Best of 2025

 

Música/Music

1 – Molly Leach, Winter

2 – Emma Ruth Rundle, Music from the Bella Vista

3 – Max Richter . Louisa Fuller . Max Ruisi, Sleep Circle

4 – Max Richter, Hamnet

5 – Vox Clamantis . Arvo Part, And I Heard A Voice

6 – Goldmund, Layers of Afternoon

7 – Sophie Hutchings, Become The Sky

8 – Alex Kozobolis, Asymmetry

9 – Patricio Fraile, My Eternal Summer

10 – Tokyo Ambient Collective, Winter Ambience

11 – The Delines, Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom

12 – Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey from a Winter Stone

13 – Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells

14 – Cicada, Glazing the Shades of White

15 – Alexander Stratonov, West of East

16 – Evgeny Grinko, Winter Moonlight

17 – Patrik Berg Almskvisth, Life Above 

18 – Jacob Alon, In Limerence

19 – Emma Swift, The Resurrection Game

20 – Marc Ribot, Map of a Blue City

 

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Filmes/Movies

1 – I'm still here, Walter Salles

2 – Laguna, Sharunas Bartas

3 – Image of a mother, Hiroshi Shimizu

4 – Souleymane´s Story, Boris Lojkine

5 – Small Things Like These, Tim Mielants

6 – Sirât, Oliver Laxe

7 – Lavagante/Lobster, Mário Barroso

8 – Love Life, Kôji Fukada

9 – A Complete Unknown, James Mangold

10 – After The Hunt, Luca Guadagnino

11 – Springsteen: deliver me from nowhere, Scott Cooper

12 – Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor

13 – Flow, Gints Zilbalodis

14 – The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, Mahommad Rasoulof

15 – Nouvelle Vague, Richard Linklater

 

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Séries/Series

1 – Task

2 – The White Lotus 3

3 – The Pitt

4 – Adolescence

5 –Dexter Resurrection

6 – Pluribus

7 – Severance 2

Best of 2024

 

Música/Music

1 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Opus

2 - Max Richter, In a Landscape

3 - V/A, Winter Vol. 2 (Bigo & Twigetti)

4 - Roger Eno, The Skies Rarities

5 - Eddie Gale, Ghetto Music

6 - The Declining Winter, Last April

7 - Yuki Murata, 24 Piano Sketches

8 - Marika Takeuchi, Wandering Notes

9 - Arooj Aftab, Night Reign

10 - Otto A. Totland, Exin

11 - Sofi Paez, Silent Stories

12 - Tim Linghaus, Asche und Magnolien

13 - Dalton Alexander, Almost Home If I’m Still Alive

14 - Lavinia Meijer, Winter

15 - Hollie Kenniff, For Forever

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Filmes/Movies

1 – Past Lives, Celine Song

2 – About dry grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

3 – All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia

4 – Opus, Neo Sora

5 – Joker Folie A Deux, Todd Phillips

6 – Juror # 2, Clint Eastwood

7 – Conclave, Edward Berger

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Séries/Series

1 – Fauda

2 – Shōgun

3 – Ripley

4 – Disclaimer

5 – True Detective - Night Country

Best of 2023

 

Música/Music

1 - Antonymes, The Gramophone Suite

2 - Sergio Díaz De Rojas, Muerte en una tarde de verano

3 - Alexander Stratonov, Bucha: Final Destination Original Soundtrack

4 - Tujiko Noriko, Crépuscule i & ii

5 - Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile in Winter Light

6 - Hollie Kenniff, We All Have Places That We Miss

7 - Anna Salzmann & Garreth Broke - Healing

8 - Gia Margaret, Romantic Piano

9 - Balmorhea, Pendant World

10 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, 12

11 - Rosa Anschütz, Goldener Strom

12 - Mary Lattimore, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada

13 - Hara Alonso, Notions of Hope

14 - Alex Kozobolis,The Seasons Are Not Four

15 - Roger Eno, Scoring Berlin, The Skies, They Shift Like Chords

16 - Tomo-Nakaguchi, The Long Night

17 - Silent Noise Revolution, Icarus Tapes #2

18 - Mary Lattimore, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada

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Filmes/Movies

1 - Aftersun, Charlotte Wells

2 - Close, Lukas Dhont

3 - Killers of the Flower Moon, Martin Scorsese

4 - Old Oak, Ken Loach

5 - Vortex, Gaspar Noé

6 - The Box, Lorenzo Vigas

7 - The Whale, Darren Aronofsky

8 - The beasts, Rodrigo Sorogoyen

9 - All Quiet On The Western Front, Edward Berger

10 - No Bears, Jafar Panahi

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Séries/Series

1 – Love & Death

2 - Succession

3 - Stranger Things (S4)

