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The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade

#TV #Sitcoms #Drama #International If streaming was the television story of the decade, then close behind was the explosion of global content that came to American screens to help fill all that new bandwidth. Shows suddenly appeared from all over the world, most noticeably financed or acquired by Netflix but also flooding in through a myriad of other streaming services and cable networks. Americans  will  read subtitles, it turns out. (I’d prefer to think no one’s choosing the dubbed English soundtracks.) The world is a big place, with a lot of production companies, and on any given day in 2019 there were likely to be more international shows premiering in America than American-made shows. Over the years I’ve tried to sample as much of that bounty as I could, from cozy British mysteries to florid Asian soap operas and everything in between. I’ve distilled all those hours into this list of my top 30 international shows of the last decade, full of glaring omissions which you’r