Parade 100 Teenage Series: Places 100-81

Part one of five of the 100th Century Parade, including two of the most popular and long-standing comedies of the decade, the great testament to the new interface between the Star Power of cinema and television, a wonderful animated series that is unclear why it has not yet risen, a huge zombie series and more

Parade 100 Teenage Series: Places 100-81

The decade that ends this month, the teenage years of the 21st century, is the most revolutionary for the television medium since its early days. The decade when the first pendulum finally moved from cinema to television brings with it masses of stars and filmmakers from the first league, as well as huge budgets that have never been spilled on the small screen like this. The streaming era, which until recently was controlled by Netflix, has revolutionized the end user's choice of when and how to watch his favorite content, whether it's on TV or on the phone on the way.

Netflix's immense aura of success among the younger audience is solely responsible for some of the great thrives of this decade, series that no one has watched before reaching the streaming giant, and then suddenly soaring. This success on its part has led to increasing competition (still ongoing) and unprecedented flood of content. During this decade, for the first time ever, the amount of hours of new content exceeds any person's ability to consume them, even if it's their profession. On the one hand, television works have become increasingly nimble to appeal to more and more audiences, sectors and genders who have not seen themselves enough on screen before, if at all; And on the other, huge series sprang up alongside them that tried to conquer the popular culture discourse, and rarely succeeded.

In all of this there is the important thing, the work that consumes it all. Like every parade, the one in front of you reflects something relative and partial, not least because of the huge rush we noted above. The raters - Ido Isaiah, Ilan Kaprov, Ophir Artzi, Amit Slonim, Natalia Yermin, Ophir Sagarsky, Pini Eskel and Hadar Torowitz - chose the decade series with a mix of quality, importance and love, not necessarily in this order. Since there is a difference between series that run over time and those that are limited to a number of episodes in the first place, the parade does not include mini-series, which have become their own parade. This is also why we chose not to include series that started in 2019, despite our great love for much of it. At this point, the teenage fabric is unclear, and we will probably meet many of them in the next decade, and certainly in December, in this year's series parade.

If so, these are the decade series according to Walla! culture. Even the seemingly low places are very respectable, considering that these series were chosen from hundreds, maybe even thousands.

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Parade 100 Teenage Series: Places 100-81. Homeland, Jessica Jones, Narcos, The Walking Dead (Photo: Image Processing)

100. Modern Family

Originally: Modern Family
Broadcast Network: ABC (yes in Israel)
Years: 2009-2020

The huge television wealth that has come in the last decade has brought with it a relatively new phenomenon: the abandonment of series. If in the past we were loyal to the series we loved going down, they nowadays have the time to invest in a series that "bumped the shark" and turned from MastToy into a wasted half hour that could have been used for something better.

"Modern Family" is an example of such a series, one that until a few years ago was considered by many to be the funny series on television (and rightly so) and quickly became clichéd, soapy and most of all - not funny. In addition, the series that was based quite a bit on the magic of the children who played it suddenly found itself with an older and tired cast, and had to send the stars to have more children to rejuvenate the average age, but in practice it just felt strange. Also, seeing El Bandi as a great-grandfather doesn't excite us, only makes us feel really old.

However, if her old woman was ashamed of her youth, it was mainly because they were so successful. Nearly every episode in the early seasons of "Modern Family" has been a hit, with "classic" family sitcoms like "Family Packing", "Getting Up and Growing" and "Dad Stepmother" with a modern twist. Yes, they didn't just call it that way. And perhaps this is a testament to the progress the world has made in this decade, when you look back at what was considered modern at the beginning of the decade, everything suddenly seems so outdated.