4 - Peaky Blinders

5 - Rabo de peixe

Best of 2022

 

Música/Music

1 – Vanessa Wagner, Study of The Invisible

2 – Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett, Christina Vantzou, Michael Harrison and John Also Bennett

3 – Fiona Brice, Piano Preludes

4 – Gold Alabaster, DePlume International

5 – Roger Eno, Rarities

6 – Max Richter, The New Four Seasons

7 – Sarah Davachi, Two Sisters

8 – Víkingur Ólafsson, From Afar

9 – Hatis Noit, Aura

10 – Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Ravage

11 – Marisa Anderson, Still, Here

12 – Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes, There's no knowing

13 – Esmerine, Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More

14 – Jim Perkins, Immersed In Clouds

15 – Kinbrae & Clare Archibald, Birl of Unmap

16 – Jaco Benckhuijsen, Man in het Wild

17 – Angel Olsen, Big Time

18 – Corey Fuller, Richard Skelton, Isolarii

19 – Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice, To Live & Die In Space & Time

20 – Peter Broderick - Piano Works Vol. 1

21 – Madeleine, Cocolas Spectral

22 – Bugge Wesseltoft, Be Am

23 – Grotta Veterano & Francis Gri, Soolo

24 – Soccer Committee,  Soccer Committee

25 – LEITER, Piano Day Compilation Vol. 1

26 – Tom Rogerson, Retreat to Bliss

27 – Conor C. Ellis, Dreamless

28 – Bruno Bavota & Chantal Acda, A Closer Distance

29 – Kalia Vandever, Regrowth

30 – Anne Garner, Dear Unknown

31 – Erland Cooper & Shards, Egilsay

32 – Robert Haigh, Human Remains

33 – Beachcomber, Relics

34 – The Delines, The Sea Drift

35 – Yuki Murata, Sunny Spot Story

36 – The Weather Station, How Is It That I Should At The Stars

37 – Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola, Open

38 – Katarina Gryvul, Tysha

39 – Bill Callahan, YTILAER

40 – Jean-Michel Blais,  Aubades

 

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Filmes/Movies

1 – Just 6.5, Saeed Roustayi

2 – A Hero, Asghar Farhadi

3 – Accattone, Pier Paolo Pasolini,

4 – The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal

5 – Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson

6 – Alcarràs, Carla Simón

7 – Petite Maman, Céline Sciamma

8 – Compartment nº 6, Juho Kuosmanen

9 – Shiro Takatani: Between nature and technology, Giulio Boato

10 – Lovers, Nicole Garcia

11 – Hit the Road, Panah Panahi

12 – The Closer, Dave Chappelle

13 – Wife of a Spy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa

14 – A Sun, Mong-Hong Chung

15 – Onoda 10 000 Nights in the Jungle, Arthur Harari

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Series/Séries

1 – Severance

2 – My Brilliant Friend (S3)

3 – Tehran (S1, S2)

4 – Tudo Menos Clássica

5 – The White Lotus (S2)

6 – Black Bird

7 – Cycle Around Japan

8 – Amazing Train Journeys

9 – Putin New Empire

10 – House of the Dragon

11 – The Bear

12 – Dexter: New Blood

 

Best of 2021

 

MUSIC/MÚSICA

1 – Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra, Promises

2 – Anushka Chkheidze, Eto Gelashvili, Hayk Karoyi, Robert Lippok, Glacier Music II

3 – Ben Seretan, Cicada Waves

4 – Marianne Faithfull and Warren Ellis, She Walks In Beauty

5 – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Carnage

6 – Arooj Aftab, Vulture Prince

7 – Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet, Sydney Dance Company, Impermanence​/​Disintegration

8 – James Osland, Almond Drive

9 – Spheruleus, Canvas Homes + Supplémentaires

10 – Nik Bartsch, Entendre

11 – A Winged Victory for the Sullen, Invisible Cities

12 – Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog

13 – Dustin O‘Halloran – Silfur

14 – Peter Gregson, Patina

15 – Hauschka with Rob Petit and Robert Macfarlane, Upstream

16 – Haiku Salut, The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

17 – Nils Frahm, Graz

18 – Lorenzo Masotto, i=r

19 – Mirla, Solitaire

20 – Tony Dupé, Margaret Hammett Lived

21 – Christine Ott, Time to Die

22 – Sven Laux, Scattered Fragments of Separation (the complete story)

