The year is still picking up steam, but we've seen enough great TV shows to pick the very best TV shows of 2019. The list is based on ratings from Kinopoisk and IMDB.
10. Love, death and robots (2019)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,22
Rating IMDB: 8.70
Genre: cartoons, fantasy
Country: USA
Producer: Victor Maldonado, Alfredo Torres, etc.
Music: Rob Cairns, John R. Graham, et al.
Episode duration: 15 minutes.
Of all the novelties of the series that have already been released in 2019, "Love, Death and Robots" stands out for both its excellent visual component and the most diverse stories.
From series to series, the most interesting stories unfold before us: ironic, funny, scary, philosophical, and at the same time completely unrelated to each other. Moreover, the series are also different in animation, because different authors have had a hand in each of them. But this does not spoil them, but only makes them more colorful and original.
But there is also something that unites all the episodes. "Love, Death and Robots" is a real gift for connoisseurs of good fiction.
9. Force majeure (2011 - present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,62
Rating IMDB: 8.50
Genre: drama, comedy
Country: USA
Producer: Anton Cropper, Michael Smith, et al.
Music: Christopher Ting.
Episode duration: 43 minutes
Harvey Specter, one of Manhattan's top lawyers, is looking to hire a new partner. And the only person who managed to impress him is Mike Ross, who has a brilliant mind and photographic memory. The only problem is that Ross has no legal background. He is a talented self-taught person.
Watching how this couple manage to solve the most difficult cases before the trial is a real pleasure after a busy day. No brain-breaking situations, no drawn-out dialogues and boring lectures. Light humor, bright characters and a little bit of jurisprudence.
8. Shameless (2011 - present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,58
Rating IMDB: 8.70
Genre: drama, comedy
Country: USA
Producer: Mark Mylod, Christopher Chulak, et al.
Music: Fil Eisler, Jamie Labos and others.
Episode duration: 55 minutes
How to make a TV series about an immoral and large family so that people would like to watch it? Add more humor, well-written characters that differ in character and behavior, as well as funny situations and nude scenes. The juicy dish is ready, you can serve it on the screen!
"Shameless" is a series that is better not to watch with children, because it contains a lot of obscene language and propaganda of lies and fraud. However, this movie, as they say, comes to the adult audience. After all, the actors play from series to series so well that together with them it is easy to be happy, sad, angry or twist in disgust.
7. Stranger Things (2016-Present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,46
Rating IMDB: 8.90
Genre: thriller, horror, fantasy
Country: USA
Producer: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer et al.
Music: Kyle Dixon, Michael Stein
Episode duration: 51 minutes
Action of one of the best TV series of 2018-2019 is set in the 80s in the fictional provincial American town of Hawkins. As you know from films and books, such places are real abode of evil.
So in this movie town, ominous and mysterious events take place, which began with the disappearance of the boy Will. A local sheriff is taken to investigate them, assisted by Will's mother and friends. And then the heroes, together with the audience, are waiting for sinister experiments, otherworldly forces, an alternative reality and many other very strange cases.
6. Fargo (2014-present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,40
Rating IMDB: 9.00
Genre: thriller, drama, crime
Country: USA
Producer: Michael Appendahl, Keith Gordon et al.
Music: Jeff Russo
Episode duration: 53 minutes
A vagabond named Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) is causing trouble for the small town of Bemidji and badly affecting insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman). Meanwhile, a couple of local police officers are trying to investigate a series of murders that they believe are related to Malvo and Nygaard.
It's pretty hard to predict where the Fargo storyline will turn, as each season is a complete reboot. It's a satirical, violent, down-to-earth and very interesting series that reveals the dark essence of ordinary people.
5. Black Mirror (2011 - present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,54
Rating IMDB: 8.90
Genre: fantasy, thriller, drama
Country: United Kingdom
Producer: Owen Harris, Carl Tibbetts, et al.
Music: Martin Phipps, John Opstad et al.
