Crimes of Passion
I think I've used this Swedish, 1950s set murder mystery series before but I love it so much who cares! I love all three leads and can't stop watching them in the precious few episodes. Each episodes is 90 minutes long but this is the same for its British equivalents. Puck (you may recognise Swedish actress Tuva Novotny from Annihilation) is a literature student, later in the series, a teacher, who is invited by a friend to his island to celebrate Midsummer with a group of close friends, including Eje who she has been dating. But when Puck finds one of the party murdered in the woods, Eje asks his best friend, Christer, a detective to help solve the crime, secrets from the past arise and cracks in the group's dynamic begin to show. And that just the first episode! As you can guess throughout each episode, Puck and Eje become involved or mixed up in a murder investigation with Christer. Every episode is amazing!
Dark
This German science fiction thriller about time travel is by far the best series I had seen last year. Difficult to get into at first but by the end of the first episode you're hooked. With a large main cast, set over three different times, about three generations and how the time loop has affected them is brilliantly plotted and carefully tries to explain time travel and how it works at the same time showing there are numerous possibilities. If you havn't seen it, go watch it. There is going to be a second series so the cliff hanger endings (yes there are a few) will be resolved or continued into further happenings in the town of Winden. It has been compared to Stranger Things but I think it is closer to the weirdness of Twin Peaks.
Good Morning Call
I went through phase where I binged watched a few Koreon and Japanese comedy dramas. The best of the lot was the light hearted, based on a manga series, Good Morning Call about the ditzy sweet girl (who all the boys end up falling in love with) Nao and the popular, handsome, smartest boy in school, Uehara, who end up accidentally sharing an apartment after they are scammed. It's rather silly at times but overall its a fun show. It has a second season now but having to sit through hours of waiting for the two leads to be together, I don't think I can take further hours of them being ripped apart. Sometimes stories should just end.
