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9 Series To Binge Watch This Ramadan
We have already posted Your Official Guide To This Year’s Ramadan Mousalsals but because we care so much about extending your TV series knowledge and comprehension, here’s another list of series to tune in to so that the long hours of fasting become a little bit more entertaining!
Note: Series like Grey’s Anatomy and Game of Thrones were abstained from being mentioned because we know all of you guys already have them practically memorized.
1. Big Little Lies
Based on the best-selling novel Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, narrated by three mothers, Jane, Celeste, and Madeline, this TV series tells the stories of murder and mischief in the beachfront town of Monterey, California.
Get your fix of romanticized relationships that shatter the image of perfect marriages, friendships, and families starring the prominent, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley.
2. Master of None
This comedy was created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang roughly based on Ansari’s real-life experiences. Ansari plays the role of Dev, a New-York based actor struggling to find his life’s purpose. The series features previews of Dev’s younger self with being young and single in the city, and it’s guaranteed to make your laugh the hours away until Eftar.
3. Black-ish
Dre Johnson has all of life’s perks, a beautiful wife, four healthy kids, a high-paying job, big house in a fancy neighborhood. But when his kids start to stray from their ethnicity, he begins to question if the easy life he has provided for his family has diverged them from their culture.
Taking on a hilarious flair, he calls in the help of his father to try to reinforce his family’s African American identity while also preparing them for life’s hardships.
4. Billions
In the mood for an obnoxious portrayal of wealth, dramatic encounters, and some extremely good-looking people? Well, Billions got you covered with their intense drama set in New York.
Attorney Chuck Rhoades and Hedge-fund king Bobby Axelrod engage in a battle over billions, each man exerting his power, money, and influence to outsmart the other in this legal fight.
5. Riverdale
Remember the Archie comics? Well, they have finally come to life in this crime and thriller TV series.
Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead are still the same characters – physically and characteristically – you’ve come to love, but are placed in a Riverdale that is not quite like the comics. Murder and crime strikes the town, and with love triangles, legal battles, and conspiracy plans brewing, Riverdale takes on an exciting turn for the dramatic.
6. Empire
Whether it’s Cookie’s fierceness or Lucious’ conniving ways, the Lyons will always keep you on your feet waiting for the next wild thing to happen.
Lucious heads Empire Entertainment ruling ruthlessly, and never taking no for an answer, until his wife and co-Founder of Empire, Cookie who took the fall for a drug operation that helped finance the start of the company, gets released from jail after 17 years, she gives Lucious a good run for his money.
With Cookie and Lucious as co-CEOs, Andre, their eldest son, as CFO, and Hakeem and Jamal, their other sons, as talented and prominent artists of the label, the Lyons are among the most powerful musical families in the country, but also with the most treacheries, problems and secrets. I mean come on, we live for this type of drama!
7. The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the 1985 dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, is a story set in a Gilead, a totalitarian society in what previously was the United States of America. After fertility drops to devastatingly low rates, a certain group of powerful people take control of the country in a desperate attempt to “fix” the devastated situation. When they succeed, they base the rules of Gilead on the Old Testament. This new regime treats women as the property of powerful commanders to serve as handmaids to provide children for their barren wives.
This series highlights one particular woman’s life, Offred, who is determined to live regardless of her disturbing reality in hopes to find her daughter, who was taken from her while she was attempting to cross the border with her family to seek refuge in Canada.
Other than being terrifyingly similar to events happening around our world nowadays, The Handmaid’s Tale gives you just the right amount of disturbance, romance, and thrill, to have you glued to the screen every single second of the episode.
8. Scandal
This is another Shonda Rhimes thriller about the life of a US President and Olivia Pope, a “fixer” and his mistress. With the involvement of a top secret US intelligence agency committing all sorts of atrocities, betrayal and blood are inevitable with much more going on than meets the eye. Almost too much, so much so that we had to take emotional breaks while watching.
9. The Royals
Based on the United Kingdom royal family, with really nothing in common except the Buckingham Palace. Queen Helena can pass for a 20-year-old model, her wardrobe contains mostly of bondage dresses and she occasionally slums it up with flings with the Palace staff. Princess Eleanor is the ultimate party girl keeping the paparazzi busy and entertained, and her twin brother, Prince Liam is a playboy who takes advantage of his title and his good-looks to charm the pants off half the country’s female population.
