Entertainment
The Best New Limited Series of 2019
List Rules
Only limited run television series that premiered their first season in 2019.
UPDATED: Check out the Best New Limited Series of 2020!
There's nothing limiting about a television limited series, especially in 2019. With the flexibility of streaming services and the eagerness of traditional television channels to experiment, what we once called miniseries are refreshed and booming, bringing some of the best shows in 2019.
From documentary miniseries like Surviving R. Kelly to dramas with a defined beginning and end - such as I Am The Night and Unbelievable - there's something surprisingly freeing about knowing a TV show only has so many episodes. In these days of bingeing Netflix, it can be nice to know there's an end in sight and there won't be another season coming some to-be-announced time in the future. Though some limited series are parts of stories that can be continued in other, new miniseries.
Whether you call them "limited series" or the old-fashioned "miniseries," the options available in 2019 are some of the best yet. Vote up the best series with a limited run of episodes that are airing for the first time in 2019. Then, check out the new miniseries of 2020.
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Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson- Genres: Drama
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffers a nuclear accident on April 26, 1986. - Michael Kenneth Williams, Vera Farmiga, John Leguizamo
- Genres: Crime,Drama,Drama,Documentary
Exposing the breakdown of the U.S. criminal justice system during the Central Park Five case. - Kaitlyn Dever, Toni Collette, Merritt Wever
- Genres: Crime,Drama
When a teen reports being raped, then recants her story, two female detectives follow evidence. - Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Jon Hamm
- Genres: Action,Adventure,Comedy,Fantasy
An angel and a demon must join forces to find a way to save the world as the end of time grows near. - Christopher Abbott, Kyle Chandler, George Clooney
- Genres: Drama,War & Politics,War & Politics
Bombardier Yossarian is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. - Julianna Margulies, Topher Grace, Liam Cunningham
- Genres: Drama,Thriller
A U.S. Army scientist puts her life on the line to head off an outbreak of the Ebola virus in 1989. - Chris Pine, India Eisley, Jefferson Mays
- Genres: Drama,Documentary,Mystery
Fauna Hodel investigates her past and discovers a connection to the Black Dahlia murder. - Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, Sienna Miller
- Genres: Drama
The rise and fall of Roger Ailes. - Kristine Froseth, Charlie Plummer, Denny Love
- Genres: Drama,Romance
After an unexpected tragedy, Miles and his friends try to make sense of what they have been through. - Helen Mirren, Andrew Rothney, Antonia Clarke
- Genres: Drama
The life of Catherine the Great toward the end of her reign during her affair with Grigory Potemkin. - Rabia Chaudry, Saad Chaudry, Shamim Rahman
- Genres: Crime,Documentary,Mystery
A murder conviction raises questions. - Sam Rockwell, Michelle Williams, Margaret Qualley
- Genres: Drama,Music
Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon's partnership. - Ashton Sanders, Shameik Moore, Dave East
- Genres: Drama,Documentary,Music,Music
In early 1990s New York, Bobby Diggs strives to unite a dozen young black men. - Kathryn Hahn, Jackson White, Casey Wilson
- Genres: Comedy
A divorced woman adopts a sexy new persona and opens her world to erotic possibilities. - Ben Cartwright, Robert Jack, Susanna Herbert
- Genres: Drama,Documentary
Tracing the final days of the last czar of Russia. - Geraldine Hakewill, Joel Jackson, Catherine McClements
- Genres: Crime,Drama,Mystery
Peregrine Fisher sets out to become a private detective under guidance of The Adventuresses' Club. - Andrea Kelly, Tarana Burke, Sparkle
- Genres: Documentary
Singer R. Kelly's career is riddled with rumors of abuse, predatory behavior and pedophilia. - Laura Linney, Elliot Page, Paul Gross
- Genres: Drama,Romance
Middle-aged Mary Ann returns to San Francisco and the eccentric friends she left behind. - Zoe Boyle, Nathalie Emmanuel, Guz Khan
- Genres: Comedy,Romance
A bombshell at the altar throws four friends' lives into turmoil. - Martin Clunes, Stephen Wight, Christopher Fulford
- Genres: Crime,Crime,Drama,Thriller
DCI Colin Sutton leads the investigation of a young French woman's slaying in London. - Brian Gleeson Aoife Duffin Simone Kirby Natasha O'Keeffe Gavin Drea
- Genres: Historical fiction, Spy fiction
Resistance (RTÉ One, 2019) is an Irish historical fiction television miniseries written by Colin Teevan. The five-part limited series dramatizes the events surrounding the Irish War of Independence - David Baird, Kirby Goslee
- Genres: Documentary, True crime, Crime
No One Saw a Thing (SundanceTV, 2019) is an American documentary television series. The show examines an unsolved and mysterious death in the American Heartland and the corrosive effects of ...more - John Turturro, Damian Hardung, Rupert Everett
- Genres: Drama, Historical Drama
The Name of the Rose (Sundance, SBS, BBC, 2019) is an international co-produced English language television drama series based on the international bestseller novel of the same name by Umberto Eco. ...more - Natasha Ezrow, Mariam Mufti, Charles K. Amrstrong
- Genres: Documentary, Drama, History
The Dictator's Playbook (PBS, 2019) is an American documentary television miniseries. The show follows the rise and fall of some of history's most ruthless dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein. - Lorena Bobbitt, John Wayne Bobbitt, David Berman
- Genres: Documentary
This docuseries reveals the hidden truths in the notorious case of John Wayne and Lorena Bobbitt.
