tv-definitely-worth-your-time, a list by cj0r

9.1

/4761/

87

/436/

85

/64/

4.4

/3588/

100

/9/

88

/4/

Journeying to the far reaches of our planet, this eight part series follows some of the world's most amazing species, telling extraordinary stories that are dramatic, thrilling, funny and sometimes heart-breaking, but always full of hope.

89

9.0

/429720/

89

/19912/

87

/5579/

100

/65/

87

86

/9/

age 14+

Amid the stark discord of twin cities Piltover and Zaun, two sisters fight on rival sides of a war between magic technologies and clashing convictions.

89

8.9

/36501/

85

/977/

83

/389/

4.5

/90749/

93

/120/

94

85

/28/

4.0

age 13+

The three-part documentary series, compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage, captures the warmth, camaraderie, and creative genius that defined the legacy of music's most iconic foursome. The series also includes – for the first time in its entirety – The Beatles' final performance at London's Savile Row.

93

89

9.0

/3391/

85

/305/

87

/71/

4.2

/946/

100

/7/

100

age 11+

A unique fusion of blue chip natural history and earth science that explains how our living planet operates. This five-part series shows how the forces of nature drive, shape and support Earth’s great diversity of wildlife.

88

IMDb 6

9.1

/63768/

89

/809/

86

/154/

98

/34/

95

71

/5/

age 16+

Two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey are bound by ambition, rivalry, and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh faced rookies evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self-discovery. Over the next eight years, as they chase glory on the ice, they struggle to navigate their feelings for each other. Torn between the sport they live for and the love they can’t ignore, they must decide if there’s room in their fiercely competitive world for something as fragile – and powerful – as real love.

88

8.7

/50478/

84

/2372/

85

/616/

99

/76/

91

82

/14/

age 14+

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

88

8.5

/91169/

84

/4221/

85

/1628/

98

/147/

95

81

/39/

age 14+

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

88

8.6

/40291/

84

/1297/

79

/215/

4.3

/31294/

97

/78/

92

91

/26/

age 17+

A chronicle of five friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

87

IMDb 4

8.9

/96302/

87

/4550/

87

/367/

97

/116/

83

84

/56/

age 15+

The staff of Pittsburgh's Trauma Medical Center work around the clock to save lives in an overcrowded and underfunded emergency department.

87

8.5

/17753/

83

/1242/

84

/229/

100

/28/

91

80

/6/

age 14+

Former high school lab partners Marshall and Frances begin to unravel a conspiracy involving big pharma and the federal government to suppress knowledge of a rare mushroom that may hold the key to curing all the world’s diseases.

87

8.4

/15004/

81

/573/

79

/107/

4.2

/4285/

100

/36/

95

83

/17/

3.5

age 14+

Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne’s Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.

87

8.6

/12055/

79

/627/

77

/58/

100

/21/

94

age 16+

Foul-mouthed, chirp-serving, mother-loving, fan favourite character, Shoresy, joins the Sudbury Bulldogs of the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization (The NOSHO) on a quest to never lose again.

87

8.7

/298643/

84

/13201/

86

/5228/

99

/151/

92

76

/36/

age 17+

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father’s tutelage.

87

8.3

/27860/

79

/1595/

79

/311/

99

/142/

91

89

/54/

age 14+

Four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.

87

9.0

/82872/

84

/3633/

85

/363/

97

/29/

97

70

/17/

age 14+

Follow Jeremy Clarkson as he embarks on his latest adventure, farming. The man who on several occasions claims to be allergic to manual labour takes on the most manually labour intensive job there is. What could possibly go wrong?

86

8.5

/20115/

85

/1909/

80

/211/

100

/17/

94

77

/10/

age 14+

A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.

86

8.4

/12310/

80

/1115/

83

/471/

91

/38/

96

85

/11/

age 8+

Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back 66 million years to when majestic dinosaurs and extraordinary creatures roamed the lands, seas, and skies.

86

8.7

/10982/

84

/801/

87

/293/

4.4

/27141/

100

/10/

83

78

/5/

age 14+

Fionna and Cake – with the help of the former Ice King, Simon Petrikov - embark on a multiverse-hopping adventure and journey of self-discovery. All the while a powerful new antagonist determined to track them down and erase them from existence, lurks in the shadows.

86

8.5

/35798/

82

/1954/

80

/237/

96

/103/

89

87

/45/

age 13+

With a construction crew, a legion of actors, and seemingly unlimited resources, Nathan Fielder allows ordinary people to prepare for life’s biggest moments by “rehearsing” them in carefully crafted simulations of his own design. When a single misstep could shatter your entire world, why leave life to chance?

86

8.4

/52306/

81

/2995/

81

/563/

100

/70/

94

81

/12/

age 15+

They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.

86

8.3

/21984/

80

/1021/

76

/149/

4.4

/23160/

96

/45/

92

91

/20/

age 15+

The unvarnished truth of life as a doctor working in obstetrics and gynaecology.

86

8.3

/17906/

79

/648/

71

/72/

100

/76/

94

89

/26/

age 14+

Sam is a true Kansan on the surface but beneath it all struggles to fit the hometown mold. As she grapples with loss and acceptance, singing is Sam’s saving grace and leads her on a journey to discover herself and a community of outsiders that don’t fit in but don’t give up, showing that finding your people, and finding your voice, is possible. Anywhere. Somewhere.

86

8.4

/216487/

82

/7427/

82

/1576/

4.2

/128413/

95

/132/

94

81

/42/

age 16+

A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.

