20 Addictive TV Shows That Will Keep You Entertained from Start to Finish
TV series have the power to transport us to different worlds and allow us to escape reality, even if only for a little while. As we immerse ourselves in the lives of the characters, we forget about our own problems and experience their emotions with them. Whether you're looking for a good laugh or a good cry, here's a list of 20 series recommendations that will make you forget about the passage of time and fully engross you in their captivating stories.
20. Wednesday (2022-)
IMDb: 8.2
Summary: The series, which is on the agenda of the year 2022, carries fantasy and thriller genres. Wednesday's attempts to master emerging psychic abilities, thwart a horrific series of murders terrorizing the town, and solve the supernatural mystery that confused her parents 25 years ago will form the focal points of the series. Wednesday, which will mix comedy and horror, will take place at the Nevermore Academy. Wednesday will try to develop her skills at this academy. But the fact that there are adolescent girls sharing the same school with her will confuse things.
Starring: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome
Director: Tim Burton
19. You (2018-)
IMDb: 7.7
Summary: Joe runs a bookstore in New York. Beck, who comes to the bookstore one day, knocks Joe off his feet. Joe falls in love with Beck at first sight. Joe is ready to do anything to win the heart of the girl he loves. Joe's obsessive behavior, who starts using technology to get Beck and follows him everywhere, makes Beck's best friend Peach suspicious, but she can't stop him. Joe eventually manages to stop being Beck's stalker and become her boyfriend. But when Joe's obsession continues to increase, things start to get complicated.
Starring: Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail, Ambyr Childers
Director: Greg Berlanti, Sera Gamble
18. Grace and Frankie (2015-2022)
IMDb: 8.2
Summary: Grace and Frankie, starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, is a series about the fun friendship of two women who have been abandoned by their spouses, born out of necessity.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen
Directors: Alex Hardcastle, Rebecca Asher
17. Emily in Paris (2020-)
IMDb: 6.9
Summary: Emily, a marketing manager in Chicago, gets a dream job opportunity at a moment she never expected. Emily, who did not turn down this offer, which is very important for her career, moves to Paris for her new job. Emily starts a new life, tries to manage her family, friends and relationship while trying to adapt to her new job on the one hand.
Starring: Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Lucas Bravo
Director: Andrew Fleming, Zoe R. Cassavetes, Peter Lauer, Jennifer Arnold
16. Ginny & Georgia (2021-)
IMDb: 7.5
Summary: Ginny, an introverted girl, is 15 years old. Often, she feels more mature than her irresistible and energetic mother, Georgia. Georgia wants to leave her busy life behind and build a new life for herself with her children. That's why she moves to New England with Austin and Ginny. However, Georgia's past threatens their new life.
Starring: Brianne Howey, Antonia Gentry, Diesel La Torraca
Director: Anya Adams, Catalina Aguilar Mastretta, Renuka Jeyapalan
15. Medcezir (2013-2015)
IMDb: 7.1
Summary: Medcezir, which brings together Çağatay Ulusoy and Serenay Sarıkaya in the same series, is an adaptation of The O.C. series. A young man who comes from the suburbs to a very rich neighborhood and starts living next to a rich family, a poor but proud, proud and smart young man starts to live in love with the most beautiful and rich girl in the neighborhood, and this love changes everyone's life.
Starring: Chagatay Ulusoy, Serenay Sarikaya, Hazar Erguclu
Director: Ali Bilgin
14. Stranger Things (2016-)
IMDb: 8.7
Summary: Netflix's popular thriller series Stranger Things is set in the 80s. When a little boy goes missing in a small town, secret experiments, frightening supernatural powers and a mystery in which a strange little girl is also a part are revealed.
Starring: Millie Bobby Brown, Winona Ryder, David Harbour
Director: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Shawn Levy
13. Dark (2017-2020)
IMDb: 8.7
Summary: A boy who disappeared. Four families desperately trying to find an answer. And the secrets and facts revealed as a result of these searches. The fate of the small town changes and its true face is revealed.
