Shogun, Rematch, My Lady Jane, La Mesias… Our 10 favorite international series of 2024

Carried by big names in Hollywood, emerging by surprise from platform catalogs, unearthed during festivals, foreign series have concealed many gems.

Here are ten editorial favorites, hotly debated given the quality of the offering: La Mesias, The Voice of the Lake, Little Bird, My Little Reindeer, My Lady Jane, Rematch, Ripley, Shogun, The Actor, The Penguin.

The Messiah, Arte.tv

Built back and forth over three eras, the 1980s, 1997 and 2013, this Spanish series available on Arte.tv reconstructs piece by piece the trajectory of Enric (Roger Casamajor) and his sister Irene (Maccarena Garcia), the little quarantine, undermined by loneliness, unanswered questions and the ravages of a massacred childhood. How, as children, they grew up faster than their mother, a woman too young, too beautiful, too party-loving, too broken-down, who sold her body to feed them.

Overcome by an equally crazy desire for redemption, this progenitor passed…