Baby Reindeer and 4 Other Best TV Series of 2024 With High Rotten Tomatoes Score
A story about multiverses, a show about the complexity of relationships and trauma, and a large-scale post-apocalyptic project.
The year 2024 is coming to an end, and streaming has already released many multi-episode projects that are sure to please fans of different genres.
It will be up to you to decide which of these five standout projects is the most interesting series of 2024, but there are certainly plenty to choose from.
1. Fallout, 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
A nuclear war broke out on Earth, destroying about 90% of humanity. Those who were able to escape took refuge in bunkers created by the Vault-Tec Corporation. Lucy spent her youth in one of these vaults, number 33.
She was supposed to marry an inhabitant of a neighboring bunker, but they were attacked by raiders from the surface, who killed many inhabitants and took Lucy's father with them. Then the girl decides to go to the wasteland – the outside world inhabited by a few survivors – to find her father. But this is a very cruel place where there are no laws.
2. Baby Reindeer, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99%
Unsuccessful stand-up comedian Donny performs at festivals and dreams of fame, but the public doesn't like him very much. So the man has to live with his ex-girlfriend's mother and work part-time in a London bar.
One day, the strange but charming Martha comes into the establishment. Donny and Martha start talking, and soon the woman is sitting in the bar all day. Then she writes endless letters. And then she starts stalking Donny, demanding that he be only with her.
3. The Penguin, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%
The assassination of Carmine Falcone leaves Gotham's criminal underworld leader vacant. It seems that his brother Alberto should take it, but he is too rude to Oswald Cobb and the latter shoots his interlocutor in the head. Now Oz tries to cover up the crime.
Meanwhile, Sofia Falcone is released from Arkham Asylum – a very businesslike woman who will avenge her brother. Her main rival, Salvatore Maroni, is doing business right from prison. Oz must somehow negotiate with all of them, increase his influence, and avoid getting killed.
4. Dark Matter, 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%
Jason could have become an outstanding scientist, but he chose teaching and a happy life with his wife and son, although he sometimes thinks about the career he missed. One day Jason is kidnapped by his double from a parallel world: there he became a famous physicist and invented a way to travel to different universes.
And the scientist did all this to take the place of his counterpart in the family he could not create. Now the fake Jason is getting used to his wife and son, and the "original," together with his new acquaintance, is looking for a way to return home.
5. Shogun, 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99%
In 1600, a Dutch ship washes up on the shores of Japan – the captain has long since committed suicide, and the crew is starving.
The survivors are captured by Lord Yoshii Toranaga, and soon English navigator John Blackthorne reveals the truth to the locals: the Portuguese, who had contact with Japan, considered the country their colony and hid it from other European countries. Toranaga decides that Blackthorne can be useful in his confrontation with other clans fighting for power.