series-recent, a list by Marco

8.7

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86

/11131/

82

/1720/

100

/140/

93

92

/40/

age 17+

A portrait into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman, trying to make sense of the world. As she hurls herself headlong at modern living, Fleabag is thrown roughly up against the walls of contemporary London, with all its frenetic energy, late nights, and bright lights.

89

8.7

/185322/

87

/14844/

82

/1697/

95

/90/

94

age 14+

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

88

8.5

/84271/

84

/1314/

81

/926/

4.1

/13455/

95

/90/

94

89

/62/

A re-imagining of the original series in which a "rag-tag fugitive fleet" of the last remnants of mankind flees pursuing robots while simultaneously searching for their true home, Earth.

88

8.6

/25172/

82

/884/

81

/164/

100

/39/

94

age 14+

The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.

88

8.3

/23293/

80

/1303/

82

/529/

4.2

/16253/

100

/13/

96

age 17+

In this gritty and sometimes bloody tale, sixteen year-old Wayne sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1978 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died. It is Wayne and Del against the world.

88

8.4

/55071/

84

/4508/

80

/629/

100

/6/

93

age 14+

The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.

88

IMDb 47

8.7

/284845/

85

/13010/

81

/1405/

94

/279/

95

86

/199/

age 14+

Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising.

88

8.5

/73675/

84

/3813/

81

/359/

99

/86/

95

87

/5/

age 15+

Amidst the political conflict of Northern Ireland in the 1990s, five secondary school students square off with the universal challenges of being a teenager.

88

8.7

/72777/

85

/2740/

80

/411/

96

/58/

93

age 17+

Peep Show follows the lives of two men from their twenties to thirties, Mark Corrigan, who has steady employment for most of the series, and Jeremy "Jez" Usbourne, an unemployed would-be musician.

87

IMDb 12

9.2

/2524970/

88

/143666/

84

/26049/

89

/337/

85

86

/171/

age 18+

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

87

IMDb 69

8.8

/343203/

86

/12001/

82

/1487/

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.

87

8.7

/78268/

85

/3228/

80

/301/

97

/130/

93

83

/88/

age 14+

The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.

87

8.6

/97175/

83

/5569/

80

/807/

98

/186/

85

92

/99/

age 15+

Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.

87

8.4

/19772/

86

/1780/

80

/142/

96

/18/

89

age 15+

Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

86

8.3

/29029/

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.

86

8.4

/25162/

80

/809/

76

/151/

100

/19/

92

age 16+

A British comic fantasy containing humour and pop-culture references. Episodes often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk, and rap. The show has been known for popularising a style called "crimping"; short acappella songs which are present throughout all three series.

86

8.7

/243410/

84

/8751/

81

/1139/

92

/78/

94

80

/141/

age 14+

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

86

8.5

/20428/

83

/1310/

76

/146/

100

/26/

95

82

/8/

age 15+

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the rest of his family embrace his new found lifestyle.

86

8.5

/84934/

82

/4636/

77

/552/

93

/120/

95

87

/93/

age 18+

Louis C.K. stars as a fictionalized version of himself; a comedian and newly divorced father raising his two daughters in New York City.

86

8.5

/124435/

82

/6916/

79

/918/

96

/222/

92

83

/79/

age 14+

A documentary-style look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of a group of vampires in Staten Island who have “lived” together for hundreds and hundreds of years.

86

8.4

/64040/

84

/3042/

80

/570/

93

/13/

91

age 15+

Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. Bearded, sweet and good, Manny is everything that Bernard isn’t and is punished by Bernard relentlessly just for the crime of existing. They depend on each other for meaning as Fran, their oldest friend, depends on them for distraction. Black Books is a haven of books, wine and conversation, the only threat to the group’s peace and prosperity is their own limitless stupidity.

86

8.5

/179483/

83

/17105/

81

/1830/

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.

86

8.8

/164443/

85

/5827/

81

/876/

92

/258/

90

84

/130/

age 15+

The off-kilter, unscripted comic vision of Larry David, who plays himself in a parallel universe in which he can't seem to do anything right, and, by his standards, neither can anyone else.

86

IMDb 75

8.7

/583048/

85

/33532/

85

/7258/

89

/81/

96

75

/50/

age 14+

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

85

8.5

/322889/

83

/14086/

81

/2578/

4.3

/401064/

93

/103/

91

79

/18/

age 16+

Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

85

7.6

/45324/

79

/2470/

80

/1072/

96

/31/

96

88

/32/

age 12+

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

85

8.5

/69313/

82

/2381/

79

/377/

94

/55/

98

73

/25/

age 15+

The trials and tribulations of a two man, digi-folk band who have moved from New Zealand to New York City in the hope of forging a successful music career. So far they've managed to find a manager (whose "other" job is at the New Zealand Consulate), one fan (a married obsessive) and one friend (who owns the local pawn shop) -- but not much else.