(Fellow Salon)

Cast "Modern Family" wins the award. Yes, that was his wife at the beginning of the decade (Photo: Image Bank - Getty Images)

Cast a modern family (Photo: Kevin Mazur, GettyImages)

99. Thirteen reasons

Originally: Thirteen Reasons Why
Broadcasting Body: Netflix
Years: 2017-2020

"Bottle Lightning" is a phrase that is used in the American entertainment industry, and of course translates very badly into Hebrew. The intention is for a rare situation where everything works out perfectly and is in perfect order, so much so that it feels like imprisoning it and keeping it forever, although it is clear to everyone that it is impossible. That was pretty much the first season of "13 Reasons," except for the last part that was not clear to anyone. The way the nuanced plot, the soundtrack, the lyrical transitions between the past and the present, the exact writing of the characters, and especially the wonderful acting of Katherine Langford and Dylan Mint, managed to convey with sensitivity the delicate texture of a teenage girl in a sleepy and all-American town .

But beyond that, "13 Reasons" was a bold and commendable attempt to take a classic youth series and make it appeal to, and maybe even only adults, through engaging in heavy content such as rape, suicide and bullying. In a way, she even sacrificed some of her Tinajari audience and even warned him to step away to get the messages she wanted to convey, hoping someone would understand and back her up. America was having a bit of trouble with it, and the drama surrounding suicide representation eventually overwhelmed her and made her doubt herself, producing a follow-up season that was in retrospect, followed by another season that had already lost direction. Lightning, after all, usually doesn't strike twice.

(Ophir Artzi)

Lightning in a bottle. "13 reasons" (Photo: PR)

13 reasons (Photo: PR)

98. Narcus

Originally: Narcos
Broadcast Network: Netflix
Years: 2015 - Today

You need a kind of courage reserved for a small streaming service that is trying to work its way out, to more or less present a series like "Narcos." It's not exactly a secret that Americans are patriots who hate to read subtitles, so offering them a series that 70 percent of Spanish speakers - and at least 50 percent of them openly criticizing Colombia's war against drug cartels - doesn't sound like a particularly smart marketing move.

But Netflix, who served in all directions in the early years of its source productions and sought audiences and stories, found them in unbelievable horrors that Pablo Escobar inflicted on his homeland and its inhabitants. The level of action completed the story's qualities, and although the first season bombarded viewers with countless archive footage that only distanced them from the plot, the flaws were corrected and lessons learned. In fact, the third season following Escobar's downfall has managed to be no better than its predecessors - and even surpass them in some ways.

One can cautiously assume that the international success of "Narcos," a completely unpopular American production, is one that has pushed Netflix to invest in other foreign and specific source productions, and has only diminished its importance over the decade. And the unbearable belligerent called "Narcos: Mexico" deserves to be pushed aside.

(Ophir Artzi)

Opened the door to foreign language series. "Narcos" (Photo: PR)

Narcos Season 2 (Photo: PR)

97. Big Little Lies

Originally: Big Little Lies
Broadcast Network: HBO (in Israel on HOT, yes and Cellcom TV)
Years: 2017 - Today

If "Game of Thrones" is the production and visual translation of the last television decade, "Big Little Lies" is an expression of the consciousness upheaval that happened before our eyes. The small screen - until a long time ago where careers are going to die - has become the biggest attraction in the entertainment industry. The right place to be. The great actress in film history (Meryl Streep), two Oscar winners (Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon) and the young talented generation of rising actresses (Shailyn Woodley) joined one of Hollywood's best directors (Jean-Marc Valle, "The Dallas Customer Club" , "Going Away") in a star-studded production that previously housed Oscar movie posters.

Although "Big Little Lies" is at the base of a murderous luxury soap case, it was Valla's golden touch that lent her style and aesthetics that also made her banal moments catchy. And beneath this beauty lay a traumatized human ugliness and violence, physical and mental abuse, alienated wealth and quite a bit of loneliness - as if to deliberately contradict Monterey's enviable landscapes. While it would be far-fetched to glorify "Big Little Lies" as a breakthrough drama or even as an overly interesting series (though its second season is a significant improvement). In the end, we saw many like her in the past and not a little better - but her very existence and the new reality she wrote make her more memorable than her sisters in the genre.