86

IMDb 74

8.6

/263330/

84

/12466/

82

/1810/

96

/146/

89

84

/65/

age 14+

In an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue, Cassian Andor will discover the difference he can make in the struggle against the tyrannical Galactic Empire. He embarks on a path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.

86

IMDb 31

8.7

/369100/

86

/19854/

83

/2369/

95

/242/

80

85

/82/

age 15+

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

85

IMDb 91

9.0

/123408/

85

/3348/

85

/387/

95

/44/

90

65

/17/

age 16+

Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma to find Harrison gone without a trace. Realizing the weight of what he put his son through, Dexter sets out for New York City, determined to find him and make things right. But closure won't come easy. When Miami Metro's Angel Batista arrives with questions, Dexter realizes his past is catching up to him fast. As father and son navigate their own darkness in the city that never sleeps, they soon find themselves deeper than they ever imagined - and that the only way out is together.

85

IMDb 79

8.1

/275689/

76

/11962/

78

/1325/

4.1

/1017884/

97

/113/

74

91

/29/

4.0

age 15+

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?

86

85

IMDb 86

8.5

/9808/

80

/407/

78

/47/

100

/22/

92

80

/7/

age 16+

When a powerful arcane relic known as 'The Beacon' falls into nefarious hands, a group of fugitives and outcasts, bound by secrets and scars, must learn to work together to save the realm and stop reality as they know it from unraveling.

85

8.1

/137859/

80

/4741/

80

/888/

4.1

/44366/

98

/81/

95

80

/29/

3.5

age 17+

As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

85

IMDb 43

8.3

/139030/

83

/6515/

79

/742/

97

/215/

87

82

/89/

age 16+

Follow a dysfunctional team of MI5 agents—and their obnoxious boss, the notorious Jackson Lamb—as they navigate the espionage world's smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

84

8.4

/15614/

79

/599/

79

/69/

3.9

/3396/

95

/20/

91

80

/8/

age 13+

The story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

84

8.2

/17410/

80

/714/

84

/176/

4.3

/33322/

90

/47/

90

76

/25/

3.5

age 16+

A chronicle of a decades-long volatile romance between two men — from their first meeting during the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare to the AIDS crises of the 1980s.

84

8.0

/158497/

79

/6408/

77

/828/

4.2

/346845/

98

/125/

87

86

/35/

3.5

age 15+

A road rage incident between two strangers — a failing contractor and an unfulfilled entrepreneur — sparks a feud that brings out their darkest impulses.

87

84

8.7

/4149/

80

/334/

77

/53/

4.2

/6540/

100

/14/

94

age 14+

When George Lucas set out to make Star Wars, little did he know he would end up revolutionizing an industry. This is the story of a team of creative geniuses who put the magic in the movies we love.

84

8.1

/43236/

77

/2090/

79

/446/

3.9

/38783/

100

/22/

92

78

/6/

age 10+

Journey into the lives of two distinctly different Jedi from the prequel era – Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku. Each will be put to the test as they make choices that will define their destinies.

84

8.6

/226305/

84

/8137/

84

/1189/

4.5

/231945/

95

/115/

85

72

/41/

age 15+

With the city in peril following the seawall's collapse, Oswald "Oz" Cobb seeks to fill the power vacuum left by the death of Carmine Falcone and finally give his mother Francis the life he's always promised. But first, Oz must confront his enemies and his own demoralizing reputation as "the Penguin."

87

84

9.2

/5525/

85

/314/

83

/63/

4.3

/4859/

91

/4/

In official collaboration with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, this documentary series takes viewers through harrowing moments of the historic morning of September 11, 2001.

84

8.2

/49953/

79

/2859/

74

/251/

99

/90/

89

83

/39/

age 5+

In this workplace comedy, a group of dedicated, passionate teachers — and a slightly tone-deaf principal — are brought together in a Philadelphia public school where, despite the odds stacked against them, they are determined to help their students succeed in life. Though these incredible public servants may be outnumbered and underfunded, they love what they do — even if they don’t love the school district’s less-than-stellar attitude toward educating children.

84

8.2

/60111/

80

/2535/

74

/305/

99

/220/

84

87

/91/

age 16+

Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.

84

8.2

/35811/

80

/1544/

77

/170/

100

/25/

86

79

/13/

age 16+

The dramatised account of how the world’s greatest Special Forces unit, the SAS, was formed under extraordinary circumstances in the darkest days of World War Two.

86

84

8.0

/5654/

75

/330/

78

/323/

3.9

/4642/

100

/16/

91

90

/6/

age 7+

A spirited princess with the heart of a warrior embarks on a mission to fulfill an ancient prophecy and save humanity from the wrath of vengeful gods.

84

8.4

/17563/

80

/960/

78

/234/

97

/102/

92

87

/51/

3.0

age 13+

This sweeping saga chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in an indomitable quest to survive and thrive.

84

IMDb 5

8.3

/362345/

81

/15339/

81

/2353/

95

/194/

95

73

/55/

age 16+

The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

84

8.3

/117505/

81

/3479/

79

/837/

4.3

/140701/

94

/49/

88

82

/19/

age 14+

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

83

8.1

/20504/

78

/855/

76

/89/

97

/33/

87

78

/20/

age 13+

John Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of 'Ludwig'. When his identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother's identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.

83

8.0

/14765/

76

/659/

74

/81/

100

/51/

87