Viewing Recommendations
The Stranger
A Netflix series about the eponymous stranger who blackmails people with secrets obtained through online hacking. The show offers a continuous escalation of revelations.
Midsommar
Written and directed by Ari Aster, this is a masterpiece of weird horror. A group of grad students travels to Sweden to witness a Midsommar ritual. Shenanigans ensue. Watch it now.
Hinterland
A mystery series set in Wales, partially a standard "murder of the week," but there's also an ongoing narrative with cases overlapping. One could almost watch this for the landscapes alone, but it's a great mystery series.
Good Sci-fi/Horror Series
- Stranger Things--Overhyped? Maybe, but still quite good
- Altered Carbon--Good Sci-Fi series
- Locke and Key--Horror based on the graphic novel series
- Penny Dreadful--Good horror-themed series
- Watchmen--a sequel to Moore's original--it's great
- The Outsider--based on King's novel--very good
- What We Do in the Shadows--faux documentary following vampires-it's hilarious
British Crime Shows
- Bodyguard--Robb from GoT as a police guardian
- Marcela--great mystery series--two seasons
- Midsomer Murders--episodic mystery where we learn that the British countryside is really, really dangerous
- Father Brown--Catholic priest solves murders
Crime and True Crime Series
- Mindhunter--based on a true story, but still good
- Abducted in Plain Sight--entertaining, yet horrible
- Making a Murderer--WI police frame a dude
- The Confession Killer--Henry Lee Lucas confesses for shits and giggles
- The Devil Next Door--Nazi death camp guard in America