Top 15 in quarantine: Things to watch
After a day of working from home or perhaps looking after the kids, it’s nice to be able to put the laptop away, put the kids to bed and relax in front of the TV.
With so many different platforms available, it can sometimes be quite tricky finding something to watch! You spend more time flicking through programmes, series and films, than actually watching the TV!
So, we thought we’d ask the team at Kinetic for some recommendations and here’s the list.
1) Vikings - Amazon Prime
Introducing the extraordinarily complex and violent world of the Norsemen, The History Channel’s first scripted series races the gripping sagas of historical hero Ragnar LothBrok. As claimed direct descendent of Odin, god of wars and warriors, Lothbrok’s mystical nature and devotion to the gods feeds his stealthy maneuvers and determination to become King of the Vikings.
2) New Amsterdam - Amazon Prime
Inspired by a real medical director’s experience at he oldest public hospital in America, this emotionally gripping medical drama follows the brilliant charming Dr. Max Goodwin.
3) Liar - ITV Hub
Laura Nielson, a teacher in the middle of a breakup, is set up on a date with widowed surgeon Andrew Earlham. However, the day after it is apparent that something has gone wrong, and the subsequent fallout spirals out of control.
4) Line of Duty - BBC iPlayer
A drama about the investigations of AC-12, a controversial police anticorruption unit.
5) The Office (US) - Amazon Prime
The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series that depicts the everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
6) House MD - Amazon Prime
House is an innovative take on the medical drama in which the villain is a medical malady and the hero is a irreverent, controversial doctors who trusts no one, least of all his patients.
7) Killing Eve - BBC iPlayer
Killing Eve topples the typical spy-action thriller as two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
8) Contagion - BBC Four
Hannah Fry leads a nationwide experiment to help plan for the next deadly flu pandemic, which could happen at any time. How many will it kill? What can we do about it?
9) Crunchyroll
Watch popular anime, manga and dorama series.
10) Hidden - BBC iPlayer
From Bangor, overlooking the churning waters of the Menai Straits, to the abandoned quarries of Llanberis, this is a landscape DCI Cadi John knows well. A world she never expected to return to. Drawn back for personal reasons - the faltering health of her beloved father - Cadi finds herself policing the precinct and people of her youth.
11) Ozark - Netflix
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
12) Better Call Saul - Netflix
This Emmy-nominated prequel to "Breaking Bad" follows small-time attorney Jimmy McGill as he transforms into morally challenged lawyer Saul Goodman.
13) Live concerts
NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
14) Tiger King - Netflix
A zoo owner spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of big cat breeding.
15) Quiz - ITV
The extraordinary and sensational story of how Charles and Diana Ingram attempted an 'audacious heist' on the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Get that popcorn and enjoy your watch!
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