If you are already bored of the long-running popular TV series, and you want something fresh, we are in a hurry to help. Here is a list of new products from foreign TV series in 2019, which includes representatives of a wide variety of genres - from detective stories and action films to historical and fantastic.
And so that you do not waste time watching boring filmmaking, we have selected the best TV shows with a high user rating on Kinopoisk and IMDB.
10. Project "Blue Book"
Rating Movie Search: 6,71
IMDB rating: 7.70
Genre: fantasy, thriller, detective
Country: USA, Canada
Producer: Norma Bailey, Thomas Carter, et al.
Music: Daniel Wall
Episode duration: 45 minutes
If you like UFO stories and government conspiracies, then you will enjoy watching the Blue Book. This story is both spy, dramatic, fantastic and detective. At the same time, she does not seek to conquer the audience with mere entertainment, and the plot twists, although unexpected, are quite logical.
Just don't expect Blue Book to copy the X-Files style. These are different series, both in presentation and in the time in which the events take place.
9. Doom Patrol
Rating Movie Search: 6,93
IMDB rating: 7.40
Genre: fantasy, adventure, action
Country: USA
Producer: Dermott Downs, Carol Benker et al.
Music: Kevin Keiner, Clint Mansell
Episode duration: 60 minutes
Superheroes of all stripes have become an integral part of the cinema. Most of them are smart, strong, successful and ready to save the Earth at any time of the day or night. There are no such superheroes in Doom Patrol.
And there is a motley team of losers, including a cyborg, an actress with a strange ability, a pilot exposed to radiation and even one psychopath with a rich inner world from 64 different personalities. Would you trust such a supervillain to hunt and save the world? But you have to!
8. Black Monday
Rating Movie Search: 6,96
IMDB rating: 7.40
Genre: comedy
Country: USA
Producer: Leslie Hadland, Reginald Hadlin, et al.
Music: Chris Bowers
Episode duration: 30 min.
October 19, 1987 American financial world remembered as "Black Monday". On this day, there was the largest Dow Jones collapse in the history of Wall Street.
And the series "Black Monday" tells about a group of outsiders who managed to turn this financial disaster to their advantage.
7. Miracle workers
Rating Movie Search: 7,44
IMDB rating: 8.30
Genre: comedy, fantasy
Country: USA
Producer: Ryan Keyes, Maurice Marable, et al.
Music: Alex Dreiblatt, Björn Alstedt and others.
Episode duration: 20 minutes.
The Boy Who Lived grew up and got a promotion. Now Daniel Radcliffe plays Angel Craig from the Prayer Processing and Execution Department. Together with his new partner Eliza, he works for Heaven Inc., the boss of which is, of course, God (Steve Buscemi).
And when, one terrible day, God decides to destroy the Earth, Craig and Eliza will have only a few days to accomplish the most impossible miracle: helping two people fall in love.
6. Warrior
Rating Movie Search: 7,44
IMDB rating: 8.30
Genre: action, drama, history
Country: USA
Producer: Lony Perister, Lin Oding, et al.
Music: Reza Safinia, H. Scott Salinas
Episode duration: 60 minutes
In the late 19th century, the gifted martial artist Ah Sam comes from China to San Francisco. However, the new homeland unkindly greets the new resident, and the young man finds himself in the very epicenter of gang violence in the local Chinatown.
Why is it worth spending your time watching The Warrior?
- First, because of the excellent work of the costume designers.
- Secondly, because of the excellent fighting choreography, which emphasizes the excellent physical shape of the actors.
- And thirdly, because this drama was inspired by the original idea of Bruce Lee.
5. What are we doing in the shadows
Rating Movie Search: 7,50
IMDB rating: 8.40
Genre: comedy, horror
Country: USA
Producer: Jemaine Clement, Jackie van Beek, et al.
Music: Mark Mathersbo
Episode duration: 30 min.
Vampires is your time! At least in this series - a spin-off of "Real Ghouls" - in which the three main bloodsucking characters (Viago, Deacon and Vladislav) are forced to fight the mundane. That is, pay rent, try to get into nightclubs and resolve conflicts with neighbors. And also look for past and present love, and, of course, fresh blood.
