The 20 best series on Netflix Argentina

In January 2021 he turned 13 years old: The first episode was broadcast on January 20, 2008 and the last one premiered on September 29, 2013. The series was created by Vince Gilligan (“The X Files”).

The protagonist of this story is Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry professor from Albuquerque, a city in the state of New Mexico (United States), who discovers that he has incurable cancer. As a result of this news, and fearing for the economy from his family, he decides to ally himself with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to produce and sell methamphetamine. In this way, our hero, the father of a middle-class family, becomes the antagonist of the story and gradually immerses himself in the atmosphere of drug trafficking, thrillers, criminal dramas and black humor.

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If you haven't seen it yet, it's time for you to do it, it would be very rare for you to regret it.

2- Black Mirror

Black Mirror is a British series developed by Charlie Brooker and has unitary episodes, independent of each other and, with a totally different cast and plots, whose only common point is the power of new technologies to move the world.

Perhaps it has happened to you at some point that you feel that very "Black Mirror" things happen in life, moments in which we can believe that the power of technology monopolizes us, dominates us and completely surpasses us, and that any fictional situation devised for this series could become part of reality, at any time.

Black Mirror shows how technology affects us and how much it can alter our lives, sometimes with consequences as unpredictable as they are terrifying. They are short stories, which keep us on edge all the time. The arguments are very original and generate surprise, intrigue and reflection, added to the fact that each story has an exceptional production quality. You may remember some episodes for many, many years, if not a lifetime.

Black Mirror - Season 3 Trailer - Netflix [HD]

3- Russian doll

Russian Doll is an American sitcom that centers on the strange story of a young woman named Nadia. The young woman attends a party in New York as the guest of honor, but a mysterious event causes her to change her life.

Nadia is trapped in time: she relives her birthday and dies at the end of the party, although she appears again, without sequels, after each death of hers. She tries to find out why she lives in that loop.

It was one of the most acclaimed series of 2019, a great success for Netflix. Shortly after its premiere it was announced that the series would continue for a second season, although two years have passed and we haven't had much news.

Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is the New Black) plays the main role of the fiction, Nadia, and is also the creator of this series.

Russian doll | Official Trailer | Netflix

4- Borgen

Borgen is a political series that chronicles the rise of the charismatic Birgitte Nyborg to the position of Prime Minister of Denmark, and evidences the influence of power in her professional and personal life.

The first season of the Netflix series tells how Nyborg, an opposition politician, idealistic and to some extent disillusioned with her country's political system, sees an area of ​​opportunity in a televised debate that becomes a turning point to change perception of voters and make it the profile closest to the people.

From the moment she becomes Minister, we will see how power and public opinion transform Brigitte into an increasingly cold-blooded political animal, to the point of sacrificing aspects of her private life, leading to divorce and firing her friends. , in order to make her government work the way she wants.

Borgen surprised critics by the way he portrayed the dynamics of the relationship between the press and political power, showing how even in the most advanced democracies, these are murky waters that are difficult to navigate.

Borgen is the common name given to Christiansborg Castle where the three powers of the Danish state are located: the Parliament, the Prime Minister's office and the Supreme Court.

Borgen Trailer

5- Narcos

Narcos is set in the 1980s in the United States, centering on drug lord Pablo Escobar and the Medellin cartel, one of the richest and most ruthless criminal organizations in modern criminal history. Based on the rise of cocaine trafficking from Colombia, all seen from the perspective of the DEA.

The series was shot in Colombia: Bogotá, Cali, Medellín and Cartagena. In the third season the objective of the DEA and the Colombian police is to try to end the Cali cartel.

6- Orange is the New Black

This Netflix hit is based on the real life experiences of Kerman, whose experience behind bars helped him write the autobiographical bestseller 'Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Women's Prison'.

The series focuses on Piper Chapman, a girl from a wealthy class who enters a women's prison because of a mistake from the past. There she meets her ex-girlfriend and her drug dealer, Alex Vause, who will jeopardize her engagement to her boyfriend Larry.

An acclaimed series that addresses issues related to prison such as the American prison system, lesbianism, sexual repression, abuse of power or police corruption.

Orange is the New Black | Official Season 7 Trailer | Netflix

7- Peaky Blinders

The main interesting fact about this smash hit from Netflix is ​​that The Peaky Blinders actually existed. They were a criminal gang that, as in the series, worked in Birmingham (England), although most of the series was recorded in Liverpool. They were also noted for their clothing, with tailored suits and flat berets. Although the gang was mainly active between 1890 and 1920, in the series its peak was after the First World War, in 1918.

