Many are convinced that series can only be entertaining, but this is not so. Such series make you think about a variety of things and can even inspire something important, serious.
Consider the best series that have been rated by people who love intellectual entertainment.
10. The Legion | 2017
Schizophrenic David Heller tried to deal with his mental illness from an early age, he often went to specialized hospitals.
Each personality of the patient controlled this or that side of his power. The split personality greatly weakened David, and he did his best to find a way to cope with his problem, but over time he had completely lost hope of recovery. Heller's life becomes completely different when he meets the girl of his dreams.
This series is different in that all the characters look real, not cardboard: in their reviews, many viewers note that they are very well written.
9. One night | 2016
Nazir Khan is a Pakistani student in New York. One day, he decides to find himself entertainment at night, using his father’s taxi for this.
Naz meets a beautiful girl, has sex with drugs flavored with drugs and alcohol, and in the morning she is dead.
A guy who has discovered the corpse of his new acquaintance at his side is confused and does not know at all how to justify himself. Naz is accused of having committed the murder, but he has no doubt that he is innocent.
8. Left | 2014
Once, many people living in the most ordinary American town mysteriously disappear, and their remaining relatives have to rebuild their lives.
The central character of this series is Kevin Garvey, an employee at the local police station. People who suddenly lose their loved ones, first of all go there.
Garvey decides to investigate this strange case, but members of his own family also have a large number of problems. Tom, the son of Kevin, is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy, and his wife seeks help in various sects.
7. Fargo | 2014
Lorne Malvo is a tramp with a very dark past. He ends up in Minnesota, in the small provincial town of Bemidji. The craving for violence and the ineradicable malice of this person are changing the lives of many people.
Especially strongly Malvo influences Lester Nygard, an unsure insurance agent who realizes that all this time he lived wrong.
Lorne helps Lester redefine priorities and make life less boring, but his methods are not consistent with the requirements of the law.
6. The black mirror | 2011
Recently, the latest technologies have become very influential on people, and this happened even before they came to their senses and doubted the omnipotence of technological progress.
In all hands, on all tables, in all houses - black mirrors: smartphones, computers, plasma TVs. Modern people worship technology, they almost laid it on the altar.
Now almost all data in the world is available to a person, but he can only accept a limited number of characters from a post on Twitter.
This series shows a strong concern for modern people.
5. The Mind Hunter | 2017
The plot unfolds in the late 70s. To solve current crimes, two FBI agents interview serial killers. Agents seek to understand how criminals think, but it is very difficult.
Obstacles such as misunderstanding of colleagues and bureaucracy of the system complicate everything. Holden Ford saw many criminals, his main specialization is the compilation of their accurate portraits.
Bill Tench - his partner, who creates the latest techniques for finding criminals. It is very different from generally accepted standards.
4. Sherlock | 2010
John Watson is a doctor who took part in the Afghan war. He did not die, but remained crippled. Watson wants to find an apartment, but he does not have the opportunity to rent housing alone, so the doctor is looking for a suitable neighbor. It turns out to be Sherlock Holmes, a charismatic detective.
Watson and Holmes become not only neighbors, but also friends. Together, they uncover complex crimes that even London police cannot handle. A serious, sober-minded doctor remarkably complements the eccentric detective.
3. Mr. Robot | 2015
Elliot Anderson was an ordinary person who worked as an engineer in a New York company. He specialized in computer security.
Elliot didn’t really like the people he worked for. He perfectly understood that they are corrupt, aimed exclusively at their own enrichment.
During the day, Anderson did his usual work, and at night he became a hacker, extracting personal information from various influential people.
One day, Elliot met with Mr. Robot, and after that the guy’s life changed dramatically.
2. Knickerbocker Hospital | 2014
John Thackery is a talented doctor who saves a large number of lives every day. However, he has a big problem: drug addiction. She very much prevents Thackery from achieving success in the professional field.
The series Knickerbocker Hospital describes the historical period when computed tomography and laser scalpels were not yet available. To save as many people as possible, doctors had to significantly expand the scope of their own perception.
1. A true detective | 2014
Rast Cole and Marty Hart are friends and partners investigating the unusual murder of a girl in Louisiana. They still can’t get to the bottom of the truth.
This crime occurred in 1995, and almost twenty years later the case was reopened, since the body of a man who was killed in this way was found.
To better understand the matter, the police decide to interrogate Rast and Marty, who had been investigating before.