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The limited series

TVStreaming is an English guide to 156 limited series. Each of them tells a complete story in a single season, with a beginning, a middle and an end, so that it can be watched from the first episode to the last in a few evenings, or in one long weekend. They are the novels of television: some are adapted from books, some from real events, and some were written for the screen, but all of them were planned to end. The series sit on twelve shelves of thirteen, grouped in three families: crime and drama; history and real lives; and imagination and the world. Every series has an English synopsis, the creators, the cast, the network, the list of its episodes and a Watch now button that opens it on JustWatch, which shows where it can be watched in your country.

The guide runs from 1977 to 2025, from Jesus of Nazareth, the life of Christ by Franco Zeffirelli, to Ironheart, the Marvel series of June 2025, and its 156 series hold 1,077 episodes in all, about seven per series. They carry about 160,100 votes on TMDB, with an average rating of 7.54, and forty of them are rated 8 or more. The most voted is WandaVision, of 2021, the first series of Marvel Studios for Disney+, with about 13,000 votes, and the best rated is Chernobyl, of 2019, the five episodes of HBO about the nuclear disaster of 1986, rated 8.7. The guide Start with TVStreaming gives a first route through the shelves.

A limited series asks less of its viewers than a long series and gives them something rarer: an ending. The writers know from the start where the story will finish, so every episode can build towards it, and the great actors of the cinema, from Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman to Benedict Cumberbatch and Mark Ruffalo, accept roles that will take them a few months rather than many years. The guide The limited series tells the history of the form.

The name and the look

The name TVStreaming joins the two ways of watching a series today, on the television of the networks and on the streaming services, which made the limited series one of the great forms of the 2020s; 88 of the series of the guide began in that decade. The look of the site comes from the old tvstreaming.cc, the TV Series site of a small network of streaming pages, of which the Wayback Machine holds the home page of 2 January 2015 with its stylesheet. Only the look was measured; every picture and file of this site is new.

From that capture come the fixed orange header, #FF7112, with the name in white over a thin line; the tabs with an orange gradient on the current one; the white sections with a thin blue-grey border and rounded corners; the bold title of each section over a fine rule, with a watch more link in orange on the right; the posters in white frames with a grey border, and the boxes of the old sidebar, with an orange header over a list of links that turn grey under the mouse. The Genre box of the old sidebar becomes here the board of the home page, with the twelve shelves. The guide The look of TVStreaming explains each colour.

How the genres work

The series of the guide were chosen by hand from the series that TMDB lists as miniseries, and each of them has a single season. A few of them later gained a sequel or a companion under another name, like the films of Downton Abbey for the long series, but each series here is a story complete in itself. Each sits on a single shelf, and each shelf holds the thirteen most voted series of its kind with an English synopsis on TMDB, so that the documentaries of the BBC sit beside the true crime of Netflix and the epics of HBO.

The twelve shelves are crime and detectives, true crime dramas, thrillers and twists, and drama and love for the first family; war stories, history and the frontier, true stories and documentary series for the second; and science fiction, horror and Stephen King, Marvel and Star Wars, and the series beyond English for the third. The three families each hold 52 series. The guide How the genres work sums up the rules.

A short history of the miniseries

The miniseries was born in Britain, where the BBC adapted the great novels in a few episodes from the 1950s on, and it came to America in the 1970s. Rich Man, Poor Man in 1976 and above all Roots in 1977, the saga of an African family from its capture in the Gambia to the end of slavery, watched by a vast audience over eight nights, made the miniseries the great event of the American networks. The guide holds two series of that decade, Jesus of Nazareth, of 1977, and the vampires of Salem's Lot, of 1979, from the novel of Stephen King, and one of the 1980s, V, of 1983, the alien visitors of NBC. In the 1990s King himself wrote several miniseries for ABC, from The Langoliers to Storm of the Century, and the BBC gave the form its classic of costume, the Pride and Prejudice of 1995, with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

In 2001 HBO changed the scale with Band of Brothers, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, ten episodes that followed a company of paratroopers through the Second World War with the budget of a great film. The channel kept making limited series of prestige, from John Adams to Generation Kill, The Pacific and Olive Kitteridge, and in the 2010s the streaming services followed. Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV and Disney+ found in the limited series a way to bring stars to the small screen, and the true crime drama, the adaptation of a recent novel and the story of a single summer or a single crime became the forms of the decade. Today Netflix is the first network of 38 series of the guide, ahead of HBO and BBC One with nineteen each.