It is an English historical drama television series starring Cillian Murphy and focusing on a Birmingham gangster family during the 1920s and the rise of their boss, Thomas Shelby. The series has been praised for its careful setting, its scripts and the performance of the actors and actresses that make up its cast.

David Bowie was a huge fan of the series. The musician sent the cast a copy of his latest album Blackstar. In gratitude, they sent him the iconic Shelby clan cap.

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Las 20 mejores series en Netflix Argentina

"Peaky Blinders", one of the best rated series by IMDB, available on Netflix

8- Paquita Salas

The Spanish series began as a joke video on Instagram, then made the leap to the Flooxer platform for its first season and, due to its acceptance, Netflix acquired its rights in 2017 for exclusivity in its following seasons.

It is created and directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, popularly known as the Javis, who are quite well known for the film The Call, for which they received several Goya Award nominations.

Paquita Salas was the best representative of actors in the 1990s and, although now everything has changed, she has not. When Macarena García, her best-known actress, unexpectedly leaves her, Paquita's world is turned upside down, which will make her go looking for a new talent that will put her back in the place of the profession that she deserves.

The name Paquita is related to Javier Calvo, whose full name is Francisco Javier, and Salas is for her grandmother, who also donated part of her wardrobe to the character. Brays Efe, the actor who plays Paquita, does not wear a wig when he plays Paquita Salas, he lets his hair grow long and dyes it blonde. Although he is 30 years old, he plays this 50-year-old lady.

The comedy series is recorded in the mockumentary format, more common in Anglo-Saxon media in series such as The Office and Modern Family.

Paquita Salas - Season Two Trailer | Netflix Spain

9- Fargo

Another total success. In this case, the Netflix series is based on the film of the same name, although it is not a copy of the Coen brothers' feature film, it maintains multiple elements, such as its black humor and the atmosphere of violence, which are transferred from the film. original. The film won two Oscars with no more and no less than seven nominations.

What the series is about In January 2006, Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) arrives in the town of Bemidji, Minnesota, where he wields a serious influence over insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman). It is then that Lester, moved by anger and involved in a fit of madness, murders her.

Fun fact: when the movie was shot it was Minnesota's hottest winter in 100 years, so they had to use artificial snow in many of the scenes.

Fargo (2014) Temp. #1 - Subtitled Trailer Behind The Scenes - Fargo Season 2

10. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)

British series created by and starring Monty Python. The episodes are brief and contain a succession of absurd, surreal and irreverent sketches with such surprising titles as "An introduction to the ant", "Man's identity crisis in the second half of century" or "How to recognize different types of trees from quite a distance".

With this series Monty Python became known throughout the world, who would later transfer their humor to the cinema with films such as "The Life of Brian", "The Knights of the Square Table" or "The Meaning of Life".

The first episode was scandalous. The director of BBC 1, Paul Fox, considered that they went beyond what was acceptable. The head of the artistic department of the chain called them sadistic and depraved. Entertainment guy Bill Cotton even thought there was something suicidal about the show. However, the BBC ended up giving the group its vote of confidence, over three and a half seasons, 45 episodes in total.

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The Monty Python series, one of the best rated by IMDB, available on Netflix

Monty Python got together again a few years ago to put on what was meant to be a one-time show together. Something that they reconsidered when they saw that the 20,000 tickets for sale sold out in just 43.5 seconds. Minutes after the sale closed, tickets for this show began appearing on various sites for 15 times their original cost. The comedy group thanked the reception by their fans and their intention to carry out new functions in order to satisfy the bulk of their followers.

"Monty Python's Flying Circus" celebrates 50th anniversary

11- Fauda

This series shows us the historical conflict between Israel and Palestine through the story of a former member of the Israel Defense Forces who has been retired for more than a year after ending the life of Abu Ahmad 'the Panther', one of the biggest terrorists in the area.

'Fauda' ("Chaos" in Arabic) is based on the real events experienced by its creators Avi Issacharoff and Lior Raz (also the protagonist of the fiction) while they were doing military service in the Duvdevan Unit, an elite special operations force of the State From Israel.

It is one of the great successes of Netflix although it has not been talked about as much as other series. But each passing season Fauda attracts more people and even Stephen King has recommended it as one of the best thrillers to watch on Netflix. In addition, it was selected as one of the best series of 2017 in the New York Times list.

FAUDA: ( ; ) (Chaos) Trailer Subtitled Latin Spanish - Season 1

12- Better call Saul

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"Better call Saul", one of the series best valued by IMDB, available on Netflix

We're talking about the prequel to the award-winning series Breaking Bad, set six years before Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) became Walter White's lawyer. The series is about Jimmy's transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who turns "criminal" into "criminal attorney."