Starring: Louis Hofmann, Maja Schöne, Lisa Vicari
Director: Baran bo Odar
12. Shameless (2011-2021)
IMDb: 8.6
Summary: A house where every member of the household is involved in a dirty job. An alcoholic father and 6 children ranging in age from 2 to 20, an abandoned mother. Shameless manages to extract a tragicomic story from this dark picture instead of a tight drama. While the eldest sister Fiona's family, which she is trying to keep afloat, is being dragged into the abyss a little more every day, things don't know how to get better.
Starring: William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Allen White
Director: Christopher Chulack
11. Anne With an E (2017-2019)
IMDb: 8.7
Summary: In the series adapted from the book ‘Anne with Green Gables‘ by Lucy Maid Montgomery, Anne Shirley is a girl who was left alone after the death of her parents. Trying to give a direction to her life, a little girl begins to live with an unmarried old woman and her brother after the unpleasantness she has experienced. Trying to get used to her new life in the town of Green Gables, Anne tries to overcome the difficulties she faces with her loving heart and intelligence.
Starring: Amybeth McNulty, Lucas Jade Zumann, Geraldine James
Directors: Niki Caro, Helen Shaver, Amanda Tapping
10. Euphoria (2019-)
IMDb: 8.4
Summary: Euphoria, adapted from the Israeli TV series, tells the story of Rue, a 17-year-old teenage girl. The stories told by Rue, whom Zendaya brought to life, deal with themes such as sex, the search for identity, trauma, social media, drugs, love and friendship.
Starring: Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Nika King
Director: Augustine Frizzell
9. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021)
IMDb: 8.4
Summary: The legendary Brooklyn Nine-Nine is a crime and comedy series. Captain Ray Holt takes over the 99th district of Brooklyn, which includes Detective Jake Peralta, a talented but carefree detective who is used to doing whatever he wants. With the appointment of a meticulous captain to the head of his team, Jake now has to get used to following the rules, being a team player.
Starring: Andy Samberg, Andre Braugher, Melissa Fumero
Director: Michael Schur
8. Modern Family (2009-2020)
IMDb: 8.5
Summary: Picture a family portrait in your mind. You have a beautiful wife who is younger than you, and his son, whom you are trying to father. Your daughter, who has three children, and your gay son, who has decided to adopt with his partner, are all troubled by each other. From such a family portrait, of course, nothing but comedy comes out.
Starring: Ed O'Neill, Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell
Director: Jason Winer, Michael Spiller, Randall Einhorn, and Chris Kochtan
7. Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
IMDb: 9.2
Summary: The kingdom does not exist without war. Even if you have established the most powerful kingdom and ensured peace, how will you maintain this power in your hands? There is no place for a wrongdoer here, there is no forgiveness. The ruler of the Northern Kingdom, Lord Ned Stark, has managed to return to his homeland after long and difficult battles and keep his kingdom in integrity. Ned Stark, who fought shoulder to shoulder with King Robert Baratheon for years and made Baratheon become king, all he wants is to live with his family and people in his kingdom that protects the northern borders. But on the other side of the water, Viserys Targaryen, who claims that he has been expelled from his own land and kingdom, is making plans to join forces by giving his sister Daenerys to Khan Drogo, the head of the barbarian tribes. The plans of Viserys, who wants his throne back with a great appetite but is unaware of the royal games, reach King Baratheon. Baratheon, who is a great warrior on the battlefield, but cannot achieve the same success in governing the country and family, needs a new right-hand man who he can completely trust and who will collect every wrong move behind his back. Ned Stark, the Lord of the North, is the only candidate chosen for this task. Winter is approaching... Dynastic intrigues, games that revolve behind closed doors, women who do not hesitate to decamp into the bosom of the enemy to dig someone's well, strife between brothers, ostracism... All for one goal: the struggle for the throne...
