My Top and Bottom 51+ Series and Miniseries for 2019... (so far - and in list order)
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- StarsLesley ManvillePeter MullanSam SwainsburyAfter the death of her husband, a woman attempts to rebuild her life while surrounded by her sometimes problematic family and friends.Season 3. Top notch writing and amazing performances continue to astound on this simple but effective and touching look at a family relationship without the melodrama and over explaining...
- CreatorCraig MazinStarsJessie BuckleyJared HarrisStellan SkarsgårdIn April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.Intriguing account of the horrific nuclear plant disaster, and the lies that made it even worse, which has plenty to say about our current crop of narcissistic politicians around the world...
- CreatorDamon LindelofStarsRegina KingYahya Abdul-Mateen IITom MisonSet in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own.A well crafted intricate tale told with flare and creativity...
- CreatorLaurie NunnStarsAsa ButterfieldGillian AndersonNcuti GatwaA teenage boy with a sex therapist mother teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.First season. An absolute hoot with fabulous characters that you fall for, and what a journey through pubescence, bringing back sweet cringing memories...
- CreatorPeter MorganStarsClaire FoyOlivia ColmanImelda StauntonFollows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.Season 4. As usual, top production values and amazing screenplays, with Olivia Colman stupendous in every way...
- CreatorTom McCarthyAlex MetcalfStarsRussell CroweSienna MillerSeth MacFarlaneThe past decade on the life of Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News, in which Ailes arguably became the Republican party's de facto leader and was accused of sexual harassment, which brought his Fox News reign to an end.Yep, Crowe sure does give a stupendous performance of the vile creature, and this is a great way to learn about the manipulation of the media operated by wealthy old white men...
- CreatorEric KripkeStarsKarl UrbanJack QuaidAntony StarrA group of vigilantes set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their superpowers.One of the best Superhero TV series that is more anti and really drives the way corporations are attempting to take over the World...
- StarsCharly CliveJoe ColeKiran Sonia SawarMarnie is not OK. She's had x-rated thoughts for the last 3672 days and she doesn't know why or what they mean. When she jumps on a coach to London, she doesn't know a soul, not even herself, but in the city she will build a new life.Life out of balance for Marnie and her state of mind that was well handled and told with humour plus affection...
- CreatorRicky GervaisStarsRicky GervaisTom BasdenTony WayAfter Tony's wife dies, his nice-guy persona is altered into an impulsive, devil-may-care attitude that takes his old world by storm.Gervais' brand of dark comedy works a treat, with every character a gem...
- CreatorJay CarsonKerry EhrinStarsJennifer AnistonReese WitherspoonBilly CrudupAn inside look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the team.The characters and situations keep you tuned into the politics and dangerous games played with lives on a Morning television show that has been thrown into disrepute over sexual misconduct by one of the presenters...
- CreatorScott RyanStarsScott RyanChika YasumuraJustin RosniakRay Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend, brother and best friend, tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Especially when you're also a criminal for hire.Season 2. Continues on the same route, but takes a slight diversion as the protagonist fleshes out and personal matters almost affect his dirty deeds...
- CreatorMaya ErskineAnna KonkleSam ZviblemanStarsMaya ErskineAnna KonkleMelora WaltersThe comedic story of middle school seen through the eyes of two 7th grade girls dealing with the awkwardness of being a teenager.1st season. A brave and clever idea of having the two main young teen characters played by adults with hilarious results...
- CreatorAmy Sherman-PalladinoStarsRachel BrosnahanAlex BorsteinMichael ZegenAfter her husband leaves her, young mother of two Miriam "Midge" Maisel discovers that she has a talent for stand-up comedy. Could this be her calling?Season 3. This lavish production is a vast improvement from Season 2 as the story moves in great leaps and bounds with the characters growing and full of surprises...
- DirectorRhys ThomasStarsJohn MulaneyAlexander BelloTyler BourkeJohn Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.If only all children's television was like this! An absolute hoot...
- CreatorLuke DaviesDavid MichôdStarsChristopher AbbottKyle ChandlerDaniel David StewartLimited series adaptation of the classic Joseph Heller novel. Follows Captain John Yossarian and airmen in World War II.This dark satire does the book justice, showing the madness that surrounds Yossarian who is probably the only sane one who wishes he was insane in a war where everyone is crazy...
- CreatorBruce TerrisStarsBen KingsleyJimmi SimpsonLuis GuzmánJames, a young grifter, attempts to prey upon Pastor Byron Brown, who turns out to be far more dangerous than he suspects. A cast of Coen brothers-type characters complicate their plans to outplay each other.This is a mix bag of bizarre and twisted fun. It is as if David Lynch, Wes Anderson and Aki Kaurismäki made a love child that has turned out to be this this unique TV series...
