Do not like to watch TV shows? Yes, you just did not really try! Modern TV series in recent years have become so high-quality and interesting that sometimes the “real” full-length films are inferior to them in depth and elaboration. We bring to your attention a list that includes the best psychological series of recent years (according to the opinion of the editors of the site). Watching these top 20 TV shows will never leave you indifferent, so pay attention to them!
So, here is a list of the best TV shows of the past 10 years.
20. The Mentalist
Former psychic and illusionist Patrick Jane is an excellent psychologist, distinguished by his talent for seeing others through and through. A personal tragedy led him to the California Bureau of Investigation, with whom he began working as an independent consultant.
Thanks to his extraordinary abilities, Patrick occupies an important place in Theresa Lisbon’s team, often unraveling the most difficult cases alone. However, his arrogant behavior and omniscience sometimes derails even a man with such steel nerves as Teresa has.
19. On the call of grief
Listing the best TV shows of our time, it is impossible to ignore this story. The peaceful life of a small village in the Alpine mountains is crumbling due to unexplainable things that are starting to happen there.
Several local residents, whom everyone considered dead for several years, are returning home to their loved ones. They look unharmed, remember well all their life until the moment of their death, and are not aware of their magical resurrection.
This phenomenon is accompanied by a series of strange events that begin to occur in a quiet town. How to take long mourned people back? And what terrible forces are hidden behind their return?
18. Bridge
A brief outage for a few seconds plunged the Oresund Bridge into darkness, connecting two northern European countries - Sweden and Denmark. When illumination reappears, the woman’s dead body is found. Whose police should lead the investigation of the crime? The Swedish and Danish parties are forced to cooperate in this difficult matter. Sarah Noren and Martin Rode, two commissioners, are different characters, speak different languages and use different methods in their work.
But a carefully planned murder and a cunning criminal make them combine their efforts.
17. Black mirror
The series of this British science fiction series does not have a common storyline; There are different actors in each episode. They are united only by a witty satire on the modern lifestyle.
In every house and apartment, on every table and in every pocket there is a TV, computer or telephone - a black mirror of our age. The connection with reality has completely changed. We glorify Apple, we share information with Facebook more readily than with our loved ones, we fit only 140 characters in our head, while we have access to all the knowledge in the world. The series clearly demonstrates the dependence of mankind on modern technology.
16. Doctor Who
The cult series about the adventures of a mystical alien, who calls himself the Doctor, through space and time on a ship that looks like a regular blue police box.
Together with his companions, he travels to the most remote corners of the Universe and the most diverse epochs, saving the Earth from countless enemies and fighting with space villains.
The doctor is very eccentric by nature, his actions are not always logical, and his sense of humor is very peculiar, but, of course, he captivates those around him with his immediacy.
15. Fargo
Lester Naygard is an ordinary insurance agent who lives in a small town in Minnesota and secretly hates his life. He is a typical loser with a whole bunch of complexes and flaws, his life rolls down the slope. Lester's wife constantly criticizes him, and his brother has long put a cross on him.
By chance, he meets Lornom Mulvo, who is passing through his city. Lester complains that his worthless life, and he offers to kill his offenders and get rid of all the problems. A man takes this strange sentence for a joke and does not suspect what consequences this conversation will lead ...
14. House of Cards
Democratic Congressman Frank Underwood has big plans for his political career. He is assisting Garrett Walker to become the new president of the United States in exchange for the future position of state secretary. However, after a successful election, he does not keep his promise.
Frank's ambition has been dealt a serious blow, but he is not going to surrender. On the contrary, the cunning congressman, together with his equally ambitious wife, Claire, is going to take revenge on the newly minted president, and to achieve this goal they are ready to do anything. Behind the scenes of modern politics, which is ruled by corruption, sex and cruelty.
13. Garbage
Probably, there is no such person who would not like to possess any supernatural powers. Isn't it fun to be able to fly, read other people's thoughts or turn back time? But not everyone needs such forces, and not all of them can make life easier.
Five young men from Albion did community service because of petty misconduct, and a thunderstorm suddenly erupted. Strong lightning struck them all, and as a result of this, each of them opened super powers. They have no idea what to do with them, and moreover, they are not very happy, because it reveals their deepest secrets and complexes, which they would prefer to keep secret.
12. The Big Bang Theory
The comedy series about the life of four physicists and a blonde who happened to be in their company by chance. In science, the guys are real aces, but in everyday life they often fail, especially when dealing with the opposite sex.
Everything begins to change when a charming girl, blonde in every sense of the word, settles in the apartment opposite. One of the main characters - Leonard, falls in love with Penny, but at the same time faces Sheldon's skepticism. He believes that a smart guy and a silly girl are different species that are not destined to be together.
11. Lie to me
Dr. Cal Lightman is a first-class specialist in lie detection. He only needs a few seconds to catch a man in a lie. Liar gives facial expressions, careless gesture or movement.
