I'm not huge series guy, but I liked Narcos a lot. It was good mixture of interesting story, action, tension, visuals etc and was relatively short. And ofc Breaking Bad goated as well. I really liked Star Wars Andor from this year but I'm biased.
Yeah subtitles kinda suck but I'm so used to them anyway as Finn. And true that it adds a lot to the feel even tho you already know what will happen before the show even starts, but I think that also adds tension because you know what happens but not when