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The 6 Best Series Released on Digital Platforms
A list by sufferwithme
Black Mirror
A quite striking series about the harms of technology. One of the best few British series I've watched. A quality series that I recommend only its first three seasons. Every episode of the anthology series created by Charlie Brooker builds a different future with different characters; the first two seasons aired on Channel 4, the later ones on Netflix.
House of Cards
The series tells what Frank Underwood, who is quite opportunistic and Machiavellian, does to become president. A good series. Developed by Beau Willimon for Netflix, the series is a remake of the 1990 British series adapted from Michael Dobbs's novel. As one of Netflix's first big original series, it was released in 2013 with all its episodes on the same day.
Severance
A good series about work and private life. Created by Dan Erickson and with some of its episodes directed by Ben Stiller, the series tells of employees at a company called Lumon who have their work and private-life memories surgically separated. The self at the office doesn't know his life outside work, and the self at home doesn't know what he does at work. The series, released on Apple TV+, unfolds its mystery over the seasons.
Dopesick
A beautiful series. Dopesick takes viewers from the boardrooms of the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma to a troubled Virginia mining community and the corridors of the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction. In the eight-episode series adapted by Danny Strong from Beth Macy's book, Michael Keaton plays a small-town doctor who believes the drug is safe. The series tells, through stories set in different time periods, how addiction spread through a company's marketing decisions.
The Haunting of Hill House
A beautiful series. A fractured family moving back and forth between past and present confronts unforgettable memories of their old house and the terrifying events that drove them away from it. It's a drama, horror and mystery series. The ten-episode series, freely adapted by Mike Flanagan from Shirley Jackson's novel, builds its horror on grief and family trauma.
The Offer
Those who love The Godfather can watch this series, which tells the production process of The Godfather. The ten-episode series made for Paramount+ tells of producer Albert S. Ruddy's struggle to bring The Godfather to the big screen amid studio, mafia and censorship pressure. In the series, in which Miles Teller plays Ruddy, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Evans and Mario Puzo are also characters. It's based on real events but dramatizes some scenes.