Dr. Lightman uses his talents in order to save innocent people from punishment and put the real criminals behind bars. Among his clients are the police, federals, persons from the US government, and even representatives of the authorities in other countries. But it is very difficult for a person to be happy if he sees only a lie around.
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10. Real Detective
In the center of the plot of the crime drama - two detective stories, whose fates are intertwined during the investigation of serial murders. Cole and Hart met seventeen years ago in the state of Louisiana, when they were to find the killer together. Then it seemed to them that they stopped him.
But in 2012 this case is again opened for the reason that a similar murder is taking place. They will again have to unite and plunge into the investigation. The action of the series develops in two time periods: the past, when the detectives only met, and the present, when their case is reopened.
9. Dexter
Remembering the best series that have seen the world in recent decades, it is impossible to ignore the fascinating history of a just maniac killer. Dexter Morgan is a conscientious forensic scientist at the Miami Police. He does not care about love or sex, he has no feelings at all. None of those around him knows that Dexter is a serial killer.
As a child, the boy became an unwitting witness to the brutal murder of his own mother, and his adoptive father quickly divined his sociopathic inclinations. Dexter directs his thirst to kill not ordinary people, innocent people, but criminals who have escaped justice. He has his own Code, and one of his mandatory rules is to search for irrefutable evidence of the guilt of his future victim.
8. Lost
An airliner on a scheduled flight from Australia to the United States was not destined to deliver passengers to their destination. After the accident, those who did not die were on a lost island in the middle of the ocean. When the panic passed, and hopes of an early rescue began to die, people realized that it was time to begin to settle down thoroughly in a new place.
Appearing at first deserted, the island is rapidly becoming a dangerous, full of mysteries place. The faster the survivors can figure out what is happening here, the more likely they are to survive ...
7. The Knicker Hospital
An eccentric genius, a doctor from God, John Tackery, who sat down tightly on the drug that expands the boundaries of consciousness, is having a hard time. It is not easy to be a pioneer in a sea of unexplored things.
It is not easy to help patients when the idea of antibiotics, radiation treatment and blood types is just emerging, and there are heated debates around most methods of treatment.
And yet, in this atmosphere of filthy cynicism, the experimental treatment of a doctor is an advanced method that all patients in the New York hospital can count on.
6. The X-Files
Special agent and skeptic scientist Dana Scully is the complete opposite of Agent Fox Mulder.
She believes that everything can always be explained reasonably; he believes that there is a place in the world mysterious and unknowable. When they get down to working with the secret FBI archives, the unexpected side of the world flies open.
Now this tandem will have to deal with newcomers, paranormal phenomena and other mythology, burst into modern life and, it seems, carefully concealed by the government ...
5. Sherlock
London is a city where criminal passions are raging. Sherlock is our contemporary. He is very arrogant and arrogant, rather mysterious, in English, witty and damn smart. What kind of Englishman can recognize his genius and, moreover, endure such a cocktail for a long time?
It turns out - the one who has Afghanistan behind them, the habit of field life, the difficult everyday life of a military doctor and the wound that put an end to further service.
Assistance in the investigation of intricate cases is a favorite occupation of the obnoxious genius and his resigned friend.
4. The Walking Dead
Assistant Sheriff Rick Grimes was unlucky - he was injured and fell into a coma after an exchange of gunmen with the bandits. After some time, he comes to his senses in the hospital and discovers that the world has changed in an incomprehensible, terrible way. The city is filled with walking dead, devouring all life, to which they can get, and people have disappeared.
In the midst of this zombie apocalypse, Rick will have to find his wife and son, and then find a place safe for life. Soon he will have the opportunity to learn that the surviving people may be much more dangerous than living corpses ...
3. Ambulance
As in everyday life, anything can happen (and happens) in a Chicago city hospital. There is always a place of hope and despair, grief and joy, luck and blunder.
Day-to-day doctors who have a hard watch here are true humanists who faithfully honor the Hippocratic Oath. Physicians with experience and interns, they are all determined to save human lives, not thinking about the effort.
Each new day is lived through thanks to the maximum voltage, leaving very little power for personal life ...
2. Game of Thrones
A long, blessed summer is coming to an end, winter is approaching the threshold. Peace in the Seven Kingdoms is unreliable and short. The iron throne, a symbol of power, is the cause of constant conspiracies and a tasty morsel, which must be constantly protected.
To stay on the throne, the king has to look for support, and the choice falls on the friend of a crazy youth and ruler of the North Ned Stark. Arriving in the capital, Ned immersed himself in the mess of intrigue, deception and envy.
And nobody takes seriously strange and terrible rumors, reaching from the borders of the Seven Kingdoms ...
1. Breaking Bad
In the life of chemistry teacher Walter White, there has been a change. And not for the better. By his fiftieth birthday, he learns of his extremely unpleasant diagnosis — inoperable lung cancer. The financial condition of the family and the stories of a relative working in the anti-narcotics department help Walter approach the problem creatively.
In a trailer in the middle of the desert, with the help of his former student, he organizes a laboratory where he starts cooking meth. The quality of the drug instantly attracts the attention of not only competitors, but also the police ...