Crime and drama

The first family, Crime and drama, holds the crime and detective series, the true crime dramas, the thrillers and twists, and the dramas and love stories. Its 52 series carry about 43,100 votes, with an average rating of 7.54, and its most voted are The Queen's Gambit, the Dahmer of Ryan Murphy, Adolescence and Mare of Easttown. The guide Crime and drama sums up the family.

Crime and detectives

The shelf Crime and detectives holds thirteen series from 2015 to 2025, and seven of them come from HBO. Its most voted is Adolescence, of 2025, by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, for Netflix, in which a boy of thirteen is arrested for the murder of a girl of his school, four episodes each filmed in one continuous shot, with about 1,800 votes. Mare of Easttown, of 2021, by Brad Ingelsby, with Kate Winslet as a detective of a small town of Pennsylvania who investigates the murder of a young mother while her own family falls apart, is rated 8.2, level with Defending Jacob, of 2020, for Apple TV, with Chris Evans as a prosecutor whose son is accused of murder.

The best rated series of the shelf is The Penguin, of 2024, by Lauren LeFranc, with Colin Farrell, unrecognisable under the make-up, as Oz Cobb, the gangster of Gotham who rises after the death of his boss, rated 8.4. Richard Price wrote two series of the shelf: The Night Of, of 2016, with Steven Zaillian, in which Riz Ahmed is a student of New York accused of murder after a night out and John Turturro the lawyer who defends him, rated 8.0, and The Outsider, of 2020, from the novel of Stephen King, with Ben Mendelsohn as a detective who faces an impossible crime. Sharp Objects, of 2018, by Marti Noxon, sends Amy Adams as a reporter back to her home town of Missouri; The Undoing, of 2020, by David E. Kelley, sets Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant in the high society of Manhattan.

The rest of the shelf crosses the world. ZeroZeroZero, of 2020, follows a shipment of cocaine from Mexico to Italy; We Own This City, of 2022, by George Pelecanos and David Simon, the corrupt police unit of Baltimore; River, of 2015, by Abi Morgan, with Stellan Skarsgård as a detective of London who sees the dead; Collateral, of 2018, by David Hare, with Carey Mulligan, and The Continental: From the World of John Wick, of 2023, the hotel of the assassins in the New York of the 1970s. The guide Crime on the small screen follows the shelf.

True crime dramas

The shelf True crime dramas holds thirteen series from 2018 to 2024 that tell real crimes with actors, and four of them come from Netflix. Its most voted is DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, of 2022, by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, with Evan Peters as the killer of Milwaukee and the neighbours and families of his victims, ten episodes rated 8.0, with about 3,000 votes; the same creators followed it with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, of 2024, the two brothers of Beverly Hills who killed their parents in 1989, with Javier Bardem and Cooper Koch. The best rated of the shelf is When They See Us, of 2019, by Ava DuVernay, the five teenagers of Harlem wrongly convicted of the attack on a jogger in Central Park in 1989, four episodes rated 8.2.

The investigations of the shelf follow the police and the victims. Black Bird, of 2022, by Dennis Lehane, for Apple TV, with Taron Egerton as a prisoner offered his freedom if he can get a suspected killer to confess, and Paul Walter Hauser as the suspect, is rated 8.1; Unbelievable, of 2019, by Susannah Grant, with Kaitlyn Dever as a young woman disbelieved by the police and Toni Collette and Merritt Wever as the two detectives who find the rapist years later, 7.9. Under the Bridge, of 2024, with Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough, tells the murder of a girl of fourteen in British Columbia in 1997; Under the Banner of Heaven, of 2022, by Dustin Lance Black, with Andrew Garfield as a Mormon detective of Utah, a double murder of 1984 inside a family of his faith.

