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)
Dark (German). Awesome series.
Dark was great. For anyone watching for the first time, Netflix made a great website that helps you keep up with who is who with no spoilers. Select the last episode you’ve finished and it only gives information to that point.
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.
Taskmaster (UK)
As an American, this is 100% my favorite TV show. I’m so happy they got the rights to release every episode on YouTube the day after it airs.
Also, if you enjoy the UK panel show vibe, I really enjoy Would I Lie to You and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
Second “8 out of 10 cats died countdown”, and also suggest “Would I lie to you?”
I second Cats Countdown.
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.
I didn’t like the NZ one, tbh.
That show is a balm for my soul.
I love British comedy. Peep Show, Spaced, and People Just Do Nothing are some of my favorites.
Peep Show is my human litmus test. Seeing how people react to that show can tell you a lot about them.
The Phantom Menace was 18 months ago, Tim!
Ahh… but have you tried This is Jinsy?!?
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.
Life on Mars (UK)
Please tell me you watched the follow-on series, Ashes to Ashes, with Keeley Hawes. Same concept, but she goes back to the 80s, and also meets Gene Hunt. Great addition to the original series!
Wow, did I hate the sequel series.
I’m in the US. I love the IT Crowd, and most other British comedies. I also really enjoyed Broadchurch, Sherlock (it fell off a bit at the end), and Dr Who, but I’ve fallen a few seasons back on that.
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 🤷
Babylon Berlin (Germany)
Bluey.
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FUCK YEAH
Dr Who, bar none.
Monty Python comes a close second, then The Young Ones.
I guess I just dig British TV a good bit because you have to get down the list a good ways before you find one from anywhere else.
The Young Ones so good.
That’s actually where I first heard motorhead
I love MPFC, but some of the sketches are “meh”. For every “Battle of Pearl Harbor”, there’s a “Confuse-a-cat”.
Fawlty Towers is great. Mildly racist against the Spanish and Irish.
I really liked La Casa de Papel. Netflix renamed it to ‘Money Heist,’ which is a terrible name. Still a good series though.
The Bridge (Sweden/Denmark, not the America/Mexico remake).
8oo10Cats and Graham Norton round out the top-three, but any procedural crime show will keep me. Even Midsummer Murders and especially Silent Witness.
The Bridge (Sweden/Denmark, not the America/Mexico remake).
I bailed on the America/Mexico one, but tne the UK/France version is worth watching for Clemence Poesy’s performance.
“The bridge” is not foreign to me, but I agree. It’s really good.
South Korea is really uping their tv game. I really enjoy many of their shows.
Endeavor
I remember once, on a random Sunday I was channel surfing at my parents house and found this old British show called “keeping up appearances”, it looked like a shitty show for old people, till it watched it and couldn’t stop laughing at it.
Is that with Mrs Bucket? It’s classic brit comedy and it’s very good.
My grandmother was essentially Hyacinth Bucket, right down to leaning over to watch what speed my grandfather was doing, and telling him to watch out for random things well off the side of the road.