(Ilan Kaprov)

Television has become an attraction. "Big little lies" (Photo: PR)

Big Little Lies - Season 2 (Photo: HBO, PR)

96. The Walking Dead

Originally: The Walking Dead
Broadcasting body: AMC (yes in Israel)
Years: 2010 - Today

There was a short stage, somewhere in 2014, that "The Walking Dead" was the best drama on television. The comic book series on the zombies with chews of chewed blood and nigger blood has managed to use its entertaining platform to produce real, accurate and effective drama that squeezes all the sensitive and human points. As if the zombies were a Trojan in which the real meaning of the series was hidden - people. The fact that she invented herself every half season and managed to produce jaw-dropping but sensible twists helped her to also score and defeat, for a considerable number of years, even the most-watched broadcast series - a tremendous achievement over then's cable networks.

But relative to the series that most of its participants are brainless, success for some reason nevertheless got someone to the top and settled there. The brand is chewed and flattened into dirty tricks for grabbing viewers, baseless hangers cliff, creating unnecessary old series, massive abandonment of actors and too much turnover of showers. The series that made sure not to lean on clichés became the biggest cliche of all. A series that loses shape due to over-stretching, and even today it refuses to turn off the light. It is ironic that although she has opened the current decade with no breath of life, she ends it with much more embarrassing dying.

(Ophir Artzi)

She used to be the best drama ever. "The Walking Dead" (Photo: PR)

The Walking Dead (Photo: Courtesy of AMC, PR)

95. Homeland

Originally: Homeland
Broadcast Body: Showtime (yes in Israel)
Years: 2011 - Today

Two questions that should be asked: Why this series in the parade, and God why this series in the parade? Here are two answers - it is still the most successful American adaptation to an Israeli series, and it is still the first (and only) drama of the Showtime Network to ever win the Emmy Awards. The awards are perhaps a little less interesting to us compared to the Israeli connection and this, too, is quite loose (two things were just taken from "kidnapped" - a soldier who was captured and suspected of being a party, and finger-drumming as part of a secret communication). Still, at the beginning of the decade it seemed like a serious achievement for the local television industry, and it was still the one that made an American series considered a half-episode in Israel (and making it Lebanon, of course).

It is worth arguing about its deteriorating quality, but one must first acknowledge that Homeland has always been an effective, moderately frequent espionage thriller that exists deep within the demilitarized area between the unfounded and the unlikely. Players like Mandy Patinkin and changing international locations may have succeeded in producing a prestigious environment, but if you were expecting something more from her and more intelligence wars in terrorist cells and tigers that make their friendships without sufficient plot justification, it's not her fault.

(Ophir Artzi)

Effective. "Homeland" (Photo: PR)

Homeland (Photo: yes)

94. The Big Bang

Originally: The Big Bang Theory
Broadcasting body: CBS (yes in Israel)
Years: 2007-2019

We are just a moment before the end of the second decade of the 21st century, and Chuck Lowry still insists on making simple short comedy situations that are filmed in front of a live audience plus recorded laughs, a disappearing genre. And there's a good reason Lori insists on doing this: many and good people want to see his series.

In the last two decades, Lori has signed two of the most successful comedies in the US - "Two and a Half Men" and "The Big Bang." While the first produced high ratings but scorned the reviews, "The Big Bang" also became one of the two watched series in the US In her last six seasons, and also received a hug from critics in the first few seasons. In addition, series star Jim Parsons won the Emmy Award four times in a row, adding the Golden Globe to the shelf as well.

The series, which was a paradise for geeks and outcasts, changed the direction for the kitsch and bourgeois districts (to be happy, they all get married and have kids) - and the truth is that her best three seasons were the first, so not at all in the decade we sum it up. Still, it was worth following her, if only because of the internal geek that most of us had, who was just waiting for the fairy tale end.

