Geektown Awards – Best Limited Series
The next category you voted in was ‘Best Limited Series’. We define a “limited series” as a show which either is a short run, one-off production or has a storyline that completely changes from season to season, such as an anthology series.
Previous winners of this category have included the spectacular ‘Chernobyl’, the brilliant ‘Bodyguard’, and the entertaining ‘Dracula’ adaptation from Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. With a huge array of top quality one-off drama in the past twelve months, it was a close-run thing, but there was one series that stood out above all others. Here are the results.
Best Limited Series
Nominees: Dopesick – Disney+, Dr Death – StarzPlay, Halston – Netflix, It’s A Sin – Channel 4, Mare of Easttown – Sky, Nine Perfect Strangers – Amazon, The Shrink Next Door – Apple TV+, The Serpent – BBC, Time – BBC
Bronze: The Serpent – BBC
Silver: Mare of Easttown – Sky
And the Gold goes to…
Winner: It’s A Sin – Channel 4
Landing nearly 1/3 of the votes more than its closest competition, Russell T Davies’ utterly outstanding drama ‘It’s A Sin’ takes the top spot this year. The 5-part drama followed the story of the 1980s, the story of AIDS, and charted the joy and heartbreak of a group of friends across a decade in which everything changed.
It was heartbreaking but darkly funny. It was tragic but also joyous. Davies’ script expertly balanced the rollercoaster of emotion creating a compelling and outstanding drama, which is his best work to date… Which is saying something given his already stellar track record of brilliant dramas. It was also superbly cast, with Olly Alexander taking the lead as Ritchie alongside Lydia West as Jill, Nathaniel Curtis as Ash and Omari Douglas as Roscoe. This wonderful young cast were supported by an amazing group of older actors including Keeley Hawes, Shaun Dooley, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Stephen Fry and Neil Patrick Harris, expertly directed by Peter Hoar. It really is an astonishing piece of drama, that will stay with you.
Russell T Davies is, as many of you will know, heading back to ‘Doctor Who’ in late 2022/early 2023, but before then he is working on 3-part ITV drama ‘Nolly’, about the rise and fall of the inimitable Noele Gordon, starring Helena Bonham Carter.
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