However, all that takes a dark turn when King Simon and Prince Robert, the heir to the throne, die. With Liam next in throne, the Palace dynamics are changed forever.
Note: Series like Grey’s Anatomy and Game of Thrones were abstained from being mentioned because we know all of you guys already have them practically memorized.
1. Big Little Lies
Based on the best-selling novel Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, narrated by three mothers, Jane, Celeste, and Madeline, this TV series tells the stories of murder and mischief in the beachfront town of Monterey, California.
Get your fix of romanticized relationships that shatter the image of perfect marriages, friendships, and families starring the prominent, Nicole Kidman, and Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley.
2. Master of None
This comedy was created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang roughly based on Ansari’s real-life experiences. Ansari plays the role of Dev, a New-York based actor struggling to find his life’s purpose. The series features previews of Dev’s younger self with being young and single in the city, and it’s guaranteed to make your laugh the hours away until Eftar.
3. Black-ish
Dre Johnson has all of life’s perks, a beautiful wife, four healthy kids, a high-paying job, big house in a fancy neighborhood. But when his kids start to stray from their ethnicity, he begins to question if the easy life he has provided for his family has diverged them from their culture.
Taking on a hilarious flair, he calls in the help of his father to try to reinforce his family’s African American identity while also preparing them for life’s hardships.
4. Billions
In the mood for an obnoxious portrayal of wealth, dramatic encounters, and some extremely good-looking people? Well, Billions got you covered with their intense drama set in New York.
Attorney Chuck Rhoades and Hedge-fund king Bobby Axelrod engage in a battle over billions, each man exerting his power, money, and influence to outsmart the other in this legal fight.
5. Riverdale
Remember the Archie comics? Well, they have finally come to life in this crime and thriller TV series.
Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead are still the same characters – physically and characteristically – you’ve come to love, but are placed in a Riverdale that is not quite like the comics. Murder and crime strikes the town, and with love triangles, legal battles, and conspiracy plans brewing, Riverdale takes on an exciting turn for the dramatic.
6. Empire
Whether it’s Cookie’s fierceness or Lucious’ conniving ways, the Lyons will always keep you on your feet waiting for the next wild thing to happen.
Lucious heads Empire Entertainment ruling ruthlessly, and never taking no for an answer, until his wife and co-Founder of Empire, Cookie who took the fall for a drug operation that helped finance the start of the company, gets released from jail after 17 years, she gives Lucious a good run for his money.
With Cookie and Lucious as co-CEOs, Andre, their eldest son, as CFO, and Hakeem and Jamal, their other sons, as talented and prominent artists of the label, the Lyons are among the most powerful musical families in the country, but also with the most treacheries, problems and secrets. I mean come on, we live for this type of drama!
7. The Handmaid’s Tale
The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the 1985 dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, is a story set in a Gilead, a totalitarian society in what previously was the United States of America. After fertility drops to devastatingly low rates, a certain group of powerful people take control of the country in a desperate attempt to “fix” the devastated situation. When they succeed, they base the rules of Gilead on the Old Testament. This new regime treats women as the property of powerful commanders to serve as handmaids to provide children for their barren wives.
This series highlights one particular woman’s life, Offred, who is determined to live regardless of her disturbing reality in hopes to find her daughter, who was taken from her while she was attempting to cross the border with her family to seek refuge in Canada.
Other than being terrifyingly similar to events happening around our world nowadays, The Handmaid’s Tale gives you just the right amount of disturbance, romance, and thrill, to have you glued to the screen every single second of the episode.
8. Scandal
This is another Shonda Rhimes thriller about the life of a US President and Olivia Pope, a “fixer” and his mistress. With the involvement of a top secret US intelligence agency committing all sorts of atrocities, betrayal and blood are inevitable with much more going on than meets the eye. Almost too much, so much so that we had to take emotional breaks while watching.
9. The Royals
Based on the United Kingdom royal family, with really nothing in common except the Buckingham Palace. Queen Helena can pass for a 20-year-old model, her wardrobe contains mostly of bondage dresses and she occasionally slums it up with flings with the Palace staff. Princess Eleanor is the ultimate party girl keeping the paparazzi busy and entertained, and her twin brother, Prince Liam is a playboy who takes advantage of his title and his good-looks to charm the pants off half the country’s female population.
However, all that takes a dark turn when King Simon and Prince Robert, the heir to the throne, die. With Liam next in throne, the Palace dynamics are changed forever.
