10 new miniseries that look a breeze

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

From the hottest serial novelties of the last two years, Lifehacker has selected ten intriguing mini-series, which will not have to spend a whole lot of time watching.

Big little lies

• Drama, crime, detective.
• USA, 2017.
• Duration: 7 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 7.

The life of the quiet coastal town of Montreuil is agitated by the terrible news: the most real murder was committed at a charity ball! In the next series, we will just be told about why it happened, who exactly became the victim and what motives were the reason for the crime. The plot focuses on five families with children in the same class. They all seem quite happy and pleased with themselves, but you know that first impressions are often deceiving.

Annealing

• Musical, drama.
• USA, 2016.
• Duration: 11 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 4.

In the late seventies, the New York Bronx was swept by a wave of crime, violence and unemployment. In such unfavorable conditions, high school student Izequil is forced to grow up and survive - an orphan who composes beautiful poems and dreams of leaving his mark on history. In his free time, he helps to record the first demo of the singer Milen, with whom he is madly in love. They have nothing in common, but the circumstances are such that they are the ones with whom the musical revolution begins, which forever changed the world.

Hotel "Bo Sezhur"

• Drama, crime.
• Belgium, 2016.
• Duration: 10 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 1.

Morning for the girl Kato clearly did not work: she wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room and, in addition to blood smeared all over her body, discovers that she does not remember anything about what happened to her. Later it turns out that none of those around her sees or hears, which means only one thing - she is dead. The girl decides to find out the circumstances of her cruel death and begins her own investigation.

11/22/63

• Science fiction, thriller, drama, detective.
• USA, 2016.
• Duration: 8 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 3.

From his friend Al, the English teacher Jacob Epping learns about the existence of a portal leading to the past. At first, Jacob doesn't really believe that he exists, but Al, a seasoned time traveler, manages to convince him. Now Jacob must carry out a crucial mission that Al cannot do: go to America in the 60s and prevent the assassination of Kennedy. But Jake wouldn’t be Jake if he hadn’t decided to postpone a very important assignment just to help one of his students with the composition.

Rillington Place

• Crime, drama, biography.
• UK, 2016.
• Duration: 3 episodes.
• IMDb: 7, 4.

Based on a true story, the series follows the life of John Christie, a Yorkshire accountant and war veteran who went down in history as one of Britain's most brutal serial killers, nicknamed the Gas Maniac.

Night administrator

• Thriller, drama, crime, detective.
• UK, USA, 2016.
• Duration: 6 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 2.

Former British Army soldier Jonathan Pine retires in the hope of finding peace and gets a job as a night administrator in one of the city's elite hotels. But that was not the case: after a while, intelligence officers asked him to help liquidate a large syndicate dealing in arms, because they could not cope with it on their own.

Horace and Pete

• Comedy, drama.
• USA, 2016.
• Duration: 10 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 8.

For almost a hundred years, Horace and Pete's New York pub has been owned only by the Horace and Pete. How else? Tradition cannot be violated. If you're curious about what slightly (or pretty) drunk people talk about in bars, then watch this series. Dialogues about politics, religion, problems of sexual minorities and relations between men and women are beyond praise here.

War and Peace

• Drama, melodrama, history.
• UK, 2016.
• Duration: 6 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 2.

British film adaptation of the great epic novel by Leo Tolstoy. The plot focuses on grandiose historical events and their impact on the life of five aristocratic families. The main attention is focused on the fates of Pierre Bezukhov, Andrei Bolkonsky and Natasha Rostova, and the action of the series covers the period from 1805 to 1812.

Five

• Drama.
• UK, 2016.
• Duration: 10 episodes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

One day Mark, Danny and Slade went for a walk in the woods. They were followed by Jesse, Mark's younger brother, whom his friends did not want to take with them. They drove him home, and the baby, bursting into tears, ran away. Since then, no one has seen him. Twenty years later, Danny, who became a detective, receives the results of a forensic examination, among which he comes across a blood sample of a missing baby. This means only one thing - Jesse was alive all this time.

One night

• Drama, crime.
• USA, 2016.
• Duration: 8 episodes.
• IMDb: 8, 6.

Waking up in the morning and finding a fresh corpse at your side is a below average pleasure. But Nazir was “lucky” to start the day just like that. He only remembers that he was driving in the evening to a party with a friend, but on the way he met a stranger who asked for a ride to the beach. They spent a stormy night together, but now the girl is dead, and Nazir is the main suspect in the murder.

If you can't decide what to do with your free evening, take a look at our other selection of TV shows that can be watched in just a couple of hours.

Do you know any other new miniseries worth watching? Share the names in the comments!