TV shows that make you think

List of the best TV shows that make you think about the meaning of life: Kidding, House, One Strange Rock, Sherlock, The OA, Olive Kitteridge, Chernobyl, True Detective, The Resident, The Knick.

In the top there are new series of 2021, a plot description and trailers for series that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, is an icon of children's TV. But when his family begins to implode, Jeff finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through this crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:43

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

Markimdb: 8.7
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

A mind-bending, thrilling journey exploring the fragility and wonder of planet Earth, one of the most peculiar, unique places in the entire universe, brought to life by the only people to have left it behind – the world’s most well known and leading astronauts.

Markimdb: 9.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:30

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

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.

    Markimdb: 8.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:59

    A look at a seemingly placid New England town that is actually wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, all told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and staunch moral center. The story spans 25 years and focuses on Olive's relationships with her husband, Henry, the good-hearted and kindly town pharmacist; their son, Christopher, who resents his mother's approach to parenting; and other members of their community.

    Markimdb: 9.4
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration00:56

    The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

    Markimdb: 8.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:08

    A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:45

      Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. John Thackery is a brilliant surgeon pioneering new methods in the field, despite his secret addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of doctors including his protégé Dr. Everett Gallinger; the young Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr. and Dr. Algernon Edwards, a promising surgeon who's been recently thrust upon him. The lively cast of characters at the hospital also includes Cornelia Robertson, the daughter of its benefactor, Captain August Robertson; surly ambulance driver Tom Cleary; Lucy Elkins; a fresh-faced nurse from the country; the crooked hospital administrator Herman Barrow; and Sister Harriet, a nun who isn't afraid to speak her mind.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration00:43

        A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:37

        The sudden death of her husband upends and transforms every relationship in Leigh Shaw’s life. It also forces her to realize there was a lot about her husband that she didn’t know.

        Markimdb: 8.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the people that he cares about. Elliot will find himself in the intersection between a cybersecurity firm he works for and the underworld organizations that are recruiting him to bring down corporate America.

        Markimdb: 9.3
        Genreaction, fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:22

        In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genredrama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:53

        A seasonal anthology series that tells startling, stranger-than-fiction true crime stories with the first season following Gypsy Blanchard, a girl trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her overprotective mother.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, biography, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration00:56

        Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, 1832. Anne Lister attempts to revitalize her inherited home, Shibden Hall. Most notably for the time period, a part of her plan is to help the fate of her own family - by taking a wife.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:38

        A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friend dies unexpectedly.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, USA
        Duration05:00

        A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:37

        An anthology series centered around people who believe themselves to be the modern-day descendants of the Romanov family.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Sweden
        Duration01:00

        In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.

        Markimdb: 8.9
        Genredocumentary
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:43

        A users' guide to the cosmos, from the Big Bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons: where did it all come from and how does it all fit together? A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate receives a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration00:35

        Brothel owner, Margaret Wells, struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:43

        Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In the last two decades, he's made a list of criminals and terrorists that matter the most but the FBI cannot find because it does not know they exist. Reddington calls this "The Blacklist". Reddington will co-operate, but insists that he will speak only to Elizabeth Keen, a rookie FBI profiler.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        The peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genremelodrama, drama, history
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration06:00

        The Kennedys is an Emmy-winning Canadian-American television miniseries chronicling the lives of the Kennedy family, including key triumphs and tragedies it has experienced. It stars Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes, Barry Pepper and Tom Wilkinson among others, and is directed by Jon Cassar. The series premiered in the United States in April 2011 on ReelzChannel and on History Television in Canada.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway and Alison Lockhart after the two meet in the resort town of Montauk in Long Island. Noah is a New York City schoolteacher with one novel published (book entitled A Person who Visits a Place) and he is struggling to write a second book. He is happily married with four children, but resents his dependence on his wealthy father-in-law. Alison is a young waitress trying to piece her life and marriage back together in the wake of the tragic death of her child. The story of the affair is told separately, complete with distinct memory biases, from the male and female perspectives.

        Markimdb: 8.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:07

          A complex drama about power politics in the world of New York high finance. Shrewd, savvy U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades and the brilliant, ambitious hedge fund king Bobby "Axe" Axelrod are on an explosive collision course, with each using all of his considerable smarts, power and influence to outmaneuver the other. The stakes are in the billions in this timely, provocative series.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrefantastic, action, comedy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:58

          The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and disfigured. Traumatized and downtrodden, the team found purpose through The Chief, who brought them together to investigate the weirdest phenomena in existence — and to protect Earth from what they find.

          Markimdb: 8.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:43

          Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration05:07

          A tech innovator creates a cutting-edge crowd-sourcing hub to solve his own daughter's murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.

          Markimdb: 8.2
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:30

          Three friends in San Francisco who explore the fun and sometimes overwhelming options available to a new generation of gay men.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration00:50

          The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryRussia
          Duration02:26

          The life pages of a man who changed the world but paid back everything he had. Leon Trotsky is being interviewed in Mexico city of the year 1940 by Canadian journalist Frank Jackson. During eight days they have eight interview sessions revealing the true face of Comrade Trotsky.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genredrama, sport
          CountryUSA

          When a rising high school football player from South Central L.A. is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High, the wins, losses and struggles of two families from vastly different worlds - Compton and Beverly Hills - begin to collide. Inspired by the life of pro football player Spencer Paysinger.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUSA

          Picking up just days after the “Power” finale, this sequel series follows Tariq navigating his new life, in which his desire to shed his father’s legacy comes up against the mounting pressure to save his family.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:06

          This true crime anthology, based on the podcast of the same name, follows the terrifyingly true story of Orange County interior designer Debra Newell’s romance with John Meehan, a handsome and romantic charmer who sweeps Debra off her feet and pulls her into his web of lies.

          Markimdb: 8.3
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, family
          CountryUSA

          Kelly Quinn and her two BFF's, Darbie and Hannah, stumble upon her grandmother's mysterious cookbook in the attic and discover some far from ordinary recipes. When the Shut'em Up Shortcake silences Kelly's pesky little brother and the Healing Hazelnut Tart heals Darbie's ankle, the girls discover they have the power of magic. A single-camera live-action pilot based on the popular book.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantasy, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:39

          A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration00:30

          The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, crime
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration00:30

          Noh Ji Wook is a prosecutor in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office who ends up switching professions to a private attorney. He harbors a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and his first love. Eun Bong Hee, a Taekwondo athlete in her youth, is a prosecutor trainee who has become a murder suspect. Eun Bong Hee and Noh Ji Wook both find themselves being the focus of a killer.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:30

          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: 8.7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration02:13

          A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:29

          A serial killer thriller told in reverse, unravelling the truth behind a series of murders as DCI Gabriel Markham hunts down a brutal killer.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:51

          A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUSA

          This limited series chronicles the incredible true story of Madam C.J. Walker, who was the first African American self-made millionaire.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:34

          A former detective specializing in human behavior is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.




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