These are the series I would like to share. Each is something more than an evening's entertainment, and more than just an interesting big story. Each carries an idea, a fresh view of the world, and makes you think about your own place in it.
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Ira Parker, George R. R. Martin
Westeros a hundred years before Daenerys Targaryen's struggle for the Iron Throne. The naive and valiant knight Ser Duncan the Tall meets a boy named Egg, who hides the secret of his origins...
Ryan Murphy
The story of the meeting and relationship of John Kennedy Jr., son of the 35th U.S. president, with Carolyn Bessette, an advertising agent of the Calvin Klein fashion house.
Ryan Murphy
The virus 'Beauty' is a dangerous sexually transmitted infection. It causes a sharp improvement in appearance through genetic changes, but then inevitably leads to the death of the carrier. Amid the rapid spread of the virus and the growing number of victims, FBI agents Cooper Madsen and Jordan Bennett launch an investigation. The search leads them to the influential entrepreneur Byron Forst, who by any means tries to conceal the true nature and consequences of the drug.
Vince Gilligan
From Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, a science-fiction drama in which the world is suddenly swept by a mysterious wave of total contentment that unites almost everyone. Carol, a hardened misanthrope and one of the few left untouched, becomes humanity's unlikely hope against a spreading epidemic of happiness.
Dan Fogelman
A U.S. Secret Service agent investigates the assassination of the president.
Blake Crouch
A sci-fi thriller from Blake Crouch, based on his own novel. Physicist Jason Dessen is abducted into an alternate version of his own life. To return to the family he loves, he must navigate a labyrinth of parallel realities - and face the most dangerous adversary imaginable: himself. Starring Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.
Eli Jorné
Maggie's son has been kidnapped, and she asks Negan, who once killed her husband, to go with her to New York to search for him. On Manhattan they encounter an unusual community of survivors, as well as new types of zombies.
David Zabel
Daryl Dixon becomes a recruiter for the Commonwealth, which rescues surviving people, while at the same time trying to find Rick Grimes and Michonne. Fate carries him by ship from the US to France, where he meets local rebels and takes on a dangerous mission - to take the boy Laurent from his aunt and bring him to Paris. Rumours say the child is a new messiah, for he was born of a zombie mother yet remained healthy himself.
Scott B. Smith
A science-fiction series based on the William Gibson novel, produced by Westworld's Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Flynne lives in a small Appalachian town and earns money playing virtual reality for wealthy clients; when a company sends her a new headset to test, she finds she is piloting a real body in a far-future London, and that her presence there is deeply unwelcome to someone. One season, eight episodes, with Chloe Grace Moretz in the lead.
Joe Barton
A British science-fiction thriller about a secret organisation that can turn time back whenever the world faces extinction. George wakes to find himself several months in the past, and soon he is recruited into the Lazarus Project, where he has to choose between saving the world and saving the one person he loves. Two seasons, sixteen episodes, with Paapa Essiedu in the lead.
Ryan Condal, George R. R. Martin
After the death of King Viserys, the Targaryen dynasty enters an uncompromising struggle for the Iron Throne. Princess Rhaenyra leads the "black" faction, while on the "green" side stands her best friend Alicent, daughter of the King's Hand. In the battle for the throne the rivals win over unexpected allies, weave intrigues - and unleash the devastating power of dragons.
Dan Erickson
The management of Lumon Industries has devised a new way to control the daily activity of its employees - the "severance procedure", which separates work memories from ordinary ones. Mark agrees to the procedure, but soon begins to doubt whether he made the right choice.
Sergey Trofimov, Evgeny Stychkin
1988, the Kalmyk ASSR. A young doctor at a children's hospital, Kirsan Ayushev, suspects that several of his patients have HIV. His senior colleagues do not believe it is possible, so Kirsan secretly sends samples to Moscow. When the tests confirm he is right, the scientist Dmitry Goncharov - a specialist in a disease little known in the USSR - joins the case. Now the fate of dozens of children and several adults, and perhaps of the whole country, depends on the actions of the metropolitan epidemiologist and the provincial pediatrician.
Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
Wednesday, the daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams, studies at Nevermore Academy. She must master her psychic abilities to stop a local serial killer and uncover a secret about her parents.
John Griffin
A town lost in the forest captivates everyone unlucky enough to end up there - leaving this place is impossible. By day the unwilling residents try to build some semblance of a normal life and find a way out, and by night they flee from terrifying forest creatures...
