Culture, and television in particularly in Europe has been quite America-dominated for a while. I'd love to hear what's good from your home countries. If I can make a request, give a short description of the shows that you are recommending, try to sell it a bit, and don't just post the titles. Particularly, I'd recommend:

Matador (Danish, 1978)

This is the best TV series in the history of Denmark, possibly the world. Set in a small fictional town, it takes place in the years 1929-1947, and the changes Danish society goes through at the time. While this is interesting, the real strength is the fantastic characterization, with the show starring pretty much all famous Danish actors of the era, doing their best work.

Whiskey on the Rocks (Swedish, 2025)

A Swedish satirical series about the Whiskey on the Rocks incident of 1981, where a Soviet Whiskey-class nuclear submarine ran aground in Karlskrona. It got a lot of criticism for depicting the Soviet Union as lovable drunken buffoons instead of brutal imperialists, but I found it pretty funny regardless.

Braunschlag (Austria, 2011)

Another comedy. The mayor of the upper Austrian village of Braunschlag ran the town bankruptcy. In order to get some money flowing back into the town, he decides to fake a Marian apparition. The series is generally very Austrian, but fantastic if you like that sort of thing.

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ZeroZeroZero (2020)

🇮🇹 Drug crime, thriller, action-adventure

One of my favourites, it manages to intertwine several stories and locations quite nicely.

ZeroZeroZero follows the journey of a cocaine shipment, from the moment a powerful Italian cartel buys it, to its packaging in Mexico and shipment across the Atlantic. The journey is followed until final delivery and payment in Europe. At the same time, it sparks an epic power struggle throughout the chain, from local dealers to the most powerful boss in the hierarchy of international organised crime.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/92137-zerozerozero

The Day of the Jackal (2024)

🇬🇧 Action-adventure, thriller, spy, hitman

Super thrilling, every single episode had something going on and it had great characters all around.

An unequalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living by committing murders at the highest rate. But after his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who begins tracking the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse game across Europe, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/222766-the-day-of-the-jackal

Au Service de la France / A Very Secret Service (2015)

🇫🇷 Comedy, spy, cold war

Typical French humour, I really loved it. Easy to watch and I felt it made use of the spirit of 1960s France quite elegantly.

Paris 1960. 23-year-old André Merlaux is proud to join the French secret service - the best in the world. Under the strict supervision of his superior Moïse, André is trained by three elite agents to carry out the most delicate missions. He could become the best of the best, but he falls in love with the wrong person.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/64249-au-service-de-la-france

Kleo (2022)

🇩🇪 Comedy, spy, cold war

Great characters and I feel they mimicked the period style very well.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former East German spy resolves to find out who betrayed her and why — and use her lethal skills to exact revenge.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/206010-kleo

Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter / Generation War (2013)

🇩🇪 War (WWII), drama

I thought this series is rather unique, because it shows the war from a German perspective and on a human scale, focusing on the individuals rather than the action.

Wilhelm, his younger brother Friedhelm, Charlotte, Viktor and Greta say goodbye in Berlin in the summer of 1941, promising to see each other again after the war. They do not know how long the war will last, let alone to what extent the unfathomable experiences, hardships and horrors will change them.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/46849-unsere-mutter-unsere-vater

Eigen Kweek / Home Grown (2013)

🇧🇪 Comedy, drug crime

This one is mostly for a Dutch speaking audience I think, it has typical Flemish humour and lovely characters.

Home Grown tells the story of the Welvaert family, a family of sympathetic potato farmers from Heuvelland. Jos and Ria have two sons, Frank and Steven, who, to Jos' frustration, show no interest whatsoever in growing potatoes. And then there is Geoffrey, a distant cousin they raised as their own son after his father was killed.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/61519-eigen-kweek

After Life (2019)

🇬🇧 Dark comedy, drama

I think a lot of people know this one, full of dark British humour.

Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.

https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/79410-after-life

I advice you to always watch comedies (or preferably any series) in their original language with subtitles