(Fellow Salon)

From the successful series in the United States. "The Big Bang" (Photo: PR)

The Big Bang (Photo: yes)

93. Hannibal

Originally: Hannibal
Broadcasting body: USA (in Israel on yes)
Years: 2013-2015

Television creator Brian Fuller's career is full of unique celtic series that preceded their time and subsequently ended well in advance. Given the short lives of Wonderfulz, Part-Time Dead, and the excellent "Life According to Ned", it was no surprise that "Hannibal" Perry's work was canceled after three short seasons. The dark series about the Hannibal Lecter relationship (Mas Mickelsen) and the FBI agent trying to capture him (Hugh Dancy) might have blossomed on premium networks like HBO or Showtime, or platforms like Netflix, but in 2013 on the free NBC network you couldn't say She has a chance.

Still, the three seasons we did win were some of the most beautiful seen over the decade. Fuller's visual aesthetic is recognizable throughout his series (these days "American Gods" is a perfect example of this) and this is what made Hannibal's grotesque themes of pay that he is a true work of art. In some ways, death and violence have made even more beautiful, and viewers will agree that this is one of the main elements that has kept them glued to the screen for three seasons.

Equally appealing was the relationship between Hannibal and Agent Will Graham that ranged from friendship to obsessive to reluctant, and to the delight of many viewers was on the homoerotic frontier. Eating was a major theme in "Hannibal," and eating people was, on the surface, the worst crime in the series. But food and the rituals around it were, at the end of the day, a physiological representation of a complex and fascinating relationship between these two characters, much of which is difficult to find in other series.

(Natalia Yermin)

Visual aesthetics. Hannibal (Photo: PR)

Hannibal's cookbook (Photo: PR)

92. Valley of Happiness

Originally: Happy Valley
Broadcasting body: BBC (Israel on yes)
Years: 2014 - Today

With her own hands, actress Sarah Lancashire, a British national asset, turned this series into a heart-wrenching piece. The crime drama created by Sally Wainwright ("Gentleman Jack") followed in her two seasons (the third and final is expected in the future) of what is happening in a drug-infested small town and tragedy in England, culminating in a tough and exciting drama. But it was Lancashire in the lead role that poured so much emotion and complexity into the story even when it wasn't. In fact, in her perfect sketch, Catherine Kiwed's character is one of the most impressive in this decade on television. Catches blow after blow from life, physical, moral, mental, mental, but has to put on a strong mask against those around her. This quiet, bitter affliction claims almost every event that takes place in the series, beneath which her heart seeks her way out through every possible crack, and she has finally found the doorway.

Even so, there is no hysteria in Catherine's character or in Lancashire's game, which won her Best Actress award here. Most of the time, she is thoughtful, restrained and correct, a solid rock for all those around her, and a source of unbelievable love for our viewers. Magnet, and its phosphorous yellow vest, which stands out in relation to its so-so-gray-gray urbania, focuses it as a vital color source for this sad place, the Valley of Happiness.

(Ido Isaiah)

National Property. Sarah Lancashire, "Happiness Valley" (Photo: PR)

Happiness Valley (Photo: PR)

91. My childhood

Originally: Kidding
Broadcast Network: Showtime (yes in Israel)
Years: 2018 - Today

Two significant trends of this decade are embodied in "My Child," the sad comic drama starring Jim Carrey on a kind-hearted child star who is dealing with the death of his son. One is a series whose emotional engine consists of grief and grief ("Life itself," "Tony's Reborn," "Sorry For Your Loss"), the other is a starring movie star that never gets viewers and generally cruises under the radar. Less than a million people watched every episode of "My Childhood," usually much less, and the buzz about it was scant at best. Evidence of the impossible flooding of content from all sides.