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Emilia Clarke
Director: Brian Kirk, Tim Van Patten, Daniel Minahan, Alan Taylor
6. The Office (2005-2013)
IMDb: 9.0
Summary: The series takes place at the Dunder Mufflin Recording Company, a seemingly ordinary but unusually funny office. A power-hungry boss, employees who each have a different character, jobs that need to be completed between 9-5 and the most indispensable element of the modern world is office life! But Michael Scott is not an ordinary boss; he is a rude, cheesy, annoying, racist, sexist and unfulfilling boss in the eyes of his employees, whose jokes are not understood by his employees, but in fact he is a comedian, a friend, a benevolent boss...
Starring: Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski
Director: Stephen Merchant, Ricky Gervais
5. Avrupa Yakası (2004-2009)
IMDb: 8.6
Summary: In the series about adventures, love and intrigues, the Sütçüoğlu family lives in Nişantaşı. Aiming to live a peaceful life in the family, Aslı constantly fights with Volkan against the mother of the house, Iffet, and the father of the house, Tahsin. Gülse Birsel is writing the script of the series in which the adventures of the Sütçüoğlu family and those around them and the employees of the fashion magazine called Avrupa Yakası, where Aslı works, are described.
Starring: Ata Demirer, Hasibe Eren, Gulse Birsel
Directors: Jale Atabey, Hakan Algul
4. Gossip Girl (2007-2012)
IMDb: 7.5
Summary: Gossip Girl is one of the most gossipy TV series ever. The series, which conveys the luxurious lives, loves and separations of a group of naturally lucky high school students living on the upper side of New York through a gossip blog, attracts attention with the clothes and accessories used in the series as well as the stories it tells, and almost creates its own fashion..
Starring: Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford
Director: Mark Piznarski, J. Miller Tobin, Tony Wharmby
3. How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)
IMDb: 8.3
Summary: We are in the year 2030. Ted Mosby tells his children the ‘long’ story of meeting their mother, and suddenly we are back in the USA of the year 2005 and we are guests of the fun life of five tight friends in their 20s. Ted is a 27-year-old Manhattan architect. Marshall, who is studying at law school, is his best friend and has a girlfriend, Lily, with whom he has been together for nine years. The last member of the team, Barney Stenson, is a personally exclusive, suit-loving womanizer. One day, when Marshall tells Ted that he is going to propose to Lily, Ted worries, who does not want to remain single. But he also believes that marriage will not happen with anyone and that he will find the true love of his life. Just at this time, when he meets Robin Scherbatsky, the tight five of How I Met Your Mother is completed.
Starring: Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan
Director: Pamela Fryman
2. Friends (1994-2004)
IMDb: 8.9
Summary: Friends is one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time. Monica and Rachel, who are childhood friends, Monica's older brother Ross, Ross's college roommate Chandler... Chandler's roommate Joey and Monica's old friend Phoebe. The food and drinks of these 6 friends, whose pasts somehow intersect somewhere, do not go separately. The characters in the series, where friendship ties are intertwined with great humor, grow and mature with the audience throughout the story spanning 10 seasons. It is also among the unforgettable ones as a series that has earned names that will become stars later, such as Jennifer Aniston.
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow
Director: March Kauffman, David Crana
1. Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)
IMDb: 8.2
Summary: Lorelai and her daughter Rory live in the fictional town of Stars Hollow. When Lorelai became pregnant with Rory and decided to raise her daughter alone, she was her daughter's current age; that is, only 16. This decision had an earthquake effect in the aristocratic family. Lorelai managed to survive on her own for many years. With the admission of her daughter Rory to the famous Chilton school, perhaps for the first time, she became desperate and knocked on her parents' door to secure the loaded school money. Jul. Lorelai is doing everything she can to make sure that her daughter doesn't repeat the mistakes she made in the past. There is a very strong relationship between them. They are two very good friends and they are very similar to each other. The only word that can be said for the ‘inhabitants’ of Stars Hall is that they are all ‘elected’ people. Everyone who lives in this imaginary town has a story.
Starring: Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa McCarthy
Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino
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