at the beginning of the 21st century. Century happened something Remarkable: The TV series, the ugly little sister of the film, turned to the intelligent beauty. At the beginning of 24″ or “The Wire “were”, since then, produced like crazy. Ten years ago emerging streaming services such as Netflix have accelerated the development of the first law.
20. “Les Revenants” (2012-2015)
Dead rising: The Zombie concept. But here the dead are coming back in a French Alpine village, as they once were, as if nothing had happened – what disturbed the bereaved, of course, completely. A fascinating thought experiment, a Mediation on loss, grief, and impermanence. And bloody scary. To The Review.
19. “Grey’s Anatomy” (2005–)
shows are like Parallel dimensions. And this is our longest fictional relationship in the previous 21. Century: The surgeon Meredith Grey and her colleagues leave us for the past 16 seasons of your life. So, it’s mostly spectacular medical cases and always private dramas and the love. To The Meeting.
18. “The Walking Dead” (2010–)
Now to the real undead. The series, which is about the Survivors of a Zombie Apocalypse, and how it slowly dehumanizing, brutal and bleak – but it is a mass phenomenon: the 20 million viewers to switch on a per Episode. To The Report.
17. “24” (2001-2014)
The Comeback of Kiefer Sutherland! A series in real time! A four split screen, where you could be the protagonists, so to speak, with a live track! “24” had been so new, so never been there, that you knew at the time: The future belongs to the more dividers. Who “has seen 24” never has a gap in education.
16. “Game of Thrones” (2011-2019)
Winter is coming, Jon Snow, Westeros… the characters and concepts of the Fantasy epic were in the ten years of ubiquitous. “Game of Thrones” has written TV history, it is the most famous series of the 21st century. Century. To The Report.
15. “Mad Men” (2007-2015)
was Told here by advertisers and how you aufhübschten in the beginning of capitalism. This was not staged just damn stylish, but considered clever, the origins of today’s problems in the past. To The Review.
14. “Six Feet Under” (2001-2005)
After a funeral, dies of entrepreneurs unexpectedly, must lead his children and his widow, the company continued: “Six Feet Under” ends with a deep understanding of the mechanisms of (dysfunctional) families, and with the ability, flowing from the Shocking to the Melodramatic move. With black Humor is not stingy.
13. “Bloodline” (2015–)
The Rayburns are a Hotel-Clan in the Florida Keys, and the prevailing humid and oppressive heat is at home on the Sofa felt so grandiose and haunting, this is told in a slowly-building series of all the under the surface, simmering family conflicts. A stunner, also because of the occupation.
12. “Stranger Things” (2016–)
How here with BMX wheels, Commodore computers, and parents who leave their young alone for hours in the forest play, an eighties-security is summoned, is perhaps the main reason for the mega success of the series. In the small town of Hawkins make demons wide, of course, is also great. “Stranger Things” is the TV series that Steven Spielberg and Stephen King never. To The Report.
11. “Making A Murderer” (2015-2018)
Sounds completely absurd, but it’s true: Steven Avery is sitting 18 years innocent in prison, is set free and is arrested two years later, again because of a murder he actually committed. Or he was placed in it? True Crime with high voltage and lots of question marks. To The Review.
10. The “Bureau des Légendes” (2015)
service D. G. S. E., created the office of the legends is the Department of the French foreign intelligence, where the false identities of the agents. The Hero: a melancholic-terrific Mathieu Kassovitz. It comes to international politics and Terror. Super fast and highly complex. The best, because the most elegant agent series ever.
9. “The Wire” (2002-2008)
What can you say about David Simon’s five-part Saga of the drug war in Baltimore, with its corrupt cops and the dealers, study the economy, with all the Lost and hopeful Nothing, except that it is the first great artwork of the 21st century. Century.
8. “Sherlock” (2010-2017)
This BBC production is brilliant, because it manages to save the legendary figure of Sherlock Holmes in the present time: his arrogance, his intellectual Superiority, and, above all, his loneliness – a heroin addicted genius in modern London. Terrifically staged, fantastically played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the main role. To The Review.
7. “Louie” (2010-2015)
This series of Stand-up artist, Louis C. K., who was outed as #MeToo-offenders, is less well known than his stage performances and also less merciless. On the contrary, the Americans painted episodes in the strongly autobiographical after the divorce, as a single father of two small daughters in the world, pulling out of a sense of purpose. Touching, funny, philosophical, great. To The Portrait.
6. “Black Mirror” (2011–)
the consequences of The British series are like self-contained movies. Common to them is the theme: future technologies and their impact on society is told about the abysmal scenarios full of black humor. So shrewd clever it seems nowhere else. To The Meeting.
5. “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (2000–)
Larry David’s semi-biographical account of the Comedy of the “Awkwardness” – that Moment in the competing norm systems meet and you do not know, for what you choose to indulge: the madness and the moral abysses of everyday life, is compressed in dramatic gems of 20 minutes. To The Portrait.
4. “Breaking Bad” (2008-2013)
he Also entered the annals of the great serial heroes: Walter White, the cancer-stricken, Meth-cooking Bünzli. “Breaking Bad” combines Drama and Thriller like no other series, in addition, it is the same critique of capitalism, morals, art, and aesthetics porn special: As the heat flickers in the desert of New Mexico, and unsparing close-UPS or vast Total to translate the loneliness and despair of the great designed characters.
3. “Fleabag” (2016-2019)
The series of One-person theatre piece by the British screenwriter and actress Phoebe Waller is based on the eponymous Bridge. It’s about the life of a nameless Single woman who tries to mask their inner Emptiness. Innovative, funny, sexy, clever, sad, absurd: “Fleabag” is a total Triumph. To The Meeting.
2. “The Americans” (2013-2018)
the lives of the Russian spies, Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, who are stationed in the early 80s, married in Washington is Told. Even your children do not know who you really are. A private and a political double-game, the drama and tension is unparalleled. To The Meeting.
1. “The Office” (2001-2003)
Yes, a bold no. 1! But to celebrated the beginning of the century, when the term “foreign schämens” came up, this Fake-documentary series the new kind of humour to perfection. Ricky Gervais David Brent, an office Manager who overestimated their leadership skills and entertainment qualities to excessive plays. This is incredibly funny and at the same time so embarrassed that he can only watch through the fingers in front of the face. The Format has been adapted in other countries (“Stromberg”), but the stellar British Original remains unmatched. The portrait of Ricky Gervais.
This selection and their order is of course subjective. Which series would you have chosen? Please suggestions below in the comment column!
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Created: 29.11.2019, 16:10 PM
