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Limited series worth a weekend

Stories with a beginning, a middle and an end: online originals made as limited series or miniseries.

How we chose: Described as a limited series or miniseries in our sources.

  1. Thirteen

    2016 · BBC Three · Limited series

    5 episodes. Ivy Moxam was 13 when she was taken. Thirteen years later, at 26, she escapes from the cellar where she was held and walks back into a family, and a… (source)

  2. Gilmore Girls

    2016 · Netflix · Limited series

    4 episodes. Ten years on from the original finale, the revival returns to the small Connecticut town of Stars Hollow for one year, with a feature-length episode… (source)

  3. Normal People

    2020 · BBC Three · Limited series

    12 episodes. In a small town in County Sligo, Connell is the popular, anxious athlete and Marianne the clever, prickly outsider whose family employs his mother as… (source)

  4. The Queen's Gambit

    2020 · Netflix · Limited series

    7 episodes. Orphaned at nine in 1950s Kentucky, Beth Harmon is taught chess by the orphanage custodian – and, like the other girls, is given daily tranquillisers… (source)

  5. WandaVision

    2021 · Disney+ · Limited series

    9 episodes. Wanda Maximoff and the android Vision appear to have settled into wedded bliss in Westview, a picture-perfect New Jersey suburb. Yet their days… (source)

  6. Station Eleven

    2021–2022 · HBO Max · Limited series

    10 episodes. Kirsten was a child actor when a deadly flu swept the world and society collapsed almost overnight. Twenty years on, she performs with the Traveling… (source)

  7. A Spy Among Friends

    2022 · ITVX · Limited series

    6 episodes. In 1963, British intelligence officer Nicholas Elliott learns that his close friend and colleague Kim Philby has been secretly working for the KGB… (source)

  8. Litvinenko

    2022 · ITVX · Limited series

    4 episodes. In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko is poisoned in London. From his hospital bed he talks to Metropolitan Police detectives, and this four-part drama… (source)

  9. Nolly

    2023 · ITVX · Limited series

    3 episodes. Noele 'Nolly' Gordon is the reigning star of the soap Crossroads, riding high on years of success. Then, without warning, she is let go. Russell T… (source)

  10. Mrs. Davis

    2023 · Peacock · Limited series

    8 episodes. An artificial intelligence has woven itself into almost everyone's life, but Sister Simone, a nun, regards the all-powerful algorithm as an enemy to… (source)

  11. Baby Reindeer

    2024 · Netflix · Limited series

    7 episodes. Donny Dunn, a struggling comedian working behind the bar of a London pub, offers a tearful customer a free cup of tea. That small kindness becomes… (source)

  12. Adolescence

    2025 · Netflix · Limited series

    4 episodes. Armed officers burst into a family home in a town near Doncaster and detain Jamie Miller, 13, suspected of killing a girl from his school. Each of… (source)