David S. Goyer, Josh Friedman
In the distant future, humanity has spread beyond Earth. But the Galactic Empire is threatening to collapse, according to the calculations of the scientist Hari Seldon. And so he creates the organisation "Foundation", meant to rebuild human civilisation after the upheavals to come.
Christian Linke, Alex Yee
The story unfolds in the utopian land of Piltover and the harsh underground world of Zaun, telling of the rise of two legendary League champions and of the power that will set them on opposite sides of the barricades.
Vladimir Mirzoev, Dmitry Glukhovsky
Faced with intractable problems, five young Muscovites flee to a monastery near the half-abandoned village of Topi. They see the trip as an adventure, a long-awaited freedom from cares and a chance to forget themselves. But the journey turns into a series of mysterious events that only bring closer the very thing they were fleeing and make them doubt the reality of what is happening.
Alisher Utev
Shalkar, a former detective for especially serious crimes, has long been retired and tries to drown his memories in alcohol. His routine is broken by a police officer who asks for his help with an investigation. A maniac has appeared in the city whose modus operandi resembles that of a killer Shalkar hunted back in the 1990s.
Alex Garland
Computer engineer Lily Chan works at the cutting-edge tech company Amaya in San Francisco and suspects that the firm's management is responsible for her boyfriend's death. Trying to find traces of the crime, she stumbles upon a secret division run by the enigmatic Forest.
Craig Mazin
On 26 April 1988, the chemist Valery Legasov, having safely hidden six audio cassettes with his memoirs, hangs himself in his apartment. On 26 April 1986 at 1:23:45, during a safety experiment at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the reactor explodes and catches fire.
Andrey Junkovsky
The year 2029. Remote controls and batteries come not only with drones and smart devices. Indispensable humanlike robots have become a reality. Originally meant to replace people in mines, in space and in heavy industry, they quickly made their way onto the streets and into homes: they wake you in the morning, brew coffee, care for the elderly and children, become lovers. But not everyone is glad of such neighbours, and the "Liquidators", in their fight against the bots, are ready to spill human blood.
Pavel Kostomarov
A new, unknown virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. There is no electricity, money has lost its value, and those not yet infected fight desperately for food and gasoline. Sergey, his beloved and her autistic son live out of town, where it is still safe. But he cannot abandon his ex-wife and her son to their fate, even though she hates him. Sergey drives to Moscow and, by a miracle, gets a woman and child out of the dying capital. Along the way they are joined by the hero's father and some rather brazen neighbours. People who in any other situation would never have ended up under one roof are forced to forget old grievances and set off on a journey full of deadly dangers to Karelia, to a secluded hunting lodge on an uninhabited island in the middle of a lake.
Dmitry Tyurin
Psychologist Artyom Streletsky is a proponent of shock therapy in treating his patients. He believes that the only way for a person to solve their problems is to understand themselves and stop lying to themselves. While most psychologists coddle their clients, listening to their complaints about life for half a year, sympathising and earning good money for a course of sessions, Artyom constantly provokes his clients: he insults them, laughs at them, deliberately pushes them out of their comfort zone. Artyom's practice flourishes until one of his patients commits suicide.
Baran bo Odar, Jantje Friese
The story of four families living quiet, orderly lives in a small German town. The apparent idyll collapses when two children vanish without a trace and the dark secrets of the past are resurrected.
Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy
In the futuristic amusement park "Westworld", specially built androids fulfil every whim of the visitors so they can feel free to act with total impunity. If a robot is killed, no matter - the technicians repair it, wipe its memory and return it to service, ready for a new day and new human whims. But it turns out that not all the robots lose their memories.
Ryan Murphy
Each season tells of a high-profile crime that left its mark on the history of the USA.
Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
Priest Jesse Custer, by chance, becomes the host within his very being of a strange creature named Genesis. This offspring of the union of an angel and a demon is at once a pure ideal and the quintessence of light, but also a clot of absolute evil. Genesis is the only being in the Universe that can stand on a par with God, should it so wish, and its host automatically becomes the most powerful being in the material world. And that is the preacher Custer.
Sam Esmail
The story of a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from social anxiety and has decided that the only acceptable way for him to interact with people is the profession of a hacker.
Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould
The story of the trials and tribulations that criminal-defense lawyer Saul Goodman has to overcome as he tries to open his own law practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Frank Spotnitz
Germany and Japan won the Second World War. America is split in two between the victors, but, of course, many years after the defeat (the action takes place in 1962) conscientious Americans organise a deeply secret underground. The rebels are mainly engaged in distributing strange newsreels showing a victory in the war by the Allied forces. It is with these films in hand that Joe and Juls - a young man and woman testing themselves in the struggle against the regime - set off for the neutral zone between the two Americas.
Nic Pizzolatto
In Louisiana in 1995 a strange murder of a young woman takes place. In 2012 the 1995 case is reopened because a similar killing has occurred.
Noah Hawley
In January 2006 Lorne Malvo, a criminal and sociopath, drives through the provincial town of Bemidji, Minnesota. A chance encounter at the hospital with Lester Nygaard, a hapless insurance agent, tragically changes the latter's life, setting off a chain of brutal murders that the local police - the active, dedicated Molly Solverson and Gus Grimly - begin to investigate.
Damon Lindelof, Tom Perrotta
One day, for inexplicable reasons, 140 million people vanish from planet Earth all at once. The residents of the town of Mapleton, who lost loved ones in this mysterious event, try to rebuild their lives.
Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
A plane full of dead bodies makes an emergency landing at a New York airport. To determine the cause of their deaths, scientists led by the city's top epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather board the aircraft. In the course of their investigation it becomes clear that the passengers are infected with a vampirism virus that threatens to grow into a large-scale epidemic capable of destroying all of humanity.
Beau Willimon
A ruthless congressman and his equally calculating wife set out to climb to the very top of Washington power, trading favours, secrets and loyalties along the way. A cold, precise drama about ambition and the machinery of politics.
Bryan Fuller
Will Graham is a gifted profiler who hunts serial killers together with the FBI. Graham's unique way of thinking gives him the remarkable ability to empathise deeply with another person, even a psychopath. He can understand what drives them. But when the mind of the killer he is pursuing proves too complex, he turns for help to Dr Lecter, one of the leading psychiatric minds in the country.
Jenji Kohan
Piper Chapman is an ordinary New Yorker leading a calm and comfortable life. One day she is sentenced to fifteen months in prison for a crime committed a decade earlier: Piper carried a suitcase of drugs for her smuggler girlfriend. She ends up in the minimum-security Litchfield prison, and from now on she must not only adjust to her new surroundings but also survive.
Veena Sud
One murder seen from three perspectives - the detectives, the victim's family and the suspects. The investigation reaches into local politics and their ties to the case. Gradually it becomes clear that nothing here is a coincidence, and everyone has a secret.
Hans Rosenfeldt
At the very middle of the Öresund Bridge linking Sweden and Denmark, the power briefly goes out. When the lights come back on, an unfamiliar object is revealed: a woman's body with its head towards Sweden and its feet towards Denmark. Whose police force should lead the investigation into the murder of a woman planted there in the space of a few minutes?
David Benioff, D. B. Weiss
The age of prosperity is drawing to a close, and a summer that has lasted almost a decade is fading. Around the seat of power of the Seven Kingdoms, the Iron Throne, a conspiracy is brewing, and in these troubled times the king decides to seek the support of his boyhood friend Eddard Stark. In a world where everyone - from king to sellsword - strives for power, weaves intrigues and is ready to stab you in the back, there is still room for nobility, compassion and love. Meanwhile no one notices the awakening of a darkness from legend far in the North - and only the Wall protects the living to the south of it.
Charlie Brooker
Gadgets begin to control people's lives, loves and deaths. An anthology series about what technology is capable of.
Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk
From ghosts and witches to serial killers. Ryan Murphy's horror anthology that became a modern classic.
Frank Darabont
A zombie epidemic has swept the planet. Sheriff Rick Grimes travels with his family and a small group of survivors in search of a safe place. But the constant fear of death brings heavy losses every day, making these companions in misfortune feel the depths of human cruelty. Rick tries to save his loved ones and realises that people's all-consuming fear can be more dangerous than the walking dead.
J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Olivia Dunham, a young FBI agent, is forced to work with a team of scientists to investigate paranormal phenomena.
