Asklemmy

Dark (German). Awesome series.

Taskmaster (UK)

Letterkenny, Trailer Park Boys....the Canadian loophole

I love British comedy. Peep Show, Spaced, and People Just Do Nothing are some of my favorites.

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 🤷

Life on Mars (UK)

I liked Game of Thrones actually! 👍 Currently going through Star Trek, starting with the original series that I also enjoy!

Bluey.

Babylon Berlin (Germany)

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.

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.

I really liked La Casa de Papel. Netflix renamed it to ‘Money Heist,’ which is a terrible name. Still a good series though.

Breaking Bad

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.

Endeavor

Taskmaster, got into it during Covid because all of their episodes are free on Youtube.

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)

Do anime count?

The Chestnut Man

Lupin

Wallander

Poirot with David Suchet

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Sign of Four

Yes, I have a type and I am unashamed.

Corner Gas

Wallander is a really good Swedish crime show, if you like being depressed.

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.

• "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.

South Korea is really uping their tv game. I really enjoy many of their shows.

Mr. Inbetween from Australia is pretty good

Sahsiyet. It's like Breaking Bad, but Turkish. Really well produced and binge worthy.

Gogglebox (AU, UK, IE) in that order.
Eat Well For Less (NZ)
Vera (UK) Sometimes on PBS in (US)
Magpie Murders (UK)
Professor T (UK)
Question Everything (AU)
Sort Your Life Out (UK, NZ)
We Interrupt This Broadcast (AU)
WTFAQ (AU)
Mock The Week (UK) this show ended in 2023.

I scrolled this far to say Squid Game.

This Country (UK) is so charming and painful at the same time. Even if you don't like Welcome to Flatch, you might still love This Country.

I loved Luther, although wasn't impressed by the recent movie.

• 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

I was studying Mandarin a few years ago and I was suggested to watch Taiwanese dramas since they tend to speak Mandarin and to also speak at a conversational level.

There's a lot of romantic comedies, so you can watch meteor garden, substitute princess, my queen, fated to love you, and I have found that all of these are very accessible to me as an American audience but I never got to the point where I could watch them without subtitles.

Another mostly Mandarin show that is definitely worth the watch is called nirvana in fire, and it is legitimately an amazing 40-hour long epic show that has sword fighting and wuxia and political intrigue and romantic subplots and a massive character list of all sorts of different people who all have their own thing going on all woven together into this amazing storytelling tapestry that rivals and in many ways bests anything that you can get in America or Western media.

But unless you're already very fluent in I'm not going to say just Mandarin but in the Chinese languages, you have to watch it with subtitles and it's definitely worth it.

I love Korean paranormal crime dramas and I loved Signal. It's about two detectives trying to solve the same case from two different points in time. Another season is on hold until after the strokes but what there is is really great.

I really enjoyed “The Devil’s Plan” on Netflix. It’s a South Korean reality show with smart people solving puzzles. If you like math, you’ll like this show.