We asked our readers on our Facebook profile which were the TV series in programming in this period that they had the pleasure of discovering and that they recommend to see. Many of these are small-screen transpositions of literary classics and contemporary books. Here are the most suitable TV series and their respective plots. 10 TV series to watch right now Unorthodox
Unorthodox is a German and US television miniseries created by Anna Winger and Alexa Karolinski, based on Deborah Feldman’s 2012 autobiography Ex Orthodox. The scandalous rejection of my Hasidic roots (Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots) is made available on the Netflix platform from March 26, 2020. The protagonist is 19-year-old Esther “Esty” Shapiro, a girl of ultra-Orthodox Hasidic faith who lives in Williamsburg neighborhood, Brooklyn, where she is forced to follow strict community rules. After a year of arranged marriage, she decides to escape to Berlin and start a new life. Maid
Among the most recommended TV series we find “Maid”, an American drama television miniseries inspired by Stephanie Land’s memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive”. The series was created by Molly Smith Metzler and premiered on Netflix on October 1, 2021. The star is Alexandra Russell, a 25-year-old mother. She has a difficult relationship with her mother, a penniless artist with psychological problems, while she has no relationship with her father, after years of being away. She dreams of being a writer, so much so that years earlier she was hired at the University of Montana in the fine arts department. After a violent coexistence with her partner, she leaves him and starts working as a maid, on the advice of a social worker. Tear off along the edges
Rip Along The Edges is an Italian animated series from 2021 written and directed by Zerocalcare for the Netflix streaming platform. The series revolves around a journey that Zerocalcare and his two lifelong friends, Sarah and Secco, have to face. Over the course of the episodes, stories and flashbacks of the protagonist’s life follow one another, passing from the middle school years to those of high school, up to the present, narrating his existence through the sarcasm and irony that distinguish the character. Fauda
Among the most popular TV series we find “Fauda”, a 2015 Israeli television series broadcast from February 15, 2015 on the Yes Oh channel. In Italy, the series is published from 2 December 2016 by Netflix. The TV series stars Doron, an officer of a Mista’arvim counter-terrorism unit (special units of the Israeli Defense Forces) who operate as infiltrators in the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, and his unit while trying to catch a terrorist from Hamas responsible for several terrorist attacks, known as “Abu-Akhmed” or “The Panther”. The rules of the perfect crime
The Rules of the Perfect Crime is a US television series broadcast on ABC from September 25, 2014 to May 14, 2020, for a total of six seasons and ninety episodes. It was created by Peter Nowalk and produced by Shonda Rhimes, former producer of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal through ABC Studios. In Italy, the series debuted on January 27, 2015 on the Fox satellite channel. Focused on the personal and professional vicissitudes of lawyer and university professor of criminal procedure Annalize Keating and her implications for his circle of faithful collaborators and students, The Rules of the Perfect Crime has been critically acclaimed since its inception. Versailles
Versailles is a French-Canadian television series created by Simon Mirren and David Wolstencroft, broadcast from November 16, 2015 to May 21, 2018 on the French channel Canal + for 30 episodes over three seasons. The TV series is centered on the king of France Louis XIV who, at the age of 28, decides to move his government to his father’s former hunting lodge. To lure the nobles to his court, and thereby keep them under control, he thus launches the construction of the palace of Versailles. Sea out
Mare fuori is an Italian TV series directed by Carmine Elia and broadcast from 2020 on Rai 2. The story takes place in the Institute of Juvenile Penalty in Naples where 50 boys and 20 girls are locked up: most of them think that the mistake is was just getting arrested. All of them at the time of their entry are not yet eighteen years old. Next to them are the strict director, the commander of the prison police, the educators, the cook, the barber and the guards who try to give the prisoners a second chance. Downtown Abbey
Downton Abbey is a British costumed TV series, co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece for the UK network ITV and for PBS, a US non-profit television. The series, conceived and mainly written by actor and writer Julian Fellowes, is set between 1912 and 1926, during the reign of King George V, on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire. The series has been positively received both by the public and by the critics and the ratings have been very high, compared to those normally obtained by similar series, collecting various awards and nominations. Self Made
Self-made: The Life of Madam CJ Walker (original title: Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker) is a television miniseries released on March 20, 2020 on Netflix, based on the biography On Her Own Ground by A’Lelia Bundles . The TV series tells “the irreverent story of Afro hair care pioneer Madam CJ Walker and how she overcame hostility, rivalry and tumultuous marriages to become America’s first black millionaire.” You
You is an American psychological thriller series based on the novel You, as well as its sequel Hidden Bodies, written by Caroline Kepnes. It aired in the United States on Lifetime for the first season and distributed internationally on Netflix from the second. The series airs from 9 September 2018. [5] In Italian, it is distributed on Netflix since December 26, 2018.
