Top 10 current TV shows about the 80s that you need to watch right now
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Coming in at #10 is This is Us.
Technically, it only partially takes place in the 80s, but it came out the gate as a huge success and really does a great job of portraying the 80s lifestyle in the flashbacks.
#9 on the list is REDOAKS.
This series tells the story of a young tennis player who works at the prestigious and exclusive Red Oaks Country Club during the summer between his sophomore and junior years of college in the 1980s. Red Oaks is a comedy web television series by Amazon Studios.
At #8, we have NARCOS.
Season 1 chronicles the life of Pablo Escobar from the late 1970s, when he first began manufacturing cocaine, and continues on to July 1992. Narcos tells the true-life story of the growth and spread of drug cartels selling cocaine across the globe and pursuing efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict. You can catch the current seasons in their entirety on NETFLIX.
Our #7 pick Deutschland 83 Might catch some off-guard.
It is an eight-episode German television series starring Jonas Nay as a 24-year-old native of East Germany who in 1983 is sent to the West as an undercover spy for the foreign intelligence agency of the Stasi called the HVA.
#6 is The Americans.
This is an American 80s period drama television series created by Joe Weisberg for the FX television network. Set in the early 1980s during the Cold War, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings. They are two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple living in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. along with their children Paige and Henry and their neighbor Stan Beeman, an FBI agent who works in counterintelligence. The 10 episode, sixth and final season is slated to air in 2018.
Our pick at #5 is “Snowfall”
This crime drama from John Singleton explores the origins of the Los Angeles 1980s crack epidemic and it premiered July 5th on FX. Set in 1983 Los Angeles, the series revolves around the first crack epidemic and its impact on the culture of the city.
The series follows the stories of several characters whose lives are doomed to intersect. They are a 19-year-old drug dealer, a Mexican luchador, a CIA operative, and the daughter of a Mexican crime boss.
And #4 is “GLOW”
This Netflix comedy tells the lightly fictionalized story of the wemen who starred in the cult-hit all-female pro wrestling TV show GLOW that aired for four seasons in the 80s.
Set in Los Angeles in 1985, Ruth Wilder, a struggling actress, auditions along with dozens of other women in a fledgling professional wrestling promotion called the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. She is at odds with GLOW’s director Sam Sylvia due to her tendency to overact. When Ruth’s best friend, former soap opera actress Debbie Eagan, arrives at the ring, their confrontation promises to either make or break the show.
AT #3 we have “Halt and Catch Fire”This cult hit AMC series is Set in the 1980s, and dramatizes the personal computing boom through the eyes of a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy whose innovations directly confront the corporate behemoths of the time.
The #2 spot goes to “The Goldbergs”
A show based on its creator’s childhood, “The Goldbergs,” is set in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1980s. The show leans hard on the decade’s most awkward elements, like tracksuits and hideous matching outfits. The Goldbergs is an American sitcom that premiered on Tuesday, September 24, 2013 on ABC. It is based on Goldberg’s childhood and family in the 1980s, complete with a childhood version of himself. The fourth season premiered on September 21st, 2016 and In May 2017, ABC renewed the series for a fifth and sixth season.
And the #1 PICK..Stranger Things
Set in 1980s Indiana, science fiction/horror-thriller “Stranger Things” plays on many cultural elements of the decade, such as Stephen King novels and Spielberg films like “E.T.” In Hawkins, Indiana, a young boy vanishes into thin air while cycling home one night. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, monsters and one very strange little girl. This is must watch TV.
Stranger Things will be returning for season two on October 27 on Netflix.