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Several hilariously neurotic bands of Vikings fret about their diet, acceptable sanitation, the state of eighth-century prosthesis design and their comfort zones for rape and pillage, in irresistibly melodic Norwegian-accented English. She leads a great cast that includes Jodie Comer of “Killing Eve” as the beautiful best friend, Claire Rushbrook as the mother and Ian Hart as the tough-love therapist.
Sharon Rooney gives a delicate yet hilarious performance as a 16-year-old, 200-plus-pound girl, just home from a mental clinic after a suicide attempt, in this spirited, moving dramedy. “Three Times” shows her experience in reform school after she stabs her mother and “5 Years On” tracks her stumbling progress into adulthood, each with plain-spoken grace and compassion. The Oscar-winning documentarian Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (“Murder on a Sunday Morning,” “The Staircase”) made these two companion mini-series, snapshots of the life of a sullenly furious young woman at the ages of 15 and 20. ‘Three Times Manon’ and ‘Manon 5 Years On’ (France)
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Here are some of the highlights selected by The Times’s TV critics:
Television this year offered ingenuity, humor, defiance and hope. What set it apart was its cast, including Jodie Whittaker and Andrew Buchan as bereft parents, Arthur Darvill as a sketchy reverend and, pre-eminently, David Tennant and Olivia Colman as the cops, mismatched partners who fought bitterly while seeing each other through their lives’ greatest trials. ‘Broadchurch’ (Britain)Ĭhris Chibnall’s seaside detective series was a superior and suspenseful whodunit, especially in its first and third seasons. Saif Ali Khan plays the turbaned inspector Sartaj Singh in a series, based on a novel by Vikram Chandra, that mixes Bollywood energy with a literary style and touches of magical realism. Mumbai is being threatened from every direction - the underworld and the upper echelons of the police force, the past and the present - and it’s up to a doughty, doubtful Sikh cop to fend them off. And before you say I “forgot” them: Yes, I’ve watched “Peaky Blinders” and “Schitt’s Creek.”Īn absurdist sitcom, set in and around an Ontario farm town, with the brittle loquacity of screwball comedy and the surreal jokiness of the Marx Brothers, much of it delivered in a highly expressive Canadian monotone. I cheated on the dates for one show, the 2009 “Prisoners of War,” which didn’t appear in America until 2012 and was just too good to leave out.īritain takes 12 of the 30 spots, which might represent some cultural and language biases on my part but mainly reflects that country’s unmatched heritage of making good TV, with significant government support. The requirements for my list: scripted series produced outside the United States (though some were American-financed), which were commercially available to American audiences, and which premiered in 2010 or later.
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I’ve distilled all those hours into this list of my top 30 international shows of the last decade, full of glaring omissions which you’re encouraged to gently point out in the comments. Over the years I’ve tried to sample as much of that bounty as I could, from cozy British mysteries to florid Asian soap operas and everything in between. The world is a big place, with a lot of production companies, and on any given day in 2019 there were likely to be more international shows premiering in America than American-made shows. (I’d prefer to think no one’s choosing the dubbed English soundtracks.) Americans will read subtitles, it turns out.
Shows suddenly appeared from all over the world, most noticeably financed or acquired by Netflix but also flooding in through a myriad of other streaming services and cable networks. If streaming was the television story of the decade, then close behind was the explosion of global content that came to American screens to help fill all that new bandwidth.