The other cases come from three countries. The Serpent, of 2021, for the BBC, with Tahar Rahim as Charles Sobhraj, who killed young travellers on the hippie trail of Asia in the 1970s; Escape at Dannemora, of 2018, directed by Ben Stiller, with Benicio del Toro, Paul Dano and Patricia Arquette, the escape of two prisoners from a jail of New York in 2015; The Staircase, of 2022, with Colin Firth and Toni Collette, the death of Kathleen Peterson at the foot of her stairs in 2001; Love & Death, of 2023, by David E. Kelley, and Candy, of 2022, two series about the same axe murder in a town of Texas in 1980, with Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Biel as the killer, and Landscapers, of 2021, with Olivia Colman and David Thewlis as the gentle couple of Nottinghamshire who buried her parents in their garden. The guide True crime follows the shelf.

Thrillers and twists

The shelf Thrillers and twists holds thirteen series from 2018 to 2024 built on suspense and on the revelation of the last episode, and eight of them come from Netflix. Its most voted and best rated is Bodyguard, of 2018, by Jed Mercurio, for BBC One, with Richard Madden as a veteran of Afghanistan who becomes the bodyguard of the Home Secretary, played by Keeley Hawes, six episodes rated 7.8 with about 1,200 votes. Behind Her Eyes, of 2021, from the novel of Sarah Pinborough, with a twist at the end that its viewers argued about for weeks, follows at 7.4.

Harlan Coben, the American master of the suburban thriller, gives the shelf three series made in England for Netflix: Safe, of 2018, with Michael C. Hall as a widowed surgeon whose daughter vanishes; The Stranger, of 2020, with Richard Armitage, a man who learns a secret about his wife from a stranger in a bar, and Fool Me Once, of 2024, with Michelle Keegan as a former soldier who sees her murdered husband on a hidden camera. Two more come from Europe: the Spanish The Innocent, of 2021, by Oriol Paulo, from another novel of Coben, rated 7.6, the best after Bodyguard, and the German Dear Child, of 2023, a woman who escapes from a cabin where she was held prisoner.

The new thrillers of the streaming services complete the shelf. Disclaimer, of 2024, by Alfonso Cuarón, with Cate Blanchett as a journalist who finds herself the heroine of a novel that reveals her secret, is rated 7.5; Clickbait, of 2021, an online video of a kidnapped man; Inside Man, of 2022, by Steven Moffat, with Stanley Tucci as a prisoner on death row and David Tennant as a vicar; The Patient, of 2022, with Steve Carell as a therapist held captive by a killer; The Perfect Couple, of 2024, with Nicole Kidman, a wedding on Nantucket, and A Murder at the End of the World, of 2023, by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, with Emma Corrin as a detective of the internet at a retreat in Iceland. The guide Thrillers and twists follows the shelf.

Drama and love

The shelf Drama and love holds thirteen series from 2003 to 2024 of families, first loves and lives that change in a few months, and four of them come from HBO. Its most voted is The Queen's Gambit, of 2020, by Scott Frank and Allan Scott, for Netflix, from the novel of Walter Tevis, with Anya Taylor-Joy as Beth Harmon, an orphan of Kentucky who becomes a champion of chess in the 1960s, seven episodes rated 8.4 with about 5,800 votes, the best rated of the shelf. Normal People, of 2020, from the novel of Sally Rooney, the love of two students of a small town of Ireland from school to Trinity College, with Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, is rated 8.1.

The series of the streaming services are the newest of the shelf. Baby Reindeer, of 2024, written by and starring Richard Gadd, a comedian of Edinburgh followed by a woman he once offered a cup of tea; Maid, of 2021, with Margaret Qualley as a young mother who escapes an abusive partner and cleans houses to survive, rated 8.0; Lessons in Chemistry, of 2023, with Brie Larson as a chemist of the 1950s who becomes the host of a cooking show, rated 8.2; Little Fires Everywhere, of 2020, with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, two mothers of a suburb of Ohio; Looking for Alaska, of 2019, by Josh Schwartz, from the novel of John Green, and Ripley, of 2024, by Steven Zaillian, with Andrew Scott as the con man of Patricia Highsmith in the Italy of the 1960s, filmed in black and white.

