A Danish prime minister and the cost of power; the political series Scandinavia exported.
Who killed Laura Palmer? Lynch and Frost's town of cherry pie and owls.
Elena and Lila from a Naples courtyard through four novels; Ferrante on HBO and RAI.
A teenager gets his father's powers and learns what his father is; the animated superhero series with teeth.
An Israeli undercover unit in the West Bank; the series both sides watched.
A detective in the Weimar Berlin of 1929; Germany's most expensive series.
A young Hasidic woman flees Brooklyn for Berlin; four episodes from Deborah Feldman's memoir.
Five families on one Seoul street in 1988; the K-drama people cry over.
Five siblings and the house that will not let them go; the hidden ghosts in every frame.
A South Korean heiress paraglides into North Korea and a captain hides her; the K-drama gateway.
A tiny Shinjuku diner open from midnight and the regulars' dishes; the calmest series on Netflix.
A Paris talent agency and its stars playing themselves; Dix pour cent.
Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.
A maximum-security prison in Emerald City; HBO's first drama and the model for everything after.
Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.
Sorkin's Bartlet administration and the walk-and-talk; the fantasy of competent government.
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.
Joel and Ellie across a fungus-ravaged America; the video game adaptation that worked.
A financial adviser launders cartel money at a Missouri lake; Jason Bateman and Laura Linney.
A comedian and his stalker, from the true story of Richard Gadd; the Netflix surprise of 2024.
Rich guests at a luxury resort and a body by the finale; Hawaii, Sicily, Thailand.
Kate Winslet as a Pennsylvania detective in a town she cannot leave; the hoagie and the accent.
One year at a Michigan high school in 1980; eighteen episodes and every future star.
A motorcycle club in California as Hamlet; Charlie Hunnam and Katey Sagal.
County General in Chicago for fifteen seasons; George Clooney and the steadicam trauma bay.
Two percent of the world vanishes and the rest cannot cope; the series about grief without answers.
Issa Rae in South Los Angeles through her late twenties; five seasons of friendship.
How the Rebellion was built, without a Jedi in sight; the Star Wars series for adults.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge talks to the camera through grief and a hot priest; two perfect seasons.
Derek Jacobi as the stammering emperor and Sian Phillips as Livia; the BBC's 1976 Rome.
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