In today’s blog, we are going to tell you about many shows which are the best shows on cybercrime. With the increase in online presence around the world, the rate of cyber-attacks has also increased. Let’s quickly have a brief knowledge about these shows and they are as follows-
Mr Robot (2015 – Present)
Mr Robot is an American thriller series that gained so much popularity that this series is still going on. It was started in 2015 and to present, the Mr Robot series is active. This series was bought by USA Network but later on, it was acquired by NBC. The Mr Robot series was created by Sam Esmail.
The plot of the Mr Robot series was there was a protagonist named Elliot who is a cybersecurity engineer by day and at night he was a vigilante hacker. This man is suffering from clinical depression as well as a social anxiety disorder. Elliot is being hired by Mr Robot who is an anarchist to his company which is called a fsociety. Fsociety is a group of hacktivists. And they aimed to destroy the organization in which Elliot was working.
This series is being so popular and the reason behind it was the characters which were planted in this series and the context was so impressive and last but not the least the brilliant performance given by Rami Malek who played the character of Elliot.
This series is available on Amazon Prime India.
Silicon Valley (2014 – Present)
Silicon Valley is a comedy series and this is one of the popular series because of this it is still running since 2014. Silicon Valley was brought by HBO and it was created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky.
The plot of this series is that it contains the number of events that occur in the life of five young start-up founders who are in California’s Silicon Valley.
The main genre of this series is a comedy but this series is not just limited to comedy it is much more beyond this. This series has a wide range of quirky characters and unusual situations in which they get into it.
The best thing about this series is that the content remains refreshed throughout all the seasons without shifting from the main plot of Richard Hendricks, who tries to be a bad guy while handling all types of challenges.
We all know that Silicon Valley is an HBO production but it is available on Hotstar Premium.
The IT Crowd (2006 – 2013)
There was one famous film which was named The IT Crowd. The time where this film was active was from 2006 to 2013.
This film was created by Graham Linehan and this cult British sitcom was produced by Channel 4.
This film revolves around three main characters who form the IT team of a corporate organization. In the IT Crowd film, these three characters are put up in the basement of the tall office tower and they try to highlight the low importance of the senior management places and their role in the company.
There are two characters which are named Maurice Moss and Roy Trenneman are the typical computer geeks whereas Jen Barber who is a computer illiterate is a new employee of the company and he is made the head of the IT team.
This film is available on Netflix India. It is so remarkable that NCB is finally coming up with an American remake in which they are roping the same creator whose name is Graham.
Salvation (2017 – Present)
Salvation is an American suspense drama that was produced by CBS and was created by Liz Kruger, Craig Shapiro, and Matt Wheeler.
In this drama, two main characters are named Darius Tanz and Liam Cole. Darius Tanz is an ultra-rich scientist whereas Liam Cole is an MIT student who is trying to discover an impending asteroid collision. They both team up together and they have only six months in their hands the objective is that they have to change the course of the asteroid.
This show also focuses on the one major thing and that is the global consequences of such a major apocalyptic event.
The second season of this drama was recently aired and soon it will be available on Netflix India. But if you want to see the first season of Salvation you can watch it on Netflix India.
Person Of Interest (2011 – 2016)
It is an American sci-fi drama, it was produced by CBS and this American drama is created by Jonathan Nolan. In this sci-fi drama, there is a protagonist who is a reclusive billionaire and his name is Harold Finch. Harold Finch is a creator of a highly intelligent supercomputer that was being built for the US government so that they can gather intel and they can prevent terror attacks. In this drama, there are massive video graphics data feeds and its high analytical capabilities make it most powerful. As it was a top-secret mission to the US government hence, they decide not to utilize this to prevent the non-terror incidents which involve ordinary crimes. But Finch is not able to do so because of his consciousness. There is one more character in this drama named John Reese who is a former CIA agent and he tackles all these kinds of incidents.
This drama is available on Amazon Prime India. You can go there and see this sci-fi drama.
Black Mirror (2011 – Present)
This series is also a sci-fi anthology drama. It was originally produced by Channel 4 and later it was acquired by Netflix. This series was created by Charlie Brooker.
This series was amongst the best series which raised the bar for television. As it is an anthology hence, each episode has a unique storyline as well as characters but the theme of the series remains the same throughout the series, it does not deviate from its theme.
The ideology of this show was to present the mirror to the society and then make you peek into the future where human qualities are decreasing and the fake behaviour because of the technology which is penetrating day to day life.
The first season was available on Amazon. But for the second season, Amazon has not renewed.
Conclusion
There are many shows like Betas (2013 – 2014), Arrow(2012 – Present), Chuck(2007 – 2012), and CSI: Cyber(2015 -2016) which are the best shows for cybercrime and makes you aware of the issues related to cyber security. The best part of these shows is that they are available on Netflix, Amazon, and Hotstar. Hence, you can go and watch over there.
