Kenneth Londoner is an American award-winning stage and screen actor with a versatile portfolio. On his blog, Londoner shares with us that Netflix has prepared a year of the most powerful series.
In his opinion, proposals of the most varied animations, dramas, and comedies, will splash the Netflix catalog at the extreme speed to which we are accustomed, with high-quality series.
In this article, he points out the best TV Shows, ranked so far. These TV shows are must-watch.
Californication (7 seasons, 2007-2014)
“I know, it’s not the best series on the list, but for me, it’s a vital reference,” says Kenneth Londoner.
“Californication has the fastest, lascivious, deep, rogue, sugarcane, romantic, acid, surreal, offensive, and creative dialogues I’ve ever seen on television,” says the actor. “And although it tells the life of a writer, who is womanizer, vicious and pulling to finish, also hides one of the most beautiful love stories.”
Furthermore, the actor claims that it happens to many to establish a deep internal connection with the protagonist, a curious feeling that only occurs in the best fiction. The viewer identifies with the protagonist.
“Hank Moody is not David Duchovny, it’s you, it’s me,” says Londoner.
Homeland (7 seasons, 2011-)
If you have not seen it, you must. The first two seasons of Homeland paralyzed the television world. It’s never before had a series taken so far its challenge to the viewer. It is a game of spies and mirrors where the vision is disturbed by the main actors. One presents his bipolar point of view [Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison] and the rest is the fractured morality of the soldier who is a victim, executioner, and vice versa.
The necessary turn at the end of the third season evicted most of its followers with a bittersweet feeling. However, the series has continued at a very high level in its next seasons. It’s already more conventional in relation to the audience, and totally dependent on the magnetism of the protagonist. The seventh has just joined the catalog, and the eighth, which, according to IMDB, opens soon, will be the end season.
Orange Is the New Black (4 of 5 seasons, 2013-)
In Kenneth’s opinion, there is no series on Netflix that spins with more virtuosity the tone of the drama and the comedy. It has dark and painful passages with a lot of light and humanity. With that unbeatable base and a range of characters as original as unforgettable, we undoubtedly have one of the series of the decade. If we add that connects with the current feminist and pro-LGTBI, we also have an important, vindictive series.
The Good Wife (7 seasons, 2009-2015)
It had a somewhat blurred start because it hid the real value of the series until it had advanced many chapters. The initial plot is about that ‘good wife’ that has to pull forward when her husband is imprisoned. It derives in the best series of lawyers of this century, a display of intelligence in cases and personal conflicts. Also present is feminism, first as a latent soul and later as a backbone.
Black Mirror (4 seasons, 2011-)
In Londoner’s opinion, it is hard to fit Black Mirror in a classification like this, because there are chapters that deserve to fight for the top positions and others that would kick it out of the list. The first three episodes were those of the punch in the face of the spectator, the following mark that irregularity that walks on the tightrope between genius and ambitious absurdity. The last season has the deepest findings, thanks to an opening to new genres. Above all, to a more human approach, more ‘real’, to the conflicts posed by technology.
Mindhunter (1 season, 2017-)
It is almost the only one on the list that only has one season, but it has so much content that it deserves the position. Is slow? Yes, enough, but it is the most appropriate rhythm so that, very little by little, the protagonist, with that good boy face, puts the foot in that puddle so black and so dense, which is psychopathy. A 100% Fincher trip to the origin of the studies on serial killers, a brutal and silent clash between the rational and the abyss of the human mind.
The Killing (4 seasons, 2011-2014)
According to the horror movie actor, Kenneth Londoner, it is a masterpiece of the genre of unsolved crimes. In its first season, if it had closed there, this North American version of the Danish series that made Nordic fiction fashionable would be considered a cult. The protagonists are like Mulder and Scully – rather Scully and Mulder – to which an alien had frozen their hearts, and it is wonderful to see how they begin to warm up while looking for the guilty of a murder that really hurts.