If I were to watch one show from your country, what would you recommend?

We can obviously skip English language shows as those are all well known. I'm sure other countries also have great shows that are not that popular. Ideally, something original and specific to this country, not some big Netflix show that's the same a shows from any other country.

To start, from Spain I would recommend "Riot Police": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10883660/

Great story, great characters, great acting. It covers universal problems like police brutality and corruption so it's accessible to anyone but it also shows them though a Spanish prism that makes it unique.

I'm German and I couldn't recommand any show from my country in good conscience.

I had the exact same thought

Crime Scene Cleaner (Der Tatortreiniger) is pretty great.

There is a lot of trash being produced, but I think Der Tatortreiniger and Stromberg are German shows which can definitely be recommended.

Sounds interesting. Thanks!

There's "dark", but that's a pretty well known netflix series.

I tried that one but found it utterly boring.

Yeah, those two might be the only silver lining. Maybe "Die Anstalt" as well, though that's a very specific kind of show.

The Netherlands has a couple good series. A recent hit (dutch/belgian production) is "undercover". It's about a Belgian cop that goes undercover in the organisation of a dutch drug dealer. Very fun with lots of peculiar cultural references.

A personal favorite though, is a 1995 childrens show called "lang leve de koningjn" (long live the queen). It tought me how to play chess in a very fun and engaging way.

Norway: "Beforeigners" started great, but I think they didn't really have much of a plan beyond the 1st season.

Interesting setting/premise. It's fun to see an area I used to walk several times per day having become a hangout spot for Neolithic people.

From the UK, I'd probably go for The Day Today, which ran for a single six-episode series back in 1994.

It's a satirical news programme which manages to be more cutting and accurate than anything that's been produced since, and along the way includes pastiches of fly-on-the-wall documentaries (doing The Office years before The Office), multi-camera soap operas (The Bureau), the rise of multichannel TV (RokTV) and so much more. A lot of the show's staff were actually from the BBC's own news department so timbre is spot-on, and received an incredible level of French polish before broadcast meaning every second of it is crammed with gags, slights and real blink-and-you'll-miss-it jokes and, aside from the dated styling and real-world reference, the whole thing feels frustratingly prescient thirty years later.

The overnight Bernt das Brot broadcasts on Kika. You're welcome.

Undercover looks good but with a title like that it's hard to find. I don't see it anywhere (outside of Netflix obviously) but I will keep searching. Thanks.

Mr Inbetween is probably the most popular, but if you want an Australian version of The Office I would highly recommend Utopia.

Added to my list. Just the first season :)

I wouldn't say the 2nd season is bad per say... just that the plot kinda drifted, so there's nothing wrong with watching it.

Seconding Mr Inbetween cause it deserves it.

I said no English language shows but I forgot about our friends from the other side of the world. Shows from Australia and New Zealand are not that popular so thanks for the recommendations. We did have "Heartbreak High" in the TV in Poland though :D

Same :)

UK: I'd recommend Slow Horses on AppleTV. Gary Oldman heads a cast of misfits from an MI5 unit of rejects. Drama and comedy in a perfect blend.

From Australia, and I don't know about "best", but one I'm watching and enjoying at the moment is Deadloch

From Greece, To Nisi (The Island) is the best I've seen. It's about an island where they used to move people with leprosy.

Eteros Ego (The Other Me) is supposed to be one of the best but haven't gotten around to watching it yet. It's a crime show that's a sequel to the movie with the same name. The movie is on YouTube with English subs.

Not even "Alarm für Cobra 11"? 😁

Don't forget Brass Eye.

"Security footage of a paedophile disguised as a school"

Or maybe "Baantjer", a pretty fun crime show. Not spectacular, but very Dutch.

Not a TV show but a TV movie, "Die Welle" was fantastic.

Dutch tv seems very focused on drug shows, crime shows, etc.

They made that into a movie? We had to read that at school.

USA:

Umm...

Currently going through Star Trek: Lower Decks and enjoying it. Borrowing the discs from a friend.

Kaamelott is a good French short format comedie series. Most of the humor is based on puns, word plays and quiproquo, it would be absolutely impossible to translate and it wouldn't be funny to anyone who isn't absolutely fluent in French. No need to thank me for this useless recommendation.

"Nicht nachmachen" is strongly recommended

I'd say the best would have to be bluey simply because of the huge global success

If you are in the USA you can watch it in tv every day.

No! That's actually a prime example for everything that is wrong with German TV. An interesting concept for a show ruined a by cringey dialog and performances. I'd totally watch a US or British remake of it ... but in German? No thanks.

Im original, bitte.

Ijon Tichy!!

I'm not German but would absolutely recommend Babylon Berlin!

Kommisar Rex 😄

"Die Anstalt" is goated, yes. On the more lighter side I like Pastewka, Sketch History (basically Germany's Monty Python), Die Familie Heinz Becker, Mitternachtsspitzen, Kalkofes Mattscheibe and Loriots as well as Gerhard Polts movies and series (very dated though sometimes timeless).

Stromberg is Germany's "The Office", btw.

Italy: I'd probably say "Boris", a satirical comedy series about italy's television industry, similar to Seth Rogen's "the studio".

Canada: The Kids in the Hall.

But there are a few I really like. Orphan Black, Letterkenny, Shorzy, Littlest Hobo, SCTV, Fraggle Rock, Schitt's Creek, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High (not the newer ones with Drake), The Red Green Show, Reboot, Transformers: Beast Wars (or as it was known here just "Beasties") Street Cents, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Mr. Dressup....really hard to just pick one.

Not from South Korea but my favorite show on all of tv is "Chef vs My Fridge"

2 guests give their order to 8 chefs and 2 of them cook for only 15 minutes to fulfill that order. However, they may only use what is in that guest's fridge/pantry. So sometimes it's a lot of good ingredients, sometimes hardly anything to cook with.

It's so funny. Each chef has their own character and I love how they converse with each other. It's hard to pick a favorite since they are all so different (but Namno is the best). It's the only show (next to taskmaster) that I wait impatiently for it's release each week.

Sounds very similar to Ready Steady Cook from UK which was really fun. I will try to get it, thanks.

Umbre . Romanian HBO production about a mob enforcer that's trying to keep his family and job separate. Pretty good and should be decently easy to find with English subtitles.

I remember enjoying Deutschland 83 and the subsequent series. Even just from a set design and historical perspective.

I don't have Netflix so I use kisskh.co. adblocker recommended

Germany, but limited to comedy (cause I don't really watch any shows, but if I do then it's comedy):

• Stromberg - a German office show, focused on just one department with an absolute dickhead for a boss. But the worker characters are great too.
• Pastewka - a series of the actor/comedian Bastian Pastewka where he basically plays himself in his private life. Often compared to Curb Your Enthusiasm, but while there are similarities it's a totally different character IMO.
• jerks - basically the title, two friends who are jerks. They're often getting into awkward situations and try to resolve them with lies and brazenness.

I love them all three, hard to pick one as the best. Probably Stromberg.

I'm usually the guy who cries that the TV show/movie isn't as good as the book, but in this case the show is much better than the books. The author tries to be clever and just comes off as snarky.

They adapted another of his books "Down Cemetery Road" with Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson. Enjoy