Items10The creator’s order
  1. 1Severance (2022)Severance (2022) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Feb 2022The severed workers at Lumon do not just hide a second life: each side is prevented from remembering the other. Severance turns the separation itself into an institution with rules and thresholds. Start here for the most literal version of incompatible identities, where a decision made by one self…0
  2. 2The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 16 Mar 2017Midge's life as a comedian creates late hours, public material and ambitions that do not fit the respectable domestic role expected of her. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel makes that mismatch useful long before everybody understands what she is doing. Choose it for a lively version of managing different…0
  3. 3Barry (2018)Barry (2018) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 25 Mar 2018Barry wants the companionship and possibility he finds in an acting class without bringing his work as a hitman into the room. The attempts to separate those worlds make rehearsals, jobs and relationships increasingly difficult to schedule around one another. Choose it for dark comedy that becomes…0
  4. 4Breaking Bad (2008)Breaking Bad (2008) 9.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Jan 2008Walter White's teaching and family life provide both an explanation for his movements and obstacles to the criminal identity he is constructing. Breaking Bad makes a missed call, an unexplained absence or a change in manner a practical threat to the separation. Choose it for the slow destruction of…0
  5. 5Hannah Montana (2006)Hannah Montana (2006) 5.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 24 Mar 2006Miley's pop-star identity lets the same teenager experience school and celebrity without every classmate knowing they are connected. Hannah Montana makes near-discoveries, conflicting commitments and improvised explanations into bright family sitcom plots. Choose it as the playful, knowingly…0
  6. 6Dexter (2006)Dexter (2006) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Oct 2006Dexter's forensic job and carefully performed social routine give him a place inside ordinary life while he conceals being a serial killer. The original Dexter makes access, timing and the expectations of colleagues and family part of that concealment. Choose it for a macabre crime drama where…0
  7. 7The Americans (2013)The Americans (2013) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 30 Jan 2013Philip and Elizabeth's suburban household has school concerns, neighbours and an intelligence operation running through the same timetable. The Americans makes maintaining their marriage cover inseparable from the real relationships they develop inside it. Pick it for the most sustained account of…0
  8. 8The Riches (2007)The Riches (2007) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 12 Mar 2007A travelling con-artist family take over a wealthy household's identity and have to improvise the social knowledge that would make it believable. The Riches turns the whole family into participants in the same unstable performance. Choose it for class comedy and crime drama in which adopting a name…0
  9. 9Mr. Robot (2015)Mr. Robot (2015) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 24 Jun 2015Elliot works in cybersecurity while participating in an underground hacking campaign that cannot comfortably coexist with his day job. Mr. Robot makes the division difficult because his access and skills connect the two worlds. Choose it for a psychologically intense thriller in which explanations…0
  10. 10Your Friends & Neighbors (2025)Your Friends & Neighbors (2025) 7.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 10 Apr 2025Andrew Cooper tries to retain an apparently respectable place among affluent neighbours while stealing from the world he still wants to inhabit. Your Friends & Neighbors makes the same social access useful to both lives and dangerous to their separation. Choose it for a double identity built from…0