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HIGHEST RATED NEW TV SHOWS COLLECTION
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The Top 50 Highest Rated New TV Shows of 2019
The Top 25 Highest Rated New TV Shows of 2019

Continuing our top 50 new tv shows of 2019 countdown…

24 – Frayed
Comedy
26 September 2019  –  Ongoing  |  2 Seasons so far  |  12 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.5 |  RT Users:  9.3  |  RT Critics:  8.6  |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.5  |  Metacritic Users: n/a
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.23 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Frayed is an Australian and British television comedy-drama series on ABC TV and Sky UK.

Frayed is set in 1988 and follows the story of Samantha ‘Sammy’ Cooper, a wealthy housewife in London. She is forced to return to her hometown of Newcastle in Australia after the death of her husband, when she is told his accumulated debts leave her almost penniless. She returns to Newcastle with her privately-educated teenage son and daughter, who have never visited Australia before. She moves in with her mother, a recovering alcoholic, and infantile brother Jim in her childhood beachfront home. She seeks work as the kids attend the local High School. Sammy revisits her past and the events that led her to flee the town as a teenager. She soon realises that everyone in her hometown hates her and she tries to get back to London, but she finds it difficult with numerous personal and financial obstacles along the way.

23 – Russian Doll
Comedy  |  Drama
1 February 2019   –  Ongoing  |  2 Seasons so far  |  15 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.8 |  RT Users:  7.8  |  RT Critics:  9.7  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.4  |  Metacritic Users: 7.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.24 /10
SYNOPSIS:
Russian Doll follows a woman named Nadia who is caught in a time loop as the guest of honor at her seemingly inescapable 36th birthday party one night in New York City. She dies repeatedly, always restarting at the same moment at the party, as she tries to figure out what is happening to her. She meets a man who is experiencing the same thing in a different event
22 – Perpetual Grace, LTD
Drama  |  Crime
2 June 2019  –  cancelled  |  1 Season  |  10 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.5 |  RT Users:  8.8  |  RT Critics:  8.8 |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.8  |  Metacritic Users: 8.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.28 /10
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Perpetual Grace, LTD features Ben Kingsley, Jimmi Simpson, Luis Guzmán, Damon Herriman, Chris Conrad, and Jacki Weaver; with Terry O’Quinn, Kurtwood Smith, Timothy Spall, and Michael Chernus in recurring roles.

Perpetual Grace, LTD follows “James, a young grifter, as he attempts to prey upon Pastor Byron Brown, who turns out to be far more dangerous than he suspects.”

21 – This Way Up
Comedy
8 August 2019   –  ongoing  |  2 Seasons so far  |  12 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.8 |  RT Users:  9.3  |  RT Critics:  9.1 |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.1  |  Metacritic Users: 7.1
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.28 /10
SYNOPSIS:
This Way Up is a British comedy-drama television series broadcast on Channel 4. It is set in London, and is written by and stars Aisling Bea. Sharon Horgan who also stars in the series is the executive-producer. In This Way Up Bea plays a young, single Irish woman, Áine, who lives in London and is recovering from a nervous breakdown. She works as a teacher of English as a second language, and in series 2 she has a relationship with the father of a child she is tutoring. Horgan plays Áine’s protective elder sister, Shona, who lives with her male partner but is also sexually attracted to a female colleague.
20 – The Boys
Sci-Fi & Fantasy  |  Action & Adventure
25 July 2019  –  Ongoing  |  3 Seasons so far  |  24 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.7 |  RT Users:  8.5  |  RT Critics:  9.3  |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.7  |  Metacritic Users: 7.3
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.30 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they combat superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities. The series features an ensemble cast that includes Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Laz Alonso, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, and Nathan Mitchell.

The Boys is set in a universe where superpowered individuals, called Supes, are recognized as heroes by the general public and work for a powerful corporation known as Vought International that markets and monetizes them. Outside their heroic personas, most are arrogant, selfish, and corrupt. The series primarily focuses on two groups: the Seven, Vought’s premier superhero team, and the Boys, vigilantes looking to bring down Vought and its corrupt superheroes.

19 – Manhunt
Drama  |  Crime
6 January 2019  –  Ongoing  |  2 Seasons so far  |  7 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.6 |  RT Users:  9.7  |  RT Critics:  9.2  |  Meteoritic Critics: 6.8  |  Metacritic Users: n/a
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.33 /10
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Manhunt is a British television drama based on murder investigations. The first series focused on the true story surrounding the investigation into the death of French student Amélie Delagrange. The subsequent manhunt eventually led to the arrest of Levi Bellfield for Delagrange’s murder, and several other high profile, yet previously unsolved cases. It stars Martin Clunes as Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton.
18 – Years and Years
Drama  |  War & Politics  |  Sci-Fi & Fantasy
14 May 2019  (Ended)  |  Limited Mini-Series  |  6 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.3 |  RT Users:  8.9  |  RT Critics:  8.9  |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.8  |  Metacritic Users: 7.9
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.36 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Years and Years is a dystopian science fiction drama television miniseries written by Russell T Davies.

