What to Watch This Weekend: 10 Best Miniseries of 2024

This series tops our weekend miniseries list for a reason: Some film critics consider Ripley to be one of the best book adaptations in cinematic history. This time, Patricia Highsmith’s novel has gone truly dark: if you like thrillers, you’ll definitely appreciate the mood and tone of the film.

Technically, Shogun shouldn’t have made our 2024 miniseries rankings. It was only meant to be a one-season series (FX ordered 10 episodes), but the show received such good reviews that Shogun was renewed for two more seasons. However, you can only watch the first one — it seems pretty complete and tells the story of English navigator John Blackthorne, who ends up in Japan at the height of the civil wars and makes a dizzying career there.

There’s also a melodrama in our 2024 miniseries picks: Never has a movie remake gotten as much attention as “One Day”! Based on the same book as the 2011 romantic comedy of the same name starring Anne Hathaway, the series follows the decades-long love affair between Em and Dex, who meet on the same day every year.

The “Ted” franchise is back, but this time not on the big screen, but on streaming services and in the form of a weekend miniseries. The series follows the early lives of a sentient teddy bear named Ted, 16-year-old John Bennett, and his family. If you liked the feature film, then this series will not leave you indifferent.

This new 2024 miniseries is special: Fawn is one of Netflix’s most talked about premieres. This story of stalking, codependency, psychological and sexual abuse is based on true events and tells the complex relationship between bartender and aspiring comedian Donnie Dunn and the bar owner Martha Scott who stalks him.

Of course, we couldn’t help but include Cristobal Balenciaga in our 2024 miniseries recommendations! The title speaks for itself: this spectacular six-part film tells the story of the iconic fashion designer, who has been creating clothes since he was 12 years old. If you like carefully thought-out shots, gorgeous interiors, and beautiful images, be sure to pay attention to this show!

Our ranking of mini-series 2024 is not without science fiction: the film adaptation of the trilogy “Remembrance of the Past of the Earth” by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin begins with several mysteries at once. A wave of suicides of talented physicists sweeps the world, the surviving scientists begin to see a countdown, and some of them receive packages containing a virtual reality headset 100 years superior to modern technology and an invitation to play the game “The Three -Body Problem.

Do you like action movies? Then we know for sure what you should definitely watch on the weekend of 2024: it’s the miniseries “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” It follows two agents who have to pretend to be their spouses during a mission. The situation is complicated by the fact that “John” and “Jane” begin to feel a sincere sympathy for each other.

In New York in the 1980s, a nine-year-old boy, Edgar, goes missing. His grieving father Vincent, a puppeteer and creator of a popular children’s television show, finds his son’s drawings and the monster depicted in them, named Eric, becomes the man’s imaginary friend. Every day, Vincent’s behavior becomes more strange and dangerous and begins to frighten not only his loved ones, but also the detectives who are looking for the boy.

This new 2024 miniseries tells the story of drug lord Griselda Blanco, the most famous woman in the history of the drug trade. The only thing she wants is to become a “godmother”, and we can only watch what price the main character will have to pay for it.

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