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I was studying Mandarin a few years ago and I was suggested to watch Taiwanese dramas since they tend to speak Mandarin and to also speak at a conversational level.

There's a lot of romantic comedies, so you can watch meteor garden, substitute princess, my queen, fated to love you, and I have found that all of these are very accessible to me as an American audience but I never got to the point where I could watch them without subtitles.

Another mostly Mandarin show that is definitely worth the watch is called nirvana in fire, and it is legitimately an amazing 40-hour long epic show that has sword fighting and wuxia and political intrigue and romantic subplots and a massive character list of all sorts of different people who all have their own thing going on all woven together into this amazing storytelling tapestry that rivals and in many ways bests anything that you can get in America or Western media.

But unless you're already very fluent in I'm not going to say just Mandarin but in the Chinese languages, you have to watch it with subtitles and it's definitely worth it.

From Australia, there's Rake, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and The Nowhere Boys, although for that last one only the first 2 seasons.

My current Australian obsession is Bluey.

Doc Martin, Merlin from the UK.

Murdoch Mysteries earlier seasons from Canada.

I also enjoyed a few Korean drama series like Misaeng.

And this is really old from Japan, but Bayside Shakedown drama was really fun.

Other Japanese dramas I liked include Proof of the Man, Aibou, and Shinzanmono. I love Japanese police dramas and mysteries.

There a lot of great kdrama shows. And no, I’m not talking about Squid Game. I can recommend Beyond Evil, D.P., and Moving.

It's a bit old now, but I really liked Summer Snow from Japan. Also Hungry from Japan (similarly dated).

We're on a UK/Irish police drama kick right now:

• Line of Duty
• Bloodlands
• Blue Lights

If you don't mind a bit of war history, SAS Rogue Heroes is incredible. Great look at the unit that became the British SAS, with some really good comedy thrown in. In the same vein (British war/comedy), Bluestone 42 is great too.

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (joint UK and US production, premiered first on Channel 4)

great ones that never took off in the states

This TV series fits this description to a T because I reckon that most people, when thinking of a sci-fi TV anthology series, would bring to mind Black Mirror.

I watched Electric Dreams shortly after finishing the latest season of Black Mirror; I found the former more enjoyable and poignant than the latter.

Exit (Norwegian)

• Top Gear (UK), but uhm I got some bad news for u my man.
• Taskmaster (UK)
• Mock the Week (UK), also some bad news.
• Te land, ter zee en in de lucht (NL), also some bad news.
• Takeshi's castle (JP), but basically every country had their own commentary version. Endend, but a reboot is available on prime I think.

Basically I don't watch TV anymore.

Utopia (AU) - similar vein to Parks & Rec but more bureaucracy. I love it.

Klovn, the tv show (but also the three movies they made), is a Danish Curb Your Enthusiasm style show, often much more out there and including a lot of references to bodily humour.

It might take a little while to get into but it is riotously funny at times.

I think it was on Hulu for a bit, for all you Americans.

• Slow Horses (UK/US) Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas? Yes, please!
• Broadchurch (UK)
• Glitch (AUS, first season only)
• Chef! (UK, first two seasons only)

Forgetting many others but just having first cup of coffee

Bron (Sweden/Denmark)

Kingdom (South Korea)

Derry Girls (Ireland)

Silent Witness, Waking the Dead, Hinterland, Inspector Morse, George Gently, Vera, Poirot (the David Suchet version).

We watch a lot of detective shows.

Danger 5 from Australia: It's hilarious.

A Very Secret Service is also funny (but it's in Fr*nch)