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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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Livingbeyondyourmemes · 10/05/2025 22:42

Throwawayyyy · 10/05/2025 21:34

The Detectorists. It’s amazing, the writing, the acting, the soundtrack. I wish I could go back and watch it for the first time again, it’s beautiful.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. The Detectorists is perfect in every way.

I'll add:

Mum;
Life After;
After Life;
Fleabag;
Hacks;
Stranger Things;
Unbelievable;
Dopesick;

IndigoBluey · 10/05/2025 22:42

Ozark, Succession and Motherland.

MonOncle · 10/05/2025 22:42

Succession would be my favourite, I also loved Shogun last year.

GlitchStitch · 10/05/2025 22:42

dapsnotplimsolls · 10/05/2025 22:38

Mindhunter - I'm sure I've read that they are going to make another series after all.

I wish they would! There are always stories online about it, last I read was the budget was too big and the creator didn't want to compromise quality to save money. Surprised another company hasn't picked it up though, it has a really big fan base.

Autumnismyfave · 10/05/2025 22:43

Kin
Handmaids Tale
Ozark
White Lotus
Happy Valley
Your Honor

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 10/05/2025 22:45

Anne

MR bates v the post office

Both show what a shower of shit successive governments have been. The innocent taking on the establishment. Hopefully the Hillsborough law will come in and be helpful if there's any further atrocities.

It's maddening that no-one thought why would ao many post masters suddenly go rogue.

Anne Williams what a woman she was it's juts a shame she died before the truth came out.

LilacPony · 10/05/2025 22:45

Fleishman Is in Trouble - I’ve never heard anyone else ever talk about it. But it’s incredible!! Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan. If you’re reading this, honestly go find it now on Disney+.

Picklelily99 · 10/05/2025 22:45

justasking111 · 10/05/2025 22:29

Watched it twice now. So good.

Watched 3x episodes on my own, thought husband would like it, so watched from beginning again. Told youngest daughter, and we only got 3x episodes before she went back home. Meanwhile, eldest daughter is home for a visit, so we've binge watched! Youngest is due home soon, and we intend to binge watch from the beginning again! Lucy Liu was superb, but how brilliant was Ginnifer Goodwin?

Chumpfriend · 10/05/2025 22:46

Lupin
Modern Family
Ted Lasso

ChessorBuckaroo · 10/05/2025 22:50

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

"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".

Facebook labels declaration of independence as 'hate speech'

The website told a local newspaper they violated its community guidelines by posting the original document

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

MrsTigerface · 10/05/2025 22:53

There is a possibility that not all of these are within the 5 year time frame, as described by the OP but lockdown sort of forced us into watching things we haven’t before. Here goes…

This Is Us (Prime) - we bloody loved it. A bit schmaltzy here and here, yes, but epic. And, if you haven’t seen it, will keep you going for weeks on end if binged watched. I might actually do it again…

Vikings (Prime) - I only agreed to watch this as DH banged on about it, but it was great. This one might keep you going for months, there are so many series.

What We Do In The Shadows (iPlayer) - OMG! We are now uber fans. This is amazing. Annoyingly, the most recent series are now NOT via BBC and are on something else we don’t subscribe to, so we haven’t seen them. But if you’ve never seen this please, please watch it. It’s so good.

Detectorists (iPlayer) - we couldn’t recall why we hadn’t watched it first time round but it kept us sane in lockdown. Genius stuff. Really genius.

Life In Pieces (Prime) - very American but very funny, we really enjoyed it.

Sneaky Pete (Prime) - very good stuff. Clever and funny.

There must be more but I can’t think of them now…

Lourdes12 · 10/05/2025 22:55

Black bird
Presumed innocent
The let down (if you liked motherland watch this)
To the lake
Behind her eyes

Open your eyes

CoastalCalm · 10/05/2025 22:55

Loved mad men , succession and Yellowstone

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 10/05/2025 22:58

Throwawayyyy · 10/05/2025 21:34

The Detectorists. It’s amazing, the writing, the acting, the soundtrack. I wish I could go back and watch it for the first time again, it’s beautiful.

I absolutely LOVE The Detectorists, I can completely lose myself in it.

Bad Sisters is brilliant as is Unforgotten.

CraftandGlamour · 10/05/2025 22:59

Severance
Succession
The Boys
The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
Fisk
The Morning Show
Ghosts
The Other One
Patriot (season one)

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 10/05/2025 23:00

Motherland and Amandaland.

Flozle · 10/05/2025 23:00

Ted Lasso
Bad sisters
Slow Horses
Motherland
SAS Rogue Heroes
Ozark
Shrinking
sucession

fragrancefriend · 10/05/2025 23:01

Yes Dark was fantastic! Also love the Handmaids Tale. After Life by Ricky Gervais is also amazing.

Shetlands · 10/05/2025 23:01

I can't choose between:
Succession
Happy Valley
Line of Duty
The West Wing (first time viewer last year)

CraftandGlamour · 10/05/2025 23:01

And Call My Agent - the French one not the terrible anglosphere remake.

Devilmentpleassure · 10/05/2025 23:01

The Handmaid’s Tale. Second Slow Horses.

i seen Succession and Severance and I don’t rate either.

cheesecakewrestler · 10/05/2025 23:02

Masters of the Air
which then made us watch the others in the series: Band of Brothers and Pacific

PoisedGoldBiscuit · 10/05/2025 23:04

This is us
Trying
Black mirror
Working moms
Motherland

steff13 · 10/05/2025 23:05

Ted Lasso. Shrinking. Corner Gas (old, but I just discovered it). Cross.

steff13 · 10/05/2025 23:05

Shetlands · 10/05/2025 23:01

I can't choose between:
Succession
Happy Valley
Line of Duty
The West Wing (first time viewer last year)

I just watched The West Wing for the first time a couple of years ago. Beautifully written.

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