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What new stuff would you recommend?

I've enjoyed:

Lucifer. Not what I was expecting and exceptionally funny with the devil learning what it is to be human
Claws. Mindless fun with a group of women in a Nail's Parlour laundering money for the Dixieland Mafia

I was not impressed with the 1980's female wrestling show. The pilot was awful.

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Westworld. Excellent, thought provoking and like the scifi/western hybrid.

Also has Anthony Hopkins who doesn't know how to be rubbish.

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New season of Narcos starts nxt week

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I just watched that thing on Channel 4 that has been called the Norwegian version of Girls, "Young and Promising". I quite enjoyed it. All the characters are considerably nicer people than the characters in Girls, but I also have very fond memories of being in my twenties and carefree in the soft white summer nights of a civilised, Nordic capital, so was perhaps always going to have a soft spot for a show that could show that. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/young-and-promising/on-demand

If you've got Amazon Prime, you should check out the Canadian cop drama 19-2. Originally in French (being set in Montreal) the English version on Amazon I thought was really good. Just being Canadian makes it a bit different from your standard US cop shows. The episode that depicts a school shooting (might be S2) is superbly made and rather harrowing.

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Not that new but I recently watched the first season of True Detective with Matthew Mcconaughy and Woody Harrelson. A very edgy series and keeps you wanting the next episode.

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Oh and while on the subject of Norwegian absurdism, if you haven't seen it, the police comedy Hellfjord is worth checking out. A Pakistani-Norwegian policeman from Oslo accidentally shoots his own police horse in front of a crowd of kids, so get exiled to a tiny fishing village in the far north (it was filmed in a town called Gryllefjord on Senja - so great climbing and ski touring all around it in real life!). Kind of like Hot Fuzz just with more fish and less ice creams.

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Have you watched Silicon Valley and Broad City? My two favourite comedies of recent years.

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i've really enjoyed recently:

Black sails (4 seasons)
vikings (4 seasons)
Ozark

comedy:
schitts creek
the detour

In reply to TobyA:

19 2 is absolutely top drawer.
The only cop show that has come near it recently on TV is Southland.

Meanwhile on Sky I will once again put in a vote for The Leftovers. Don't be put off by the title, it's enthralling.
Currently watching Ray Donovan and an Israeli thing called False Flag.
both very good.