The dramas of HBO are older. Angels in America, of 2003, from the play of Tony Kushner, directed by Mike Nichols, with Al Pacino and Meryl Streep, the oldest series of the shelf, tells the New York of the 1980s and the epidemic of AIDS; Mildred Pierce, of 2011, by Todd Haynes, with Kate Winslet as a mother of the Depression who builds a business of restaurants; Olive Kitteridge, of 2014, with Frances McDormand as a sharp teacher of a town of Maine over 25 years, and I Know This Much Is True, of 2020, by Derek Cianfrance, with Mark Ruffalo as two twin brothers. Patrick Melrose, of 2018, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the heir of an English family who struggles with his past, from the novels of Edward St Aubyn, closes the shelf. The guide Drama and love follows the shelf.

History and real lives

The second family, History and real lives, holds the war stories, history and the frontier, the true stories and the documentary series. Its 52 series carry about 36,700 votes, with an average rating of 7.74, the best of the three families, and its most voted are Chernobyl, Band of Brothers, The Pacific and The Last Dance. The guide History and real lives sums up the family.

War stories

The shelf War stories holds thirteen series from 2001 to 2024, and seven of them tell the Second World War. Three were produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO and Apple TV: Band of Brothers, of 2001, the company Easy of the paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division, from Normandy to the Eagle's Nest of Hitler, from the book of Stephen E. Ambrose, the most voted and best rated of the shelf, ten episodes rated 8.6 with about 4,400 votes; The Pacific, of 2010, the marines of the war against Japan from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, rated 7.8, and Masters of the Air, of 2024, the bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force over Germany, with Austin Butler and Callum Turner, also at 7.8.

The other series of the Second World War look at it from Europe. The Diary of Anne Frank, of 2009, for the BBC, with Ellie Kendrick as the girl who hid with her family in an annexe of Amsterdam; The Tattooist of Auschwitz, of 2024, the love of a prisoner who tattooed the numbers of the camp and a young woman he marked, rated 8.0, the second best of the shelf, and The Liberator, of 2020, an animated series of Netflix about an American infantry unit from Sicily to Dachau; Hitler: The Rise of Evil, of 2003, with Robert Carlyle as the young Hitler, tells the years that led to the war.

The wars of later decades complete the shelf. Generation Kill, of 2008, by David Simon, follows a unit of marines in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, with Alexander Skarsgård, rated 7.9; The Looming Tower, of 2018, the rivalry of the FBI and the CIA before the attacks of 11 September 2001, with Jeff Daniels; The Spy, of 2019, by Gideon Raff, with Sacha Baron Cohen as Eli Cohen, the Israeli spy in Damascus in the 1960s; The Little Drummer Girl, of 2018, by Park Chan-wook, from the novel of John le Carré, and The Sympathizer, of 2024, from the novel of Viet Thanh Nguyen, a spy of the North in Vietnam, with Robert Downey Jr. in several roles. Catch-22, of 2019, with Christopher Abbott, George Clooney and Kyle Chandler, turns the novel of Joseph Heller into a comedy of airmen in Italy. The guide War stories follows the shelf.

History and the frontier

The shelf History and the frontier holds thirteen series from 1977 to 2025, from the Bible to the reactor of Chernobyl, and it is the best rated shelf of its family after the documentaries, with an average of 7.83. Its most voted series is also the best rated of the whole guide: Chernobyl, of 2019, by Craig Mazin, for HBO, with Jared Harris as the scientist Valery Legasov and Stellan Skarsgård as the Soviet official Boris Shcherbina, the explosion of the fourth reactor of the nuclear plant on 26 April 1986 and the lies that followed it, five episodes rated 8.7 with about 8,400 votes.

The western has four series on the shelf. 1883, of 2021, by Taylor Sheridan, for Paramount+, the journey of the Dutton family across the Great Plains to Montana, with Sam Elliott, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, the prequel of Yellowstone, is rated 8.3, the second best of the shelf; Godless, of 2017, by Scott Frank, the creator of The Queen's Gambit, a town of New Mexico almost entirely of women, with Jack O'Connell and Michelle Dockery; American Primeval, of 2025, by Mark L. Smith, the violence of the Utah of 1857, with Taylor Kitsch and Betty Gilpin, and Hatfields & McCoys, of 2012, with Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton, the famous feud of two families on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia, three episodes for the History channel.

