Shows and TV

Baby Reindeer. One of the top rated new shows from 2024.

Ok all of these are 1980s miniseries:

Shogun, the new version is great but so's the original albeit it is a product of its time. Richard Chamberlain is great in this.

Lonesome Dove, great western miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall as retired Texas Rangers.

And the spoofs of miniseries from The Independent Film Channel are good too especially Will Farrell's introductions of each episode: The Spoils of Babylon & The Spoils Before Dying.

Please watch The Decameron (Netflix).

Limited series. People die, stories are told.

And every scene looks like a renaissance painting.

I loved Penguin recently, really fleshed out the Gotham Reeves and his team created. Also Collin Ferrell is just absolutely incredible under all the prosthetics.

Mare of Easttown springs to mind. It was pretty good and is a miniseries. 7 episodes that are about an hour each.

It's sound logic, but it looks like Netflix don't always buy / commission limited series - it's also just a label they slap on something when they're not going to renew it (e.g. fans were able to see that Bodies was cancelled, without an official announcement, because the tag was added later.)

I actually hate the trend towards shorter form content, but I've definitely enjoyed a few though.

Mind hunter

3 body problem

Blue eye samurai

Not being able to rewatch the first season/series of The Terror (wikipedia entry) is one of the few things I miss about my cancelled Amazon Prime subscription. There was a second season which, in the same anthology vein as True Detective, is unrelated to the first. I found the second season to be forgettable -- in fact do not remember anything about it -- and assuming the planned third season comes out as I've read about, will never get to see that one. First season though, loved it.

The Tenth Kingdom

Arabian nights

And

The worst week

Are all killer 4-6 episode masterpieces.

'Fawlty towers', 'Stan vs. evil' 'galavant' and 'better off Ted ' are all shows that are 2 seasons or fewer that I highly recommend.

(Of course there's also 'Firefly')

And 'the good place' will make you feel like you've only been watching it for a few hours, though it's 4 seasons long. An absolutely amazing story.

I also really enjoyed that HBO series 'Perry Mason' at least for the first series, I haven't seen the second yet. It's pretty invested though

The absolute best mini-series I've ever seen was Over the Garden Wall

True Detective seasons have a great self contained formula that might fit.

I have found myself leaning toward series which have already concluded their runs. During the plague, I watched:

• Breaking Bad
• The Wire
• The Sopranos
• Justified
• Bosch

At present, I’m halfway through season 2 of Castle. Other shows I want to tackle are The Expanse, Chuck, and Burn Notice.

I do like your idea of sticking to limited series. I think an anthology series would also be good to consider.

For a limited series, Chernobyl is a good one to watch.

For an anthology series, good ones to try would be:

• Fargo
• True Detective
• American Crime Story
• American Horror Story

I completely agree. I highly recommend watching Band of Brothers and skipping the Pacific. Good choice on Haunting of Hill House. I love that episode with the long uncut camera shot (Two Storms). I’ll check out the other two.

I like shows to have at least 3 seasons, but it's ok for crime dramas.