10 worthy TV shows of recent years that you might have missed

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

Even if you have not watched "Sherlock" and "Game of Thrones", you definitely heard about them. Against the backdrop of these super-popular TV shows, it is easy to get lost for other worthy projects. Lifehacker chose not the most famous, but highly rated series, which are worth getting to know.

1. Empty crown

• Drama, history.
• UK, 2012.
• Duration: 2 seasons.
• IMDb: 8, 5.

Medieval England. Power passes from one ruler to another, after a while everything repeats again. The era of each monarch is a new chapter in history, full of military tricks, love stupidity and palace intrigues.

The Empty Crown episodes are TV versions of William Shakespeare's plays about the fate of the kings of England. Therefore, the dialogues in the series have a poetic form.

2. Bridge

• Thriller, crime, detective.
• Sweden, Denmark, Germany, 2011.
• Duration: 4 seasons.
• IMDb: 8, 6.

In the middle of the Øresund Bridge, right on the border between Sweden and Denmark, a human body is found. Detectives from both countries are starting to investigate. They have a difficult job: the find is not what it initially seemed, and the case acquires a political meaning.

3. Silicon Valley

• Comedy.
• USA, 2014.
• Duration: 5 seasons.
• IMDb: 8, 5.

A group of eccentric nerds take up residence in the home of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Their goal is to develop and market a successful technical project. But for this, eccentrics need to get along under one roof and go through all the circles of the industrial hell.

4. Hatfields and McCoys

• Drama, melodrama, western.
• USA, 2012.
• Duration: 1 season.
• IMDb: 8, 1.

End of the 19th century. A real carnage erupts between the two American families. The courage and valor of the participants in the conflict go hand in hand with the treachery and atrocities of war. The confrontation spans two states. A new civil war is about to begin.

The plot of the series is based on the true story of the feud between the Hatfield and McCoy clans.

5. Murder

• Thriller, drama, crime.
• USA, Canada, 2011.
• Duration: 4 seasons.
• IMDb: 8, 2.

Someone killed a girl named Rosie. Detectives go to great lengths to get to the bottom of the truth. The relatives of the deceased can barely cope with their grief. And local politicians, involved in the case, are in a hurry to get out of the water dry. As the investigation progresses, it becomes clear that almost everyone in this story has their own secret.

6. Knickerbocker Hospital

• Drama.
• USA, 2014.
• Duration: 2 seasons.
• IMDb: 8, 5.

Early 20th century, New York. Surgeon John Thackery and colleagues save lives at a city hospital. The latest tools and medicines are available to local doctors, but it’s not easy for doctors. After all, patients are delivered on horseback, and no one has heard of antibiotics yet. Only drugs help Thackery escape from problems.

7. 11.22.63

• Science fiction, thriller, drama.
• USA, 2016.
• Duration: 1 season.
• IMDb: 8, 3.

An English teacher has a chance to travel back in time. He ends up in Dallas in the 1960s with the intent to prevent the assassination of Kennedy. But the longer the hero remains in the past, the less he wants to return to his time, which jeopardizes the entire mission.

The series is based on the science fiction novel of the same name by Stephen King.

8. The last kingdom

• Action, melodrama, history.
• UK, 2015.
• Duration: 3 seasons.
• IMDb: 8, 3.

Europe, Middle Ages. During the next raid on the English lands, the northerners take prisoner a descendant of a local nobleman. The boy is taken to Denmark and raised as a Viking for years. When circumstances force him to return home, it turns out that the former prisoner is no longer welcome here.

The Last Kingdom is a television adaptation of The Saxon Chronicles, a literary cycle by Briton Bernard Cornwell.

9. The Man in the High Castle

• Science fiction, thriller, drama.
• USA, 2015.
• Duration: 4 seasons.
• IMDb: 8, 1.

The countries of the Nazi bloc won the Second World War. Japan and Germany occupied US territory and established a new political order. It's 1962. Among the enslaved Americans, a rebellion flares up, the success of which largely depends on the fragile girl Julianne.

The series "The Man in the High Castle" is based on the novel of the same name by Philip Dick.

10. What does Olivia know?

• Drama.
• USA, 2014.
• Duration: 1 season.
• IMDb: 8, 4.

Olivia Kitteridge is a difficult math teacher. Her husband Henry owns a city pharmacy, he is a courteous and kind person. The couple are raising Christopher, a restless teenager who wants to become a doctor. Their life together is a complex story of grievances, misunderstandings and quarrels.

"What does Olivia know?" - screen version of the novel by Elizabeth Straut "Olivia Kitteridge".