I’m in the US so I’ve mostly watched US TV shows, I’ve been wanting to watch shows made by other countries as there must be some great ones that never took off in the states.
I’ve seen a few I could recommend like Alice in Borderlands (Japanese), Gangs in London (UK), Lupin (French)
Maybe could have framed this “non-US TV shows”. Now you’re inviting the majority if users to just tell you their favorite US series 🤷
Dark (German). Awesome series.
Dark was great, it reminded me a bit of Stranger Things in the first season. By the second season you almost need to take notes to keep up with the story line though
I need to take notes only 3 episodes in. I want to like it but it feels like tuning in to a random episode of the X-Files with no knowledge of what is going on.
It takes 4 episodes to really build into the complexity. Then season 2 turns it on its head.
Letterkenny, Trailer Park Boys…the Canadian loophole
Trailer Park boys is by far the best mockumentary created.
Fuckin way she goes boys
It was fucking great until the last few seasons where they were older and trying to milk the name for some more money.
Love Shoresy. It’s a Letterkenny spinoff, it’s a comedy with an uptick of drama over the source material.
Breaking Bad
Not foreign for OP.
The question was what my favourite foreign TV series is, not what my favourite one of their foreign TV series is
Based on their post, the intent was foreign for them. Not foreign for you. That’s why they said they were in the US and wondered what shows didn’t take off in the US.
Taskmaster, got into it during Covid because all of their episodes are free on Youtube.
- “3%” (2016-2020), hands down !!
A neat Brazilian production; I loved the characters and world-building. Barely, if ever, it’s mentioned.
Recently came across the pilot for the webseries that evolved into the Netflix production. It’s cool to see how early ideas morphed into whole storylines.
ETA:
- “Dirk Gently” (UK, 2010)
This perfectly scratches the itch for randomness!
- “Totenfrau” (Germany, 2022)
- “Tabula Rasa” (Belgium, 2017)
- “Utopia” (UK, 2013)
…and there must be some thrillers.
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Mr. Inbetween from Australia is pretty good
Do anime count?
No
But they are foreign, are played on TV and split up into episodes :(
Babylon Berlin (Germany)
A couple I’ve enjoyed recently:
Kleo - an ex Stasi assassin adjusts to the fall of the Berlin wall and takes revenge for her betrayal by the state (German)
Extraordinary Attorney Woo - a legal procedural following the autistic Woo as she navigates the law and life. You wouldn’t think it was my thing but I found it very charming (Korean)
Der Tatortreiniger (German)
I haven’t gotten very far, but I like the comedy and character interactions so far.
- Spooks
- Torchwood
- City Homicide
- Life on Mars (UK)
- Stan Lee’s Lucky Man (I think this is british)
- Hudson and Rex (early seasons anyway were fun)
- Doctor Who through Peter Capaldi, though the Tenant years were the best IMO.
Probably many others I just don’t recall
Taskmaster (UK)
Many of the international versions are worth watching as well. The New Zealand and Australian versions are in English and so fairly easy to watch. Perhaps not unexpectedly, the US version is not good.
Wallander is a really good Swedish crime show, if you like being depressed.
Utopia (AU) - similar vein to Parks & Rec but more bureaucracy. I love it.
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