Top HBO Miniseries to Watch Out For

 

HBO TV Network is home to numerous original TV series that people have thoroughly enjoyed. Some of them have also won awards and garnered positive responses from the fans and critics. The platform offers an opportunity to choose between different genres from crime dramas to period dramas to psychological thriller and so on.

Here is a list of HBO miniseries that you definitely should not miss.

Band of Brothers

Released on – 9th September 2001

Number of Episodes – 10

IMDb Rating – 9.4 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 94%

This American war drama series is based on a book by Stephen E Ambrose of the same name. This is the second partnership between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks as producers after the Second World War series, Saving Private Ryan. The series documents the accounts of ‘Easy Company’, the second part of Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, assigned to the United States army.

The series stars Damian Lewis, as Major Richard Dick Winters, Ron Livingston as Lewis Nixon, Scott Grimes as a technical sergeant, Donald Malarkey and Donnie Wahlberg as Second Lieutenant Carwood Lipton. 

Catherine The Great

Released on – 3rd October 2019

Number of Episodes – 4

IMDb Rating – 6.1  / 10

Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 68%

Catherine The Great is about the life of Russia’s Empress, Catherine II from the time she started reigning 1764 till her death in 1796. Helen Mirren stars as Catherine the Great along with Jason Clarke as Grigory Potemkin, a military commander and Catherine’s lover.  It also stars Rory Kinnear, Gina McKee and Kevin R McNally.

Years and Years

Released on – 14th May, 2019

Number of Episodes – 6

IMDb Rating – 8.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 89%

It is a British drama series about a Manchester-based Lyons family and their conflicts. The series stars Russel Tovey as Daniel Lyons, Rory Kinnear as Stephen Lyons, T’Nia Miller as Celeste Bisme Lyons who plays the role of Stephen’s wife. The plot changes when Vivienne Rook, played by Emma Thompson, becomes the Prime Minister of the UK.

Chernobyl

Released on – 6th May, 2019

Number of Episodes – 5

IMDb Rating – 9.4 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 96%

Chernobyl is a historical drama series, written and created by Craig Mazin, which revolves around the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster that took place in April 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. It stars Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Paul Ritter and Jessie Buckley.

The miniseries received high critical acclaim and won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited Series, Outstanding Directing and Outstanding Writing.

The Plot Against America

Released on – 16th March 2020

Number of Episodes – 6

IMDb Rating – 7.3 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 86%

It is an American historical drama written and created by David Simons and Ed Burns. The miniseries is based on a book by Philip Roth of the same name which highlights the American history told through the eyes of a Jewish working class family based in Newark, New Jersey. The series stars Winona Ryder, Anthony Boyle, Zoe Kazan, Modern Spector, Michael Kostroff and David Krumholtz.

John Adams

Released on – 16th March 2008

Number of Episodes – 7

IMDb Rating – 8.5 / 10

Rotten Tomatoes Rating – 81%

The show chronicles most of the life of the US President John Adams in the first 50 years which stars Paul Giamatti as the lead protagonist. It was directed by Tom Hooper and it also stars Laura Linney, Stephen Dillane, David Morse and Tom Wilkinson.

The show has received thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards making it the most number of awards won by any miniseries.

HBO has produced a number of outstanding shows and attracted a vast fandom. Most of the originals have gained positive responses from the fans and critics and have been the recipient of prestigious television awards.

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