Taskmaster (UK)

I love British comedy. Peep Show, Spaced, and People Just Do Nothing are good intros to the humor.

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

I’m not really that religious, but I love the 1988 Mahabharat, especially the theme song. Yes, the graphics is bad, but I don’t care.

I don’t like the new one because the old one reminds me of a simpler time back when folks from different ethnic and religious groups worked together without hatred and intolerance to make this grand series on a small episode on the Hindu mythology. Times are different now, if you know what I’m talking about.

I’ve not seen every episode of it completely, but I’ve enjoyed it a lot as a child. Also, for folks who saw the Fate series anime, you’ll also understand why Karna is the best character, not just in the anime, but also in the Mahabharata - how, despite being the most powerful demi-human, he is selfless and true to his words.

Kingdom (South Korea)

Derry Girls (Ireland)

Babylon Berlin (Germany)

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

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

Life on Mars (UK)

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Dark (German). Awesome series.

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

There a lot of great kdrama shows. And no, I’m not talking about Squid Game. I can recommend Beyond Evil, D.P., and Moving.

It's a bit old now, but I really liked Summer Snow from Japan. Also Hungry from Japan (similarly dated).

Danger 5 from Australia: It’s hilarious.

A Very Secret Service is also funny (but it’s Fr*nch)

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 besta 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 scrolled this far to say Squid Game.

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

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

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 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.

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.

Do anime count?

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.

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.

We’re on a UK/Irish police drama kick right now:

• Line of Duty
• Bloodlands
• Blue Lights

If you don’t mind a bit of war history, SAS Rogue Heroes is incredible. Great look at the unit that became the British SAS, with some really good comedy thrown in. In the same vein (British war/comedy), Bluestone 42 is great too.

Bluey.

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.

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