Check them out below:

Billions

The world of high finance is the setting for this machiavellian tale of hedge fund titan Bobby Axelrod (Damien Lewis) who is locked in a dangerous and escalating game of cat and mouse with US Attorney Chuck Rhodes (Paul Giamatti). The premise is simple, Axelrod, better known as Axe, wants to make as much money as possible. Rhodes wants to put him away for doing it, citing a long list of financial fraud and conspiracy charges. If you love intriguing, almost dangerous dramas then Billions makes for a terrific watch and throw in some amazing supporting characters including Axe’s wife, Lara (Malin Akerman), a calculating Lady MacBeth type, and Rhodes wife Wendy (Maggie Siff), a self-possessed alpha professional who’s willing to go to any length to get the job done, along with the hyper-intelligent and ambitious Taylor Amber Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) and you’ve got the setting for a terrific show. Billions has everything you could want out of a television show, and it’s all money!

Ray Donovan

When it comes to crime dramas they rarely get this personal, but the phenomenal and brooding Ray Donovan is an almost Shakespearean level drama that pulls no punches. Focusing in on professional fixer Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber), who leads a complicated life using an array of illegal and unethical ways to make sure the clients for the legal firm he works for get their way. Making things even more stressful for Ray is the fact that his personal life is an utter mess and you’ve got the setting and backdrop for a powerful character study. Schreiber is fantastic in the role of Ray and really gets to pull out his considerable acting depth in this incredible portrait of a complex man living a dangerous and difficult life. With 8 seasons to binge, Ray Donovan will hold your attention very nicely.

Game of Thrones

It’s regarded as one of the greatest achievements of long form television in the last decade, and if it’s been a while since you last watched Game of Thrones you might want to take the time to check it out once again. With it’s memorable characters including dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), heroic outcast Jon Snow (Kit Harington), ferocious lioness Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey), conflicted knight Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and the clever and calculating dwarf Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage), Game of Thrones brings the epic world of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy world to life with fantastical characters, mythic world building and an intriguing, twisting narrative and it’s viewing that will keep you engaged the whole way through. Audiences never could have imagined that they would have been this engaged by the fantasy genre and it might be a good time to venture back to Westeros once more.

True Detective

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson brought two incredible performances together in the television event that was True Detective, and this slow-burn story was one of pain, rage, fire, vengeance and redemption, and we couldn’t look away. As Louisiana State Police homicide detectives Rustin “Rust” Cohle (McConaughey) and Martin “Marty” Hart (Harrelson), they are brought into investigate a grisly crime committed by a serial killer over a 17-year period. True Detective was a narrative that got into your bones, and it was masterfully captured via the talented eye of director Cary Joji Fukunaga. Dark and savage at every turn, True Detective is one of those shows that stays with you long after you watch it, and years on since it’s debut back ion 2014 it still remains as one of the most celebrated television events ever broadcast. This one comes highly recommended.

Banshee

Sometimes all you want is some old school pulp-fiction, smack’em’up action mayhem and in that situation Banshee is the one to choose. Starring New Zealander Antony Starr as a nameless thief, and recent jailbird, who assumes the identity of recently dead police officer Lucas Hood, and whom is then sworn is as the new Sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, Banshee mixes in all kinds of extremes and makes for a ferocious piece of action TV. From its bone breaking fights to stoic character moments, Banshee is great fun and pits Hood against a whole host of deranged villains including a crazed Ukrainian mob boss named Rabbit, who has a serious axe to grind, local Armish kingpin Kai Procter, who has his own vision for how Banshee should be run, and a whole host of other bad guys. And did I mention that Hood’s trying to renew his one time love affair with Rabbit’s daughter Anastasia (Ivana Miličević), who has herself adopted an assumed identity, married, and is now raising a family in Banshee. Oh and then there’s his two best friends; local bar owner, ex-fighter and former criminal Sugar (Frankie Faison), and transvestite hacker extrordainre Job (the exceptional Hoon Lee). This mixes of outlandish narrative, brutal action and mercurial characters makes Banshee an utterly addictive rush of a show.

All these shows are available to stream on Neon now.

