15 Shows To Watch During Lockdown
How are you? I hope you all are well during these difficult times!
Since the beginning of time, humans have turned to art to seek satisfaction, comfort, hope and inspiration. It is what keeps us going. Now that we are under lockdown, turning to some great content would be a good idea. It is a good idea to binge-watch shows that fill the heart, intrigues the mind and fulfills the soul.
But again we always struggle to find good quality content to watch.
So here is a list of 15 series for you, which are interesting enough that you wouldn't even notice when the day turns into night.
PEAKY BLINDERS
(4.5⭐)
A dangerous Tommy Shelby leads Peaky Blinders, a criminal gang based in Birmingham in 1919. Chief Inspector Chester Campbell decides to get him and put an end to the activities of this gang.
The fictional family is based on a real 19th-century urban youth gang of the same name, who were active in the city from the 1890s to the early twentieth century.
BROOKLYN-99
(4.0⭐)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a police comedy series. The series revolves around Jake Peralta, an immature, cocky, arrogant but talented NYPD detective in Brooklyn's fictional 99th Precinct, who often comes into conflict with his new commanding officer, the serious and stern Captain Raymond Holt. The rest of the team include Rosa Diaz, Terry Jeffords, Amy Santiago, Charles Boyle Gina Linetti, Michael Hitchcock and Norm Scully.
SUITS
(3.5⭐)
Suits follows talented college dropout Mike Ross despite never having attended law school who starts working as a law associate for Harvey Specter, one of the best New York lawyers. The show focuses on Harvey and Mike closing cases, while maintaining Mike's secret. The show also features the characters Louis Litt, Rachel Zane, Donna Paulsen, and Jessica Pearson.
ELITE
(4.0⭐)
Three teens get scholarships and enroll in an exclusive private school in Spain filled with rich kids, As the school year progresses, their lives intertwine in a clash of lifestyles, resentments, envy, and sexual attraction between them and the wealthy students which leads to murder of a student followed by a flash-forward scene of police interrogations
SHERLOCK
(4.0⭐)
Sherlock depicts "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes solving various mysteries in modern-day London. Holmes is assisted by his flatmate and friend, Dr. John Watson, who has returned from military service. Although Metropolitan Police Service suspicious of Holmes at first, over time, his exceptional intellect and bold powers of observation persuade them of his value.
Although the series depicts a variety of crimes and perpetrators, Holmes' conflict with nemesis Jim Moriarty is a recurring feature.
MONEY HEIST
(4.0⭐)
A criminal mastermind who goes by "The Professor" has a plan to pull off the biggest heist in recorded history -- to print billions of euros in the Royal Mint of Spain. To help him carry out the ambitious plan, he recruits eight people who choose cities for code-names, who have certain abilities and who have nothing to lose.
THE OFFICE
(4.5⭐)
The Office is a mockumentary sitcom series that depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. Led by their regional manager, Michael Scott with weak managerial skills, very little self-awareness and crossing boundaries that he shouldn’t cross.
LIMITLESS
(3.5⭐)
Brian Finch, a burnout and struggling musician, is introduced to NZT-48, a miracle drug that gives him access to every neuron in his brain. For twelve hours, he becomes the smartest person in the world, he then uses his enhanced abilities to help the FBI
LUCIFER
(3.5⭐)
The series focuses on Lucifer Morningstar, a beautiful and powerful angel who was cast out of Heaven for betrayal. As the Devil, he gets bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell for millennia. He resigns his throne in defiance to his father (God) and abandons his kingdom for Los Angeles, where he ends up running his own nightclub called "Lux". He becomes involved in a murder case with Detective Chloe Decker and therefore invited to be a consultant to the LAPD.
ARROW
(4.0⭐)
Arrow follows billionaire playboy Oliver Queen who claimed to have spent five years shipwrecked on Lian Yu, a mysterious island in the North China Sea, before returning home to Starling City to fight crime and corruption as a secret vigilante whose weapon of choice is a bow and arrow. Throughout the series, Oliver is joined by others, among them former soldier John Diggle, I.T. expert and skilled hacker Felicity Smoak former assassin Sara Lance, aspiring vigilante Roy Harper, Oliver's sister Thea and attorney-turned-vigilante Laurel Lance.
THAT 70s SHOW
(4.5⭐)
This show is centered around a group of friends in Wisconsin in the 1970s on the verge of adulthood. The group of friends includes Eric, an awkward and geeky boy with a sarcastic sense of humor. There’s Jackie who is rich and spoiled. Kelso who is the dumb “pretty boy”. Hyde, Eric’s best friend, who is witty and sarcastic as hell. Fez the foreign exchange student and lastly Donna, the redhead basic girl(the only sensible one).
They go through everyday life struggling with issues of love, school, alcohol, and the future.
THE END OF THE F***ING WORLD
(3.0⭐)
"The End of the F...ing World" sees two 17-year-old outsiders, James and Alyssa, embark on a road trip to find her estranged father, who left home when she was just a child. James, who is convinced he's a psychopath, has decided it's time to graduate from killing animals to something bigger and he already has a target in mind. Alyssa, the embodiment of existential angst, feels like she doesn't fit in at her new school despite being quite popular. Together, they get caught up on a trail of violent events that grow increasingly more ominous as their quest progresses.
DAREDEVIL
(3.5⭐)
Matt Murdock manages to overcome the challenges that he faces due to him being blind since childhood and fights criminals as a lawyer and as Daredevil.
NARCOS
(3.0⭐)
The series shows the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia and the gripping real-life stories of drug kingpins of the late '80s. The series also shows the detailed actions taken by law enforcement as they battle in the war on drugs, targeting notorious and powerful figures that include drug lord Pablo Escobar.
TEEN WOLF
(3.5⭐)
The series revolves around social outcast Scott McCall, an awkward, high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills. Scott's life drastically changes when he is bitten by a werewolf the night before sophomore year, becoming one himself. Now he must learn how to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life.
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