The masses that were not watching lost a sensitive and special series. For the first time since "Everlasting Sun in a Clear Head," my "childish" unites Carrie and Michelle Gondry, who directed several episodes in the first season (the second will arrive in early 2020) and outlined her design in its original and adventurous way. Carrie embodies the protagonist in a very layered way, a kind of gentle acting in his image as a comedian with an elastic face alongside being an artist with a poetic soul and a bizarre cry. He conveys Jeff's built-in weirdness and the great sadness he tries to soothe. His desperation to succeed in correcting himself after a terrible family tragedy as he corrects others all his life, is what ultimately infuses Jeff with humanity, making the whole story universal and "childish" into such a special and love-filled series.

(Ido Isaiah)

Those who watched earned. "Childish" (Photo: PR)

Child Career Trailer, Jim Carrey (Photo: PR, PR)

90. Men of this age

Originally: Men of a Certain Age
Broadcasting Body: TNT (in Israel on HOT)
Years: 2009-2011

Also in real time, this series was a secret that very few were watching, and over the years it was forgotten and turned into an adorable footnote to its stars (including nominated awards) before continuing to more prominent series - Ray Romano (who also co-created it with Peter Tollen), Andre Braver ("Brooklyn Nine Nine") and Scott Bakula ("NCIS New Orleans"). But a decade-long summary is a perfect opportunity, even if a little, to miracle. This wonderful comic drama followed three middle-aged friends and tackled what life is like in their way - work, marriage, divorce, children and so on. Sounds minor indeed. "Men of this Age" was a nuanced and delicate drama, with small moments that, in their context, became unparalleled, with all this time being meticulously funny, heartwarming and sweet.

In the television climate of the beginning of the decade, and in a hostel like TNT that specialized mainly in crime series like "The Decoder," there really wasn't a chance for a small, straightforward series like "Men of That Age." It is hard not to wonder what would have happened if she had arrived in the second part of the decade, when television was flooded with hundreds of series and became more and more niche, allowing series such as the "Kominsky Method" and "Frankie and Grace" to flourish uninterrupted.

(Ido Isaiah)

Charming footnote. "Men of this age" (Photo: PR)

Men of this age, Ray Romano, Andre Braver, Scott Bacola (Photo: PR, PR)

89. Bob's Burgers

Broadcast Body: Fox ׁ (not aired in Israel)
Years: 2011 - Today

Like quite a few gems on this list, "Bob's Burgers" is one of the series where devout fans know how to memorize the mantra: "You will suffer a bit in the first season, but it's worth it." The truth is, because this is a non-linear series where there is really no connection between the episodes or seasons - those who have no patience can just give up the first and weak episodes, and start right from the end of the first season or the beginning - and fall in love with the Belcher family.

In her most absurd moments, "Bob's Burgers" has been the funniest comedy on television in the last decade, for example when she introduced John Do as a talking toilet. Much of the series' captivating humor stems from the decision to give actors the ability to improvise some of the script, which is especially rare in animated series (mainly because of the frustration it causes animators). But under the mantle of extreme humor is presented one of the most realistic families of today's television. Parents Bob and Linda who run a shared household through a failed private business, the three children who are experiencing real problems of the 21st century. The Belcher family is enriching what the Simpsons were in the nineties of the last century. Too bad she was never purchased for broadcast in Israel.

(Fellow Salon)

fall in love. "Bob's Burgers" (Photo: PR)

Bob's Burgers, Bob's Burgers (Photo: PR, PR)

88. Brooklyn Nine Nine

Originally: Brooklyn Nine Nine
Broadcasting Body: Fox and then NBC (in Israel on HOT)
Years: 2013-present

"The Good Place" is undoubtedly the Mike Shore series that stands out most this decade - as requested by a series whose theme is striving to improve as the world goes to hell - but in the teenage years it had two other lower-profile series, both of which are wonderful. One is this one, a comedy starring Andy Samberg and Andre Braver, which follows the homicide detectives in New York - not exactly the obvious set for comedy. "Brooklyn Nine Nine" is not the first to do so, preceded by "Barney Miller" from the Seventies, but "Brooklyn" seems to be a fun, quick and witty product of its time, laden with cast of ethnic diversity as expected from the great volume of the second decade of the 21st century.