Better Call Saul was initially intended as a comedy series. "We thought of it as half-hour episodes, something like Dr. Katz where Saul Goodman is in his crazy office and every week a different comedian visits him," said Vince Gilligan.

In the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, Saul erases his identity and says "at best, I'll be a Cinnabon manager in Nebraska." This is exactly how the first chapter of Better Call Saul begins: Going by the name of Gene, Jimmy runs a Cinnabon joint.

Fun fact: Lead actor Bob Odenkirk helped write some of the content for the fake bettercallsaul.com website, complete with inside jokes and references to the character.

Better Call Saul / Official Subtitled Trailer / Second Season

13- Spartacus: Blood and Sand

Spartacus stars in the story of Rome's most famous gladiator. Betrayed by his country, turned into a slave, reborn as a warrior and separated from the love of his life, Spartacus will have to fight for his survival, participating in a show, where the main entertainment is death. In a world of corruption, violence, sex and fame, he will end up intervening in politics and will live tormented by the desire for revenge.

After the first season, the announcement of the illness of Andy Whitfield, the protagonist, and the inevitable delay in the production of the second season, it was decided to develop a six-episode prequel called 'Spartacus: Gods of the Arena'. It developed the character of Gannicus (Dustin Clare).

On September 11, 2011, Andy Whitfield lost his battle with his illness, passing away at the age of 39. After an exhaustive casting, Liam McIntyre was selected to give life to Spartacus in the place of Whitfield. The actor had to gain 20 and a half kilos to transform his body into that of a true gladiator. When he went to the casting to play Spartacus, everyone agreed that he had the perfect look and attitude, but he was extremely thin.

Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Spanish Trailer

14- This is how they see us

It is a miniseries based on a real case known as the 'Central Park Five', and it was one of the great judicial injustices in American history: four African-American teenagers and one Latino who spent a decade in jail for a crime they did not commit. It exposes the deep cracks in the American judicial and police system.

It all started with a tragic coincidence. On April 19, 1989, the same night that a group of 30 young African-Americans walked through Central Park in New York, causing a ruckus and disturbing several passers-by, Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old woman who had gone jogging in the park , appeared unconscious, beaten and abused.

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"This is how they see us", one of the series best valued by IMDB, available on Netflix

The four chapters of the series show at all times the figures of the mothers and how they survived having their minor children (except Korey) isolated in a detention center, and how what began with a night with friends in a park ended with your freedom.

"This is how they see us" shows us the few economic resources that these families had to get their children out of their sentences, including the difficulties that the lack of money caused them to be able to travel to see them.

When They See Us (2019) Netflix Series Official Trailer Subtitled

15- Stranger Things

The story begins in the 1980s, in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, when a boy named Will Byers mysteriously disappears, a fact that uncovers the strange events that take place in the area, the product of a series of experiments carried out by the government in a nearby scientific laboratory

Streanger Things is an homage to the classic supernatural mysteries of the 1980s. The show was originally going to be called “Montauk” and was set to take place on Long Island in 1980, but the Duffer brothers had to change the location because it would be too difficult to shoot there. winter.

Some curiosities

The Montauk project inspired the show and was originally going to be called the series. It was a government experiment that happened in 1980, where they kidnapped children from Long Island to experiment on them.

In addition, the Duffer brothers auditioned 906 boys and 307 girls for the roles in the show. Stephen King found Millie Bobby Brown, before they cast her, King posted on Twitter about her admiration for Millie's participation in the show "Intruders". Brown's performance was inspired by ET, the brothers told him that he would basically be an Alien.

The production actually used 1,200 pounds of Epsom salt to float Eleven in the pool. And another interesting fact is that the color manager of the series added a grainy 80s filter to the camera for each “frame”, and that is what gives the series a vintage feel.

STRANGER THINGS, subtitled trailer

16- House of Cards

House of Cards is another of Neflix's biggest hits since its premiere in 2013. It is an American political drama series and tells the story of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a Democrat from the 5th congressional district of South Carolina and coordinator of the majority of the House of Representatives of the United States, who with the complicity of his calculating wife (Robin Wright), handles the strings of power in Washington with great skill.

His intention is to occupy the Secretary of State of the new government. She knows very well that the media is vital to achieve her purpose, so she decides to become the "deep throat" of the young and ambitious journalist Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara), to whom she offers exclusives to destabilize and sink her political adversaries.

Fun facts about House of Cards

The Netflix series is an adaptation of the homonymous novel by Michael Dobbs, on which a 1990 British miniseries was based, also called House of Cards, framed in the period in which Margaret Teacher was prime minister.

