

Best British Series Series The Fall
Gillian Anderson hunts an elusive serial killer, played by Jamie Dornan, in the BBC Two series The Fall.Of course, this list cannot possibly cover everything. The show is led by the gothy, edgy comedian Noel Fielding and his much less gothy partner in crime, Julien Barratt.Waking the Dead is another good British crime series. And the rest of them are made by Bruce Miller, Amy Sherman-Palladino, David Farr, Greg Daniels, Michael Schur, Sudip Sharma, Barry Jenkins, Noah Hawley, Alex Gibney, Steven Moffat, Robert and Michelle King, and Edgar Wright.Needless to say, it was the overly strange nature of the show that led it to develop the large cult following that puts it easily on this list of the Best British Comedy Series of All Time. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ramy Youssef, and Simon Pegg are co-creators and stars on their respective series. Blackadder II (1986)What are the best TV series on Amazon Prime Video? The 19 titles below star the likes of Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, John Krasinski, Martin Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Ewan McGregor, Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Rachel Brosnahan, Nick Offerman, Joel Edgerton, Nigel Hawthorne, Julianna Margulies, Jonas Nay, and Jaideep Ahlawat.

Powerfully written and bolstered by great acting, including Jeff Daniels and Tahar Rahim, with a directing tone set by Alex Gibney. Both Oh and Comer have won multiple best actress awards, but the show's writing has been unable to keep up with them as it has progressed.Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name is adapted into a ten-part miniseries, exploring how the clash and rivalry between the FBI and CIA in the early 2000s may have inadvertently led to America's biggest tragedy, 9/11. Two great seasons followed by a dip in the third, and a major fall in the fourth.An off-the-books MI6 agent (Sandra Oh) and a psychopathic skilled assassin (Jodie Comer) are dangerously mutually obsessed with each other in this black comedy-drama based on Luke Jennings' Villanelle novel series. Known for its unique legal cases, terrific performances, and delivering consistently on all fronts throughout its long seven-season cable run.Elisabeth Moss stars in the lead of this prescient and unflinching adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic novel, set in a world where a totalitarian military dictatorship has overthrown the US government and subjugates women in the name of declining fertility rates. An Amazon original, possibly its best.After a humiliating sex and corruption scandal puts her husband behind bars, his wife — a former state's attorney — must return to work to provide for her family, while battling the unwanted spotlight. Winner of several Emmys, with Waller-Bridge picking up best series, actress, and writing.
Anushka Sharma is an executive producer. A second-rate police procedural, a first-rate examination of India's deep-rooted socio-political problems. Suffered in later seasons but regained form in the final season after the return of creator Greg Daniels.A struggling cop (Jaideep Ahlawat) is assigned the case of his career that involves the attempted murder of a high-profile journalist (Neeraj Kabi), but his off-the-books investigation reveals it might not be as straightforward. Third season couldn't match the heights of the first two.Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman lead the way with strong performances in this six-episode miniseries adaptation of the 1993 John le Carré novel, about a former British soldier and luxury hotel manager (Hiddleston) who becomes an undercover operative to infiltrate the inner circle of an international arms dealer (Laurie).This American remake of Ricky Gervais' BBC sitcom mockumentary lasted far longer — 201 episodes over nine seasons — as it followed the quite-often inappropriate and awkwardly-hilarious lives of the employees (Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, and John Krasinski among them) of a suburban Pennsylvania paper company. Maisel (2017 – Present)Among Amazon's best originals to date, the seemingly perfect life of a Jewish housewife (Rachel Brosnahan) in late 1950s New York City crumbles after her husband confesses he's having an affair, which leads her to an unexpected discovery: she has a knack for stand-up comedy. It offered brilliantly crafted characters and a subversive, intelligent look at the American workplace, while never dropping in quality across seven seasons.
First season is marginally better than the second.Before they gave us the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg directed and co-created, respectively, this sitcom about the misadventures of two twenty-something London strangers (Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, fellow co-creator) who pose as a married couple to get a flat in the English capital. Youssef won the Golden Globe for best actor in 2020. Co-created by Daniels (The Office) and Michael Schur, the show made adjustments after a poorly-received debut season and never looked back, as it blossomed into one of the best sitcoms of this century.An American-born Muslim (Ramy Youssef, also co-creator) in suburban New Jersey grapples with the dual identity challenges of just that, as he's perpetually caught between the traditions and values of his Egyptian heritage, and the live-in-the-moment ambitions of his millennial peers.
Never a low point in this beloved firing-on-all-cylinders hit. It follows a young enslaved woman (Thuso Mbedu) and the slave catcher (Joel Edgerton) in pursuit.Together with its 1986-88 sequel — Yes, Prime Minister — the two short-lived British series are reigning kings of the political satire, following a newly-appointed department minister struggling to carry out reforms and later, his unexpected elevation to the highest office in the land.