The costume dramas fill the rest of the shelf. The Pride and Prejudice of 1995, by Andrew Davies, for the BBC, with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet, is rated 8.2; War and Peace, of 2016, by the same writer, with Paul Dano and Lily James, adapts Tolstoy in six episodes. The Wars of the Roses hold two series, made for the BBC and STARZ, The White Queen, of 2013, with Rebecca Ferguson as Elizabeth Woodville, and The White Princess, of 2017, with Jodie Comer as her daughter. The Pillars of the Earth, of 2010, from the novel of Ken Follett, the building of a cathedral of England in the twelfth century; John Adams, of 2008, for HBO, with Paul Giamatti as the second president of the United States; Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, of 2023, by Shonda Rhimes, the young queen of George III, and Jesus of Nazareth, of 1977, by Franco Zeffirelli, with Robert Powell as Jesus, the oldest series of the guide, complete it. The guide History and the frontier follows the shelf.

True stories

The shelf True stories holds thirteen series from 2014 to 2023 that tell real lives outside the world of crime: the founders, the frauds, the artists and the doctors. Its most voted is Dopesick, of 2021, by Danny Strong, for Hulu, with Michael Keaton as a doctor of a mining town of Virginia who prescribes OxyContin to his patients, the story of the opioid crisis in America, rated 8.0, level with The Offer, of 2022, for Paramount+, with Miles Teller as Albert S. Ruddy, the producer who fought to make The Godfather. The opioids return in Painkiller, of 2023, with Matthew Broderick as Richard Sackler.

The frauds of the new century hold three more. Inventing Anna, of 2022, by Shonda Rhimes, with Julia Garner as Anna Delvey, the false heiress of New York; The Dropout, of 2022, with Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, rated 7.4, and WeCrashed, of 2022, with Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as the couple behind WeWork. Pam & Tommy, of 2022, with Lily James and Sebastian Stan, tells the stolen video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee; Mike, of 2022, with Trevante Rhodes as Mike Tyson; Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, of 2020, with Octavia Spencer as the first woman of America to become a self-made millionaire, and Five Days at Memorial, of 2022, the doctors and nurses of a hospital of New Orleans trapped by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Three series of the shelf look further back. Houdini, of 2014, with Adrien Brody as the escape artist; Tut, of 2015, with Avan Jogia as the young pharaoh and Ben Kingsley as his vizier, and A Very English Scandal, of 2018, by Russell T Davies, with Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe, the leader of the Liberal Party tried in 1979 for conspiracy to murder his former lover, played by Ben Whishaw. The guide True stories follows the shelf.

Documentary series

The shelf Documentary series holds thirteen series from 2001 to 2021, and it is the best rated shelf of the guide, with an average of 8.24 and ten series rated 8 or more. Seven of them come from the Natural History Unit of the BBC, and six are narrated by David Attenborough: The Blue Planet, of 2001, the first great series of the oceans, the oldest of the shelf; Planet Earth, of 2006, eleven episodes from the poles to the deserts, the first natural history series of the BBC filmed entirely in high definition; Life, of 2009; Frozen Planet, of 2011, the Arctic and the Antarctic; Planet Earth II, of 2016, and Blue Planet II, of 2017. Planet Earth, Planet Earth II and Blue Planet II share the best rating of the shelf, 8.6, the same as Band of Brothers and just behind Chernobyl in the whole guide. Human Planet, of 2011, the seventh, narrated by John Hurt, shows how people live in the extremes of the planet.

The most voted series of the shelf is The Last Dance, of 2020, by Jason Hehir, for ESPN and Netflix, the last season of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in 1997 and 1998, ten episodes rated 8.3 with about 1,500 votes. The Beatles: Get Back, of 2021, by Peter Jackson, for Disney+, three long episodes made from the footage of January 1969, the recording of the album Let It Be and the concert on the roof of Apple, is rated 8.4. War holds two: The Vietnam War, of 2017, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, for PBS, ten episodes rated 8.2, and World War II in Colour, of 2009, thirteen episodes of archive footage restored in colour, with Robert Powell as narrator. Crime holds two more: Wild Wild Country, of 2018, the commune of the guru Rajneesh in Oregon in the 1980s, and Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes, of 2019, by Joe Berlinger, the interviews recorded with the killer on death row. The guide Documentary series follows the shelf.

