I haven’t seen the west wing mentioned. It’s great drama with character arcs thatead to growth, which was unusual for episodic tv at the time. It chronicles the fictional presidents white house team dealing with politics and running the country, with ideals, pragmatism when ideals can’t work and holds politicians to a standard that we’d all benefit from.

The IT crowd has already been mentioned. It is laugh out loud funny, but being British, the absurdist humour can take a bit of getting used to. It’s not meant to depict realism, but charicatures. Don’t be afraid to pirate it as the lead writer is a massive dickhead.

Chernobyl is amazing, as others have said. Really tender exploration for the people that would have been involved at all levels. It’s harrowing at parts, inspiring at others. It makes us all seem human rather than a world of countries.

Buffy is peak for me with the knster of the week, overarching main baddie for a season and the funny quips mixed in. Others prefer angel or xfiles or fringe. However if any of the above tickle your fancy, you should try the others. Then try firefly and the movie.

I haven’t seen much reality TV here. You should check out the UK version of the traitors. It’s amazing TV. Like other reality TV, as the seasons go on, the participants have more of an idea of the course of the show and how they’ll be perceived. In ye first, they are a blank slate and you can see that the stress of deception is getting to them in a real way and the paranoia affects all.

The wire is a great cops and robbers show that bluts the lines between good guys and bad guys. All are just people doing what they can to make their way. Some that’s with crime, some that’s with stopping crime. All have dark sides and a human side.