Series about writers

Series about writers
List of the best series about writers selected by visitors to our site: The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel, History of Swear Words, The Musketeers, Unprincipled, Poor people, Castle, The Plague, The Paradise, Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles.

In the top there are new series of 2022, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
CharactersWriters
PlotInvestigation, Mystery
StyleBy books, Fascinating, Makes me think

A writer gets caught up in a murder investigation involving his mentor, an esteemed American author. Based on the book of the same name, by Joël Dicker.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genremelodrama, drama, family
CountryCanada, West Germany, USA, United Kingdom
CharactersOrphans, Singers
PlotDeath, Dancing, Wedding, Jealousy
PlaceSchool, Trains, Sea

Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She makes the acquaintance of a handsome, rich, bachelor, chases a cow, and wins (to her chagrin) a baking soda company's writing contest. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, and refuses Gilbert Blythe's marriage proposal; which sends her to teach Kingsport Ladies' College, an exclusive girls school, where she meets opposition from one of the teachers, Miss Brooke, and the Pringle clan (one of whom is a rich, handsome bachelor). But while Anne enjoys the battle, and the friends she makes, she returns to Avonlea.

PlotCulture
StyleBased on real events

This proudly profane series explores the history and impact of some of the most notorious bad words in the English language.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom
CharactersKings, Military, Heroes, Friends, Soldier
PlotAdventures
StyleSpectacular, By books

Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
CharactersRich, Couriers
PlotLove, Treason, Relationship
PlaceRussia
StyleFascinating

Collection of satirical sketches, telling about the decent inhabitants of the Patriarchal Ponds and their obscene stories. The series includes touching, outrageous and full of love intimate stories that are not accepted to speak out loud.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrecomedy
CountryRussia
Duration02:11
PlotIntrigue
PlaceRussia
StyleEasy, Fascinating

The story of an intelligent loser who lives in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg works as a “literary Negro” by Olga Buzova and writes an autobiography on her behalf.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:43
CharactersWriters, Partners
PlotInvestigation

After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySpain
Duration01:34
CharactersWriters, Poor
PlotInvestigation, Death, Politics, Viruses, Religion
TimeMiddle Ages
StyleAction, Fascinating

Plague decimates late 16th century Seville, a crowded city where many have arrived to embark for the New World to seek their fortune.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:59
PlotShopping
PlaceEngland
Time19th century
StyleFascinating

An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the pasts that follow them there. A love story, mystery, and social comedy all in one.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreadventure, crime, detective
CountryRussia

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Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration03:00
CharactersBlind, Heroes
PlotSuperpowers, Time travel, Supernatural, Survival, Apocalypse
PlaceAirplanes
StyleSpectacular, Atmospheric

A jet leaves on a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston. But early in the flight, ten passengers awaken to a startling realization: All of the other passengers have vanished.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:60
CharactersWitches, Angels, Demons, Childrens
PlotSupernatural, Apocalypse, Death, Religion, Confrontation
PlaceEngland
StyleShort, Spectacular, Atmospheric, Fancy, Fascinating

Aziraphale, an angel, and Crowley, a demon, join forces to find the Antichrist and stop Armageddon.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:05
CharactersSingle mothers, Gardeners

In 1935, financially strapped widow Louisa Durrell, whose life has fallen apart, decides to move from England, with her four children (three sons, one daughter), to the island of Corfu, Greece. Once there, the family moves into a dilapidated old house that has no electricity and that is crumbling apart. But life on Corfu is cheap, it's an earthly paradise, and the Durrells proceed to forge their new existence, with all its challenges, adventures, and forming relationships.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:41
CharactersSerial killers, Maniacs, Writers
PlotLove, Relationship, Social networks, Obsession, Obsession with love
StyleFancy

When a brilliant bookstore manager crosses paths with an aspiring writer, he uses the internet and social media to gather the most intimate of details and get close to her. A charming and awkward crush quickly becomes obsession as he quietly and strategically removes every obstacle - and person - in his way.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:24
CharactersDoctors, Nurses, Surgeons
PlotMedicine
PlaceVillage, Hospitals, Russia
StyleShort, By books

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.

Markimdb: 9.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:30
CharactersPartners, Detectives
PlotInvestigation
PlaceEngland
StylePopular, Worth watching, Spectacular, For men, Fascinating

A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:22
CharactersWriters
PlotInvestigation, Love triangle
StyleFascinating, Unexpected ending

Explore the psychological underpinnings of love and murder in a small mountain resort town while following popular children’s book author and illustrator Olivia Lake, whose literary success makes her a local celebrity in the tight-knit community.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:30
CharactersFriends, Actors
PlotParties
StyleFancy

The assorted humiliations, disasters and rare triumphs of four very different twenty-something girls: Hannah, an aspiring writer; Marnie, an art gallery assistant and cousins Jessa and Shoshanna.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:25
CharactersWriters
StyleEasy

Andrea is a seemingly confident comedy writer, wife and mom, who comically exposes her inner immaturity and neuroses through unexpected life situations.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration00:22
CharactersFriends, Friends, Writers, Actors
PlaceOffice

30 Rock is an American television comedy series that ran on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013, and was created by Tina Fey. The series, which is loosely based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy series depicted as airing on NBC. The series' name refers to 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, the address of the GE Building, in which the NBC Studios are located.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
CharactersNurses, Writers, Nurses
PlotLove, Death, Relationship, Mental disorders
PlaceHospitals, Psychiatric hospitals
StyleDorama, Soulful

Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected—a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
CharactersFriends, Writers
PlotDivorce
PlaceUSA
StyleBy books

Follows a best-selling author of a self-help book series who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40's in Los Angeles. She starts to side with and take advice more from her divorced friends rather than her married ones and it leads her to some unexpected and life-changing experiences.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:28
CharactersWriters
PlotLove, Life, Family life, Seduction

A self-loathing, alcoholic writer attempts to repair his damaged relationships with his daughter and her mother while combating sex addiction, a budding drug problem, and the seeming inability to avoid making bad decisions.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, adventure, detective
CountryRussia
Duration00:40
CharactersWriters, Celebrities

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration04:00
PlotLove, Love triangle
PlaceEngland
StyleFascinating

Nothing delights Emma more than meddling in the love lives of others. But when she takes protege Harriet Smith under her wing, her plans can only end in disaster...

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:30
CharactersFamily, Writers, Ghosts
PlotSuperpowers, Supernatural
StyleAtmospheric, Action

The Shining is a three-part television miniseries based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Directed by Mick Garris from King's teleplay, the series was first aired in 1997.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration00:43
CharactersLesbians
PlotLove triangle, Tennis

A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genreaction, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:25
CharactersDogs, Friends, Writers, Journalists, Artists
PlotPassion, Deception, Parties
StyleFancy

Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration00:43
CharactersFriends, Writers, Actors

A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy TV show.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:30
CharactersWidows, Poor
PlotDeath, Mystery
PlaceEngland
StyleShort, Atmospheric, Fascinating

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.





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