Earlier Recommendations Archive

Earlier Recommendations

This archive continues our main Recommendations page with older selections. Articles are shown by publication date, not in order of quality: appearing further down does not make a film or series less worthwhile. Choose what suits your mood and open the full review to see the reasons behind the recommendation. For an intense crime drama, try our take on Banshee; for a character-led story about friendship and change, explore My Brilliant Friend; and for a contemporary underworld thriller, read MobLand. You can return to the latest recommendations at any point.

Choose an older recommendation by mood

For slow-burning character drama: My Brilliant Friend follows a changing friendship across four seasons. If unanswered questions and an unsettling atmosphere appeal more, our From season-three review explains both the fascination and the frustration of its expanding mystery.

For a hospital drama: compare the intense emergency-room shift in The Pitt with the early-twentieth-century setting of The Knick. For a period family saga instead, our 1923 review weighs its production strengths against the pacing of its later episodes. These are personal assessments, not a ranking; open each review for the full reasoning.