The Kominsky Method (2018-2021)

TV shows used to give work for actors at the beginning or at end of their careers. Jumping board for young unknowns, retirement shelter for washed-up has-beens. Their entertainment value was accordingly measured. That has shifted (to realize how much, check how many of the first X-files episodes you can watch and compare the experience with what you get from a just below-average show of today). Although it's old news that TV shows have caught up with feature films in prestige and surpassed them in quality, it's still quite rare, and therefore feels special, when an A-movie actor appears in one. 

Rolf&Alexandra Becker: Dickie Dick Dickens

Dear listeners, don't forget to turn on your radios next time to follow the spectacular, sensational, and astonishing adventures of the most dangerous man in America, Dickie Dick Dickens!

- with these words and a cliffhanger ends every episode of the story of a larger-than-life thief who rises to be the most famous gangster of the 1920s Chicago, if not the world.

Charles Wheelan: Naked Money (2017)

For many years, Tim Harford's The Undercover Economist and its sequel, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, were my favorite go-to books when I wanted to remind myself of the basics behind some current economic phenomena. My only formal education in the field was a 2-semester, 4 hours per week, economics course at university, which taught me exactly a handful of primary school-level equations with acronyms whose meanings I didn't know even during the exams I passed. (I don't want to be unduly harsh to those professors, so hanging them for wasting hundreds of thousands of hours of young lives I wouldn't recommend. Just fire them ceremoniously.)