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Dec 10, 2021 · Sometimes you want a new show to watch, but committing to hundreds of episodes seems like too much to handle. That’s when a miniseries—or “limited series”—really comes in clutch. With short, one-season stories, miniseries are like TV show-lite—all of the fun, but much fewer calories.
- 50 Get Even
- 49 The Dropout
- 48 Mrs. America
- 47 I Am The Night
- 46 from The Earth to The Moon
- 45 Stay Close
- 44 Devs
- 43 The Stand
- 42 Lost Ollie
- 41 Looking For Alaska
Based On The Book Series Don't Get Mad By Gretchen McNeil
Based on the book series Don’t Get Mad, Get Even was initially produced for BBC iPlayer before Netflix picked it up internationally. The series follows a group of teenage girls who take the bullying culture of their British school into their own hands, dubbing themselves DGM, as they take revenge on those who bully their classmates. When the secret group is implicated in a murder, however, they have to find a way to clear their names. The show features more twists and turns than almost any ot...
A Biopic Based On Theranos & Elizabeth Holmes
The Dropout is one of the best miniseries on Hulu and is part of the streaming platforms trend of bringing headine-grabbing news stories of the 21st century to the small screen. Inspired by real events, the series follows Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) and her company, Theranos, as she struggles to make a dream product a reality. Or more accurately, how she cuts corners and falsifies data to make sure her company doesn’t lose their investors when she can’t make her dream product a reality...
A Biopic About Activist Phyllis Schlafly
Available to stream on Hulu Just a few years ago, movie fans would not have believed a star like Cate Blanchett would do a TV series. Streaming and the comeback of the miniseries have changed that though. Blanchett stars in this Hulu miniseries that is set in the 1970s and centers around the movement to pass the Equal Rights Amendment and the backlash the movement received. In addition to Blanchett, the series features an impressive roster of women playing real-life historical figures, like U...
Inspired By The Memoir One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings Of Fauna Hodel
Inspired by the memoir of Fauna Hodel, I Am The Night traces the possible connection between a young woman who was adopted and the Black Dahlia murder. India Eisley plays Fauna Hodel while Chris Pine plays the journalist investigating her grandfather, George Hodel, one of the suspects in the Black Dahlia case. While much of Hodel’s book could be disputed, the miniseries also takes liberties with gaps in historical knowledge, making it more of a work of fiction than fact. Pine as a down-on-his...
A Miniseries About The Space Race To The Moon
Available to stream on Max When From The Earth To The Moon was first televised in 1998, it featured impressive visual effects and was nominated for a slew of technical awards across different guilds and film societies. It also won both the Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Miniseries. The 12 episodes follow the American space program’s journey to put astronauts on the moon. It was unique, however, in that it didn’t retread material already presented in movies. For example,the ep...
Based On The Novel By Harlan Coben
Inspired by the Harlan Coben novel of the same name, Stay Close is part of a deal that Coben has with Netflix in which 14 of his novels will eventually be adapted for the streaming site. Stay Close is the sixth. The story follows the investigation of a missing man on the anniversary of another missing person’s case, tying together the lives of a burnt-out detective, a former exotic dancer, and a photographer. Like most of Coben’s mysteries, there are plenty of twists in the story to be unrave...
A Sci-Fi Thriller Miniseries From Hulu
Though some of Devs' twists might be too long and drawn out for some people watching, it is still a show that poses fascinating questions for the audience about the ethics of pushing the boundaries of science and technology.It kicks off with a woman who works for a tech company investigating the death of her boyfriend, who dies on the first day of his promotion to a very secret branch of the company. What follows is a terrifying advancement in technology and two governments fighting to have a...
A Stephen King Adaptation
From the mind of prolific horror writer Stephen King comes The Stand. The novel is one of King’s most famous, and it’s already been made into a miniseries in the past. This version of the miniseries, however, features a new extended ending written by King that gives an idea of how society proceeds after the events of the story. In the story,most of humanity is wiped out by a plague and a representation of evil on Earth tries to tempt humanity to the dark side. The story is a classic one of go...
An Emotionally Strong Animated Project
Available to stream on Netflix Not all the Southern accents in Lost Ollie are perfect, but that doesn’t mean the emotional performances aren’t great. Based on the children’s book Ollie’s Odyssey, the live-action-animated hybrid follows a toy named Ollie who is in the lost and found section of an antique store. Ollie doesn’t have all of his memories about his past, but he does want to find his best friend. It is not often that an animated miniseries reaches the mainstream, but Lost Ollie is ex...
A Tragic Miniseries
While many of John Green’s young adult novels have received the movie treatment, like The Fault In Our Stars, Looking For Alaska gets the miniseries treatment. It’s a better option for it since it allows for more in-depth looks at the characters. Looking For Alaska followsa teenager who is sent to a boarding school where he meets the enigmatic Alaska. Though she captures his attention with effervescent energy, her story ends in tragedy. Her story opens up a dialogue about mental health that d...
- Band of Brothers (2001) Created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Starring Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston. Drama, History, War. 10 episodes (1 season)
- Chernobyl (2019) Created by Craig Mazin. Starring Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård. Drama, History, Thriller. 5 episodes (1 season) 9.4 on IMDb.
- When They See Us (2019) Created by Ava DuVernay. Starring Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris, Ethan Herisse. Biography, Crime, Drama. 4 episodes (1 season) 8.9 on IMDb.
- O.J.: Made in America (2016) Created by Ezra Edelman. Starring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mike Albanese, Muhammad Ali. Biography, Documentary, Crime. 5 episodes (1 season)
Best Miniseries 2022. In the awards realm, The Staircase, The Dropout, Under the Banner of Heaven, and their actors have dominated the conversation in the limited series categories. Those titles didn’t count on HBO’s Irma Vep, featuring an international cast led by The Danish Girl Oscar winner Alicia Vikander, winning the favor of more TV ...
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- 'Alias Grace' (2017) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99% The underrated Sarah Gadon stars in one of the best short series on Netflix, the Canadian miniseries Alias Grace, opposite an ensemble including Edward Holcroft, Zachary Levi, David Cronenberg, and Oscar-winner Anna Paquin.
- 'Unbelievable' (2019) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% Oscar-nominee and Emmy winner Toni Colette joins Emmy winner Merritt Wever for the 2019 true-crime miniseries Unbelievable.
- 'Beef' (2023) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% Academy Award-nominee Steven Yeun and Ali Wong star in the dark comedy Netflix miniseries Beef. The story chronicles the escalating feud between two strangers whose lives turn increasingly chaotic following a road rage incident.
- 'The Queen's Gambit' (2020) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Although Anya Taylor-Joy was well-known before her breakthrough in The Queen's Gambit, the show catapulted to international stardom.
May 5, 2024 · One of the most influential TV shows ever made, The Prisoner is a fantastic 17-episode series from 1967 about a British spy held captive in a strange coastal village after attempting to quit his job.
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Feb 22, 2024 · This miniseries focuses on Queen Charlotte in 1817 when she seeks a new heir and 1761 when she marries King George. The series was one of the 10th most-watched English-language TV shows in the first seven days of its release. It was also universally acclaimed, with a high Rotten Tomatoes score.
