Dark (2017) Review: A Time Loop Built Like a Watch
★★★★★
Dark is Germany's three-season Netflix time-travel mystery, a bleak, meticulously plotted puzzle about four families that rewards viewers who give it full attention.
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★★★★★
Dark is Germany's three-season Netflix time-travel mystery, a bleak, meticulously plotted puzzle about four families that rewards viewers who give it full attention.
★★★½☆
Dear X is a 12-episode Korean psychological drama about a manipulative woman climbing to the top, and a bold, chilly change of direction for Kim Yoo-jung.
★★★★☆
Death Valley is a BBC comedy mystery set in Wales, pairing Timothy Spall's retired TV detective with Gwyneth Keyworth's real one, and it is cosy crime done properly.
★★★★★
Delhi Crime is Richie Mehta's Emmy-winning Hindi police procedural, led by Shefali Shah, and a harrowing, meticulous study of how justice is actually pursued.
★★★★☆
Dept. Q is Scott Frank's Edinburgh-set cold-case drama, with Matthew Goode as an abrasive detective leading a team of misfits, and it is gripping, grown-up crime TV.
★★★★½
Derry Girls is Lisa McGee's sitcom about Catholic schoolgirls in 1990s Northern Ireland, riotously funny and quietly moving about growing up during the Troubles.
★★★★☆
Descendants of the Sun is the 2016 K-drama phenomenon about a soldier and a surgeon, a glossy action romance powered by Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo's chemistry.
★★★★½
Diriliş: Ertuğrul is Turkey's five-season epic about the 13th-century warrior whose tribe paved the way for the Ottomans, a sweeping global hit with huge ambition.
★★★★½
Doctor Who's 2005–2021 revival is British TV's great shape-shifter: a time-travel adventure that swaps its lead, tone and team every few years and mostly thrives.
★★★★☆
Dong Yi, also known as Jewel in the Crown, is a 60-episode Korean court drama about a low-born maid's rise in the Joseon palace, warm and absorbing if very long.
★★★★☆
Doom at Your Service is a melancholy Korean fantasy romance about a dying editor and the embodiment of doom, lifted by Park Bo-young and Seo In-guk's chemistry.
★★★★½
Downton Abbey is Julian Fellowes's upstairs-downstairs saga of an aristocratic Yorkshire family and their servants, the most satisfying comfort drama of its decade.
★★★½☆
DTF St. Louis is Steven Conrad's seven-part HBO dark comedy about a Midwestern love triangle and a death, sad and funny in equal parts, and oddly moving.
★★★★½
Ehd-e-Wafa is a Pakistani Urdu drama about four friends whose lives split between the army and civilian ambition, a polished ensemble serial built on loyalty.
★★★★☆
Emily in Paris is Darren Star's glossy Netflix rom-com about an American marketer abroad: shallow by design, and highly effective as fashion-first comfort viewing.
★★★★½
Empresses in the Palace is the benchmark Chinese palace drama: a 76-episode Qing epic about a young consort learning to survive a harem where every gesture is a move.
★★★★½
Eternal Love is the Chinese fantasy romance that defined xianxia drama: a goddess and a heavenly prince whose love spans three lives, lush, tearful and addictive.
★★★★☆
Ethos is Berkun Oya's eight-episode Turkish Netflix drama in which a cleaner's therapy sessions open onto a divided Istanbul, patient, humane and quietly radical.
★★★★☆
Euphoria is Sam Levinson's hyper-stylised HBO drama about teenage addiction and identity, powered by Zendaya's extraordinary lead performance and a dazzling look.
★★★★½
Extraordinary Attorney Woo is a Korean legal dramedy about a brilliant autistic rookie lawyer, blending clever case-of-the-week puzzles with a big, tender heart.
★★★★☆
Extraordinary You is a clever Korean fantasy romance about a schoolgirl who discovers she is a minor character in a comic, and sets out to rewrite her own story.
★★★★☆
Fallout is Prime Video's post-apocalyptic take on the video games: funny, gory and faithful to their retro-futurist spirit, with Walton Goggins stealing the show.
★★★★☆
Fight for My Way is a scrappy Korean romantic comedy about two childhood friends near thirty who chase abandoned dreams, and discover their friendship means more.
★★★★★
Fleabag is Phoebe Waller-Bridge's filthy, heartbreaking British tragicomedy about a grieving woman who confides in the audience, and its second season is near perfect.