- CreatorDavid BenioffD.B. WeissStarsEmilia ClarkePeter DinklageKit HaringtonNine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.Final season. Really lived up to its expectations with the final two episodes pure masterpieces, regardless of what some of the over-the-top fans will tell you...
- CreatorChris KellySarah SchneiderStarsHeléne YorkeDrew TarverKen MarinoAn aspiring actor and his sister Brooke, a former professional dancer, try to find their places in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.Season 1. To walk in the shadow of a social media sensation, who happens to be your younger brother, while you struggle in your creative career, and in life itself, and what fun for us viewers to observe...
- CreatorRaphael Bob-WaksbergKate PurdyStarsRosa SalazarAngelique CabralConstance MarieAfter she very narrowly survives a serious car accident, a woman discovers that she has a new relationship with time.The animation form does help make you believe in the convoluted time-and-space traveling mumbo-jumbo which is fascinating and fun...
- CreatorPhoebe Waller-BridgeStarsPhoebe Waller-BridgeSian CliffordOlivia ColmanSeries adapted from the award-winning play about a young woman trying to cope with life in London whilst coming to terms with a recent tragedy.Season 2. Had more emotional depth and a storyline that pushed certain boundaries on morales and love, plus the final scene is pure cinematic magic...
- StarsDeanna ThompsonJohn GreenClaudette HamlinA group of online justice seekers track down a guy who posted a video of himself killing kittens.The making of a modern serial killer in this riveting doco series with amazing security camera and archival footage...
- CreatorSteven KnightStarsJason MomoaSylvia HoeksHera HilmarFar in a dystopian future, the human race has lost the sense of sight, and society has had to find new ways to interact, build, hunt, and to survive. All of that is challenged when a set of twins are born with sight.Season 1. The whole concept of the blind as the only inhabitants of the world and surviving seemed barely plausible, but by the end of it you were totally convinced and hooked...
- CreatorJennifer FlackettAndrew GoldbergNick KrollStarsNick KrollJohn MulaneyJessi KleinTeenage friends find their lives upended by the wonders and horrors of puberty.Season 3. Even more risque, dealing with current subject matters that resonate, and at the same time being funny as hell...
- CreatorArmando IannucciStarsJulia Louis-DreyfusTony HaleAnna ChlumskyFormer Senator Selina Meyer finds that being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she hoped and everything that everyone ever warned her about.Season 7. It had to come to an end eventually, and what a fine way to bow out with over-the-top madness and a swipe at today's current crazy political climate...
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsReese WitherspoonNicole KidmanShailene WoodleyThe apparently-perfect lives of upper-class mothers of students at a prestigious elementary school unravel to the point of murder when a single mother moves to their quaint California beach town.Season 2. Didn't think there was anywhere to go after season 1, and the first couple of episodes of season 2 almost proved me right, but it came good and took a whole new life. And throwing Streep into the mix of this great cast was a stroke of genius...
- CreatorTony BasgallopStarsLauren AmbroseToby KebbellNell Tiger FreeA Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens a door for a mysterious force to enter their home.It has the Shyamalan touch that has your head swelling, trying to guess the outcome to this little neat mystery...
- CreatorIan BrennanBrad FalchukRyan MurphyStarsBen PlattZoey DeutchLucy BoyntonPayton Hobart, a student from Santa Barbara, has known since age seven that he's going to be President of the United States. But first he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape of all: Saint Sebastian High School.Season One. Perfect tone for this parody on the lust for power in Senior High, and what a fun lead up to the next season...
- CreatorRaphael Bob-WaksbergStarsWill ArnettAmy SedarisAlison BrieBoJack Horseman was the star of the hit television show "Horsin' Around" in the '80s and '90s, but now he's washed up, living in Hollywood, complaining about everything, and wearing colorful sweaters.Season 6 / Part 1. The first 8 episodes are just a lead up to the greatness that is about to come...
- CreatorTim MinchinLeon FordKate MulvanyStarsTim MinchinMilly AlcockElla Scott LynchTwo misfits, thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert, forge bonds in a quest to transport a precious piano from one side of the country to the other.An unconvincing start, but midway through the characters flesh out with their road journey having a deeper purpose...
- CreatorAlena SmithStarsHailee SteinfeldAdrian EnscoeAnna BaryshnikovSet in the 19th century, it explores the constraints of society, gender and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet, Emily Dickinson.A pure delight as Dickinson gets the modern sensibilities with issues that amazingly ring true till this day...
