itt: non-english-language netflix series you recommend (or not) and commentary thereon

it isn't on Netflix but I am gonna use this as a catch-all for non-english language series on streaming services ... would love to hear other ilxors recommendations, reviews, etc .

I just finished watching all 7 years of A French Village (occupied France during and after WW2)-- it's really good imo and relevant to current events in terms of Occupation and tactics and repression as well as history stuff.

Features Thierry Godard and Audrey F from Engranages

also has communists and communists having meetings! And passive-aggressively calling each other Comrade

Currently watching Furies on Netflix — a dumb John Wick-esque show about a woman, "the Fury," who is in charge of enforcing the bylaws of the French underworld, murdering gangsters who step out of line in order to preserve the balance of power between the six big gangster families who run Paris, or whatever. Could just as easily have posted this in my international-violent-action-trash thread. It's only eight episodes but each one feels as long as a Bela Tarr movie.

Danish prison drama Prisoner (with Sofie Gråbøl) on BBC iPlayer is excellent.

Really enjoying Prisoner, thanks for the recommendation

Started watching Hidden Theories (portugal) and I am somewhat confused about how banks work there

as posted on the other streaming thread, I started watching the Korean ad agency drama AGENCY on Netflix, and it hits a similar sweet spot as my other recent Korean fave STRANGER while being completely different. Two episodes in and it's already extremely twisty with a couple thoroughly despicable male agency execs engaging in a Succession-type war against the female lead. She's similar to one of the two leads in Stranger (Cho Seung-woo as Si-mok) in that the trauma of her childhood has informed her superficial coldness and callousness, which leads to those around her misunderstanding and underestimating her. Absolutely soapy OTT kinda stuff, I love it so far.

Spymaster on iPlayer is familiar but not. it's another cold war spy drama set in the 70s with all the necessary retro fashions but this one is Romanian (and German and Russian and American)

(a joint Hungarian Romanian production based on the credits)

Parlement seems to be the Euro version of The Thick of It… anyone else seen it?

No, never heard of it! downloading now..

Fourth and final series of My Brilliant Friend now streaming. Loving every minute of it so far, the new actresses are great and the script is as sharp as ever.

Divided We Stand — Germans investigating Stasi crimes post-unification… a bit Tatort-ish in terms of odd couple detectives (i have watched a half dozen Tatorts btw) … similar era to Kleo which was v awesome

I think Culinary Class Wars got some discussion on the other streaming thread. am on the last-but-one episode. very fascinated by how Edward Lee gets treated, though as a total outsider I don't know if my assumptions are correct.