The Golden Age of Television: the 50 Best TV-shows of 2010-2019


Dark (2017-)

A small German town soon has its twisted secrets revealed after the event of two children going missing. Double lives and crumbling relationships soon rise to the surface from this cozy community that soon finds itself facing a dark and supernatural force that threatens their town with a time travel conspiracy that spans generations.

Rick & Morty (2013-)

Rick Sanchez is a mad scientist that finds himself tinkering with aliens from outer space and beings from other dimensions. He brings along his meek grandson Morty to help him, often getting into trouble by either agitating races or causing the collapse of societies in this darkly comedic animated series.

Borgen (2010-2013)

Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) is elected in as the first female Prime Minister of Denmark. Though winning the election was no small feat, she soon finds herself in for the political struggle of her life as she brings about great chance for the country that is not without a fight in this political drama created and written by Adam Price.

Stranger Things (2016-)

The small town of Hawkins in the 1980s soon finds itself becoming the home of supernatural disturbances. After a boy goes missing, dark and sinister forces soon emerge from the horrific parallel universe known as the Upside Down. It’s up to a gang of kids, a desperate single mother, a washed-up sheriff and a psychic girl to save their town from certain doom in this coming-of-age horror saga.

Happy Valley (2014-)

Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) is a small-town cop working the beat in Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, in Northern England. She finds herself tackling tough cases of drugs while also facing down her own personal demons and tragedies in this dark British crime drama created and written by Sally Wainwright (Last Tango in Halifax).

Babylon Berlin (2017-)

Gereon Rath is a police commissioner who soon finds himself transplanted into the rocky political landscape of 1920s Berlin. This is made all the more complicated as he yet to recover the shellshock of World War I. What starts as cracking down on infamous pornography rings soon unravels into a grand conspiracy of Soviet rebels and train hijacking.

Fauda (2015-)

Doron has traded in his time working in the Israel Defense Force for the retirement to his vineyard. But just when he thinks he is out of the game, they pull him right back in. An enemy once thought killed has popped up again and Doran decides to go undercover with the IDF team to finish the job in this gritty action thriller of espionage and manhunts.

Umbre (2014-)

Relu (Șerban Pavlu) may seem like an average guy but he secretly works as an enforcer for the mob. Trying to make sure nobody knows of this, he hides such a secret from his family, hoping they’ll never uncover his dark dealings in crime. But with accidental murders and mounting mob tensions, that secret becomes much more difficult to conceal in this intriguing Romanian crime-drama.

Sacred Games (2018-)

Officer Sartaj Singh has just received a crucial tip from an anonymous person about the sinister crime lord Ganesh Gaitonde. Seeking justice, he sets off across Mumbai in hopes of stopping such a criminal. The further he goes, however, the more corruption he uncovers and finds himself booted off the case, forcing him to take the law into his own hands in this gritty Indian series.

Deutschland 83 (2015)

With a Germany divided in 1983, Martin Rauch finds himself in a tough spot as a young East German soldier. He must now act as a spy in West Germany for the Stasi foreign service. Gathering NATO secrets things becomes increasingly difficult for the political and personal attachments he forms in this stirring political drama developed by American author Anna Winger and her German husband, Joerg Winger.