On the other hand, House of Cards changed the way of making television by innovating in the business, since it was the first time that a series was made to be watched online and it was done in one go during its first season and it was the first streaming series in win an Emmy.

Another interesting fact is that in this series the fourth wall is broken, the term that refers to the imaginary wall where the viewing public is, be it for television, cinema, theater; it is through which the audience sees the scenes. One of the essential marks of House of Cards is that Frank Underwood breaks the fourth wall. That is to say that he addresses the public that we observe him, and he speaks to us. Marvelous.

In 2017, the scandal that put actor Kevin Spacey in the world's sights was unleashed for being accused of sexual assault against a teenager in the first instance, then many more complaints were added. Because of that he was disaffected from the House of Cards series, with a millionaire compensation.

House of Cards | Series Trailer [HD] | Netflix

17- Vikings

Vikings is an action-drama series set in the 9th century. The plot focuses on the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, his Viking brothers and the rest of his family. The protagonist rebels to become the king of the Viking tribes. Ragnar prefers to go west, across the ocean, to discover new civilizations.

With the help of his friend Floki, Ragnar builds a fleet of ships that will help him reach the western world. Through the years Ragnar, who claims to be a direct descendant of the god Odin, continues to fight Earl until the two meet in the ultimate battle for supremacy.

The series has been shot in Ireland and in different locations in Northern Europe. A color fact: The character of Rollo is based on a real Viking named Hrolf who came to conquer parts of France, now known as Normandy (Land of the Norse).

Katherine Winnick, who plays Lagertha, is actually only fifteen years older than actor Alexander Ludwig, who plays his son Björn, while Travis Fimmel (Ragnar, Björn's father) is only thirteen years older than him.

This is related to the historical Viking culture, in which people were already considered adults from puberty.

VIKINGS Trailer subtitled Spanish

18-Modern Family

The time has come to talk about the most awarded sit-com of recent years. The series follows the lives of Jay Pritchett and his family, all of whom live in Los Angeles. Pritchett's family includes his second wife, his son, and his stepson, as well as his two adult children; the husbands and children and grandchildren of him.

Modern Family is a choral comedy about the personal relationships between three very different families with a mockumentary style, dealing with keys to relationships between relatives, eccentricity, the clash between tradition and modernity, generational distance, homosexuality, and more.

Each of the three protagonist couples has very different characteristics, from the traditional family with three children, to a gay couple, passing through the second marriage of the patriarch with a much younger woman and with other cultural ascendants that brings a small son of his previous relationship.

It won five Emmy Awards for best comedy television series in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 and was chosen best comedy television series by the Golden Globes in 2012.

Modern Family Season 11 Trailer (HD) Final Season

19- Inconceivable

This miniseries, which has been a total success on Netflix, tells the story of Marie, an 18-year-old girl who, after being raped by a stranger in her room, makes a police report, receiving a brusque and skeptical treatment from the police. of the detectives in charge of the case. After doubting the veracity of Marie Adler's story and relying on her lack of evidence, the police -even- manage to make her question whether her rape happened or not. With what they manage to silence her and admit that everything had been an invented story.

Inconceivable is a series that seeks to put in the mouth of public opinion and the media, the necessary conversation about sexual abuse and the strong reality of abuse of authority and corruption of police forces in rape cases.

The series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape." "An 18-year-old girl said she was attacked at gunpoint. She then said she made it up. That's how our story begins." With those words begins the article written by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and published in 2015 by the journalistic investigation sites ProPublica and The Marshall Project, which was eventually published in book format, and which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2016.

In Inconceivable we will also see the Emmy Award-winning actresses Grace Rasmussen and Karen Duvall, who give life to a pair of detectives who, after rape cases that coincide with the patterns of Marie Adler, decide to mount the search for the culprit.

inconceivable | Official Trailer | Netflix

20- After Life

After Life shows Tony's life after losing his wife to cancer and how he tries to deal with his loss by saying and doing everything without any kind of filter. He does it with a black, acid humor. He lives accompanied by his dog and little by little, he begins to relate to certain people who will change the course of his days.

Also, Tony is a journalist for a local newspaper and the stories he has to cover are priceless, hilarious and bizarre, unmissable. This series is one of the great gems of Netflix.

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"After Life", one of the series best valued by IMDB, available on Netflix

Who is Ricky Gervais, creator and protagonist of the series?

The actor is considered one of the most influential comedians after achieving great success in his career.

After failing in music, he went to work in radio and met Stephen Merchant, who would be his creative partner in The Office (which aired between 2001 and 2003) and was a runaway success on the small screen.

In addition, the actor was in charge of several award ceremonies such as the Golden Globes and the Oscars.

After Life (2019) Netflix Series Official Trailer Subtitled
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