Episode duration: 43 minutes
Universal gadgetisation and computerization are an undoubted benefit for humanity. However, rapid progress brings with it not only good but also cause for concern. After all, social networks know more about us than parents, webcams can secretly spy on the owners, and the fear of being left without a smartphone has already received its name and turned into a phobia (nomophobia).
Black Mirror exploits the most common fears of people living in the digital age. And even those fears that may only appear in the future.
4. The Big Bang Theory (2007 - present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,57
Rating IMDB: 8.20
Genre: comedy, melodrama
Country: USA
Producer: Mark Sendrowski, Anthony Rich et al.
Music: Albert Glasser
Episode duration: 60 minutes
This is one of most popular TV series sitcoms ("sitcom"). It premiered in September 2007 and ended on season 12. It has 279 episodes and is the longest sitcom in the history of cinematography.
However, everyone loves "The Big Bang Theory" not for the length of the series, but for the unusual and very colorful characters - the brilliant Sheldon Cooper, who has discrete (digital) thinking and hypertrophied conceit, and his less brilliant, but no less bright friends.
The Big Bang Theory is a great show for families with teenagers. After all, it shows the most different types of young people and their relationships with each other and the world around them in an accessible, interesting and with subtle humor.
3. True detective (2014 - present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,70
Rating IMDB: 9.00
Genre: thriller, drama, crime
Country: USA
Producer: Carey Fukunaga, Daniel Sackheim, etc.
Music: T-Bone Burnett, Kifes Chance
Episode duration: 60 minutes
From seasons 1 to 3 of True Detective, we follow the investigation into the brutal murder of one child and the disappearance of another, which has brought a web of other crimes into the open.
Again and again we meet with ambitious American politicians and ordinary people with their everyday racism, ignorance and other vices. Once again, we find creepy symbols left at the scene of the crime, and hints of occultism. And each of the characters that flashed in the series has a meaning for the plot.
The denouement of each episode may be shocking and completely unpredictable, but it is quite logical.
And although the action of the third season of "True Detective" takes place in different decades, only the external environment changes. But craving for violence and human sins are ineradicable.
2. Sherlock (2010 - present)
Rating KinoSearch: 8,88
Rating IMDB: 9.10
Genre: thriller, drama, crime
Country: USA, UK
Producer: Paul McGuigan, Nick Harran and others.
Music: David Arnold, Michael Price
Episode duration: 90 minutes
One of the best detective series of all time, based on the works of Arthur Conan-Doyle. However, its action takes place in our days. Mr. Holmes no longer needs to look at evidence with a magnifying glass, all the achievements of modern forensics are at his service.
However, the atmosphere of mysterious and frightening London has not gone anywhere. The faithful Watson is still ready to support with a kind word and deed, and the insidious Moriarty and other enemies have become even more dangerous.
1. Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
Rating KinoSearch: 9,01
Rating IMDB: 9.50
Genre: fantasy, drama, action
Country: USA, UK
Producer: Miguel Sapochnik, David Nutter, Alan Taylor and others.
Music: Ramin Javadi
Episode duration: 55 minutes
The largest series of the 21st century is close to completion, but the controversy surrounding it will not subside for a long time. After all, the audience too much fell in love with the world of the Seven Kingdoms with their intrigues, charismatic characters (both alive and not very much), dragons and direwolves.
Even in the Moscow metro, at the Delovoy Tsentr station, there has appeared its own Iron Throne, on which anyone can sit.
May 20 the whole world will know how will Game of Thrones end... The final eighth season of Game of Thrones has turned out to be very controversial. So much so that viewers have created a petition urging HBO to re-film it with other writers. Since the current ones (Benioff and Weiss) allegedly did not cope with the task. And without the primary source - the books of George R.R. Martin - they could not create such an ending that would be a worthy conclusion to such an epic saga. At the moment, the petition has collected over 930 thousand signatures.