With its base on the old Hollywood grandeur and its attraction on the big screen, many consider thrillers as a genre led by films. However, with the meteoric increase in the popularity and prestige of television drama throughout the 21st century, The small screen suspense has gradually become a larger and even acclaimed platform For stories that make the heart beat.
The unique capacity of the medium to allow a story to take place gradually over several hours while diving in specific sub-stories and stories with great depth and great patience makes it an ideal platform for thrillers, inviting everything, slow-combustion sensations with propulsive and pulsating tales full of strong sensations. Going from the series that find suspense in their science fiction cerebral premises to spying dramas that exalted and excited, and even a television icon several decades ago, these seven series are real strengths of television tension.
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‘Homologist’ (2017-2019)
One of the best sources of thrills with a small screen in the 21st century came in the form of the wide range of spy dramas that have been treated. Among the best of them are the Science fiction series criminal underestimated Counterpartwhich Injects an intriguing dose of science fiction anchored in the fold while it is transformed in the middle of a fight against the Cold War between Earth and a secret alternative reality known as the “prime” world. He focuses on Howard Silk, United Nations office worker (JK Simmons) While it takes place in the current conflict when he meets his main world counterpart, an accomplished and hard -on -board spy striving to maintain peace between realities.
Creator of the series Justin Marks combines genres with intelligence and precision, with Double dimensional spying games of sleeping agents and double cross Being made with impressive simplicity, given the innate subtleties of history. In addition, supported by the typically exceptional double performance of Simmons and a reinforced grandiosity graceful of its cinematographic frills, Counterpart is one of the most creative and intense spy thrillers that have ever seen.
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“Yellowjackets” (2021–)
A decisive series of television from the 2020s so far, Yellow Jackets uses its non -linear history of tests, tribulations and trauma to evoke A fiercely intense and dramatic viewing experience. With three seasons released so far, she was around an airplane accident in 1996 which left surviving members of a women’s football team blocked in the Canadian desert for nineteen months. The series explores both the extreme durations to which the girls had to go to survive and the life that the survivors lead 25 years later because they still suffer from what they have endured.
Defined by his impressive tonal ambition, Yellow Jackets Excellent to juggle inflections from several genres, but it is always at its best when it engages in an exciting audience, with its gift for sequences of suspense to the spine leading to many most powerful moments in the series. Also reinforced by incredible overall distribution and atmospheric severity, Yellow Jackets is completely absorbent as A slow combustion thriller Completed by waves of scary mystery and psychological fear.
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“The Twilight Zone” (1959-1964)
When many think of Thriller’s best films, their minds turn to the divinity of the 1950s and 60s and, more precisely, the photos of the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. The small screen also had a fairly emblematic cooler of this time, with The twilight zone A sustainable masterpiece of speculative fiction Who incorporates elements of science fiction, fantastic surrealism, psychological horror and, of course, the cold way of thriller.
Run like a series of anthology with each episode following different characters because they are faced with unnatural phenomena, The twilight zone Impeccably aged, gracked his clear stories of morality and the emphasis on timeless themes surrounding the human condition. Even his opening sequence, supplemented by Marius ConstantPleasing and frightening themed music is more disturbing than many thriller films.
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“Slow horses” (2022–)
While he started an underestimated offer from Apple TV +as a bit, Slow horses has gradually been celebrated by the masses as one of the most and convincing television series of the decade so far. Based on Mick Herron’s “Slough House” novelsThe series immerses itself in MI5 agents in disgrace residing in Slough House, an assignment reserved for spies that made end -of -career errors. Under the load of the raw and the odious bulb, although deceptively cunning, Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the agents of Slough House find themselves anchored in serious cases which constitute a threat to Great Britain.
Although it is comfortable throwing doses of black comedy in the mixture, Slow horses ultimately excels as a Earth and grainy display of spy workPart of the glamorous attraction of many other spy films and series are engaged. The intelligent adaptation and a tense and well -tidy tempo only rises the attraction of the series, giving it a propulsive momentum that hooks viewers in its enchanting atmosphere of suspense, mystery and redemption.
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“Display” (2022–)
With his premise of cerebral science fiction, his master’s degree in narration and his penchant for thrills, Breakup has undoubtedly become the Definition of the highlight of television from the 2020s. He follows the employees of a company that had their memories divided surgically so that their professional and private life is completely detached. When the worker cut Mark Scout (Adam Scott) has an unexpected meeting with a former colleague who claims to have revealed his procedure, he embarks on a trip to discover the truth about his work.
Immerse in the themes of identity, the exploitation of businesses and the nature of the equilibrium work-life of modern times, Breakup obliges its increased dystopian reality as well as its subtleties and its resonance. With the mystery surrounding the true nature of Lumon Industries gradually collapsing alongside the development of the world of extended history, the series maintains an air of discomfort which is both delightedmanufacturing Breakup An exceptional work of sustained suspense that overshadows what most films of the genre have been able to produce.
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“The Americans” (2013-2018)
THE The biggest spying drama that the small screen has ever seen,, Americans Targue to achieve all the fierce intensity and the suspense with high issues for which the genre is known, while presenting an exceptional character development and an intelligent and complex plot. Located in the 1980s, it followed two asleep agents KGB integrated into Washington, DC, while they carry out dangerous but decisive missions to help the efforts of the Soviet Union in the Cold War, while trying to raise their two children who know nothing about their parents’ spying.
Its ability to combine the inherent tension of history with a powerful emotional nucleus guarantees Each episode of Americans is tirelessly exciting and exciting. Her desire to explore all central characters with complexity and moral ambiguity only makes strong sensations because she weaves the risks of espionage with intriguing internal conflicts to summon deep intensity and suspense moments. It is comfortably among the best stories of spying thriller of any medium this century, and is a determining title of television sensations from the golden top of the medium.
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“Mindhunter” (2017-2019)
Criminal dramas generally bring an element of tension by the nature of their spectacle, by the combination of realism, the mystery intrigue and the issues to life and death. However, Minor Extract every minimum suspense from its history Prosper as an authentic thriller. Supported by David FincherThe involvement, the series follows two FBI agents and a psychologist while they were traveling towards the late 1970s by interviewing serial killers held to better understand their damaged psyche. They form the unity of the science behavior sciences and the pioneer criminal profiling techniques which help resolve the active cases.
Distinguish yourself with your new approach to the genre of crime and its flair for ambitious cinematographic visuals, Minor Impresses with its innovation and style, evoking an experience of viewing which is as insane as it. The outcry that requires additional seasons testifies to its quality and its hypnotic look. In this regard, this is probably the biggest story of Thriller for having honored the screen (large or small) in the last decade.
Minor
- Release date
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2017 – 2019
- Showrunner
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Joe Penhall
