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TV's best magical realism shows
Apple TV's Small Prophets and other series blend magic with everyday life in powerful storytelling.
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Apple TV's Small Prophets and other series blend magic with everyday life in powerful storytelling. TV shows like Small Prophets use magical realism to explore human struggles through supernatural elements. Originally reported by AV Club.
Small Prophets
Apple TV's six-episode first season follows a hardware clerk searching for a missing girlfriend after seven years.
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Netflix's Spanish-language adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's novel spans 16 episodes across seven generations.
Carnivale
HBO's two-season series set in the 1930s Dust Bowl features a traveling circus led by an unseen godlike figure.
Wonderfalls
Bryan Fuller's canceled show follows a gift shop worker whose inanimate objects start talking to her.
House Of The Spirits
Prime Video's adaptation of Isabel Allende's novel features multiple generations of the Trueba family in Latin America.
The Underground Railroad
Barry Jenkins' limited series follows an orphaned slave named Cora escaping north through a network of secret routes.
Pushing Daisies
Bryan Fuller's series follows a pie maker who can bring dead things back to life with a single touch.
Dollface
Kat Dennings stars as a woman relearning how to connect with friends after a breakup through dream sequences.
Schmigadoon!
Apple TV's two-season series uses spontaneous song to help a couple resolve relationship problems through musical theater.
What matters most
TV shows like Small Prophets use magical realism to explore human struggles through supernatural elements.
