Tv Shows over 8.0, a list by Mark Gauci

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71

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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.

80

8.1

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78

/700/

86

/68/

87

/23/

77

71

/16/

age 16+

From the battlefields of World War I to the rugged Highlands of 18th century Scotland, two fated couples must defy the forces that seek to tear them apart, unfolding in surprising and unforeseen ways in this romantic saga that unfolds across time.

85

IMDb 91

9.0

/123408/

85

/3348/

85

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/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.

78

8.1

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77

/4425/

79

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87

/116/

78

69

/32/

age 15+

Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk pursues his own political endeavors in New York. When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.

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79

8.0

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76

/382/

80

/127/

4.1

/14650/

88

/32/

90

68

/14/

age 8+

As a championship game looms, eight characters are thrown a curveball in their off-the-field lives.

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.

73

8.2

/60669/

78

/3283/

82

/348/

70

/14/

78

50

/6/

age 16+

In 1991 Miami, Dexter Morgan transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry, he adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated from society without getting on law enforcements' radar. This is a particular challenge for young Dexter as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.

72

IMDb 7

8.2

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80

/2974/

80

/360/

78

/59/

54

62

/28/

age 15+

Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West-Texas and a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires that are fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our climate, our economy and our geopolitics.

82

8.2

/15375/

78

/730/

74

/92/

4.2

/11241/

94

/52/

87

80

/23/

age 15+

Through the eyes of various Irish Republican Army (IRA) members, explore the extremes some people will go to in the name of their beliefs, the way a deeply divided society can suddenly tip over into armed conflict, the long shadow of radical violence for both victims and perpetrators, and the emotional and psychological costs of a code of silence.

71

8.0

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78

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80

/135/

4.0

/4388/

77

/35/

75

60

/17/

2.0

age 16+

The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.

84

IMDb 5

8.3

/362345/

81

/15339/

81

/2353/

95

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95

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/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.

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8.1

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78

/2106/

79

/357/

4.2

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86

/136/

82

76

/43/

age 15+

A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

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.

85

82

8.4

/6349/

82

/348/

78

/36/

4.0

/2594/

100

/6/

83

age 14+

With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.

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.

81

80

8.2

/6943/

81

/456/

80

/89/

4.1

/3097/

age 15+

Through vividly enhanced archival footage and voices from all sides of the conflict, this docuseries brings WWII to life like never before.

84

8.2

/17385/

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.

69

8.1

/7380/

79

/550/

80

/187/

3.8

/4356/

50

/6/

69

55

/5/

age 8+

Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.

81

78

8.2

/10245/

79

/351/

84

/137/

age 11+

A woman is caught in a bizarre virtual reality where she and other trapped humans become bound to the whims of an unhinged AI ringmaster.

81

8.1

/39797/

77

/1247/

80

/168/

3.9

/31755/

88

/25/

95

69

/8/

age 14+

With never-before-seen footage, this docuseries follows David Beckham's meteoric rise from humble beginnings to global football stardom.

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.

82

8.3

/183302/

80

/6681/

81

/1457/

86

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/22/

age 11+

With his straw hat and ragtag crew, young pirate Monkey D. Luffy goes on an epic voyage for treasure.

82

81

8.0

/5719/

76

/448/

79

/41/

89

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88

age 11+

Follow the bruised bodies, soul-crushing fumbles, agonizing losses, and pure joy of three NFL quarterbacks during one season.

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.

79

8.0

/94358/

80

/4132/

76

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92

/133/

73

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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.

84

8.0

/158497/

79

/6408/

77

/828/

4.2

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98

/125/

87

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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.

83

8.2

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79

/833/

74

/105/

94

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91

82

/18/

Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.

81

IMDb 97

8.1

/110911/

80

/4656/

77

/506/

94

/130/

89

70

/50/

age 15+

Jimmy is struggling to grieve the loss of his wife while being a dad, friend, and therapist. He decides to try a new approach with everyone in his path: unfiltered, brutal honesty. Will it make things better—or unleash uproarious chaos?

79

58

8.2

/5933/

80

/199/

75

/21/

age 13+

When three generations of women reunite after being estranged for more than two decades, they embark on an enlightening – and surprising – journey toward healing none of them could have imagined as they learn how to find their way back to each other.

77

IMDb 100

8.3

/96725/

82

/4297/

82

/676/

94

/56/

54

71

/21/

age 15+

Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

83

8.0

/14765/

76

/659/

74

/81/

100

/51/

87

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/19/

age 14+

Ashley and Gordon are two single(ish), complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog. Flawed, funny people choosing each other and being brave enough to show their true self, scars and all, as they navigate life together.

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8.7

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/38/

93

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Strangers play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust in the hope of winning up to £120,000. But hidden amongst the players are three Traitors, who secretly ‘murder’ a player every night. It’s up to the Faithfuls to banish them from the game before they become the next victim. If the Faithfuls eliminate all the Traitors they split the cash; but if a Traitor remains undetected to the end of the game, they take all the money.

78

IMDb 98

8.0

/483920/

79

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83

/10196/

80

/202/

81

66

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age 14+

Smart, sarcastic and a little dead inside, Wednesday Addams investigates twisted mysteries while making new friends — and foes — at Nevermore Academy.

78

74

8.0

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81

/56/

3.7

/1360/

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67

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Chris is on a mission to live better for longer. With the help of top scientists, he takes on six epic challenges to test mind and body to the max.

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.

83

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8.7

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/326/

82

/63/

3.9

/472/

Join Red Guy, Yellow Guy and Duck as they learn everything there is to know with the help of some friendly talking objects, in this comedy-horror puppet show based off the popular YouTube web series.

72

29

8.1

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Trakt

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/15/

70

/3/

Philomena Cunk is here to show how far humanity has come — or not in this witty mockumentary tracing the history of civilization.

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8.5

/20115/

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/1909/

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/211/

100

/17/

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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.

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8.2

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79

/1859/

75

/255/

88

/102/

72

76

/39/

age 15+

The tight-knit Garvey sisters have always looked out for one another. But when the toxic brother-in-law they all wanted dead actually dies, it turns their lives upside down and tests their bond like nothing before.

80

77

8.2

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75

/281/

77

/44/

82

/11/

96

73

/6/

A convicted criminal is determined to turn his life around after serving more than two decades in prison. When he is released unexpectedly from prison due to the pandemic with no place to live and the world on lockdown, Jack shelters-in-place with an unlikely group of former inmates, who band together and use their criminal expertise for good.

75

72

8.2

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76

/303/

81

/36/

3.8

/3094/

80

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75

60

/4/

Follow the iconic football club during an unforgettable season. As fans return to stadiums, the 2021-22 football season puts pressure on Arsenal's manager Mikel Arteta and his young team to get back to their former glories and back into Europe. Offering unprecedented access and capturing the highs and lows of life on and off the pitch, this is football at its finest: raw, dramatic and full of passion.

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8.5

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/1954/

80

/237/

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/103/

89

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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?

85

8.1

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80

/4741/

80

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4.1

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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

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8.4

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81

/347/

75

/38/

100

/29/

89

84

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Big Boys is a silly, sweet comedy about two boys from very different ends of the “spectrum of masculinity” who become best mates at Brent Uni Freshers Week 2013.

80

79

8.4

/5920/

77

/545/

78

/38/

83

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age 14+

In this romantic docuseries, people on the autism spectrum look for love and navigate the changing world of dating and relationships.

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.

80

8.2

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81

/4375/

79

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94

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70

79

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age 10+

Follow Captain Christopher Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

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8.6

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80

/1208/

79

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4.0

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