And as always in Mike Shore's series, "Brooklyn Nine Nine" is optimistic and loves its heroes. Funny as she is, and she is very funny, a tremendous part of her charm is kind to her, one that also nurtures her most marginal and seemingly-ridiculous characters and inspires sympathetic humanity. Again, this is really strange when you consider that it is a homicide, but the protagonists of the series do not let the rough reality relax their hands or temper them, making them and the whole series a happy, contained and delightful place that simply has fun.

The NBC network thought so too, but for its own material reasons. After Fox canceled the series for five seasons, NBC, whose studio produces "Brooklyn," revived it, and recently announced that it would also be an eighth season. This is not a new practice, to save a series that another network eliminates, but given the transformation of the teenage television market, it has become one of their biggest representatives. NBC Universal sells the rights to rebroadcast and streaming to entities such as Hollow (US) and Netflix (the rest of the world), an entire generation is exposed to the series and falls in love with it, justifying its continued existence even if the original broadcast viewing percentages are not really high.

(Ido Isaiah)

Optimistic and loving. "Brooklyn Nine Nine" (Photo: PR)

Brooklyn Nine Nine (Photo: PR, PR)

87. Burned code

Originally: Halt And Catch Fire
Broadcasting Body: AMC (Israel in yes)
Years: 2014-2017

How much patience do you have when you tell you that you have to survive the first season of a series to get to the really good part? "Burned Code" is another of those series, with a small difference from "Bob's Burgundy." It came at the same time as the "Mad Man" twilight and looked like a perfect replacement on paper: Another period series right on the same network, this time a plot occurs in the 1980s and follows a group of inspired entrepreneurs who are always trying to create the next big thing on computers. But "burnt code" was not just something that started, but terribly. Her pilot was ridiculous, and her first season was full of clichés, ridiculous moments and blatant metaphors. The protagonist at the center, Joe Macmillan (Lee Pace), was Don Draper to the poor who liked to speak in speeches, and will forgive his fans and fans - not a great actor by any means.

But those who adhere to the "burnt code" have found that it is improving as it progresses, until the last season is a settled and charming adult compared to the whimsical and screaming burden that was the first season. Where "Silicon Valley" portrayed a cynical and ridiculous world and "Mr. Robot" focused on alienation and loneliness, "Burned Code" mired the adventures, boldness and ambition of its heroes. She was concerned with the growth of ideas, the importance of creativity, the heart beating behind them. The humanity that develops alongside the technology, the camaraderie between the men and the women who formed the pioneer power. It was so hard not to fall in love with her characters (also portrayed by Carrie Bisha, the wonderful Mackenzie Davis and Scott McNairy) for their complicated, ups and downs. At one point in the last season, Gordon (McNairie) asks Joe about something we saw in the premiere, in one of their first sessions: "Is that what you saw in your mind a decade ago? Because that's not what I imagined when you showed up in my driveway." And Joe answers something that clearly and beautifully encapsulates "burnt code": "That's it. The issue was never where we would go, but what the feeling would be."

(Ido Isaiah)

After all, it was hard not to fall in love with them. "Burned code" (Photo: PR)

: Burnt code (Photo: PR)

85. Arrange me

Originally: High Maintenance
Broadcasting Body: HBO (in Israel on HOT, yes and Cellcom TV)
Years: 2016 - today

If the devil's biggest trick was to make us believe it didn't exist, the biggest trick of "order me" is to make us believe that someday something big is going to happen. he is not. And maybe he is, and we just didn't notice. And anyway, the "guy "'s travels throughout Greater Brooklyn, with a catastrophe happening on a global level, are the good stuff from which to make great television.