Imagination and the world

The third family, Imagination and the world, holds science fiction, horror and Stephen King, Marvel and Star Wars, and the series beyond English. It is the most voted family of the guide, with about 80,400 votes, more than the two other families together, thanks to the series of Marvel Studios, and its most voted are WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Hawkeye and Moon Knight. The guide Imagination and the world sums up the family.

Science fiction

The shelf Science fiction holds thirteen series from 1983 to 2023, and four of them come from the Syfy channel. Its most voted is 11.22.63, of 2016, for Hulu, from the novel of Stephen King, with James Franco as a teacher who travels back through a closet of a diner to 1958 to stop the murder of President Kennedy, rated 7.8. The best rated is Battlestar Galactica, of 2003, by Ronald D. Moore, the two episodes that relaunched the series of 1978, with Edward James Olmos as Commander Adama and Mary McDonnell as President Roslin, rated 8.2; it became the start of a long series, but the miniseries itself tells a complete story, the attack of the Cylons and the flight of the last humans. V, of 1983, by Kenneth Johnson, the reptiles from space who arrive as friends, is rated 7.8, the oldest series of the shelf.

The science fiction of the new century leans on ideas. Watchmen, of 2019, by Damon Lindelof, for HBO, continues the comic of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in the Tulsa of 2019, with Regina King; Devs, of 2020, by Alex Garland, a company of Silicon Valley that builds a computer able to see the past; Maniac, of 2018, by Cary Joji Fukunaga, with Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in a strange trial of drugs; Station Eleven, of 2021, a troupe of actors who play Shakespeare after a pandemic; Years and Years, of 2019, by Russell T Davies, a family of Manchester over fifteen years of the near future, with Emma Thompson; Tales from the Loop, of 2020, from the paintings of Simon Stålenhag, and Bodies, of 2023, one body found in the same street of London in four different eras. The classics close the shelf: Childhood's End, of 2015, from the novel of Arthur C. Clarke; The Lost Room, of 2006, with Peter Krause, a motel room whose objects have strange powers, and Frank Herbert's Dune, of 2000, the first adaptation of the novel for television. The guide Science fiction follows the shelf.

Horror and Stephen King

The shelf Horror and Stephen King holds thirteen series from 1979 to 2023, and it has two masters. Stephen King wrote or inspired seven of them. The most voted series of the shelf is It, of 1990, for ABC, with Tim Curry as Pennywise, the clown who haunts the children of Derry and returns when they are grown, two episodes with about 3,400 votes. King himself wrote the teleplays of The Shining, of 1997, his own version of the novel that Stanley Kubrick had filmed, Storm of the Century, of 1999, a stranger who comes to an island of Maine in a blizzard, and Rose Red, of 2002, a haunted mansion of Seattle, and The Langoliers, of 1995, a plane that lands in an empty world, adapts one of his novellas. Salem's Lot, of 1979, by Tobe Hooper, with David Soul and James Mason, the vampires of a small town of Maine, is the oldest series of the shelf, and The Stand, of 2020, for CBS All Access, the plague that kills most of humanity and the battle that follows.

The second master is Mike Flanagan, who made four series for Netflix. The Haunting of Hill House, of 2018, from the novel of Shirley Jackson, the Crain family and the house that marked their childhood, ten episodes rated 8.1, is the best rated series of the shelf; The Haunting of Bly Manor, of 2020, from Henry James, a governess in an English manor; Midnight Mass, of 2021, a young priest who brings miracles to an island of fishermen, and The Fall of the House of Usher, of 2023, from Edgar Allan Poe, the family of a pharmaceutical empire who die one by one. Flanagan works with the same actors from series to series: Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli and T'Nia Miller appear in several of them. Dracula, of 2020, by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, for the BBC, with Claes Bang as the count, and Dead Set, of 2008, by Charlie Brooker, the zombies who besiege the house of Big Brother, complete the shelf. The guide Horror and Stephen King follows the shelf.

