Shows of the Ages, a list by helcat_

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/124/

71

80

/56/

age 17+

In the cutthroat world of international finance, a group of young graduates compete for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London. The boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs and ego as it is by deals and dividends.

87

8.5

/23399/

82

/1221/

80

/258/

100

/50/

90

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

79

8.0

/94517/

80

/4132/

76

/391/

92

/133/

73

77

/60/

age 15+

Amid an international crisis, a US diplomat contends with her high-profile job as ambassador to the UK and her strained marriage to a political star.

86

8.3

/29044/

80

/970/

76

/291/

4.2

/15656/

94

/62/

95

89

/34/

age 14+

A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's approach to parenting; and other members of their community.

79

7.8

/11604/

74

/886/

70

/126/

94

/54/

87

71

/35/

age 15+

Josh Greenberg is a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love. When his longtime girlfriend dumps him, Josh enters the dating scene, a nightmarish hellscape of untold horror. Despite the agony, Josh continues his search in the hopes of finding someone who will make all the misery worth it.

74

7.6

/30710/

73

/1417/

72

/352/

80

/117/

77

69

/58/

age 17+

Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.

75

7.7

/22653/

73

/1059/

72

/144/

3.7

/2838/

78

/45/

84

68

/20/

age 17+

Tensions run high between African American citizens and Caucasian cops in Jersey City when a teenage African American boy is critically injured by a cop.

85

8.5

/30663/

83

/1262/

79

/196/

90

/86/

98

77

/59/

age 14+

A raw and authentic look into the Los Angeles crime scene, going far inside the lives of cops, criminals, victims and their families. The show centers on four main characters: Officer John Cooper, a seasoned cop who will have to prove himself again after recovering from surgery; Officer Ben Sherman, who still has much to learn after recently completing his training rotation; Detective Lydia Adams, whose unending caseload hits closer to home; and Sammy Bryant, a former detective who decided to go back to being a uniform cop after the traumatic death of his partner.

77

7.8

/60513/

75

/3026/

73

/937/

87

/115/

78

76

/37/

age 14+

A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.

85

8.5

/303695/

84

/16438/

82

/2768/

93

/163/

94

77

/61/

age 16+

Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

83

8.6

/277733/

82

/9440/

82

/2274/

81

/553/

92

78

/181/

age 15+

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

77

7.8

/13001/

74

/727/

69

/161/

88

/17/

83

71

/9/

Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.

76

7.8

/79951/

78

/2966/

74

/229/

87

/109/

72

69

/49/

age 15+

An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall in love, but can their relationship survive their wildly different lives and meddling families?

79

IMDb 62

7.8

/163346/

79

/8832/

82

/2308/

96

/53/

80

63

/11/

age 16+

Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

82

8.1

/31441/

77

/561/

75

/243/

4.3

/21903/

91

/32/

90

Follow six New Yorkers whose lives intersect amidst the AIDS crisis and the rapidly changing socio-political climate of 1985.

81

IMDb 27

8.3

/378734/

82

/25194/

75

/2457/

85

/264/

85

81

/143/

age 17+

CIA officer Carrie Mathison is tops in her field despite being bipolar, which makes her volatile and unpredictable. With the help of her long-time mentor Saul Berenson, Carrie fearlessly risks everything, including her personal well-being and even sanity, at every turn.

89

8.9

/36522/

85

/977/

83

/389/

4.5

/90749/

93

/120/

94

85

/28/

RogerEbert

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.

76

8.2

/158752/

82

/8259/

85

/3518/

84

/51/

72

52

/16/

age 14+

The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.

86

8.5

/179555/

83

/17131/

81

/1832/

94

/186/

93

84

/79/

age 15+

In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. Partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late ‘80s, Silicon Valley is an American sitcom that centers around six programmers who are living together and trying to make it big in the Silicon Valley.

83

8.0

/23769/

77

/1268/

71

/154/

98

/41/

91

age 17+

After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.

82

8.3

/196817/

81

/8937/

81

/2754/

90

/132/

85

76

/68/

age 17+

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

80

IMDb 67

8.3

/501364/

81

/17478/

83

/5657/

87

/100/

77

71

/83/

age 17+

The Targaryen dynasty is at the absolute apex of its power, with more than 15 dragons under their yoke. Most empires crumble from such heights. In the case of the Targaryens, their slow fall begins when King Viserys breaks with a century of tradition by naming his daughter Rhaenyra heir to the Iron Throne. But when Viserys later fathers a son, the court is shocked when Rhaenyra retains her status as his heir, and seeds of division sow friction across the realm.

77

7.6

/359024/

76

/15140/

80

/3760/

89

/275/

70

73

/89/

age 16+

A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.

72

7.5

/11318/

71

/651/

61

/69/

81

/38/

80

67

/30/

age 16+

Kevin Corcoran is a rugged young Irish immigrant policeman trying to keep the peace in the historical Five Points neighborhood in 1860s New York City while searching for information on the disappearance of his wife and death of his daughter.

85

8.4

/101942/

79

/4492/

75

/1021/

97

/93/

94

age 15+

An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.

