US: The Wire

Australia: Lano & Woodley

It’s only funny to Aussies and has a specific kind of humour, but I get very patriotic over it

Israel: HaPijamot (literally: The Pajamas). It’s a sitcom for kids (but really more for their parents IMO) about a mediocre band that’s trying to make it big in Tel Aviv. The show often breaks the fourth wall in a way that’s really hard for me to explain. It’s kind of like a mockumentary, but it plays with it a lot. For example, there’s a “white screen” sometimes where the cast pauses the show to explain something to the audience. It’s clearly an abstract place that doesn’t canonically exist in the world. But occasionally it plays a role in the plot, e.g. a character goes there to hide from everyone else, or someone would abuse the system and activate the white screen to get out of a sticky situation.

The original premise of the band quickly becomes secondary, it’s just a great show with excellent writing and a great cast. It even has a few spin-offs, including a great one where the fast food shop owner becomes a detective.

I think you may have triggered a rewatch for me, it’s been years since I last saw it!

Germany: Der Tatortreiniger (or: The Crime Scene Cleaner) is about about someone who, well, cleans up after somebody died. While this job is most often portrayed from the side of organised crime the protagonist Schotty is just your average guy with a weird job. Most episodes start out with him having some preexisting notions and he encounters someone who challenges them. The first episode it’s a sexworker, the third is a over the top gay man who, after they are forced to spend some time together, starts making much more sense to Schotty by challenging his stereotypical boomer mentality. In other instances, for example when he encounters the most comically on brand group of Nazis, he stands his ground. Really good show, especially when you consider how fucking woke it is for being produced in 2013!

In Finland: ”Queen of fucking everything”

US: Everything by Mike Judge is gold, so for a live action show its indisputably Silicon Valley. Personal fave sci-fi was Babylon 5. Out of animation - Pantheon.

Germany, but limited to comedy (cause I don’t really watch any shows, but if I do then it’s comedy):

• Stromberg - a German office show, focused on just one department with an absolute dickhead for a boss. But the worker characters are great too.
• Pastewka - a series of the actor/comedian Bastian Pastewka where he basically plays himself in his private life. Often compared to Curb Your Enthusiasm, but while there are similarities it’s a totally different character IMO.
• jerks - basically the title, two friends who are jerks. They’re often getting into awkward situations and try to resolve them with lies and brazenness.

I love them all three, hard to pick one as the best. Probably Stromberg.

Umbre . Romanian HBO production about a mob enforcer that’s trying to keep his family and job separate. Pretty good and should be decently easy to find with English subtitles.

Not from South Korea but my favorite show on all of tv is “Chef vs My Fridge”

2 guests give their order to 8 chefs and 2 of them cook for only 15 minutes to fulfill that order. However, they may only use what is in that guest’s fridge/pantry. So sometimes it’s a lot of good ingredients, sometimes hardly anything to cook with.

It’s so funny. Each chef has their own character and I love how they converse with each other. It’s hard to pick a favorite since they are all so different (but Namno is the best). It’s the only show (next to taskmaster) that I wait impatiently for it’s release each week.

Canada: The Kids in the Hall.

But there are a few I really like. Orphan Black, Letterkenny, Shorzy, Littlest Hobo, SCTV, Fraggle Rock, Schitt’s Creek, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High (not the newer ones with Drake), The Red Green Show, Reboot, Transformers: Beast Wars (or as it was known here just “Beasties”) Street Cents, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Mr. Dressup…really hard to just pick one.

Italy: I’d probably say “Boris”, a satirical comedy series about italy’s television industry, similar to Seth Rogen’s “the studio”.

Kaamelott is a good French short format comedie series. Most of the humor is based on puns, word plays and quiproquo, it would be absolutely impossible to translate and it wouldn’t be funny to anyone who isn’t absolutely fluent in French. No need to thank me for this useless recommendation.

USA:

Umm…

Currently going through Star Trek: Lower Decks and enjoying it. Borrowing the discs from a friend.

From Greece, To Nisi (The Island) is the best I’ve seen. It’s about an island where they used to move people with leprosy.

Eteros Ego (The Other Me) is supposed to be one of the best but haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. It’s a crime show that’s a sequel to the movie with the same name. The movie is on YouTube with English subs.

From Australia, and I don’t know about “best”, but one I’m watching and enjoying at the moment is Deadloch