- StarsJessica BardenAlex LawtherSteve OramJames is 17 and is pretty sure he is a psychopath. Alyssa, also 17, is the cool and moody new girl at school. The pair make a connection and she persuades him to embark on a road trip in search of her real father.Love that dry tone for the empty souls....
- CreatorJohn LinsonTaylor SheridanStarsKevin CostnerLuke GrimesKelly ReillyA ranching family in Montana faces off against others encroaching on their land.Season 2. The Godfather of Montana continues the family fight in this enjoyable and intense soapy drama, plus you gotta love Costner...
- StarsDominik MaringerSarah Viktoria FrickJohanna Orsini-RosenbergWinter in Vienna. Children disappear. For now without a trace, then their bodies are found. A gift for the tabloid press. For the police a series of defeats. Politically a problem. And at the same time the long-awaited opportunity for the ambitious interior minister. The organized crime is in trouble. The child murderer must be found so that all other dirty jobs can go on.More than a murder mystery as the folks of Vienna go under the microscope to reveal all their ugliness and pain under the beautiful historical city...
- CreatorThomas KailSteven LevensonStarsSam RockwellMichelle WilliamsNorbert Leo ButzAn inside look at the romantic and creative partnership between influential choreographer/director, Bob Fosse, and Gwen Verdon, one of the greatest Broadway dancers of all time.There were times when this production felt like a cheap and tacky soap drama. But what it lacked in the directing and writing department sure made up for it with the performances and story of these two treasured artists who left behind a legacy of their creativity...
- CreatorNeil GaimanStarsDavid TennantMichael SheenMiranda RichardsonThe End of the World is coming, which means a fussy Angel and a loose-living Demon who've become overly fond of life on Earth are forced to form an unlikely alliance to stop Armageddon.Once you settle into the Monty Pythonesque and Blackadder humour then it all falls into place with the best bits being the storyline between the protagonist angels and their thousand year friendship that plays with history and ultimately has a hand with the end of the World...
- CreatorAlec BergBill HaderStarsBill HaderStephen RootSarah GoldbergA hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.Season 2. Better paced than Season 1, and it had me on edge, now awaiting for what is about to come next...
- CreatorJonathan TropperStarsAndrew KojiOlivia ChengJason TobinDuring the Tong Wars in the late 1800s, Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy from China, immigrates to San Francisco and becomes a hatchet man for the most powerful tong in Chinatown.Apart from the great fighting scenes, this series has an intriguing tale to tell via the political and racial turmoil in early San Francisco...
- CreatorShawn SimmonsStarsMark McKennaCiara BravoJoshua J. WilliamsWayne, a 16-year-old with a heart of gold, sets out on a small two-stroke road bike from Boston to Florida with his new friend Del to retrieve the '79 Trans-Am that was stolen from his father before he died.1st Season. The two main teenage protagonists are played brilliantly by McKenna and Bravo in this violent humorous road movie with enough fun loving and crazy supporting characters to take it for a ride...
- CreatorMatt OkineStarsMatt OkineHarriet DyerValene KaneA successful radio host who finds himself unexpectedly back in the dating pool for the first time in a decade, after discovering his long-term girlfriend has been having an affair with his best friend.Second season. More engaging, funny and crude than the first season, but ran out of puff by the last 2 eps as it got sentimental and attempted to make sense of all the madness...
- CreatorJemaine ClementStarsKayvan NovakMatt BerryNatasia DemetriouA look into the nightly lives of four vampires who have lived together on Staten Island for over a century.Amusing and silliness with the creatures that once scared me as a child...
- CreatorAndrew MogelJarrad PaulGad ElmalehStarsGad ElmalehScott Keiji TakedaJordan Ver HoeveGad is a hugely famous comedian...In France.Gad has fun in taking the mickey out of the L.A. lifestyle, and does so in a trashy sitcom send-up kind of way...
- CreatorOwen DennisStarsAshley JohnsonOwen DennisJeremy CrutchleyVarious people get trapped on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must resolve their psychological trauma and emotional issues in order to get home in this animated anthology series.Season 1. Fun and creative concept that takes you for a surreal ride...
- CreatorLiz FeldmanStarsChristina ApplegateLinda CardelliniSam McCarthyA series about a powerful friendship that blossoms between a tightly wound widow and a free spirit with a shocking secret.Entertaining twists and turns that in the end kind of runs out of steam, but still enough to keep your interest as they set themselves up for a second series...
