Staff members' best tips on tv series

I can recommend The Crown which is about the British royal family. It's on Netflix and there are four seasons, with a fifth coming this fall. The series is well made with good actors while being historically interesting.

Another good series is Inventing Anna which is also on Netflix and is a mini-series of nine episodes. It is based on a true story about Anna Delvey, who tricks the New York society into thinking she is a German heiress and gets them to invest in her projects. Fascinating story.

Christina Iredahl, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

One of my favourite TV shows is the 30-year-old science fiction series Babylon 5. Unlike many other SF series (both then and now), it didn't focus on technology and discovering aliens with prosthetic foreheads, where nothing really changed in the series. Babylon 5 was about intrigue, politics and the struggle between good and evil, but happened to be set around a space station.

It was one of the first shows I saw where the premise changed over the course of the series and where the five seasons told a cohesive story. Thirty years later, I am successfully introducing my partner and oldest daughter to the series. The special effects aren't that great but the content holds up surprisingly well.

Petter Cronsten, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy

The good place (Netflix). When Eleanor wakes up, she's sitting on a couch and gets the news that she's died - but it's okay because she's come to The Good Place. It's not an easy place to get into, but of course Eleanor got in, she who was such a good person, human rights activist, volunteer in refugee camps and soup kitchens, and so on.

At this point Eleanor begins to realise that there must have been some sort of misunderstanding because she spent her professional life conning the elderly with fake medicines through telemarketing. Now it's a matter of trying to be a better person dead than she was alive before someone catches her and sends her to The Bad Place. Witty comedy combined with philosophy lessons. Brilliantly funny and clever. 

Petra Lindberg, Communications Division

As a university employee, The Chair (Netflix), set in a department of literary studies, is exciting.

Sara Helperin, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology

One of the best thrillers I've seen is Manhunt on svtplay, terribly unpleasant but without the violence.

Sara Helperin, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology

The Handmaid's tale (HBO) - great story and photo about counterfactual fundamentalist terrorist society. Thrilling!

Sara Helperin, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel (Amazon) - a delightful, funny and warm series about a single Jewish woman's path to stand-up in 1950s New York.

Sara Helperin, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology

Midnight Diner (and Midnight Diner - Tokyo Stories) on Netflix. A Japanese series about a small night restaurant in Tokyo. Each episode focuses on a dish that the chef, known as "Master", cooks for his sometimes odd customers while listening to their problems. The regulars help each other and the visitors who walk in from time to time. It is feelgood at the highest level. The title song is pure meditation. In addition, you learn to cook Japanese food!

Kristin Bryon, Department of Medical Sciences

My favourite TV series at the moment is Our Flag Means Death. It starts out as something as absurd as a workplace comedy on a pirate ship but gradually becomes more romantic and dramatic, though without losing the humorous element. Very loosely based on the true story of Stede Bonnet, a rich man who got himself turned into a pirate captain, and his friendship(...?) with the notoriously bloodthirsty Blackbeard. Ten half-hour episodes are out. Be warned that you may become obsessed.

Tina Ringenson, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering

Funny idea regarding tips on TV series, I would like to contribute! 

I would like to give a strong recommendation on Love, Death & Robots, an animated series where each episode of 5-20 minutes stands alone and consists of a short story, often linked to themes of Sci-Fi, humanity, comedy and horror. Each episode is thought-provoking and makes you wish each episode had its own series.
Among favorite episodes, "When the Yogurt Took Over" stands out. Here, a genetically modified strain of yogurt gains consciousness and claims to have the solution to all the world's problems, but what is the yogurt's real goal?
Season 3 will be released on 20 May, so make sure to dive into this series!

Felix Hemström Trolin, Department of Pharmacy

I slavishly follow RuPaul's Drag Race (Netflix and Wow Presents Plus). It's a reality show where the legendary RuPaul Charles names the USA's next superstar in features.

In addition to the glamour, the clothes and the entertainment, the series has meant that queer people have gained a large global platform to raise issues of discrimination and representation.

Ingrid Berg, Centre for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)