Marvel and Star Wars

The shelf Marvel and Star Wars holds thirteen series from 2017 to 2025, and eleven of them were made for Disney+. It is the most voted shelf of the guide, with about 44,800 votes, more than a quarter of all the votes of the guide. Its most voted is WandaVision, of 2021, by Jac Schaeffer, with Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff and Paul Bettany as Vision, a couple who live in a sitcom that changes decade with each episode, rated 8.2 with about 13,000 votes, the best rated of the shelf. Jac Schaeffer also made its sequel, Agatha All Along, of 2024, with Kathryn Hahn as the witch Agatha Harkness and Joe Locke, the star of Heartstopper.

The heroes of the films of Marvel come next. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, of 2021, with Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, is the second most voted series of the guide, with about 9,000 votes; Hawkeye, of 2021, with Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld, a Christmas in New York; Moon Knight, of 2022, with Oscar Isaac as a man with several minds and Ethan Hawke as a cult leader; She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, of 2022, with Tatiana Maslany as a lawyer who turns green; Ms. Marvel, of 2022, with Iman Vellani as a teenager of New Jersey; Secret Invasion, of 2023, with Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury; Echo, of 2024, with Alaqua Cox, and Ironheart, of 2025, with Dominique Thorne, the newest series of the guide. Netflix gives the shelf Marvel's The Defenders, of 2017, the oldest of the shelf, which brought together Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

Star Wars holds two series of the shelf: The Book of Boba Fett, of 2021, by Jon Favreau, with Temuera Morrison as the bounty hunter who becomes the lord of Tatooine, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, of 2022, with Ewan McGregor back as the Jedi ten years after Revenge of the Sith. The guide Marvel and Star Wars follows the shelf.

Beyond English

The shelf Beyond English holds thirteen series from 2013 to 2024 in five other languages: five in Korean, four in Spanish, two in German, one in Italian and one in Japanese. It is the second best rated shelf of the guide, after the documentaries, with an average of 8.01 and eight series rated 8 or more. Its best rated is the Japanese ERASED, of 2016, the only anime of the guide, a man who is sent back in time to his childhood to stop a series of murders, rated 8.5, level with the Korean Business Proposal, of 2022, a comedy of an office worker who goes on a blind date in place of her friend and finds herself in front of her boss.

The Korean series of the shelf range widely. My Name, of 2021, with Han So-hee as a young woman who joins a gang and then the police to avenge her father, rated 8.2; Death's Game, of 2023, with Seo In-guk as a man condemned to die again and again in other bodies, 8.4; Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, of 2021, a dentist of Seoul who moves to a seaside village, with sixteen episodes the longest series of the guide, and Happiness, of 2021, an apartment block sealed off during an epidemic. The Spanish series begin with the most voted of the shelf, Veneno, of 2020, by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, the life of Cristina Ortiz, a famous transgender star of Spanish television, rated 8.4; the Argentine Maradona, Blessed Dream, of 2021, follows the footballer; the Colombian The Great Heist, of 2020, tells the robbery of the Banco de la República in 1994, and Raising Voices, of 2024, a student of Madrid who speaks out against sexual violence at her school.

Europe completes the shelf. The German Unorthodox, of 2020, with Shira Haas as a young woman who flees the Hasidic community of Williamsburg for Berlin, sung in Yiddish as much as spoken; the German Generation War, of 2013, five friends of Berlin through the Second World War, rated 8.1, and the Italian The Young Pope, of 2016, by Paolo Sorrentino, with Jude Law as the first American pope, filmed mostly in English. The guide Beyond English follows the shelf.

The faces and the makers

David Attenborough is the voice that appears most often in the guide, as the narrator of six of the documentary series of the BBC, from The Blue Planet of 2001 to Blue Planet II of 2017. Among the actors, Henry Thomas, the boy of E.T., appears in four series, all four by Mike Flanagan; Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli and T'Nia Miller, the other regulars of Flanagan, in three each. Kate Winslet leads two series, Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown; Nicole Kidman two thrillers, The Undoing and The Perfect Couple; Toni Collette two true crime dramas, Unbelievable and The Staircase; Elizabeth Olsen moves from WandaVision to the axe murder of Love & Death; Stellan Skarsgård from the detective of River to the official of Chernobyl, and Alexander Skarsgård from the marines of Generation Kill to the spies of The Little Drummer Girl. The guide The stars lists them all.

