It is rare that a television series does not have a single bad episode in its race, but a small handful of Hbo The masterpieces succeeded. Even some of the biggest HBO shows have an occasional failure. Sopranos To this day episode of heavy columbus.
But just because Sopranos“The episodes were not all masterpieces, that does not mean that there are no HBO shows with no bad episode. From The thread has ChernobylThese HBO shows are perfect from start to finish.
The night of
Adapted from the British series Criminal justice,, The night of tells the frightening story of a student, played by Rice Ahmed, who wakes up after a one -night stand to find his dead partner. He insists that he did not do it, but the police do not believe it, so it is his lawyer – a type of finch Atticus played by John Turturro – to erase his name.
A show like this must really stick the landing. He sets up a confusing mystery in the first episode, then spent the whole series accumulating until the final twist which will resolve this mystery. Not all Whodunit’s programs do it right, but The night of nail. It keeps you on the edge of your seat, then leaves you deeply unstable.
Guards
Damon Lindelof has taken the intimidating task of creating a series of one of the most fundamental in 20th century literature: the emblematic graphic novel by Alan Moore Guards. The original comic strip reversed the kind of superhero by rewriting American history to include metahumans. How would the Vietnam War been produced if the American army had its own superheroes?
The rest of Lindelof has taken up this spirit with a story that stimulates the reflection of racial injustice. He exchanged the accent put by comics on the Vietnam War with a heartbreaking dramatization of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921. Guards The series is just as perfect a piece of narration of alternative superheroes as the classic comic on which it is based.
Barry
When HBO took a series of Bill Hader for the first time about a hitman who wants to become an actor, it seemed to be a Gimmicky premise that would not last long. But Hader managed to transform this original comic premise into a strangely deep character study which digs in the psychology of a killer and whether or not some people are unforgivable.
Barry Feels like two different shows – the first two seasons play like an absurd black comedy, but the last two seasons play like a dark, grainy, Break the bad– Esque drama – But there is not a single bad episode in the lot. Each episode is essential to tell the story of Barry Berkman’s slide in madness, and each episode has both laughs and thrills.
The remains
The remains weren’t turned on long enough to go down. The creators and the fans’ base had to fight dental and nails just to reach three seasons. Based on the novel of the same name of Tom Perrotta, The remains The day after a mysterious devastating event that cannot be explained by science or religion.
Since only 2% of the world’s population disappeared during the sudden departure, The remains is more on the post-apocalyptic state of mind than the end of the world. The world is more or less similar, but the remaining 98% of humanity has been irreparably modified. The series follows survivors’ attempts to move on and understand it.
I can destroy you
In recent years, with projects like Richard Gadd Baby meeting And Eva Victor Sorry, babyWe have seen a lot of deeply personal stories about the survival of sexual assaults, and many artists opening on the ways they have faced this devastating trauma. Michaela Coel I can destroy you is one of the deepest and most powerful sockets on this subject.
Coel plays a promising writer who tries to rebuild his life after being attacked. I can destroy you is a masterfully designed piece of cinema, from the fascinating soundtrack of the razor edition, and the emotionally raw and brutally honest writing of Coel is animated by an incredibly talented casting ganting the material with the appropriate compassion and sensitivity.
Someone somewhere
In recent years, Someone somewhere has become quietly as one of the best television programs. The comedy of Standup by Bridget Everett is known to be hilarious and debauchery, but its HBO series is nuanced and discreet. Someone somewhere is a show on people in all their beauty and their disorder and their emotional luggage.
It is a tender and touching look at a group of human beings trying to sail in the ups and downs of life. The tone follows the characters of the emotional roller coaster of life – sometimes it is hilarious; Sometimes it is heartbreaking – and it always sounds faithful to the softness of daily version. It laughs at adversity, but it’s skeptical about joy.
Succession
Satirical drama of Jesse Armstrong Succession Remove the magic tour of making fun of the percent simultaneously and making you feel bad for them. He does not punch in his ruthless coast of obscurely rich and shameless corporate frames, but he also digs in broken human beings under the costumes and haircuts of a thousand dollars.
The Roy family saga has not exceeded its welcome for a second. SuccessionThe four-season race is stuck just long enough to explore all the characters in depth, make all the promises made at the start of the story and leave everyone in a soft-bit old-up place. Very few shows have quality control that Succession had from start to finish.
Chernobyl
The last of us Perhaps a little success in its second season, but the first HBO project by Craig Mazin is a television program as perfect as ever. Chernobyl Chronicle The nuclear disaster holding from the point of view of the employees of the power plant to radiation, the surrounding residents and soldiers and representatives of the government sent to clean and remove the truth.
Chernobyl Could take some artistic liberties with composite characters and a tightened chronology, but that pays particular attention to historical details. The powerful performances of the distribution capture fear and paranoia around the tragedy, and the director Johan met gives the series a atmosphere so palpable that it is as terrifying as any horror show.
The thread
It is rare that a television show goes to five seasons without a single bad episode, but that’s what makes The thread So special. David Simon transformed his years of experience as a crime journalist in Baltimore into the most realistic police procedure ever made. The thread Do not peddle a Law and order fantasy; It exists in a broken judicial system.
Each episode of The thread Has a feeling of documentary type realism, each contributing to a different article to the global journalistic study of the program on crime and corruption in the American city. The threadThe last season is slightly controversial, because its false scenario is a bit artificial, but it is always among the best televisions ever produced.
Bunch of brothers
Until Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks made a group of brothers, it was planned that the successful show was reserved for the big screen, and that television could not be so visually magnificent. All this changed with Band of Brothers, who brought the visceral war boxes of Spielberg and the masterpiece of Hanks of the Second World War saving the Soldier Ryan on the small screen.
Bunch of brothers is the par excellence mini-series of the Second World War, and one of the largest television programs ever produced. He has the show to save soldier Ryan, with an epic scope and a scale rarely seen on television, but as he also has eight overtime to tell his story, he greatly deepens the characters in the battlefield and their psychology.
