The most prominent and critically acclaimed use of the title is — a 2024 satirical drama series co-produced by HBO Europe and Sky. It is not a documentary, but a highly stylized, comedic retelling of one of the strangest geopolitical incidents of the Cold War: the 1981 "Whiskey on the Rocks" incident , where a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine (U-137) ran aground on the Swedish archipelago, deep inside Swedish territorial waters.
Prior to 2024, "Whiskey on the Rocks" was a common placeholder name for several unproduced projects or fan concepts, often imagining:
