When teenage Wanda disappears on Nuppelwocken Night (an annual festival celebrating a horned monster), the local police are in over their heads, and her family becomes desperate as the days tick by. After her mother, Carlotta (Heike Makatsch), has a magnificent meltdown during a cheesy televised appeal for information, she and her husband, Dedo (Axel Stein), take matters into their own amateurish hands and eventually hit on the idea of bugging every home in the town for clues. As their investigation founders, Carlotta and Dedo’s relationship frays, but both get closer to their hearing-impaired son, whose obsessive gaming and tech savvy turn out to be a plus. Where’s Wanda?, Apple’s first German-language series, subverts the conventions of the ultra-somber “taken girl” genre to create something different—a more farcical exploration of the queasy underbelly of suburban life. It’s propelled by Makatsch’s wonderfully expressive performance, which has just the right amount of comic verve and energy, with the hapless Stein as her perfect foil. Like Wanda, Carlotta’s a doer, not a wallower—and she never gives up. —Lisa Henricksson