4. Umbrella Academy
Rating Movie Search: 7,60
IMDB rating: 8.10
Genre: fantasy, comedy, action
Country: USA
Producer: Andrew Bernstein, Peter Hoore, et al.
Music: Jeff Russo
Episode duration: 60 minutes
The title of this series immediately evokes associations with the sinister Umbrella corporation from Resident Evil. However, the show is not about how Alice and his comrades prepared for the reflection of zombicalipsis. And about a team of diametrically opposed superheroes, whom their adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreaves, was preparing to save the world from an unknown threat. I cooked, cooked, and died.
And then another of the brothers returned from the future to talk about what a gloomy picture awaits his brothers and sisters. And the team that was disbanded unites to continue the work of his father and prevent the Apocalypse.
An excellent soundtrack, excellent camera work, and most importantly - a solid mixture of humor, fiction, action and drama ensured Umbrella high viewership ratings. So if you are tired of clichéd-pretentious superhero movies, you know what to watch on your free evening.
3. Kingdom
Rating Movie Search: 7,63
IMDB rating: 8.30
Genre: fantasy, horror, detective
Country: USA, South Korea
Producer: Kim Sung-hoon
Music: Mok Young Jin
Episode duration: 50 minutes
A series with an exotic oriental theme, a dashingly twisted plot with a bias in mysticism is just a godsend for those who are tired of the standard "zombies, zombies, zombies", which are chopped into cabbage by the hundreds of another unkillable hero.
Imagine a distant, distant country, whose ruler, after death, turned into a carnivorous monster. And his son, not knowing about it, is looking for answers to questions about what exactly the king is "sick".
Meanwhile, a conspiracy against the ruling clan is brewing in the palace, and the driving force of this process will be ... However, see for yourself.
2. Love, death and robots
Rating Movie Search: 8,22
IMDB rating: 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.
One of the best TV series of 2019 is so diverse in its plot and animation presentation that every viewer will find an interesting episode in it. Looking for steampunk with werewolf foxes? You are welcome.
Do you need a philosophical parable, after which you are tempted to think about lofty matters and the meaning of life? And it is there.
The soul craves black humor and cats? Hold on!
And can you look at the struggle of Soviet soldiers with the disgusting monsters generated by the Underworld itself? Love, Death and Robots will give you this and much more.
1. Chernobyl
Rating Movie Search: 8,58
IMDB rating: 9.60
Genre: history, drama
Country: USA, UK
Producer: Johan Renck
Music: Hildur Gudnadottir
Episode duration: 56 minutes
This five-part series focuses on the scale of one of the worst man-made disasters of the 20th century - the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. He tells how and why this happened, and what titanic efforts were made by ordinary people to eliminate the consequences of the disaster.
To depict the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, the film crew used Fabiyoniskes, a residential area in Vilnius that maintained a "genuine Soviet atmosphere." And the small final scenes were filmed directly in Ukraine.
An apocalyptic atmosphere, a plausible reflection of Soviet reality (albeit with inevitable stereotypes) - these are the main advantages of this excellent historical series.
The most anticipated TV series of 2019
"The Witcher"
Rating Movie Search: expected
IMDB rating: expected
Genre: fantasy, action, drama
Country: USA, Poland
Producer: Alik Sakharov, Charlotte Brandstrom and others.
Music: unknown
Episode duration: 60 minutes
Talking about the best serial novelties of this year, we cannot ignore The Witcher. His expectation rating on Kinopoisk is 98%.
At the same time, the game has set the bar so high for fans' expectations that it will be very difficult for Netflix and the filmmakers to live up to them. And the choice of Henry Cavill for the role of the stern and charismatic Geralt of Rivia has already caused heated debate. When a photo of Cavill, made up as Geralt, appeared, many thought that he looked too cute. Others argue that Cavill's acting skills are so engaging in the image of a monster hunter that everyone will gasp with delight.
But the photo of young Ciri was kept secret for a long time. Only recently, photos of actress Freya Allan have leaked to the Web, possibly in the form of the Lion Cub from Cintra.
According to unconfirmed information, The Witcher will be released in December 2019.