23 – Enrico Coniglio & Stefano Guzzetti, Lost & Found

24 – Mike Lazarev, Out of Time

25 – Francisco Sonur, Morning Trials

26 – Samuel Sharp, Patterns Various

27 – Alexander Hawkins, Togetherness Music

28 – Origamibiro, Miscellany

29 – Deniz Cuylan, No Such Thing As Free Will

30 – Permanent Vacation, A Love Song for Everyone

31 – The Westerlies & Conrad Tao, Ricolage

32 – Laura Cannell & Kate Ellis with Adrian Crowley, Milène Larsson & Chris Watson, October Sounds

33 – Observatories, Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come

34 – Bigo & Twigetti, Consonance

35 – Sarah Neufeld, Detritus

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MOVIES/FILMES

1 – Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

2 – Babenco: Tell Me When I Die, Bárbara Paz

3 – Three Floors, Nanni Moretti

4 – The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion

5 – The Father, Florian Zeller

6 – Time, Garrett Bradley

7 – Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar

8 – The Last Forest, Luiz Bolognesi

9 – Nomadland, Chloé Zao

10 – Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg

11 – The hand of God, Paolo Sorrentino

12 – Colectiv, Alexander Nanau

13 – Prayers For The Stolen, Tatiana Huezo Sánchez

14 – The Things We Say, The Things We Do, Emmanuel Mouret

15 – The Cry Macho, Clint Eastwood

16 – The Swallows of Kabul, Zabou Breitman and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec

17 – Postman’s White Nights, Andrei Konchalovsky

18 – Gentle Breath, Augusto Sandino

19 – The Macaluso Sisters, Emma Dante

20 – Playground, Laura Wandel

21 – Supernova, Harry Macqueen

22 – Berlin Alexanderplatz, Burhan Qurbani

23 – Pebbles, Vinothraj PS

24 – State Funeral, Sergei Loznitsa

25 – Passing, Rebecca Hall

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SERIES/SÉRIES

1 – Mare of Easttown

2 – Scenes from a Marriage

3 – The White Lotus

4 – Nine Perfect Strangers

5 – Little Fires Everywhere

6 – The Miniaturist

7 – De Gaulle, brilliance and secrecy

8 – Criminal

9 – Lupin

10 – Exit

 

Best of 2020

MUSIC/MÚSICA

 

1 – Ēriks Ešenvalds/Ethan Sperry/Portland State University Choir, Translations

2 – Goldmund, The Time It Takes

3 – The Hamrahlíð Choir, Come and Be Joyful

4 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Idiot Prayer

5 – Sylvain Chauveau, Life Without Machines

6 – Leya, Flood Dream

7 – Still Life, For A Long Time I Went To Bed Early

8 – Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Epicycle II

9 – Bohren & Der Club Of Gore, Patchouli Blue

10 – The Alvaret Ensemble, Ea

11 – Library Tapes, The Quiet City

12 – Ian William Craig, Red Sun Through Smoke

13 – Daniel Knox, Half Heart Songs from Twin Peaks

14 – Max Richter, Voices

15 – William Ryan Fritch, Solidum

16 – Stray Ghost, White Rose

17 – Endless Melancholy, A Perception Of Everything 

18 – Sophie Hutchings, Scattered On the Wind

19 – Sam Rosenthal & Projekt Artists, Tim, Where Are You Now?

20 – Mary Lattimore, Silver Ladders

21 – Stray Ghost, If I Could Cross the Space to You

22 – Julianna Barwick, Healing Is a Miracle

23 – Alex Kozobolis, Miniatures for Miriam Goldschmidt

21 – Francesco Giannico, Destroyed by Madness

22 – Levi Patel, A Shifting Lightness

23 – Julien Libeer, Bach - Bartok

24 – Kate Lindsey, Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen, Ariana

25 – Flica, Tapsskog

26 – Kjartan Sveinsson, The Last Farm

27 – Broads and Milly Hirst, Ollust

28 – Adam Balusik, Presah

29 – Claudio F. Baroni, The Body Imitates the Landscape

30 – Aswekeepsearching, Sleep

 

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MOVIES/FILMES

 

1 – Capharnaüm, Nadine Labaki

2 – A Vida Invisível, Karim Aïnouz 

3 – J’Accuse, Roman Polanski

4 – There Is No Evil, Mohammad Rasoulof

5 – 1917, Sam Mendes

6 – Dronningen, May el-Toukhy

7 – Roubaix, une lumière, Arnaud Desplechin

8 – Undine, Christian Petzold

9 – Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma 

10 – Le sel des Larmes, Philippe Garrel

11 – Martin Eden, Pietro Marcello.