If you see the program without external influences, this is a series that has no chapter-to-chapter relationship, and the only connecting line between the chapters is the drug dealer who takes care of his clients in personal deliveries on his bike. If that doesn't sound particularly fascinating, it's because it's not really the essence of the series. Ben Sinclair's program (the creator of the series on which the series is based, in which he also plays the main character) is not about drugs or steals - but about humans. In each episode "The Guy" meets new people, and they seem to be the ones who connect him to a separate reality from the terrible reality that is happening in the background in the US and around the world.

"Arrange Me" is a series about human love in its purest and most beautiful sense, and on the other hand it is neither dreamy nor false. She looks at the red-eye viewers and tells them, "Be good, because ... why not?" It is rare for television to do that.

(Fellow Salon)

Be good. "Arrange me" (Photo: PR)

Order me (Photo: HBO, PR)

85. The edge of the lake

Originally: Top of the Lake
Broadcasting Body: BBC (Israel in HOT)
Years: 2013 - Today

Jane Campion's "Edge of the Lake" ("The Piano") has made the border between cinema and television thinner than ever. Campion was one of the first big film wave directors to make their way to television in recent years. "The Edge of the Lake" aired the same year that David Fincher's "House of Cards" came to Netflix, followed by personalities such as Steven Soderberg, Spike Lee, the Wachowski sisters, and the trend continued. But the series is not only a pioneer in this field.

"The Edge of the Lake" turned out to be a masterpiece full of emotion, rage and power, dirty and scary, unpolished - one of the few series created by women and about women at the beginning of the decade, and one that inspired female works that followed. The appearance of Elizabeth Moss ("The Story of a Slave") cemented the actress, who until then was known as the legendary Peggy Olsen in "Med Man," as one of the best of our generation.

As a sign of the greatness of the series, its entire first season was screened at the Sundance Festival, the first television screening of its kind since the festival was set up. Similarly, the second season of the series was fully screened at the Cannes Film Festival along with the new season of "Twin Peaks" - both of which were the only televised works screened in all the prestigious years of the festival. In an industry where many still argue that television does not match its quality to cinema, "The Edge of the Lake" has been proof that the spirit is beginning to blow in a new direction.

(Natalia Yermin)

Full of emotion and rage. "The edge of the lake" (Photo: PR)

Lake Edge, Elizabeth Moss, Holly Hunter (Photo: PR, PR)

84. Bates Motel

Originally: Bates Motel
Broadcasting Body: A&E (in Israel in HOT. Today fully available on Netflix)
Years: 2013-2017

The decision to take a popular and iconic past, re-imagine it, and copy it into our present-day era seems like easy money, but six years ago it was less self-evident. Quite a few eyebrows were raised when Carlton Cuse announced that his next project after "Lost" would be a modern prequel to "Psycho," which would be broadcast on a remote cable network and portray Norman Bates as a teenager with a smartphone. Most eyebrows probably stayed up over the next five years.

"Bates Motel" was a strange, creepy and twisted suspense series, and at the same time graceful, engaging and touching. The psychological depth behind the design of Norman's characters and his mother Norma deserves to be the subject of dozens of incest and personality split seminars, or at least commentary columns on websites that the series never really won. However, Coyes managed to pull off the rare, tricky trick: the viewer never saw Norman and the norm crazy or insane characters. It was love - complicated, neurotic and sickly, but love.

A critical part of that was Vera Parmiga and Freddie Haymore's triggering game displays, a gifted duo, scene after scene, lifting each other to new heights, leaving behind every other unfortunate player to be taken to the frame. It is difficult to describe how accurate Fermiga was, and how she was able to externalize Norma's psychosis in such a surgical and amazing way. You just have to watch to believe and realize, and judging by the surprising buzz that the series is now gaining on Netflix Israel, many already know and are captivated by magic.

