01 Another surprisingly great video-game adaptation, set in the franchise's retro-futuristic wasteland.
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The Last of Us and House of the Dragon are the two biggest prestige-drama conversations right now, both built on premises with massive built-in audiences. Severance proved a genuinely strange, original concept can still break through.
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02 Three true-crime obsessed neighbors investigating a real murder in their own apartment building.
03 A mockumentary sitcom about underfunded, overworked teachers who genuinely love their jobs.
04 A wry spy drama about MI5's dumping ground for its worst agents, led by a brilliantly grimy Gary Oldman.
05 A brutal survival competition where desperate contestants play childhood games for a massive cash prize.
06 An anthology satire following wealthy guests at a luxury resort, one of whom won't make it out alive.
07 A sharp, gothic spin on the Addams Family daughter navigating a school for outcasts.
08 A love letter to 80s genre film wrapped around a small town's brush with an alternate dimension.
09 A surreal workplace thriller about employees who surgically split their work and personal memories.
10 A chaotic, anxiety-inducing look inside a Chicago sandwich shop turned fine-dining restaurant.
11 The Game of Thrones prequel following the Targaryen civil war known as the Dance of the Dragons.
12 A post-apocalyptic drama that proved video-game adaptations could be genuinely great television.