The six-part series follows the Manchester-based Lyons family: Daniel is married to Ralph, Stephen and Celeste worry about their children, Rosie is looking for a new partner, and Edith is engaged in one humanitarian cause after another. Presiding over them all is Gran, the imperious Muriel. All their lives converge on one crucial night in 2019, and the story accelerates into the future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons over the next fifteen years as Britain is rocked by political upheavals, economic instability and technological advances.

17 – Giri/Haji
Crime  |  Drama
October 2019   (Ended)  |  Limited Mini-Series  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.8 |  RT Users:  8.9  |  RT Critics:  10  |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.6  |  Metacritic Users: 7.8
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.42 /10
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Giri/Haji is a British television series which premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2019, and was released internationally on Netflix on 10 January 2020.

Kenzo Mori (Takehiro Hira), a Tokyo detective, travels to London in search of his brother, Yuto (Yōsuke Kubozuka), who was previously assumed to be dead. Yuto has been accused of murdering the nephew of a Yakuza member, which threatens to start a gang war in Tokyo. As Kenzo attempts to navigate the unfamiliar territory of London to uncover whether his brother is alive and guilty, he becomes acquainted with DC Sarah Weitzmann (Kelly Macdonald) of the Metropolitan Police and Rodney Yamaguchi (Will Sharpe), a young half-Japanese, half-British sex worker. While searching for Yuto in London, Kenzo must also support his family back home in Tokyo. Kenzo’s investigation brings him into contact with dangerous elements of London’s criminal underworld.

16 – Gentleman Jack
Drama
22 April 2019  –  Cancelled  |  2 Seasons  |  16 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.2 |  RT Users:  9.3  |  RT Critics:  9.2  |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.8  |  Metacritic Users: 8.0
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.50 /10
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Gentleman Jack is a historical drama television series created by Sally Wainwright. Set in the 1830s in Yorkshire, it stars Suranne Jones as landowner and industrialist Anne Lister. The series is based on the collected diaries of Lister, which contain over four million words and are written largely in secret code, documenting a lifetime of lesbian relationships.

In 1832, Miss Anne Lister leaves Hastings brokenhearted and heads to the lush landscape of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England to restore her uncle’s estate that she has inherited. While restoring the estate she finds that the family land has a coal mine and that it is being stolen by two brothers. This unusual lady landowner develops a potentially dangerous romance with another woman, which she records in a cryptic diary.

15 – The Mandalorian
Sci-Fi & Fantasy  |  Action & Adventure  |  Drama
12 November 2019  –  Ongoing  |  2 seasons so far  |  16 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.7 |  RT Users:  9.2  |  RT Critics:  9.3  |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.1  |  Metacritic Users: 8.4
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.54 /10
SYNOPSIS:

The Mandalorian is an American space western television series created by Jon Favreau for the streaming service Disney+. It is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise, beginning five years after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983), and stars Pedro Pascal as the title character, a lone bounty hunter who goes on the run to protect “the Child”.

Beginning five years after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983) and the fall of the Galactic Empire, The Mandalorian follows Din Djarin, a lone Mandalorian bounty hunter in the outer reaches of the galaxy. He is hired by remnant Imperial forces to retrieve the child Grogu, but instead goes on the run to protect the infant. While looking to reunite Grogu with his kind, they are pursued by Moff Gideon, who wants to use Grogu’s connection to the Force. The duo then travel to Mandalore so Din Djarin can redeem himself for the transgression of removing his helmet.

14 – This Time with Alan Partridge
Comedy
25 February 2019   –  Ongoing  |  2 seasons so far  |  12 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.0 |  RT Users:  8.8  |  RT Critics:  8.9  |  Meteoritic Critics:  n/a  |  Metacritic Users: n/a
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.57 /10
SYNOPSIS:
This Time with Alan Partridge stars Steve Coogan as the inept broadcaster Alan Partridge in a spoof of current affairs programmes such as The One Show and Good Morning Britain. Alan Partridge, an inept broadcaster played by Steve Coogan, becomes the stand-in presenter of This Time after the regular co-host falls ill. According to The Guardian, the show features “Partridgean tirades on everything from hand hygiene (leading him to lurk outside the BBC toilets doing spot-checks on colleagues) to hacking”.
13 – PEN15
Comedy
8 February 2019  –  ended  |  2 seasons  |  25 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.1 |  RT Users:  8.7  |  RT Critics:  9.7  |  Meteoritic Critics:  8.7  |  Metacritic Users: 7.9
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.62 /10
SYNOPSIS:

PEN15 is an American cringe comedy streaming television series, created by Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, that premiered on February 8, 2019, on Hulu.

