You’ll soon start to care deeply about these carefully drawn characters, and crave to find out what happens to them next. We also don’t understand how these kids, with their working-class accents and attitudes, mostly seem to live in ski lodges and millionaire mansions.īut you quickly forget all of that, because the story does such a good job of capturing the emotional whirlwind that is being a teenager. For a start, this allegedly British school looks very much like an American one, with its pep rallies, Letterman jackets and focus on the swim team and school band. but it’s very entertaining nonetheless.Īdmittedly, this show is not perfect. And yes, that’s as ridiculous as it sounds. It follows a nerdy but empathetic lad, who’s enlisted by a tough teenage girl to sell their fellow pupils sex therapy sessions. The polar opposite to the darkness of You, Sex Education is a colourful, fun and sexually explicit comedy-drama that will put a smile on your face and make you forget all your lockdown woes. Why watch it?: It’s funny, smart and very sexy.
What happens: A tough girl sets up a nerdy lad as a sex therapist.Sex Education isn't perfect, but it's tons of fun (Image credit: Netflix) This causes a whirlwind of tragic consequences, played out compellingly by top-class actors including Richard Armitage, Dervla Kirwan, Jennifer Saunders, Stephen Rea and Anthony Stewart Head.Īll in all, this show rises above the norm due to its perfectly formed plotting, its grounded sense of realism, and its empathy for the characters, who invariably come across as sympathetic even the wrong’uns. In this eight-part series, Hannah John-Kamen is entrancing as the mystery woman who goes around town revealing people’s secrets. Finally, however, Netflix has bottled his genius into a series of UK-set dramas: The Five (no longer available), Safe and most recently and compellingly, The Stranger. Why watch it?: Every second is filled with intrigue and excitementĪmerican novelist Harlan Coben is one of the century’s greatest crime writers, but it’s taken a long time for his books to be successfully adapted for TV.What happens: A stranger goes around town revealing people’s secrets.
The Stranger is full of thrilling twists and turns (Image credit: Netflix)
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