SPark Recommends: Upcoming TV Series of 2018(And 2017 in review)

2017 gave us plenty of TV shows to binge on. While fan-favourites like Stranger Things(S2), Twin Peaks: The Return, Game of Thrones(S7), Better Call Saul(S3), Black Mirror(S4) and Master Of None(S2) made impressive returns, newcomers like The Handmaid’s Tale and Big Little Lies gave us some beautiful performances too. Mindhunter was brilliant in its slow-burning, methodical pace that reminded us of Zodiac. We are eager to see what Season 2 holds for us. The Deuce also surprised us with a detailed, rich and authentic depiction of the birth of the porn industry in New York. GLOW had several charming moments that really made us smile. Legion featured some marvellous acting and VFX, but felt withholding, and fumbled towards the end. What really swept us off our feet though, was the under-the-radar-flying Dark.

Dark is a German Netflix original whose plot initially appears to run along a vein similar to Stranger Things. It introduces us to the quiet, secluded town of Winden, its rambling forests and its mysterious caves where a child goes missing in an expedition gone wrong. What ensues is a mind-bending unravelling of the town’s sinister history, replete with some lusciously beautiful landscapes and cinematography, a chilling score and a myriad of secrets. However, its hook lies in that it includes time travel and wormholes. Any further description of this show would entail spoilers of some sort. This is one show whose second season can’t come fast enough for us.

That wraps up our discussion of 2017 TV shows.
Now, here are some shows of 2018 that we have high expectations from:-

Altered Carbon

If you’ve been following Netflix news recently, you must have come across this sci-fi show that’s doing the rounds. Set in a dystopian future where humans do not really ‘die’, but are resurrected in new bodies with their original memories, a man is approached by a rich aristocrat to investigate who murdered him and why.

Castle Rock

Castle Rock is an anthological drama that will feature an amalgam of characters and stories from the Stephen King multiverse like The Shawshank Redemption and It into a psychological horror series set in the titular town. With no other details about this mysterious show, we are interested to see how this one turns out.

The Alienist

An alienist, as the name does not suggest, is essentially a 19th-century term – the period wherein this period drama is based – for a criminal psychologist. A macabre series of murders of boy prostitutes has gripped New York City with fear, and an alienist and an illustrator are hired to solve them. The pilot felt a bit overdone, but we hope that gets resolved as the series progresses.

Counterpart

J.K. Simmons is an underling in a Berlin-based spy agency in Counterpart. His life gets turned upside down when he discovers that his agency is protecting a way to travel to a parallel dimension. He meets his counterpart in this parallel reality and embarks upon a path laden with conspiracy, danger, and secrets.

Sharp Objects

You know a show is going to be good when it has Amy Adams in the lead and Jean-Marc Vallée (Big Little Lies, Dallas Buyers Club) as director. She plays a reporter wrestling with a traumatic past in this adaptation of the titular debut novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), who returns to her hometown to cover the murders of 2 preteen girls. In doing so, she is forced to confront not only her neurotic, socialite mom and her half-sister but also her own inner demons.