Mr. Robot (2015-9)

Mr Robot was a little inconsistent in the middle two seasons, but the final season delivered a highly satisfying ending. Even when the story line got a bit too confusing, the show could still drop a powerful, cathartic, euphoric episode. It started out as an avant garde show about hacktivism, a thematically relevant topic for our times. But the show became much more than that. At its heart it was an introspective character study of a troubled man dealing with mental illness. It delivered twists abound, even at the end when you thought this was it. The music supervisor nailed it every episode. The cinematography created the most stylish stills on cable. Sam Esmail's extraordinary vision was brought to life by a brilliant Rami Malek, one of the only Middle Eastern leading men on TV. Some notable episiodes:

• eps3.7_dont-delete-me.ko when Elliot contemplates suicide
• eps3.4_runtime-error.r00 is the single shot episode
• 407 Proxy Authentication Required is the 5 acts theatrical drama

The Wife (2017)

Glenn Close is divine in a role that will finally win her an Oscar. Her quiet composure is so powerful. The story is simple yet brilliant and the execution is excellent. The narcissistic novelist Joe Castleman has won the Nobel Prize in Literature and he brings his son and wife Joan to Stockholm. Close's performance manages to capture decades of marriage in her performance. Glenn Close's daughter plays younger Joan allowing us to see how their relationship developed.  The allegation is that Joe's novels were actually written by Joan. How dramatic is that?