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)
Dark (German). Awesome series.
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.
I loved season 1, especially for the 80s look in Germany which I remember from my childhood (Gen X)
Dark lost me with season 2
Came here for this!
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
I need to take notes only 3 episodes in. I want to like it but it feels like tuning in to a random episode of the X-Files with no knowledge of what is going on.
It takes 4 episodes to really build into the complexity. Then season 2 turns it on its head.
Taskmaster (UK)
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
Second “8 out of 10 cats died countdown”, and also suggest “Would I lie to you?”
I second Cats Countdown.
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.
I didn’t like the NZ one, tbh.
That show is a balm for my soul.
Letterkenny, Trailer Park Boys…the Canadian loophole
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.
Love Shoresy. It’s a Letterkenny spinoff, it’s a comedy with an uptick of drama over the source material.
I love British comedy. Peep Show, Spaced, and People Just Do Nothing are some of my favorites.
Peep Show is my human litmus test. Seeing how people react to that show can tell you a lot about them.
The Phantom Menace was 18 months ago, Tim!
Ahh… but have you tried This is Jinsy?!?
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)
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!
Wow, did I hate the sequel series.
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.
Bluey.
FUCK YEAH
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I liked Game of Thrones actually! 👍 Currently going through Star Trek, starting with the original series that I also enjoy!
The premise was foreign tv series, by which I assume means from non- English speaking countries
Yeah… my post was mostly a joke on assumptions like yours. English is actually a foreign language to more people than I this native to
Babylon Berlin (Germany)
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.
The Young Ones so good.
That’s actually where I first heard motorhead
I love MPFC, but some of the sketches are “meh”. For every “Battle of Pearl Harbor”, there’s a “Confuse-a-cat”.
Fawlty Towers is great. Mildly racist against the Spanish and Irish.
I really liked La Casa de Papel. Netflix renamed it to ‘Money Heist,’ which is a terrible name. Still a good series though.
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.
“The bridge” is not foreign to me, but I agree. It’s really good.
Second this. First season was phenomenonal
The Bridge (Sweden/Denmark, not the America/Mexico remake).
I bailed on the America/Mexico one, but tne the UK/France version is worth watching for Clemence Poesy’s performance.
Breaking Bad
Not foreign for OP.
The question was what my favourite foreign TV series is, not what my favourite one of their foreign TV series is
Based on their post, the intent was foreign for them. Not foreign for you. That’s why they said they were in the US and wondered what shows didn’t take off in the US.
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)
