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House(2004-2012)

44min per episode | Drama, Mystery
4.3/5 (with 3,016 votes)

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

The Knick(2014-2015)

1h per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 199 votes)

Set in downtown New York in 1900, 'The Knick' is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. John Thackery is a brilliant surgeon pioneering new methods in the field, despite his secret addiction to cocaine. He leads a team of doctors including his protégé Dr. Everett Gallinger; the young Dr. Bertie Chickering Jr. and Dr. Algernon Edwards, a promising surgeon who's been recently thrust upon him. The lively cast of characters at the hospital also includes Cornelia Robertson, the daughter of its benefactor, Captain August Robertson; surly ambulance driver Tom Cleary; Lucy Elkins; a fresh-faced nurse from the country; the crooked hospital administrator Herman Barrow; and Sister Harriet, a nun who isn't afraid to speak her mind.

Nurse Jackie(2009-2015)

30min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 90 votes)

Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.

The Book of Daniel(2006)

1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Rev. Daniel Webster, an unconventional Episcopalian priest who not only believes in Jesus, but actually sees him and discusses life with him, is challenged on many levels as he struggles to be a good husband, father and minister, while navigating an often rocky relationship with the church hierarchy.

Patrick Melrose(2018)

1h per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 112 votes)

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

A Young Doctor's Notebook(2012-2013)

23min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 72 votes)

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.

Beforeigners(2019-2022)

50min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 110 votes)

In the near future a new phenomenon starts happening all over the world with powerful flashes of light occurring in the ocean and people from the past mysteriously reappearing. Called "beforeigners," these people come from three separate time periods: the Stone Age, the Viking era and late 19th century. A couple of years later, Alfhildr – who comes from the Viking Age – has to partner up with a burned-out police officer, Lars Haaland, to investigate the murder of a beforeigner. The pair begins to unravel a larger conspiracy behind the origin of the mysterious mass arrivals.

The North Water(2021)

50min per episode | Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 53 votes)

Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s doctor. Hoping to escape the horrors of his past, Sumner finds himself on an ill-fated journey with a murderous psychopath. In search of redemption, his story becomes a harsh struggle for survival in the Arctic wasteland.

The First(2018)

46min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 38 votes)

Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.

Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows(2001)

3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Chronicles the life of Judy Garland, from her first public performance in 1924 until her death.

The Trade(2018-)

52min per episode | Documentary, Crime
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A visceral, rarely-seen look into the personal stories of those most affected by ongoing national emergencies.

How to Fix a Drug Scandal(2020)

50min per episode | Documentary, Crime
3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

The four-part docuseries revolves around Amherst, Massachusetts, drug lab chemist Sonja Farak who became addicted to the narcotics she was supposed to be testing. In covering her tracks, Farak falsified thousands of results and opened the door to overturning hundreds of wrongful convictions.

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Return(2018)

31min per episode | Mystery, Drama
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

As a mysterious corpse gets found in the middle of nowhere, four upper-class individuals emerge as suspects.

Louis Theroux: Dark States(2017)

1h per episode | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Louis Theroux visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis in each - heroin addiction, sex trafficking and murder.

Early Swallows(2019-2020)

40min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 6 votes)

The series revolves around the lives of Ukrainian teenagers in a secondary school class. The teenagers struggle with bullying, including the Blue Whale Challenge, lack of parental support, suicidal behavior, LGBT identity crises-a subject that is rarely portrayed on Ukrainian television-alcoholic parents, and speech disabilities. In one of the show's main plot lines, the main characters are stalked on the Internet by an anonymous person who pretends to be their friend.

With Darya Trehubova, Olesia Zhurakivska, Polina Nosykhina, Maksym Samchyk, Oleksandr Rudynskyi, Taisiia-Oksana Shchuruk, ...

The Drug Years(2006)

1h per episode | Documentary

A documentary about drugs and their influence in the second half of the 20th century.

Historier fra en politistation(2000)

13h 46min per episode | Documentary, Crime
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

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Dopesick Nation(2018-)

44min per episode | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV

Recovering addicts Frankie and Allie take on the heroin epidemic by working to save as many addicts as possible.

Kentucky Ayahuasca(2018-)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Follow shaman Steve Hupp, as he works with people seeking healing from severe emotional and physical issues.