Items12The 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. 4Weeds (2005)Weeds (2005) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 7 Aug 2005Nancy's marijuana business gives her another way to keep a suburban household going while making ordinary parenting explanations harder to sustain. Weeds finds comedy in the overlap between respectable local networks and an expanding criminal enterprise. Pick it for an initially domestic double…0
  5. 5Breaking 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
  6. 6Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007)Secret Diary of a Call Girl (2007) 7.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 Sept 2007Hannah keeps her work as Belle separate from the account of herself known to family and friends. Secret Diary of a Call Girl makes that separation involve appointments, emotional boundaries and what intimacy means when different people know different names. Choose it for a frank adult drama with a…0
  7. 7Hannah 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
  8. 8Dexter (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
  9. 9The 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
  10. 10The 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