12 – Gabriel e a Montanha, Fellipe Barbosa

13 – First Cow, Kelly Reichardt

14– Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Eliza Hittman

15 – La Camarista, Lila Avilés

16 – Casa Grande, Fellipe Barbosa

17 – Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee

18 – La Trinchera Infinita, Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño, Jose Mari Goenaga 

19 – Kajillionaire, Miranda July

20 – O que arde, Oliver Laxe

 

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SERIES/SÉRIES

 

1 – My Brilliant Friend (season 2)

2 – Normal People

3 – Unorthodox

4 – I Know This Much Is True

5 – La Peste (season 1, 2)

6 – The Queen's Gambit

7 – ZeroZeroZero

8 – The Undoing

9 – Patria

10 – Stateless

11 – We Are Who We Are

12 – Why Women Kill

13 – Tales from Loop

14 – The Spy

15 – Homeland (season 8)

16 – The Plot Against America

17 – The Driver

18 – La Casa de Papel (season 4)

19 – Truste Me (season 1, 2)

20 – The Outsider

 

Best of 2019

MUSIC/MÚSICA

1. Bill Ryder-Jones, Yawny Yawn

2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Ghosteen

3. Beth Gibbons & The Polish National Radio Symphony, Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 

4. Angélica Salvi, Phantone

5. Bill Callahan, Shepherd in A Sheepskin Vest

6. Devendra Banhart, Ma 

7. A Winged Victory for the Sullen, The Undivided Five

8. William Ryan Fritch, Exit 12

9. William Ryan Fritch, Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film Volume I & II 

10. Sontag Shogun, It Billows Up

11. The Dwindlers, Beautiful Unfamiliar

12. Leonard Cohen, Thanks for The Dance

13. Eluvium, Pianoworks 

14. Hammock, Silencia

15. Emanuele Errante, This World

16. Leo Svirsky, River Without Banks 

17. Olga Wojciechowska, Infinite Distance

18. Anoice, Ghost in the Clocks

19. Anton Belov, Piano Works II

20. Ironomi, Kotonoha

21. Alex Kozobolis, Somewhere Else

22. Aukai, Reminiscence 

23. Jacob Pavek, Nome 

24. The Caretaker, Everywhere at the end of time/everywhere, an empty bliss

25. Trio Ramberget, Musik att somna till

26. Rayons, Sagrada Reset

27. Jónsi And Alex Somers, Lost and Found

28. Kryshe, Hauch

29. Joep Beving, Henosis

30. Areni Agbabian, Bloom

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MOVIES/FILMES

1. Come and See, Elem Klimov

2. Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif Kechiche

3. Joker, Todd Phillips 

4. Nuestro Tiempo, Carlos Reygadas 

5. Parasite, Joon-ho Bong 

6. Foxtrot, Samuel Maoz 

7. Transit, Christian Petzold 

8. At Eternity's Gate, Julian Schnabel 

9. Beast, Michael Pearce 

10. Jia Zhang-ke, Walter Salles 

11. Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-ke 

12. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino 

13. The Wild Pear Tree, Nuri Bilge Ceylan 

14. Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho/Juliano Dornelles 

15. Beanpole, Kantemir Balagov

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SERIES/SÉRIES

1. Stranger Things (season 3)

2. When They See Us

3. Chernobyl

4. Unbelievable

5. Fleabag (season 2)

6. Years and Years

7. Sex Education

8. Catherine The Great 

9. Leaving Neverland

10. Game of Thrones (season 8)

Best of 2018

MUSIC/MÚSICA

1 – Exit North, Book of Romance and Dust

2 – The Saxophones, Songs Of The Saxophones

3 – Ian Hawgood and Danny Norbury, Faintly Recollected

4 – Swoop And Cross, Stories Of Disintegration

5 – Library, Tapes Patterns (Repeat)

