Explain the appeal of a series you love in 25 words or less.

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That’s clear enough, right? It needn’t be a television series, by the way; book series and movie franchises are eligible too. Just stay under 25 words, as there’s no point in playing tennis without a net.

Giving the title of the series does not count toward the 25-word limit. Contractions count as one word.

To begin:

*Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

*Great action. Believable character development. More moral complexity in one episode than the entire movie series. If they’d close Ahsoka’s boob window, it’d be perfect.
Next?

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Doctor Who.

Brilliantly fun and witty, a show in which brain regularly triumphs over brawn. Can make you cry and laugh uproariously in the same episode.

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Justified

Old-School tough guy cop, interesting hick-criminals, great dialogue. lots of shooting.

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Y: The Last Man

Exciting, Imaginative, funny, thought provoking, great art, and has a beginning, middle and an end.

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Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series:

Gripping and complex plots, amazing adventures, wonderfully believable characters, beautiful language, incredible wit, scatological humor that’s actually funny. And the food, good God the food.

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Firefly:
Cowboys in space.

(Three words…beat that, emmer effer…)

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I will both match it and beat it. For the same series.

Firefly:

Kicked into engine.

*Firefly:

*Kaylee.

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The Dresden Files:

Polka-driven zombie tyrannosaurus.

That is all.

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Terry Pratchett’s Discworld: Funny humanist fantasy with heart.
Iain M. Bank’s Culture series: Big universe, cool AIs, lovely aliens, anarchism works and humans aren’t top dog.

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Of course that also describes Bravestarr :slight_smile:

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Discworld

“I know she’s in there,” said Verence, holding his crown in his hands in the famous Ai-Senor-Mexican-Bandits-Have-Raided-Our-Village position.
Paladin of Shadows

Military porn. Real porn. Varangians. Speed metal. Valkyrie and Dragon. Go, Oleg.

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Best scene ever.

/win

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Seinfeld

Sociopathic New Yorkers get into random hijinks.

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Community

Inventive, intelligent self-referential comedy; like seasons 2-8 of The Simpsons, but live action.

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Game of Thrones: Politics, swordfights, boobs and dragons.

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Supernatural:

Funny, touching, self-aware, and the best show on television currently. Has one episode called, “Criss Angel is a douchebag.”

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When They Cry:

Paranoia. Brutal murders. Board games.

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Being Human - BBC Version

A vampire, a ghost and a werewolf walk into a bar. They die, some again. Another vampire, ghost and werewolf walk into a bar.

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Breaking Bad:

Fifty-something nobody chemistry genius gets cancer, decides to live, cook meth, make money for family. Breaks Bad, becomes meth-kingpin of southwest. Hilarity ensues.

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How I Met Your Mother

Legen… - wait for it - …DARY!

(It really is)