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If that’s the case then you need a solid binge-guide to catch up on the best long form television series that you need to be watching to help get you through this lock down period.

Check out the full list below:

The Borgias

A historical drama with plenty of dramatic intrigue and dangerous criminal activities, The Borgias charts the rise of Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons) who brought his way into the Papacy in remained as Pope Alexander VI and who turned the Vatican into his own personal empire. Helping him in this action were his devilishly minded children including his darkly cunning and violent son Cesare (François Arnaud) and his charismatically manipulative daughter Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger). This series has everything from fanatical religion to tightly wound drama, forbidden lusts and salacious sex and a good helping of murder and mayhem set beside the flourishing epoch of the Renaissance. For those who love their historical dramas to run hot, heavy and have a taste for the thrilling, The Borgias makes for an exquisite watch.

Snowfall

Los Angeles, 1983. The crack cocaine epidemic is about to this sunshine city and the lives of a ground intersecting characters will change forever. Our cast include entrepreneurially minded drug dealer Franklin Saint (Damson idris), eager-to-prove himself CIA Agent Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson), down-on-his-luck Mexican luchador and Cartel bagman Gustavo “El Oso” Zapata (Sergio Peris-Mencheta) and Cartel princess Lucia Villanueva (Emily Rios), who wants to get in on her father’s business. All of these players are mixed up the dangerous and evolving game of the burgeoning crack cocaine epidemic, and the late great John Singleton brings his signature vision and SoCal visual style to this gripping crime drama. There’s a lot of fly energy on offer in Snowfall, and it makes for addictive television at it’s best.

Animal Kingdom

The world of film to television adaptations always leads to interesting viewing and in Animal Kingdom, director David Michod’s cult Australian crime drama finds its unique narrative and unforgettable characters moved from inner city Melbourne to the salt sea air and sunny beaches of Venice, California…and it makes for a cracker of a series. An impressive cast lien up here as the Cody clan with Ellen Barkin as Janine “Smurf” Cody, Scott Speedman as Barry “Baz” Blackwell, Shawn Hatosy as Andrew “Pope” Cody, Ben Robson as Craig Cody, Jake Weary as Deran Cody and Finn Cole as Joshua “J” Cody. Together this ‘criminal family’ fill their days with lethal criminal activities and high-rolling surfing in a series that is very much ‘paradise lost’ come true. Animal Kingdom is show that gets under your skin with it’s pot-boiling narrative and fans of the cult classic and new viewers alike will be thoroughly gripped by intensity of this very different crime drama.

Penny Dreadful

There’s nothing like a bit of Gothic Horror to get your blood racing, and Academy Award winning dramatist John Logan (Gladiator, Skyfall) brings his crafted voice to this unique tale of Penny Dreadful which assembles together classic horror archetypes including Dracula, The Wolf Man and Frankenstein and places them in a unique series that is packed to the brim with scares and is certain to get under your skin. The cast for this one is extensively talented and include the likes of Eva Green as traumatised clairvoyant Vanessa Ives, Timothy Dalton as brash and hot tempered former explorer Sir Malcolm Murray, Harry Treadaway as the obsessively crazed Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Reeve Carney as the outlandish and hedonistic Dorian Grey and Josh Hartnett as the complicated, yet violent gunslinger Ethan Chandler, who carries his own terrible secret with him. From its bone chilling story to impressive production design and extensive world building, Penny Dreadful wraps you up in a story that must be devoured…but be warned as this horrifying and scary piece of television is sure to have you on edge.

Strike Back

If you want action then you need to check out Strike Back immediately! This series following the clandestine missions of Special Forces soldiers including British operative Sgt. Michael Stonebridge (Phillip Winchester) and former Delta Force operator Sgt. Damian Scott (Sullivan Stapleton) kit up and muscle up in this no-holds-barred series that sees our protagonists jet-setting off around the world to stop a whole host of dangerous adversaries and mowing down the bad guys with plenty of lead. Created by former SAS soldier Chris Ryan, Strike Back has some serious authenticity to it, and each episode is a massive nail-biter! Seriously, they don’t get more intense than this high-end action series, and Strike Back will seriously get your adrenaline up.

All of these shows are available to stream now on Neon.

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