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submitted 1 year ago by ALilOff@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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)

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[-] SawNee@aussie.zone 45 points 1 year ago

Dark (German). Awesome series.

[-] Xbeam@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

https://dark.netflix.io/en

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[-] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 22 points 1 year ago
[-] yenahmik@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Second "8 out of 10 cats died countdown", and also suggest "Would I lie to you?"

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

I second Cats Countdown.

[-] Davel23@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't like the NZ one, tbh.

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[-] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

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

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Praxinoscope@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] jimmux@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Peep Show is my human litmus test. Seeing how people react to that show can tell you a lot about them.

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[-] steven@infosec.pub 17 points 1 year ago

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 🤷

[-] DrSleepless@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago
[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 5 points 1 year ago

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!

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[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dzaffaires@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Babylon Berlin (Germany)

[-] DrakeRichards@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago
[-] tryagain@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] xandn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago
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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago
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[-] stsquad@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] toototabon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • "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.

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[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I scrolled this far to say Squid Game.

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Mr. Inbetween from Australia is pretty good

[-] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Teon@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 4 points 1 year ago

I believe the movie was, unfortunately, a rushed conclusion to what was an amazing series, because they just couldn't get enough of Idris Elba's time in between Hollywood flicks. His star had simply risen too far by that point.

It's a real shame, too - we waited so long for that movie.

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago
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[-] Bizarroland@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Laracroftsbutler@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Extraordinary attorney wu

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