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Recommendations for serious dramas and light-hearted series to stream

9 replies

toomanyhobbies · 19/08/2026 21:26

Need some new series to watch. Want serious stuff and light hearted things. Have Now, Prime, Netflix and Disney+
Likes
Gilmore girls
death in Paridise
Bergac
dexter
stranger things
reacher
morse
sherlock
the wire
only murderrs in the building
Bones
NCIS
Nashville

couldn’t get in to Ozarks or breaking bad. Loved the old bbc/itv cop/mystery series so anything like that. Also looking for more light hearted easy watches. Thanks

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bitontheobtuse · 19/08/2026 21:46

Have you watched New Tricks right from the beginning?

lalalagarden · 19/08/2026 21:47

Crow Girl is excellent

lalalagarden · 19/08/2026 21:48

Yellowstone was also very good

Silverbirchleaf · 20/08/2026 18:15

Shakespeare and Hathaway - superb series

I Jack Wright

both BBC

ClaireEclair · 21/08/2026 16:49

Downton Abbey and The Gilded Age? Both are quite light hearted.
New Girl, Brooklyn 99, Poirot, Strike.

Simonjt · 21/08/2026 16:50

Deadboy detectives is good

MissyB1 · 21/08/2026 16:56

lalalagarden · 19/08/2026 21:47

Crow Girl is excellent

I agree with this! Also
Van der Valk
Annika (Nicola Walker is always great!)
Unforgotten
Ludwig

Silverbirchleaf · 21/08/2026 17:14

Hustle - from a few years back now but really good series.

Yamyamabroad · 21/08/2026 17:19

I'm rewatching and really enjoying "Last Tango in Halifax" - streaming from U and Drama. Its a great family drama with many twists and turns with some fabulous actors - Derek Jacobi, Ann Reid, Sarah Lancashire and Nicola Walker star in it. Written by Sally Wainwright so you know its going to be brilliant

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