Sometimes you want caviar, sometimes you want Koka noodles. In television drama terms, caviar is Succession , The White Lotus , Slow Horses , Severance , The Gilded Age . You have to sit up straight and pay attention, put on the subtitles in case you miss a plot point and share your theories online, culminating in a huge cultural moment and Emmys galore.

The rest of it is Koka noodles – a low-effort, half-digested affair best enjoyed privately. This kind of drama includes Harlan Coben adaptations, family sagas starring Nicole Kidman or anything with Suranne Jones in it. No real concentration is required, so you can go on your phone and just use the recaps to catch up.

Nobody admits it, but noodle drama is secretly even more enjoyable than caviar drama, and most of us are sitt

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