I recently really enjoyed Severance.
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Scifi: Foundation - A reimagining of Issac Asimov's multipart epic on the rise and fall of galactic civilization.
I, Claudius
Reservation Dogs
The Wire
Since you mentioned BSG, I wanted to recommend Babylon 5. It’s got a cohesive story planned from the get go, and is as good as space opera gets IMHO. There are plenty of historical parallels to draw, my favorite being the Roman Republic inspired Centauri. (Commercial TV from the 90s, so nothing R rated here.)
More recent, and more historical, would be the German Netflix series Barbaren (Barbarians). It might be too roman history focused for your tastes, but it got a glowing review from my family abroad. (I do believe this has more gore and sexual content, I just don't remember to what extent.)
Also, if you haven't watched The Wire yet, you should, but given that you say you like crime series I'm assuming you already did!
- Historical Fiction: I, Claudius from 1976. It stands up staggeringly well.
- Fantasy: Extraordinary (2023), Neverwhere (1996 - Gaiman's first TV series)
- Crime: The Night Manager (2016), Slow Horses (2022), Mare of Easttown (2021)
Also Beforeigners (2019, Norway), which kinda qualifies for all of these categories.
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can be older or even old
On the sci-fi front, have you seen Firefly?
Planetes was good too, Japanese Animation.
Aside from that, I enjoyed The Boys and The Umbrella Academy.
In terms of crime maybe try the original 'the killing' and the remake. The bridge is also good - all part of scandi noir crime wave that took over the UK for a while. There is some obvious deption of death and murder.
I've recently just watched the silo and that was brilliant Sci fi - very distopian and authoritarian though!
- The Bear
- Tokyo Vice
- Severance
- Yellowjackets
- The Expanse
- Dark
Endeavour, if you can find it. It's the backstory of Inspector Morse. It's got some great retro styling in the first few series if you're into that kind of thing and is a bit more than "crime of the day".