Vince Gilligan
High-school chemistry teacher Walter White learns that he has lung cancer. Given the family's difficult financial situation and his prospects, Walter decides to start making methamphetamine. For this he recruits his former student Jesse Pinkman, once expelled from school with Walter's active help. Pinkman was cooking meth himself, but the day before, during a DEA raid, he lost his partner and his lab.
James Manos Jr.
I am Dexter. Dexter Morgan. I work as a forensic analyst for the Miami police. I don't understand love, I'm indifferent to sex, and I have no feelings. I'm also a serial killer. My father was a policeman and taught me perfectly how to hide evidence. Ordinary citizens have nothing to fear from me: I kill only criminals, the scum whom the police, for one reason or another, could not or would not reach. I kill them, carefully cut them into pieces and dispose of the bodies. To me killing is a creative act, an art.
David Shore
The series follows a team of doctors who must correctly diagnose their patients and save them. The team is led by Dr Gregory House, who walks with a cane after the muscle infarction in his right leg was diagnosed too late. As a physician House is simply a genius, but he shows little warmth toward his patients and gladly avoids them whenever he can. He spends all his time battling his own pain, and the cane in his hand only underscores his harsh, caustic manner. At times his behaviour can be called almost inhuman, and yet he is a superb doctor with an unconventional mind and impeccable instinct, which have earned him deep respect. An infectious-disease specialist, he is also a remarkable diagnostician who loves to solve medical puzzles in order to save someone's life. If it were up to him, House would treat his patients without ever leaving his office.
Ronald D. Moore
Having miraculously survived the Cylon attack on the colonies of Kobol, a civilian colonial fleet, escorted by the battlestar Galactica, flees far from any place where enemy forces might find them.
David Simon
A police unit in Baltimore uses special means and operations of wiretapping and covert video surveillance to bring to court its investigation into the crimes of organized criminal groups engaged in the illegal drug trade.
Chris Carter
FBI agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder are assigned to the X-Files project - an archive of unsolved cases linked to paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in aliens and tries to convince the skeptical Scully that not everything can be rationally explained. Gradually their mutual distrust grows into friendship and even something deeper.
David Lynch, Mark Frost
The body of high-schooler Laura Palmer, wrapped in plastic, is found on a lakeshore. As FBI agent Cooper, Sheriff Truman and his deputies investigate, the various residents of Twin Peaks pass under their watchful eyes, and the dark sides of the seemingly quiet, peaceful town come to light.
Viktor Titov
The life of the intellectual Samgin, shown against a grand panorama of Russian life from 1877 to 1917.
Vladimir Alenikov
Modest, shy Vasya Petrov and the inventive joker Petya Vasechkin are two friends in the third grade. They are nothing alike, but that only helps them wriggle out of the scrapes they keep getting into!
Pavel Arsenov
Classmates accidentally discover a time machine in an old house. A Soviet screen hit about the "beautiful far-away".
Stanislav Govorukhin
Murders, ambushes, chases and shootouts against the backdrop of post-war Moscow. The Moscow criminal police take on the mysterious and elusive Black Cat gang. Demobilised intelligence officer Volodya Sharapov joins the anti-banditry division. One of the first cases he works on is the murder of a citizen, Larisa Gruzdeva.
Konstantin Bromberg
A Soviet scientist creates a brilliant robot. It is a boy who can solve any mathematical problem, writes the very best essays and sings splendidly! And he is also an exact copy of the schoolboy Seryozha Syroyezhkin. The quick-witted lad promptly offloads all his duties onto his electronic double, who does his homework, goes to school and carries out the chores his parents give Syroyezhkin...
Radim Cvrček
The story of an unusual alien girl, Majka from the planet Gurun, who arrives on Earth in the small Slovak town of Chabovec, where she befriends the local children and shares in thrilling adventures with them.
Valeri Rubinchik
The film is set in Moscow in 1925, during the years of the NEP. The three main characters - Misha, Genka and Slava - have grown up and become members of the Komsomol. A murder takes place in their courtyard: engineer Zimin is shot dead at night. The prime suspect is a local hooligan, but Misha refuses to accept his guilt unconditionally and sets out to find evidence on his own.
Nikolai Kalinin
Friends from a pioneer camp unravel the secret of Count Karagaev's old mansion. Based on Anatoly Rybakov's novel.
Nikolai Kalinin
Young pioneers in the 1920s try to unravel the secret of a naval dirk that holds an encrypted message. Along the way they repeatedly find themselves up against bandits.