PEN15 is described as “middle school as it really happened”. Erskine and Konkle – who were both 31 years old at the start of season 1 – “play versions of themselves as 13-year-old social outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual 13-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.”

12 – Back to Life
Comedy  |  Drama
15 April 2019   –  ongoing  |  2 seasons so far  |  12 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  7.5  |  RT Users:  9.0  |  RT Critics:  10  |  Meteoritic Critics:  8.8  |  Metacritic Users: 7.8
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.62 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Back to Life is a British dark comedy-drama co-written by Laura Solon and Daisy Haggard and starring Haggard and Adeel Akhtar that premiered on BBC One on 15 April 2019.

Miri Matteson has just returned home to Hythe, Kent, after serving an 18-year prison sentence. As Miri attempts to rebuild her life, she forms a friendship with Billy, who cares for the elderly woman next door.

11 – Sex Education
Comedy  |  Drama
11 January 2019  –  Ongoing  |  3 seasons so far  |  24 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.4 |  RT Users:  9.2  |  RT Critics:  9.5  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.1  |  Metacritic Users: 7.9
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.62 /10
SYNOPSIS:
Sex Education is a British comedy-drama streaming television series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix. The series follows the lives of the students, staff and parents of the fictional Moordale Secondary School as they contend with various personal dilemmas, often related to sexual intimacy. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Alistair Petrie, Mimi Keene, and Aimee Lou Wood.
10 – Ramy
Comedy  |  Drama
8 April 2019   –  Ongoing  |  3 seasons so far  |  30 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.0  |  RT Users:  8.6  |  RT Critics:  9.6  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.5  |  Metacritic Users: 8.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.64 /10
SYNOPSIS:
Ramy follows “a first-generation American Muslim who is on a spiritual journey in his politically divided New Jersey neighborhood. It explores the challenges of what it is like being caught between an Egyptian community that thinks life is a moral test, and a generation that thinks life has no consequences.”
9 – Upright
Comedy  |  Drama
30 November 2019  –  Ongoing  |  1 season so far  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.4  |  RT Users:  9.6  |  RT Critics:  8.0  |  Meteoritic Critics: n/a  |  Metacritic Users: n/a
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.67 /10
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Upright is an Australian drama series screening on Foxtel’s Showcase channel in Australia. Upright follows the story of two misfits, Lucky and Meg, who are thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert and forge the unlikeliest of bonds in their quest to get a precious upright piano from one side of the country to the other.
8 – The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Sci-Fi & Fantasy  |  Action & Adventure
30 August 2019  –  cancelled  |  1 season  |  10 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.4  |  RT Users:  9.4  |  RT Critics:  8.8  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.2  |  Metacritic Users: 8.7
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.70 /10
SYNOPSIS:

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is an American fantasy television series produced by Netflix and The Jim Henson Company. It is a prequel to the 1982 Jim Henson film The Dark Crystal that explores the world of Thra created for the original film.

On the planet Thra, three Gelflings – Rian, Brea, and Deet – inspire a rebellion after discovering a horrifying secret behind their customarily worshipped rulers, the Skeksis, that threatens their entire planet.

7 – Unbelievable
Drama | Crime
13 September 2019  –  Ended  |  Limited Mini-Series  |  8 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.4 |  RT Users:  8.9  |  RT Critics:  9.8  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.3  |  Metacritic Users: 8.4
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.76 /10
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Unbelievable is an American true crime television miniseries starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever. It is about a series of rapes in Washington State and Colorado.

A dramatization of the 2008–2011 Washington and Colorado serial rape cases, Unbelievable follows “Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth”. The program draws from “An Unbelievable Story of Rape” (2015), a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong for ProPublica and The Marshall Project. It also draws from the related book A False Report (2018), by the same authors.

6 – Ghosts
Comedy  |  Sci-Fi & Fantasy
15 April 2019   –  ongoing  |  4 seasons so far  |  24 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.3 |  RT Users:  9.4  |  RT Critics:  9.4  |  Meteoritic Critics: n/a  |  Metacritic Users: 8.0
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.78 /10
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Ghosts is a British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One in April 2019. The series follows a collection of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants. The series is written and performed by many of the cast members of Horrible Histories and Yonderland. The series also airs jointly on both HBO Max and Britbox in the US and CBC Gem in Canada.

Alison Cooper unexpectedly inherits the vast but crumbling Button House from a 99-year-old distant female relative of hers. The house is haunted by numerous squabbling ghosts from across the ages who died on its grounds, who are invisible and intangible to the living. Ignoring their solicitor’s advice to sell the property, Alison and her husband Mike decide to move in and renovate it, with the idea of turning the house into a luxury hotel.