Mike Flanagan and Stephen King are the creators who appear most often, with four series each, the four of Flanagan for Netflix and the four that TMDB credits to King as creator. Two series each go to Jac Schaeffer, with WandaVision and Agatha All Along; Scott Frank, with The Queen's Gambit and Godless; Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, with the two Monster series; Richard Price, with The Night Of and The Outsider; Steven Zaillian, with The Night Of and Ripley; David E. Kelley, with The Undoing and Love & Death; Steven Moffat, with Dracula and Inside Man; Patrick Somerville, with Maniac and Station Eleven, and Shonda Rhimes, with Inventing Anna and Queen Charlotte. The guide The creators follows them.

The networks

Netflix is the first network of 38 series of the guide, with at least one series on each of the twelve shelves, from The Defenders among the heroes to Wild Wild Country among the documentaries. HBO and BBC One follow with nineteen each, HBO for the prestige of Band of Brothers, Chernobyl and The Night Of, the BBC for the documentaries of Attenborough, the costume dramas and the thrillers of Bodyguard and Inside Man. Hulu has sixteen, from Dopesick to 11.22.63; Disney+ twelve, eleven of Marvel and Star Wars and The Beatles: Get Back; Apple TV seven, from Defending Jacob to Masters of the Air, and ABC five, all of them by or from Stephen King, from It of 1990 to Rose Red of 2002. The guide The networks lists them all.

TVStreaming in figures

The 156 series of the guide carry about 160,100 votes on TMDB, with an average rating of 7.54, and forty of them reach 8 or more; the collection Rated 8 or more gathers them, best first, from Chernobyl at 8.7 to the series rated 8.0. The most voted are WandaVision, with about 13,000 votes, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Chernobyl, The Queen's Gambit, Band of Brothers and Hawkeye. Together they hold 1,077 episodes, about seven per series; the longest is Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha, with sixteen, and the shortest have two, like It, Salem's Lot, V and the Battlestar Galactica of 2003.

By decade of first broadcast, the guide holds two series of the 1970s, one of the 1980s, five of the 1990s, fifteen of the 2000s, 45 of the 2010s and 88 of the 2020s; the collection Before 2010 gathers the 23 oldest, from Jesus of Nazareth to the documentaries of 2009, and the collection The 2020s the 88 newest. Drama is the first genre of 82 series, crime of sixteen and science fiction and fantasy of fourteen; 140 of the series are in English. The guide The figures gathers every number.

Where to begin

For a first weekend of limited series, take one from each family: Mare of Easttown or The Queen's Gambit for crime and drama, Chernobyl or Band of Brothers for history, and WandaVision or The Haunting of Hill House for imagination. Then follow your mood: Adolescence and When They See Us for the hardest stories, Bodyguard for suspense, Planet Earth and The Last Dance for the real world, Normal People for a first love, 1883 for the frontier, and ERASED or Business Proposal for a first series beyond English. The guide Start with TVStreaming gives a first route.

How to use TVStreaming

The home page opens with an introduction in a white section under the orange header and the board Genre, a box with an orange header like the boxes of the old sidebar, with the twelve shelves in three columns, one per family. Each line shows the family, the shelf and its number of series, and turns grey under the mouse. Each row is a white section with a thin border, a bold title over a fine rule and a watch more link in orange on the right, which opens the full shelf. The menu in the header leads to the three families, and the search box finds any series by its title; the guide Search tips explains how.

Each poster sits in a white frame and shows the year on a dark tag, the TMDB rating on an orange tag and, on a dark band at the bottom, the tag of its shelf, for example Crime or Documentary; under the poster come the title, the first genre and the number of episodes. The series page has the English synopsis, the creators, the cast, the network and the list of episodes. The Watch now button opens the series on JustWatch, which shows the services that offer it in your country, and the button Add to My List keeps it in My list, stored in your browser. The guide How to use TVStreaming explains each part, and the guide The Watch now button explains how JustWatch works.

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