So why not extend our gaze across the culture as well? Lord knows there are more than enough movies and books and memes and music to recollect. Read more: What's New On Netflix? Perhaps the richest field? Why not spend much of the next quarter century rewatching them? Virtuosic is the only word I can use to describe this miniseries, which stars its creator, writer and co-director, Michaela Coel — 12 ingenious, hilarious, heartbreaking and utterly delicious episodes, some of which almost function as standalones, before coming together to form a fascinating picture of contemporary life, love, friendship, creativity and trauma.
All in all, a triumph. When Industry was first unveiled, it seemed an unlikely proposition: a Succession -meets- Skins drama set inside a cut-throat London investment bank, with a pilot episode directed by Lena Dunham. What a delight, then, to see it bloom over three seasons into one of the brilliantly written, funniest and most stylish shows on television. There are certain works that feel like they help give shape to the understanding of a generation, and with its acute sense of stalled promise, inequalities inherited at birth, and the difficulty of sustaining love across those chasms, Normal People , both the book and the show, feels like one of them.
When it aired in , Fleabag felt like a bolt from the blue. Sure, there had been shows that broke the fourth wall, but none did so with quite the same conspiratorial panache as Phoebe Waller-Bridge, delivering her straight-to-camera confessions with winking glee and singular wit.
It was so distinctive, in fact, that its creator had the good sense to call it quits after a stunning second season. It was a bittersweet goodbye, but its two perfect seasons will be forever undiluted. It took a while for Better Call Saul to emerge out of the shadow of Breaking Bad , but eventually this six-season drama, about a small-time Albuquerque lawyer named Jimmy McGill Bob Odenkirk becoming the drug-cartel attorney Saul Goodman turned into the best thing on television, and for its devotees, an even greater achievement than Breaking Bad.
Season by season, Saul upped the tension and the emotional stakes until the relationship between Jimmy and girlfriend, lawyer Kim Wexler, played magnificently by Rhea Seehorn, became profoundly moving and ultimately tragic.
