Spanish-language social media account @Fansdepantallas, which highlights overlooked television programmes and films, has recommended six short TV miniseries for a Bank Holiday binge-watch. The shows, featuring stars including Jacob Elordi and Jodie Whittaker, are available on Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and Disney+, and are all short enough to watch in a day. The account shared its suggestions on X, formerly Twitter, reports the Express.
The Stolen Girl
This five-episode limited series adapts Alex Dahl's novel Playdate, and follows a mother's frantic search for her missing daughter, who vanished following a sleepover at a friend's house. The cast features Holliday Grainger, Ambika Mod, Denise Gough, and Jim Strugess.
@Fansdepantallas said: "A girl stays over at a friend's house. When her mother returns to pick her up, she discovers that the house was rented and that the girl has vanished. A British thriller that forces you to immediately start the next episode."
The Stolen Girl boasts a critics' score of 87 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes, though the audience rating sits at 40 per cent. It's available on Disney+.
Toxic Town and The Glass Dome
Toxic Town is a four-part miniseries based on real events in which polluted earth from a defunct steelworks in Corby, Northamptonshire, was discovered to have caused children to be born with congenital abnormalities. It features Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker, Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood, and Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle, and was created by Jack Thorne, the writer behind Adolescence.
@Fansdepantallas comments: "Based on true events. Several mothers discover that their children's birth defects could be linked to toxic waste and decide to take on an entire town council. Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood are magnificent." The drama holds a 100 per cent critics' score and an 85 per cent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is on Netflix.
The Glass Dome is a six-episode Swedish crime drama featuring Léonie Vincent, Johan Hedenberg, and Johan Rheborg. @Fansdepantallas says: "A criminologist returns to the town where she was kidnapped as a child. When another girl disappears, the memories start to come back. Nordic mystery, buried secrets, and an investigation that hooks you, especially in its second half." It holds an 88 per cent critics' score and a 58 per cent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and streams on Netflix.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Starring Jacob Elordi, this Australian miniseries charts one man's journey through three phases of his life - before deployment in the Second World War, while imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp, and four decades later as an elderly man. The five-part series also features Game of Thrones' Ciarán Hinds.
@Fansdepantallas remarks: "Jacob Elordi stars in this harrowing drama set during World War II. An Australian doctor, a prisoner of the Japanese, tries to survive while remembering an impossible love. Beautiful, brutal, and very different." It boasts a 100 per cent critics' score and a 75 per cent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is on BBC iPlayer.
The Breakthrough and The Survivors
The Breakthrough is a four-part Swedish crime drama based on the real-life murders of an eight-year-old boy and a 56-year-old woman in Linköping, Sweden, in 2004, which remained unsolved for 16 years before being cracked through ancestral DNA analysis. The cast includes Peter Eggers, Mattias Nordkvist, and Jessica Liedberg.
@Fansdepantallas notes: "A double murder has gone unsolved for 16 years until a detective resorts to something unusual: a genealogist. Swedish thriller based on a real case, sober and without gimmicks, perfect for devouring practically in one sitting." It has a 60 per cent critics' score and a 74 per cent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is on Netflix.
The Survivors is a six-episode Australian miniseries based on Jane Harper's 2020 novel, set in a small seaside community 15 years after a catastrophic storm. The cast features Charlie Vickers, known as Sauron in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, alongside Yerin Ha and Robyn Malcolm.
@Fansdepantallas states: "Fifteen years after a tragedy that shattered a small coastal town, a young woman is found murdered. The past comes crashing back, and everyone seems to be hiding something. Australian mystery, family secrets, and a magnificent atmosphere." It boasts a 100 per cent critics' score and a 74 per cent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and streams on Netflix.
