2025 11:19

FagsMagsandBags · 11/05/2025 07:46

I'd love to watch The Gilded Age but don't have that streamer. I love the period and novels written/set in the period.

You can buy it on Amazon

I liked Nobody Wants This as well

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 11/05/2025 11:21

netmums100 · 11/05/2025 07:52

Oh and Beef. So brilliant.

I forgot about Beef! It was so good!

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GRCP · 11/05/2025 11:36

Dracula (the BBC mini series), Maid, I Will Destroy You, Rivals, Am I Being Unreasonable

FagsMagsandBags · 11/05/2025 11:37

Is Silo on Apple? Oh please yes! I read the books and I'd love to see how they created the silo, plus it's a cracking plot.

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 11/05/2025 11:42

FagsMagsandBags · 11/05/2025 11:37

Is Silo on Apple? Oh please yes! I read the books and I'd love to see how they created the silo, plus it's a cracking plot.

Silo is Apple yeah - I found the changes from the books confusing and gave up for S2. Might go back.

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justasking111 · 11/05/2025 12:36

sashh · 11/05/2025 11:18

I'm the other way round, I've read the books, I didn't realise they made a series based on Bosch though - I will need to look out for that.

Mickey isn't in the Bosch series. They've kept them separate for licensing reasons.

vipersputpaidtomylastusername · 11/05/2025 12:37

Ted Lasso
Ozark
Kin
Unforgotten
All the above have been mentioned many times; one that doesn't seem to have been mentioned is......

The Split (but don't bother with the 'special' that was on over Christmas - awful)

justasking111 · 11/05/2025 12:39

If you want to know what is on where. Get the app "Just Watch". Tells you where a lot of show are

What’s the best TV Series you’ve watched in the last 5 years?
knor · 11/05/2025 18:07

Handmaids tale. Of course it’s really dark and not all seasons are 10/10 but definitely one of the best, if not the best series I’ve ever seen

mambojambodothetango · 11/05/2025 18:07

Completely agree with whoever said Succession was Shakesperean. That's the precise word I used to describe it to someone. And I've only seen season 1. I also felt White Lotus had Shakespearean touches (less so season 3). I would add to these: Colin from Accounts, Money Heist, Sex Education, My Brilliant Friend and Unforgotten.

SRCT · 11/05/2025 18:08

For all Mankind, on Apple - superb twist on the last 65 years of recent history, built around the space race (but it’s not full on sci-fi per se, so don’t worry!)

TheTester2 · 11/05/2025 18:10

Mr Bates v the post office & The Thief, his wife and the Canoe were v well done.