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78

7.7

/10771/

72

/422/

75

/65/

3.8

/1108/

87

/15/

88

76

/8/

age 16+

Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.

81

7.5

/37227/

79

/2006/

74

/320/

99

/100/

78

83

/44/

age 15+

A century-old vampire from New Orleans reunites with an ailing journalist to recount his life of bloodlust and his tumultuous relationship with the rakish Frenchman who turned him.

83

8.5

/308673/

84

/22496/

79

/1962/

88

/234/

88

74

/76/

age 14+

Follow the lives of a group of students at what is possibly the world’s worst community college in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado.

82

7.9

/125611/

79

/13003/

76

/1750/

96

/144/

89

74

/32/

age 14+

A modern-day drama about a crime-solving duo that cracks the NYPD's most impossible cases. Following his fall from grace in London and a stint in rehab, eccentric Sherlock escapes to Manhattan where his wealthy father forces him to live with his worst nightmare - a sober companion, Dr. Watson.

77

7.9

/21969/

76

/761/

72

/126/

3.9

/6623/

87

/15/

85

68

/4/

age 15+

A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the looming dangers that threaten his family.

87

IMDb 69

8.8

/343670/

86

/12001/

83

/1488/

95

/343/

88

86

/111/

age 16+

Follow the lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.

81

8.0

/122156/

79

/8285/

80

/2187/

4.2

/81309/

86

/164/

94

67

/37/

age 13+

Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces in order to prevent Armageddon. They attempt to raise the Antichrist in a balanced and human way, but are they focusing their efforts in the right direction?

83

8.6

/521317/

83

/25564/

82

/4961/

92

/198/

89

72

/41/

age 15+

Lawyer-by-day Matt Murdock uses his heightened senses from being blinded as a young boy to fight crime at night on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen as Daredevil.

77

7.6

/20015/

74

/553/

76

/121/

82

/49/

85

69

/21/

The spirited and impulsive Charlotte Heywood moves from her rural home to Sanditon, a fishing village attempting to reinvent itself as a seaside resort.

76

7.8

/16081/

76

/581/

72

/125/

75

/15/

84

74

/11/

age 14+

Detective Inspector Chandler investigates copycat killers in London's East End.

79

7.5

/82820/

73

/5764/

71

/593/

96

/159/

84

80

/63/

age 14+

When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.

82

8.1

/29731/

79

/2439/

73

/239/

95

/125/

89

77

/58/

age 17+

Narcissistic, brash, and self-destructive Jimmy Shive-Overly thinks all relationships are doomed. Cynical, people-pleasing, and stubborn Gretchen Cutler knows that relationships aren't for her. So when they meet at a wedding, it's only natural that the two of them go home together.

84

8.5

/532481/

82

/28487/

78

/3172/

85

/108/

90

87

/30/

age 13+

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.

82

8.2

/38953/

79

/2140/

74

/222/

93

/85/

91

78

/51/

age 15+

A group of struggling actors and dysfunctional dreamers wait for their big break while they are stuck serving hors d'oeurves for a Hollywood catering company 'Party Down.'

79

8.0

/28923/

79

/1399/

77

/268/

3.9

/2492/

96

/54/

72

72

/24/

age 17+

When soldier Shaun Emery's conviction for a murder in Afghanistan is overturned due to flawed video evidence, he returns to life as a free man with his young daughter. But when damning CCTV footage from a night out in London comes to light, Shaun's life takes a shocking turn and he must soon fight for his freedom once again.

79

7.7

/19228/

73

/753/

71

/128/

4.0

/11175/

87

/55/

80

79

/30/

RogerEbert

3.5

age 15+

Recently separated forty-something Toby Fleishman dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth. But just at the start of his first summer of sexual freedom, his ex-wife disappears, leaving him with the kids and no hint of where she is or whether she plans to return.

80

7.7

/10340/

76

/873/

70

/128/

91

/45/

90

79

/32/

age 14+

Set against the backdrop of the greatest clandestine race against time in the history of science with the mission to build the world's first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Flawed scientists and their families attempt to co-exist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

78

7.8

/37604/

75

/2337/

71

/197/

80

/87/

90

age 15+

A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.

74

7.8

/41384/

78

/2759/

69

/201/

76

/51/

85

61

/27/

age 14+

A fresh and funny take on modern friendship and what one urban family will do to stay friends after the perfect couple who brought them all together break up on their wedding day. The failed wedding forces them all to question their life choices. Then there are Alex and Dave themselves, who strike a truce and must learn to live with the changes their breakup has brought.

86

8.6

/21820/

82

/779/

82

/142/

99

/46/

86

84

/27/

age 10+

The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.

85

8.3

/24248/

81

/905/

78

/410/

91

/32/

96

In this cult parody of cop dramas, replete with farce and sight gags, Lieutenant Frank Drebin and his fellow officers from Police Squad bungle their way though crime investigations.

92

IMDb 57

9.3

/422897/

91

/17764/

86

/2530/

95

/149/

96

91

/95/

age 18+

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

85

8.0

/71205/

77

/5174/

76

/820/

100

/15/