Serials have a distinct advantage over movies. With more minutes in their hands, they can explore history from every significant angle. In this way, they provide a more complete picture of how the drama is woven and how (or not) conflict is resolved. The ten titles listed below are at the heart of the plot and put it so beautifully that it's no wonder they've been and are so successful.
1. Game of Thrones
Nine noble families fight for the throne of Westeros as an ancient enemy returns to the scene after thousands of years.
2. Peaky Blinders
The story of a gangster family, set in Birmingham in the 1919s; everything revolves around a gang holding razors in their hats and caps, Tommy Shelby.
3. The Wire
The backdrop of the Baltimore drug business, told from the perspectives of distributors and the law.
4. Boardwalk Empire
A New Jersey politician operates on both sides of the law and co-operates with gangsters of the time when alcohol was banned in America.
5. A CIA bipolar agent is convinced that a war hostage has become a party to al-Qaeda and plans a terrorist attack in America.
6. House of Cards
A congressman works with his wife, as intriguing as he is, to avenge the people who betrayed him.
7. Downtown Abbey
A chronicle of the life of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants; set in the twentieth century.
8. Breaking Bad
A chemistry teacher is diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and decides to produce and sell methamphetamine to secure the family's future.
9. Mindhunter
Set in the late 1970s, two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing a series of serial killers to solve unsolved crimes.
10. The Sopranos
New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano is burdened by personal and professional problems and decides to seek the help of a psychiatrist.