- CreatorHarry WilliamsJack WilliamsStarsTchéky KaryoAnastasia HilleTom HollanderMercurial retired police detective, Julien Baptiste, specializes in missing-persons cases.Suspense mystery that hooks you in with its many twists and turns in this well structured story that sometimes just goes that little bit overboard, which makes it fun and enthralling...
- CreatorCarlton CuseGraham RolandStarsJohn KrasinskiWendell PierceMichael KellyUp-and-coming CIA analyst, Jack Ryan, is thrust into dangerous field assignments.Season 2. Not as intriguing second time around, but worth watching Jack putting on the good fight against corrupt governments. Next I would like to see him take on the evil forces on his own home turf...
- StarsLorena BobbittJohn Wayne BobbittPaul EbertFrom Executive Producer Jordan Peele, this four-part docuseries re-investigates the events of 1993, where Lorena Bobbitt sliced off her husband's penis after years of abuse.Fascinating look into the misogynistic media and political world of the Nineties through the over sensationalized Bobbitt case...
- CreatorGregg ArakiStarsAvan JogiaKelli BerglundBeau MirchoffWhile on quests to pursue love, sex, and fame with his friends in Los Angeles, Ulysses' premonitory dreams make him question the possible presence of a dark and monstrous conspiracy.The zany adventures of hip L.A. residents and their sexual screwed up world only comes off because of the perfect casting who managed to play these wonderful silly characters...
- CreatorRyan O'ConnellStarsRyan O'ConnellJessica HechtPunam PatelA young gay man with cerebral palsy branches out from his insular existence, hoping to finally go after the life he really wants.Took awhile to connect at first, maybe due to an amateur feel to the whole production, but once the characters grow on you, it becomes a joyous emotional journey...
- CreatorTim MillerStarsFred TatascioreScott WhyteNolan NorthA collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.Stand alone stories of some weird, twisted and wonderful animation of all genres, enough here to please one and all...
- CreatorJordan CahanDavid CaspeStarsDon CheadleAndrew RannellsPaul ScheerA group of outsiders takes on the 1980s old-boys club of Wall Street.A delicious piss take on the greediness and decadence of the wild Eighties and the scum of Wall Street as they party it up and crash in a heap...
- CreatorGideon RaffStarsSacha Baron CohenNoah EmmerichHadar Ratzon RotemBased on the life of Israeli spy Eli Cohen.Last two episodes were intriguing, as for the rest, it was a long build-up and could have been condensed as a tightly structured feature film...
- CreatorTravis BeachamRené EchevarriaStarsOrlando BloomCara DelevingneSimon McBurneyA human detective and a fairy rekindle a dangerous affair in a Victorian fantasy world, where the city's uneasy peace collapses when a string of murders reveals an unimaginable monster.It was only the last four episodes that spellbound and hooked me in with its soapy thrilling story and production values. As for the first 4-- well, it was a very long laborious prelude...
- CreatorTimothy GreenbergStarsPaul RuddAisling BeaAli Akbar SepahiAn existential comedy about a man struggling in life who undergoes a new treatment to become a better person, only to find that he's been replaced by a new and improved version of himself.Season 1. Not a convincing or a creative set-up on the cloning, but by episode 4 the characters begin to develop and take your interest on the morals of the practice, with Paul Rudd doing his best on a wobbly script...
- CreatorJean LudwiggLeonardo ValentiStarsRiccardo Maria ManeraClaudio CastrogiovanniAmbra AngioliniThe disappearance of a teenager is the starting point of an investigation that will bring to light the dark side of a small village by the sea. False tracks, hidden truths and secret relationships - nothing is quite what it seems.More about the inhabitants of a small Italian coastal town and the guilty secrets they harbor during an investigation to the death of a local teenager...
- StarsDanny WallaceDonald Ian BlackJennifer JulianUnwrap the real stories behind these iconic blockbusters, thanks to insider interviews and behind-the-scenes peeks.Season 1. For curious sake only...
- CreatorIdris ElbaGary ReichStarsIdris ElbaPiper PeraboFrankie HerveyCharlie, a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a nanny to his famous best friend's problem-child daughter.It's like a sitcom at first, only because of the idea, and then it shows the interesting and difficult side to glamour life and parenting, with the final 4 episodes taking you where you least expect it...
- CreatorSimon RichStarsDaniel RadcliffeGeraldine ViswanathanKaran SoniAn anthology series in which a colorful blend of outcasts and iconoclasts confront universal issues across various time periods: love, faith, societal norms, and venturing into the unknown.They managed to pull this off, allowing it to grow on you by giving it a silly quirky feel...
- StarsEssie DavisJessica BardenSam ReidLambs of God is a dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.There are elements that are effective, for the rest-- well, this would have made a decent movie...