(Ophir Artzi)

Unhappy who gets caught in the frame with them. Vera Parmiga and Freddie Haymore, "Bates Motel" (Photo: PR)

Bates Motel (Photo: PR)

83. Legion

Originally: Legion
Broadcasting Body: FX (Israel on yes)
Years: 2017-2019

The tsunami of superheroes that swept through this decade on television and cinema has also yielded adventurous works that stretch the boundaries of the medium to the limit, and too often beyond. Noah Howley, one of the decade's leading TV filmmakers (besides "Legion" is also responsible for another television adaptation - "Fargo") took Marvel's comic book about a guy with a superpower and severe mental problems, and applied his mental state to the series All. So through the eyes of the protagonist, David Holer, we got a tricky, quirky, complex and artistic work.

Legion's problem began when it completely devolved into form and largely gave up its content. For that reason the second season was most of the time unbearable, didn't even try to show any plot sequence, anything, and cut from scene to scene without any coherence. Fortunately, she returned to herself in the third season and signed, providing a series of episodes that did not compromise her special aesthetic, but were also flowing and provided a beautiful ending to the story. Even if it's a very flawed and debilitating piece, "Legion" will be remembered as one of the bold and original series that populated the screen this decade.

(Ido Isaiah)

Stretching the boundaries of the superhero genre. "Legion" (Photo: PR)

Rachel Keller, Dan Stevens, Legion (Photo: PR)

82. Fat log

Originally: My Mad Fat Diary
Broadcasting Body: British Channel 4 (in Israel in HOT)
Years: 2013-2015

One of the things that the UK is progressing more than the US is adolescence series. While Square Americans took until 2019 to reach a bold series like "Euphoria" (And this is also due to foreign influences), the British have given up drugs, alcohol, sex and eating disorders at least since 2007, with the rise of the popular "skins". Just the year that ended, the adorable "fat diary" came as a love letter not only to change -90 but also for girls who are plump and depressed. They take

hormones and accompany the best hits of our favorite decade, "The Fat Diary," based on the author's adolescent memories. British Earl Ray Earl was one of the frank, funny and sweet series of the mid-decade, and it is not meant to say that the series did not address serious real-life adolescents, on the contrary - "Fat Diary" was one of the series that failed to deal with such issues faithfully and did not try to reduce it. Respected by glitter cover (explicit or metaphorical), so now that the decade is nearing its end, the series is still a call for adolescents and adults alike who, although not always all right, have beautiful things in the world.

(Natalia Yermin)

love letter. "Fat diary" (Photo: PR)

Fat Diary (Photo: PR, PR)

81. Jessica Jones

Originally: Jessica Jones
Broadcast Network: Netflix
Years: 2015-2019

In an overall perspective, Netflix and Marvel's television universe failed to realize its potential. The four series of heroes (and the worst union series of all) suffered significant quality and interest gaps between each other, and also between the different seasons of each series in itself. "Jessica Jones" is indistinguishable from her sisters in this regard, but at its peak, it gave us everything we thought and hoped to see from a modern-day series of heroes. With a team of filmmakers and writers led by Melissa Rosenberg, Marvel dared to allow the heroine to what her mighty movie brand never managed.

"Jessica Jones" is simultaneously a symbol of its superhero genre and antithesis. The story of a forgotten heroine is a curse, a source of physical and mental trauma, a prison of self-loathing and remorse. Thanks to them, the wonderful first season succeeds in diving into a complex world of exploiting and dealing with deep mental scars. She does it without computer creations and without huge armies, without long vans and hundreds of extras. The series is devoid of brilliance and pathos, sure enough of Marvel's best comic book villain to date - on television or in the movie (Kilgrave, played by David Tennant) - and how his relationship with Jessica naturally leads to conflicts, dark twists, tension and redemption. How simple - that effective.

(Ilan Kaprov)

The symbol and antithesis. "Jessica Jones" (Photo: PR)

Jessica Jones Season 2 (Photo: David Giesbrecht / Netflix, PR)