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What we do in the shadows. The complete first season

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Three vampires have lived together for hundreds of years. After an unexpected visit from their dark lord and leader, they're reminded that they were initially tasked with completing domination of the New World upon their arrival in Staten Island; over a hundred years ago. But what exactly is the best way to go about achieving said domination?

My Thoughts

Brillant spin-off of Taika Waititi (Thor: Raganok) and Jemaine Clement's 2014 film.

Star trek, lower decks. Season 1

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Join rule-breaker Beckett Mariner, aspiring captain Brad Boimler, rookie D'Vana Tendi and part-Cyborg Sam Rutherford as they attempt to navigate the most mysterious corners of our universe with very little experience, and even less authority.

My Thoughts

A different side of Star Trek!

好预兆

From the Publisher

In the beginning and eleven years ago, two immortal beings decide that it might not be time to start an Apocalypse. Having followed the wrong boy for years, Aziraphale and Crowley must now try to locate the whereabouts of the real Antichrist. Perhaps the story of Agnes Nutter and her famous prophecies will hold the answer?

My Thoughts

Sheen and Tennet shine as an odd couple!

杀死了夏娃。一个季节

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Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.

My Thoughts

多才多艺的菲比Waller-Bridge写的

The Good Place. Complete first season

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The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place who doesn't know he's made a mistake, she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome, or at least the pretty good, person within.

My Thoughts

Kristen Bell and Ted Danson are national treasures.

Luther. [Season 1]

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A self-destructive near-genius, Luther might just be as dangerous as the depraved criminals he hunts. Luther follows his own moral code as much as the rules of criminal law. But he quickly becomes locked in a lethal battle of wits with Alice, a beautiful, highly intelligent mass murderer, and his decision-making process becomes increasingly murky. Luther's lonely path pulls him towards the very edge of temptation.

My Thoughts

Idris Elba shines in this dark role.

The haunting of Hill House. [Season 1]

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Flashing between past and present, a fractured family confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.

My Thoughts

Scary in an spine-tingling way!

The great British baking show. Season 1

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Follow the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the U.K.'s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds, judged by Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

My Thoughts

I cannot stop watching them watch their ovens. It's the best of humanity.

Star trek discovery. Season one

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The first season in this series is an odyssey that unfolds a decade before the era of Star Trek, the Original Series.

My Thoughts

Disco has very different tone and style to the other Star Trek series

The handmaid's tale. Season one

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A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred.

My Thoughts

Super addicting but not for the faint of heart.

Westworld. Complete first season

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The one-hour drama series is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. No rules, no laws, no judgment. Live without limits.

My Thoughts

"Dark odyssey" might be underselling it.

Mr. Robot. Season 1

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Enter the "completely captivating" world of Mr. Robot. Cyber-security engineer by day and vigilante hacker by night, Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader of an underground hacker group recruits him to destroy the firm he is paid to protect. Compelled by his personal beliefs, Elliot struggles to resist the chance to take down the multinational CEOs he believes are running (and ruining) the world.

My Thoughts

So intense.

VEEP. The complete first season

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Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and a rising star in her party with her eye on the White House, then she became Vice President. VEEP follows the whirlwind day-to day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the President's interests, even as she tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the Chief Executive.

My Thoughts

Brillant! I am such a pushover for Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

30 Rock. Season 1

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Liz柠檬是作家生活的各种职业gram in New York City. Liz's life is turned upside down when brash new network executive Jack Donaghy interferes with her show, bring the wildly unpredicatable Tracy Jordan into the cast. Now it's up to Liz to manage the mayhem and still try to have a life.

My Thoughts

I might also be a pushover for Tina Fey... and Alec Baldwin.

Orange is the new black. Season one

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Follows Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.

My Thoughts

Piper is the worst. The ensemble is the best!

Doctor Who. Season 5 BBC

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After his explosive regeneration, the Eleventh Doctor awakes to discover his TARDIS is about to crash. After falling from the sky, he pulls himself out of the wreckage to come face-to-face with young Amy Pond. The Doctor promises to take Amy to the stars. But first they must divert an alien plot that could destroy the Earth. The Doctor makes good his promise, and Amy boards the regenerated TARDIS, ready to take to the stars on a series of wild adventures that will change her life.

My Thoughts

I know I said first seasons and this is season five of the reboot, but it is Matt Smith's first season and the first one I watched in its entirety so I'm including it. You can be sensible and start with season one and Christopher Eccleston.

The office. Season one

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Based on the popular British series of the same name, the American version follows the daily interactions of a group of idiosyncratic office employees at the Scranton, Pa. office of the Dunder Mifflin paper supply company via a documentary film crew's cameras. Features earnest, but clueless, regional manager Michael Scott, who believes himself an exceptional boss, and his office staff, who tolerate Michael's inappropriate behavior only because he signs their paychecks.

My Thoughts

Because you know, sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.

Big little lies : [The complete first season]

From the Publisher

The apparently perfect lives of three mothers of first graders unravel to the point of murder.

My Thoughts

Regardless of your feelings on the book was better debate, the music is incredible.

Home fires: the complete first season

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Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.

My Thoughts

Fun. Historical. British. What more to you need?

Empire. The complete first season

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After music mogul Lucious Lyon is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons will succeed him at the legendary Empire entertainment company. The game changes when ex-wife Cookie returns from prison. This groundbreaking series features a pulsating soundtrack from legendary music hit maker Timbaland.

My Thoughts

There is nothing like a dynasty at stake to create good addicting drama.