85

8.5

/174391/

85

/14647/

82

/1536/

85

/31/

89

age 14+

The comedic misadventures of Roy, Moss, and their grifting supervisor Jen, a 'motley crew' of IT support workers at a large corporation headed by a hotheaded yuppie.

85

8.8

/277965/

86

/12397/

82

/1261/

94

/273/

90

72

/77/

age 17+

Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.

85

8.2

/25570/

78

/1265/

75

/158/

98

/161/

92

87

/47/

age 17+

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in a comedy that follows an American man and an Irish woman who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London.

85

8.4

/84274/

79

/4390/

77

/1699/

99

/84/

95

76

/32/

age 16+

Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.

85

8.0

/71180/

77

/5174/

75

/819/

100

/15/

97

age 14+

Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.

85

8.2

/215955/

82

/18165/

79

/1869/

97

/233/

90

82

/48/

age 14+

Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who, through an extraordinary string of events, enters the afterlife where she comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. With the help of her wise afterlife mentor, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or at least the pretty good) person within.

85

8.4

/32259/

80

/1591/

79

/232/

96

/35/

92

81

/10/

age 14+

A cash-strapped young couple inherits a grand country house, only to find it is both falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.

85

8.1

/15899/

75

/890/

83

/298/

97

/101/

88

87

/36/

age 15+

Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.

85

8.6

/36016/

85

/1630/

82

/579/

98

/154/

88

76

/52/

age 15+

A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.

85

8.8

/78103/

85

/3055/

81

/420/

96

/34/

89

74

/7/

age 14+

Dave Chappelle's singular point of view is unleashed through a combination of laidback stand-up and street-smart sketches.

85

8.5

/21456/

82

/875/

80

/172/

4.4

/16654/

87

/23/

94

age 15+

When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr. Lucien Sanchez, fiery hospital boss Thornton Reed, and woman Liz Asher, Dagless must fight the forces of Darkness while dealing with the burden of day-to-day admin. From the chilling pen of best-selling horror writer Garth Marenghi comes this lost masterpiece of televisual terror. Dare you enter Garth's Darkplace?

84

8.3

/123760/

83

/12890/

78

/1361/

93

/135/

93

76

/70/

age 17+

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

84

8.4

/7040/

81

/684/

75

/57/

95

/50/

93

78

/20/

age 14+

A review of a movie, or a restaurant, or a car—or whatever else that typically falls under a critic's domain—is all well and good, and can even be helpful at times. But how can one find out about myriad other experiences that are never tackled in reviews? Enter Forrest MacNeil, a critic who goes beyond overviews of life's more-common subjects—way beyond—to satisfy the curiosity of others: The adrenaline rush of stealing; the danger of drug addiction; the delight of sleeping with a celebrity. MacNeil tries anything suggested by viewers of his TV show, then presents a 1-to-5-star review. But his unwavering commitment to experiencing intense adventures means he must deal with the unintended consequences of such a goal.

84

8.4

/63678/

83

/2707/

79

/480/

4.3

/15828/

86

/42/

93

80

/27/

The first 40 days of the war in Iraq as seen through the eyes of an elite group of U.S. Marines who spearheaded the invasion along with an embedded Rolling Stone reporter. A vivid account of the soldiers and of the forces that guided them in an often-improvised initiative.

84

8.2

/27783/

78

/817/

75

/121/

98

/27/

90

age 16+

Essex and Wales collide when Gavin and Stacey fall in love - bringing their friends, family and baggage with them.

84

8.3

/16789/

82

/936/

76

/146/

97

/97/

86

85

/63/

age 16+

Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

84

8.4

/70532/

82

/5334/

74

/496/

93

/251/

90

82

/115/

age 16+

A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about.

84

8.3

/63115/

79

/1877/

78

/399/

88

/86/

94

83

/50/

age 15+

Andy Millman gave up his day job five years ago in the hope of achieving the big time, but he’s yet to land a speaking part, let alone saunter down the red carpet to pick up an Oscar. He remains optimistic however, as rubbing shoulders with the A-list on-set only serves to reinforce his belief that the big time is just a job or two away.

84

8.5

/18194/

81

/732/

77

/147/

4.3

/7450/

96

/26/

91

78

/12/

The owners of a dive bar in Brooklyn, Horace and Pete, along with bar regulars share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar.

84

8.7

/172221/

83

/6802/

82

/1575/

94

/138/

82

76

/38/

age 14+

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

87

84

8.5

/9384/

80

/319/

78

/50/

96

/21/