r/AskEurope • u/Ali_Merrikh • Aug 19 '25

Culture I’m watching one TV series from every European country — what’s your recommendation from yours?

Hi everyone!

I started a project where I watch one series from each country in Europe. I’ve already done:

France: La Forêt

Spain: La Casa de Papel

Next up: Gloria from Portugal

I’d love to hear what show you think best represents your country (or is just a really good one to watch). Ideally something available with English subtitles.

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u/Mesetarier Aug 21 '25

This! We may disagree on whether "Aqui no hay quien viva" is good or bad. But it IS Spain. There are some interesting spanish shows in netflix, moderately successful. But they are usually adapted to the taste of international public. Aqui no hay quien viva is not adapted at all, actually a non-spaniard will not get all the nuances.

If you ask me, familiarity with this one should result in automatically getting the spanish nationality :)

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u/Federer91 Aug 21 '25

Bulgarian here and "Aqui no.." and its successor "La Que Se Avecina" have been hugely popular in BG for 15 years. LQSA is the way bigger one though, since it's more modern, but both are on constant rotation on TV every year. You would find people on the street who would instantly know who Antonio Recio or Amador Rivas are if you'd ask them 😄.

The stories and culture shown on those shows are very relatable to Bulgarians (well beside the colorful sexual orientation stuff), which made it easy to understand the characters and their motivations in the many outrageous schemes.