My husband and I are trying to find a new series to watch that is as interesting and compelling as our favorites. Those would be Foyle’s War, Downton Abbey, the Inspector Morse series, Old Dogs New Tricks and Amanda Redman’s other series set in India, the Good Karma Hotel; A Place to Call Home set in Australia; Crash Landing on You set in North Korea; the Commissario Brunetti series in Venice; all of Montebano; another Italian series about a Milan department store called something like “Ladies Paradise” in Italian; Midsomer Murders; and another Brit detective thing whose name I forget. There are others that don’t come to mind right now.
All of these had compelling characters we liked (and villains we could hate), great scenery, good stories, and some element of history or culture in foreign lands. We don’t mind subtitles and especially like things in Italian.
We also enjoyed Doc Martin until the jokes became stale, and the Danish series Seaside Hotel until it slowed down too much.
Series we did not care for include Breaking Bad ( we quit when they brought out the hydrofluoricnacid to dissolve a body); Shetland (could not understand their dialect) , Giri/Haji ( too violent) and some others I cannot recall. Basically, we do not care for bodice-rippers, gratuitous violence, or a focus on sexual perversion, especially child molestation. As we are a doctor and a lawyer, we have both been exposed to enough of both in our professional lives, and do not consider it a subject for entertainment.
We have cut loose from cable and only have Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Criterion channel, no HBO, which apparently excludes The Gilded Age which might otherwise be of interest.
Thanks for your help.. I look forward to responses.