6 – Grouper, Grid Of Points

7 – Bruno Sanfilippo, Unity

8 – Fabrizio Paterlini, Winter Stories

9 – Kaada, Closing Statements

10 – Richard Luke, Voz

11 – Rachel Grimes, The Doctor From India

12 – Goldmund, Occasus

13 – Federico Albanese, By the Deep Sea

14 – Jameson Nathan Jones, Sanctuary Sessions

15 – Tim Shiel, Glowing Pains: Music From The Gardens Between

16 – Anton Belov, Piano Works I 

17 – Christina Vantzou, No. 4

18 – Spindle Ensemble, BEA

19 – Federico Durand, Pequeñas Melodías

20 – Hour, Tiny Houses

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MOVIES/FILMES

1 – First Reformed, Paul Schrader

2 – Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino

3 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh

4 – BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee

5 – L'amant d'un Jour, Philippe Garrel

6 – Mudbound, Dee Rees

7 – Roma,  Alfonso Cuarón

8 – Western, Valeska Grisebach

9 –The Florida Project, Sean Baker

10 – Dogman, Matteo Garrone

11 – The Tale, Jennifer Fox

12 – Las Acacias, Pablo Giorgelli

13 – Everybody Knows, Asghar Farhadi

14 – Loveless, Andrey Zvyagintsev

15 – Como Nossos Pais, Laís Bodanzky

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SERIES/SÉRIES

1 – La Casa de Papel (1,2)

2 – My Brilliant Friend

3 – Here and Now

4 – Elite

5 – American Crime Story (1,2)

6 – Sharp Objects

7 – Deep State

8 – Bodyguard

9 – Homecoming

10 – Homeland (7)

11 – The Walking Dead (7)

12 – 13 Reasons Why

13 – Safe

14 – The Handmaid’s Tale (2)

15 – Escape at Dannemora

Best of 2017

MUSIC/MÚSICA

1.       Matthew Bourne, Isotach

2.       Kid Koala, Fallaway (feat. Emiliana Torrini)

3.       Bing and Ruth, No Home Of The Mind

4.       Jarvis Cocker And Chilly Gonzales, Room 29

5.       Jozef Van Wissem, Nobody Living Can Ever Make Me Turn Back

6.       Minor Victories, Orchestral Variations

7.       Esmerine, Mechanics Of Dominion

8.       Sophie Hutchings, Yonder

9.       Max Richter, Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works

10.   Alex Tiuniaev, Beautiful Little Songs for Piano

11.   Nicholas Britell, Moonlight

12.   Ryuichi Sakamoto, Async

13.   Alex Kozobolis, Weightless

14.   From the Mouth of the Sun, Hymn Binding

15.   Mica Levi, Jackie

16.   Water Music, Starland

17.   Peter Silberman, Impermanence

18.   Wataru Sato, Midnight Solitude

19.   Melodium, Proxima (for piano)

20.   CEEYS, Concrete Fields

21.   Lend me your underbelly, Campfire Ballads

22.   Robert Haigh, Creatures of The Deep

23.   Mount Eerie, A Crow Looked At Me

24.   High Plains, Cinderland

25.   Max Ananyev, The Way to the Ocean

26.   Hand Habits, Wildly Idle (Humble Before The Void)

27.   Various Artists, The Exquisite Corpse

28.   Adrian Lane, Playing With Ghosts

29.   Christoph Berg Henning Schmiedt, Bei

30.   Allred & Broderick, Find The Ways

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MOVIES/FILMES

1.       I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach

2.       Manchester By The Sea, Kenneth Lonergan

3.       Little Men, Ira Sachs

4.       Moonlight, Barry Jenkins

5.       Silence, Martin Scorsese

6.       Forushande, Asghar Farhadi

7.       Good Time, Benny and Josh Safdie

8.       The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra

9.       Wonder Wheel, Woody Allen

10.   Jackie, Pablo Larrain

11.   Ma´Rosa, Brillante Mendoza

12.   The Lost City of Z, James Gray

13.   São Jorge, Marco Martins

14.   Icarus, Bryan Fogel

15.   Una, Benedict Andrews

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SERIES/SÉRIES

1.       Big Little Lies

2.       Godless

3.       Fear The Walking Dead (3)

4.       The Deuce

5.       The Handmaid’s Tale

6.       Game of Thrones (7)

7.       The AO

8.       Ozark

9.       Homeland (6)

10.   Apple Tree Yard

11.   Fargo (3)

12.   The State

13.   Mindhunter

14.   The Walking Dead (6)

15.   Divorce

16.   National Tressure

17.   Prision Break (5)

18.   The Affair (3)

19.   Alias Grace

20.   Dark