If you’re looking to fill up your free time this Ramadan with some TV shows, here are a few I’ve recently watched and liked. They’re fairly new so hopefully you haven’t watched them yet.
After Life
If you’re a fan of Ricky Gervais then you’re gonna love this show. It’s not funny in the same way his other stuff is funny since the subject matter of After Life is a bit sad and serious. This show actually reminded me of how when Louis C.K. came out with Horace and Pete which was also had a dramatic and serious subject with humor injected into it. After Life is available to watch on Netflix.
Black Monday
I’m a sucker for any show based in the 80s so when a friend told me about Black Monday I knew I had to watch it. The show is based around the big stock market crash of the 80s, but it’s a comedy and not a true life depiction of the actual events that took place. Black Monday has an all-star cast that includes some favorite actors of mine including Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells (from GIRLS), Paul Scheer (from VEEP), and Ken Marino (from Party Down and Burning Love). It’s a Showtime series so it’s not available on the usual Amazon Video, Netflix, Hulu or HBO streaming services, but Showtime do offer a free trial subscription which you could use to binge watch the show.
Huge in France
I found out about the comedian Gad Elmaleh around a year ago from a Moroccan friend who was surprised I hadn’t heard of him. Gad is also Moroccan and is a super popular comedian in France. He released a stand-up special on Netflix called American Dream which was his first stand-up in English and it was hilarious. Now he has a new series on Netflix called Huge in France in which he plays himself, a super popular French comedian who moves to the US where nobody knows or cares who he is. A really funny show and very easy to get into.
Love, Death & Robots
This show caught me by surprise since I started watching it because of the name without knowing what the show was about. It turned out to be so good that I binged watched the whole season in just one seating. It wasn’t that hard to do since the episodes are fairly short, around 10 or 15 minutes long. Love, Death & Robots is an animation where every episode is a different animation style and a different story line not connected to the previous episode. Some episodes are extremely violent and gory while others aren’t at all so it’s difficult to recommend the show for everyone since it would be sort of a Russian roulette of gore, nudity and violence. A good litmus test would be watching the first episode, if you can get through it then you can handle the rest of the episodes. This show is available on Netflix.
You
Finally, this show was my least favorite on this list (and it’s also the oldest one), but it’s one of those shows you dislike but yet can’t stop watching. The show is about a guy who gets obsessed with this girl and uses the internet and social media to stalk her. It has a pretty high rating of 7.8 on IMDB which is surprising since although I couldn’t stop watching it, I wouldn’t have given it that high of a score. You is also available to watch on Netflix.
Have any other new show you’d recommend? Let me know in the comments.
Update: Just watched the first episode of the new HBO mini-series Chernobyl. It’s sooo good!
21 replies on “TV Shows to Watch this Ramadan”
Line of Duty, Killing Eve, The Affair, Fargo
“New” shows
OA dude, OA!
new season counts 😉
lol if thats the case then Veep, Billions, Barry, Game of Thrones, The Good Fight are all worth watching now.
Free time should be spent reading Quraan … doing charity not wasting time watching series 😏
+1000
on special days it’s +1000 x 50
how did you have the time to post this?
Ramy on Hulu — hilarious and well done.
The Act on Hulu — based on a true story, a little dark but good.
Russian Doll on Netflix — I wasn’t into it but Talal likes it.
Broad City on Hulu — not new but final season is getting ready to be released.
Squeeze in a little reading and doing good stuff in between, too. (I really need an eye roll emoji)
My brother called Russian Doll the best show he’s ever watched or something, no idea why I didn’t like it.
Broad City final season already came out and finished. Was disappointing, except for maybe the last couple of episodes. It felt like they had run out of ideas honestly which explains why the show ended.
Hey Mark,
Probably a lot to ask, but any chance you’ll be updating that list of restaurants that deliver during Ramadan before fotoor? Most restaurants are delivering at around 4ish which sucks.
#sinner
In process https://twitter.com/mark248am/status/1125429770144104449
I’m trying to get it done asap but it’s a lot of numbers to call and most have automated machines i have to listen to before getting hold of an operator, some numbers no longer work so need to find new ones and sometimes nobody picks up. Plus need to find new restaurants to add!
Oh wait just realized you’re talking about early delivery! I’ll probably do that one next week, on Carriage today for example I think only 2 restaurants were delivering early. Usually takes people a few days to get their act straight so i’ll have a more accurate list next week.
Thanks Mark!!
This is my favorite post of the year probably. 😂😂😂
Love, Death + Robots was an interesting idea for a show, but some episodes really didn’t work for me. You was actually better in some ways compared to the original novel (maybe give the novel a try sometime?)
Is after life uncensored in Kuwait? It is very very good, and I can’t stand Ricky Gervais!
yes netflix in general is uncensored. please dont give them the idea to do so
Dead to Me on Netflix. Hilarious and a good story that unravels a bit more every episode.
I added it last night to my list but kinda feel it’s gonna be cheesy
Surprisingly it’s not. The writing is really good. There are a lot of emotions in each episode.