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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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Boutonnière · 11/05/2025 23:38

Blue Lights
Seaside Hotel ( Danish, on Walter PresentsC4)
Happy Valley

justasking111 · 11/05/2025 23:39

BobbySox71 · 11/05/2025 22:13

Any of the Yellowstone series
Blue Bloods, Tom Selleck is still great and love the family dynamics

I only discovered Blue Bloods last year. Was wonderful. Have just finished all the Jesse Stone movies. Tom Selleck perfect.

ChessorBuckaroo · 11/05/2025 23:43

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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OP. Hello. Still celebrating this "quietly beautiful" whitewashing depiction of ethnic cleansing?

https://medium.com/@visableblackwoman/tv-series-review-yellowstone-a-violent-nighttime-soap-that-celebrates-white-dominance-508ca219cd74

"Sheridan and his writing team consistently justify what Europeans have done to steal and maintain power and use examples of peoples who Europeans have colonized, enslaved, and committed genocide against to make his points about power and dominance, trying to make it seem like it’s human nature to act the way Europeans did as they conquered places that were happy, free and minding their own business. This show reminds me how skilled white men are at crafting stories to support white dominance, even as they show how fucked up the whole system is they portray white people as victims while condemning non white folks who call out injustice as lazy complainers looking for handouts.

America is constantly humanizing the evil actions of white folks. America constantly gives white people the benefit of the doubt and easily turns white people into victims or people everyone else is supposed to forgive easily. America easily overlooks the fact that Europeans dehumanized enslaved Africans and Native Americans in order to create a caste system in order to solidify their wealth and power for generations. Our culture automatically expects anyone who isn’t white to give comfort, care, and sacrifice in order to help white people and their obsession with control, and Yellowstone reflects that culture of care for white folks clearly. All of the age-old tropes that support white dominance are in Yellowstone. The writers of this show are super smart but I’m not clear on what their point is. There are a lot of gray areas, but it is clear to me the show gives this new level of whitewashed yet nuanced version of America. Yellowstone and its spinoffs are wildly entertaining propaganda encouraging white people to believe in manifest destiny, twenty-first century style."

TV Review: Yellowstone A Violent Celebration of White Dominance

The limited series 1883 was nominated for a SAG/AFTRA award; as a member, I had to watch it. After watching the limited series, I…

https://medium.com/@visableblackwoman/tv-series-review-yellowstone-a-violent-nighttime-soap-that-celebrates-white-dominance-508ca219cd74

justasking111 · 11/05/2025 23:50

I didn't know about the sterilisation of native American women until Dark Winds. I then started reading about it.

I remember a surgeon my parents knew who had carried out sterilisation of women during the birth of their umpteenth baby without the husbands knowledge. He knew another baby would kill them he said. This would have been pre pill.

Nonbio46 · 12/05/2025 00:13

Kin
Reacher
The other one
Sorry, it’s not within the last 5 years but I absolutely loved Seven seconds which was on Netflix.

Muddlingalongsomehow · 12/05/2025 00:31

My Brilliant Friend. Best series I've ever watched, not just last five years. By a long way.

ChessorBuckaroo · 12/05/2025 00:36

Whilst the ignoramuses celebrate stories of ethnic cleansing (Yellowstone, 1883, and other similar whitewashing shite) which as MLK stated "exalt" the shameful history of the white settler entity, here is a true moving image, of "quiet dignity", a statue that depicts a Native woman, a "savage", cowering as she gazes upward at the white coloniser Columbus.

Then white settler president James Buchannan described the statue as representing..."the great discoverer when he first bounded with ecstasy upon the shore, all his toils past, presenting a hemisphere to the astonished world, with the name America inscribed upon it. Whilst he is thus standing upon the shore, a female savage, with awe and wonder depicted in her countenance, is gazing upon him."

A statue commissioned by the white settler government in 1836 (and one that also stood outside the Capitol building), "Columbus stands boldly, displaying the success of white settlers in taking possession of the New World as the Indian acknowledges his superiority and draws back, wide-eyed."

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

The Discovery of America (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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

UncertainPerson · 12/05/2025 03:35

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Dying for Sex on Disney Plus. It’s the best story of female friendship I’ve seen on screen for years. Highly recommend!

Awaywiththefairies078 · 12/05/2025 04:55

The Good Place is a fantastic series - Netflix

Flinderskleepers · 12/05/2025 06:30

This Country (I think that's within the last 5 years?)

JulesJules · 12/05/2025 06:55

The Detectorists - just perfect
Squid Game
Upstart Crow (came to it late for some reason)

Also really enjoyed Ludwig

XxSideshowAuntSallyx · 12/05/2025 07:28

CommonAsMucklowe · 11/05/2025 18:13

I know I'm in the minority here but I really didn't like it at all.

I think it's lost its way a little. It's one of those things where I think they've done one too many series just because they had the audience for it.

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 11/05/2025 19:11

I also really rated Godless. The singing at the beginning is haunting. 1883 has a similar haunting quality.

I could not stand yellowstone, and I adore kevin Costner. But 1883 was excellent so good that I watched 1927 after and maybe ill go back and watch yellowstone now.

BobbySox71 · 12/05/2025 09:10

justasking111 · 11/05/2025 23:39

I only discovered Blue Bloods last year. Was wonderful. Have just finished all the Jesse Stone movies. Tom Selleck perfect.

I grew up in the 80s and loved the original Magnum PI, great to see Tom Selleck as good as ever

BlueFlowers5 · 12/05/2025 09:14

Wolf Hall and the Mirror and the Light..

Callipygion · 12/05/2025 09:15

Arran2024 · 11/05/2025 21:10

I would also mention The Chelsea Detective, with Adrian Scarborough, though it's on Acorn tv so not that accessible.

And I loved Strike, based on the JK Rowling books.

And The White Lotus, especially series 2

I’ve been watching The Chelsea Detective recently and I’ve not got Netflix or anything like that, so it must be on U or maybe Channel 4/5 catch-ups.

CatHairEveryWhereNow · 12/05/2025 09:18

Dead boy detectives - netflick but was watching with my teens - same with Wednesday.

Severance - plan to watch second series after exams.

First two series of West world. All but last season of Umbrella academy.

Mr Bates and The Post Office - was good but infuriating.

Quite liked Bodies on Netflix.

Black Sails is out of the time period but is bloody good but only saw it on a streaming service few years ago.

CatHairEveryWhereNow · 12/05/2025 09:19

The Good Place is a fantastic series

Definitely agree with this.

Stumbleine · 12/05/2025 09:26

This is us

Ozark

Schitt's Creek

Derry Girls

Stumbleine · 12/05/2025 09:27

Forgot - Dead to me

Spidey66 · 12/05/2025 09:27

It's a Sin

justasking111 · 12/05/2025 09:32

BobbySox71 · 12/05/2025 09:10

I grew up in the 80s and loved the original Magnum PI, great to see Tom Selleck as good as ever

I'm recording the old Magnum pi series. 😁

Justwantedtosayrightnow · 12/05/2025 09:43

Ozark
Good girls
Power
Yellowstone
Sharp objects
(Just started watching succession, seems to be most popular choice, although I had never heard of it before ! )

LittleBitofBread · 12/05/2025 09:51

Succession <gavel>

Actually probably the best thing I've ever watched on TV.

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