5 – When They See Us
Drama
31 May 2019  –  Ended  |  Limited Mini Series  |  4 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.8 |  RT Users:  9.0  |  RT Critics:  9.7  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.6  |  Metacritic Users: 8.1
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.84 /10
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When They See Us is based on events of the April 19, 1989, Central Park jogger case and explores the lives of the five suspects who were prosecuted on charges related to the sexual assault of a female victim, and of their families. The five juvenile males of color, the protagonists of the series: Kevin Richardson (Asante Blackk), Antron McCray (Caleel Harris), Yusef Salaam (Ethan Herisse), Korey Wise (Jharrel Jerome), and Raymond Santana (Marquis Rodriguez), were divided by the prosecutor into two groups for trial. Each youth was convicted by juries of various charges related to the assault; four were convicted of rape. They were sentenced to maximum terms for juveniles except for Korey Wise. He had been held in facilities and served his time in prison
4 – Wayne
Drama  |  Action & Adventure  |  Comedy
16 January 2019 –  Cancelled  |  1 season  |  10 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.4 |  RT Users:  9.8  |  RT Critics:  10  |  Meteoritic Critics: 7.5  |  Metacritic Users: 8.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.84 /10
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Wayne stars Mark McKenna, Ciara Bravo, and Joshua J. Williams and it follows a teenage boy who sets out to retrieve his late father’s stolen car with the help of a girl he has a crush on.

Wayne starts in Brockton, Massachusetts in present day. The titular character “sets out on a dirt bike with his new crush Del to take back the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am that was stolen from his father before he died.” The car is in Ocala, Florida. Wayne, Del, and a host of oddball characters go on a road trip to get it back. “It is Wayne and Del against the world.”

3 – What We Do in the Shadows
Comedy
27 March 2019  –  ongoing  |  4 seasons so far  |  40 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.6 |  RT Users:  9.2  |  RT Critics:  9.8  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.3  |  Metacritic Users: 8.5
COMBINED SCORE:
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8.88 /10
SYNOPSIS:

What We Do in the Shadows is an American mockumentary comedy horror television series created by Jemaine Clement that premiered March 27, 2019, on FX. The second television series in the franchise based on the 2014 film of the same name written by Clement and Taika Waititi, the series follows four vampire roommates in Staten Island, and stars Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillén, and Mark Proksch.

After an unexpected visit from their dark lord and leader, Baron Afanas, the vampires are reminded of what they were initially tasked with upon their arrival in Staten Island over a hundred years ago – total and complete domination of the New World. But what exactly is the best way to go about achieving said domination? Our vérité camera crew follows along as the vampires set out to answer this query.

2 – Brassic
Comedy  |  Drama  |  Crime
22 August 2019   –  ongoing  |  4 seasons so far  |  28 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  8.4 |  RT Users:  9.8  |  RT Critics:  9.0  |  Meteoritic Critics: n/a  |  Metacritic Users: 9.2
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.10 /10
SYNOPSIS:

Brassic is a British comedy-drama television series which premiered on Sky One on 22 August 2019 and became Sky’s most successful comedy in seven years. The series follows the lives of Vinnie O’Neill (Joe Gilgun) and his friends in the fictional town of Hawley.

Brassic follows the lives of Vinnie O’Neill and his five friends as they live their lives in the fictional northern English town of Hawley. The working class group commit various crimes to keep money in their pockets, but as they get older some of them start to wonder if there’s more to life away from the town.

1 – Chernobyl
Drama
6 May 2019  –  Ended  |  Limited mini-series  |  5 Eps
NETWORK:
IMDb:  9.4 |  RT Users:  9.7  |  RT Critics:  9.5  |  Meteoritic Critics: 8.2  |  Metacritic Users: 9.0
COMBINED SCORE:
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9.16 /10
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Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson and Paul Ritter.

Chernobyl dramatizes the story of the April 1986 nuclear plant disaster which occurred in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union, telling the stories of the people who were involved in the disaster and those who responded to it.[7] The series depicts some of the lesser-known stories of the disaster, including the efforts of the firefighters who were the first responders on the scene, volunteers, and teams of miners who dug a critical tunnel under Reactor 4.

The miniseries is based in large part on the recollections of Pripyat locals, as told by Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich in her book Voices from Chernobyl.

SO WHICH NETWORKS DID THE BEST?
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When They See Us  |  Sex Education  | Unbelievable  |  Dead to Me  |  Russian Doll
5
Chernobyl | Euphoria | Doom Patrol | The Righteous Gemstones | Gentleman Jack
3
Gentleman Jack  |  Years and Years  |  His Dark Materials
2
The Boys  |  Good Omens
2
The Act  |  Wu-Tang: An American Saga
2
Evil  |  Why Women Kill
1
For All Mankind
1
The Virtues
1
The Mandalorian
1
Godfather of Harlem
1
What We Do in the Shadows
1
City on a Hill
1
Wayne
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