Items11The creator’s order
  1. 1Lodge 49 (2018)Lodge 49 (2018) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 6 Aug 2018A drifting former surfer finds companionship and hints of alchemy in a shabby fraternal lodge. Its imagination lives in plumbing supplies, unemployment and people hoping their lives contain a pattern. The small audience never matched the affection it inspired; two seasons leave mysteries open, but…0
  2. 2The Lost Room (2006)The Lost Room (2006) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 11 Dec 2006Ordinary objects from a vanished motel room acquire impossible properties, and a detective's search becomes entangled with people who want to organise or worship them. The pleasure is tactile: a key, a comb or a bus ticket changes what somebody can do. This compact miniseries supplies a central…0
  3. 3The Booth at the End (2011)The Booth at the End (2011) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 11 Jul 2011People ask a man in a diner for what they most want, and he gives them disturbing tasks to perform. Almost everything unfolds through conversation, making imagination and moral bargaining do the work usually assigned to effects. Choose it for the unsettling gap between a technically fulfilled wish…0
  4. 4Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015)Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 May 2015Two very different magicians bring practical magic back into English public life, with scholarly caution and appetite for discovery pulling against each other. The seven-part adaptation makes books, bargains and professional jealousy feel consequential. It is a more substantial discovery than its…0
  5. 5The Fades (2011)The Fades (2011) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 21 Sept 2011A teenager sees dead people who cannot move on, and their predicament develops into a conflict about neglect and the desire to return. Friendship and awkward adolescence stop the supernatural mythology becoming an abstract exercise. Its BAFTA-winning six-episode run is a striking dark-fantasy…0
  6. 6The Almighty Johnsons (2011)The Almighty Johnsons (2011) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 8 Feb 2011Norse gods survive as members of an ordinary New Zealand family, with unreliable powers and very human failings. The fun comes from the indignity of carrying mythic responsibility into sibling arguments and everyday relationships. Its rough-edged adult comedy makes a useful change from solemn lore,…0
  7. 7Being Human (2009)Being Human (2009) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 25 Jan 2009The original British series makes a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost share a home and attempt a workable daily life. The household arrangement gives supernatural rules emotional consequences before the mythology expands. It has an established cult following, but remains a rewarding discovery for…0
  8. 8Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016)Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 22 Oct 2016The 2016 American adaptation treats apparently unrelated people, objects and disasters as parts of one bizarre design. Its pleasure is surrendering to an eccentric ensemble before the connections become legible. This is a colourful, high-energy alternative to solemn fantasy, with two season-level…0
  9. 9Dead Boy Detectives (2024)Dead Boy Detectives (2024) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 25 Apr 2024Two teenage ghosts turn the business of avoiding the afterlife into work helping other troubled spirits. Its strongest fantasy is practical and local: each supernatural case reveals a different kind of unfinished attachment. The 2024 series belongs to The Sandman screen world but offers a…0
  10. 10Gormenghast (2000)Gormenghast (2000) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Jan 2000A vast castle society obeys ceremonies whose purpose has been buried under repetition, while a kitchen boy learns how to exploit its hierarchy. The elaborate sets and grotesque performances make ritual itself feel like a fantastic system. This older four-part adaptation is a deliberate detour for…0