Any show that risks the crazy combo of Don Johnson and Jeremy Irons would routinely get a nod from us. However, Watchmen is also a bold dystopian drama that captures some of the race anxiety ripping across the US and elsewhere.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction by Colson Whitehead, over ten chapters the series tells the story of Cora (Thuso Mbedu), a slave on a Georgia plantation who, after years of abuse at the hands of her ‘master’ decides to escape.
9 Seasons
All4, Amazon Prime, Netflix
54 x 20 mins
This fourth-wall-breaking show was a cult comedy of the noughties, and has now become one of the most quoted shows on dating app profiles, and arguably the most meme-d series of all time. Welcome to the world of the internet, Jeremy.
Must TV is launching a campaign to get you to (re)watch this this iconic series, which follows a group of cut-throat advertisers that occupy Madison Avenue in the 1960s.
7 Seasons
All4, Amazon Prime, Disney+
145 x 45 mins
We get that many teenagers would argue that their years spent in secondary school were ‘literally hell’. But in the case of Buffy, she’d really mean literally, hell.
In multiple series of different shows such as No Reservations and Parts Unknown, Bourdain trotted the globe in a way that now seems to us both mysterious and dangerous.
This film is a deep dive into the assassination of the Saudi Arabian editor Jamal Khashoggi, who was – at least it seems, highly likely – ordered to be killed on 2nd October 2018 by the Saudi monarchy’s highest officials.
If you don’t mind watching with subs, it’s well worth popping over la manche via streamer and checking out the smash-hit espionage thriller from the French screenwriter, Éric Rochant. It’s time to meet Malotru - secoué, pas remué.
HBO have put out another one of their drama-filled shows, this time in the form of horror meets sci-fi, with more monsters and social commentary than you can shake a stick at.
