Can only give you a list of stuff I have watched back-to-back more times than I could count.
Note *** Highly Recommended
Crime:confused:
NCIS & NCIS LA ***
Bones
Dexter ***
Monk ***
Castle
Murdoch Mysteries
Due South
Criminal Minds ***
CSI – not the spin offs just Las Vegas
Sci-Fi:dubious:
Dr. Who - Been watching 40 years+ and still enjoying ***
Firefly (and the movie Serenity) ***
Star Trek - all of them
Torchwood - Although now the US has its hands on it, its has gone downhill
Farscape
Stargate – all of them ***
Sanctuary ***
Comedy:D
Coupling - Not the crappy US one - the UK one - best ever and Yes I am watching it again (although the 4th season is poor) ***
Titus ***
How I Met Your Mother ***
The Big Bang Theory ***
2 and a Half Man - only the stuff with Charlie - avoid the new one ***
QI ***
Mock the Week
That 70’s Show
Mash
Scrubs
Red Dwarf - again avoid the US one
Hyperdrive
My Name is Earl
Misc Stuff:cool:
Rome ***
Band of Brothers ***
Spartacus: ‘Blood and Sand’ and ‘Gods of the Arena’ ***
Deadliest Catch
House ***
American Chopper ***
Misfits ***
Primeval ***
Ice Road Truckers
I need to get a life :smack:
Yes. Just keep in mind that the first few episodes are building blocks for a very rich viewing experience later on. It isn’t the type of show that grabs you right away, rather it slowly sucks you in until you are totally immersed in the world of criminal Baltimore.
Also, each season is a complete story arch unto itself, so it doesn’t need to seem to daunting.
The Wire certainly comes to mind, as does Madmen. I hear Jericho is very good, but have not watched it myself. One thing that I have watched and have enjoyed thoroughly is Boardwalk Empire. Set in Atlantic City, NJ, it starts on the eve of prohibition and shows in detail how city treasurer Nucky Thompson (played by the awesome Steve Buscemi) builds and defends his empire of booze, women, and gambling. Very entertaining and comes highly recommended. Also features Kelly McDonald, of Trainspotting and No Country for Old Men fame.
Ok, gonna go back in time a bit and be nostalgic, you might like Oz for some quirky prison drama. If you like “The League”, you might also enjoy Arli$$ or 1st and 10 for the camp. Miss your ER fix and have never seen the 10 times better Chicago Hope in its entirety? You really should.
Need to see more of Ian Mc Shane? I loved and have seen nearly all the episodes of Lovejoy. Guess that was my Monk or Psych.
I love this series. I discovered it about 2 weeks ago pickingup season 3 this weekend.
This is the ultimate Western series. What’s even better it’s historical. David Milch does a great job on showing people what the wild west was really like. Forget all the other Westerns you’ve seen the rest of them are just cocksucking phonies.
I loved Deadwood, but I can’t recommend it without the following caveat: The cocksuckers at HBO cancelled it before what would have been the final season.
So, go ahead and watch it if you like, enjoy the great performances, outstanding dialogue, and wonderful mise-en-scène… but know going in that you will never get to see the ending. This still pisses me off.
I’d heard talk of a two-hour Deadwood movie in the works that would have tied up loose ends. But that was a long time ago, and nothing seems to have come of it after all.
The wife and I just finished watching season 4 of Breaking Bad. An excellent series. And I see a season 5 will be filmed this year.
We get a little fed up with Walter’s obstinance from time to time. And curiously, men sitting in parked cars in residential neighborhoods seem to go largely unnoticed by the residents.
I know it’s been mentioned here but since the thread popped up again and I literally just finished watching it, I’ll recommend Firefly. Literally, as in finished it last night and I’m watching the movie as I type this.
I’ve never been a sci-fi person. Never seen Star Trek or BSG and never seen anything by Joss Whedon so I wasn’t really sure what to expect going in. But as I read somewhere it’s more of a “Space Western”…and it is. They spend a lot of time on the space ship, just as much time in regular ol’ gunfights, herding animals, riding horses etc. Not a lot of tech speak, no complicated plot lines, no long story arcs to pay attention to, a lot of humor interjected into it and overall, it’s very easy to watch. On top of that, the big selling point for me, it’s only 14 episodes so it’s not a huge commitment. Even if you’re only ‘meh’ about it (most people aren’t ‘meh’ about it though) you can still finish the series relatively quickly and not wonder if you should give up or keep with it.
We just watched the first season of the wonderful British comedy Peep Show. I think there are seven seasons – or series, as the Brits say – with new seasons eight and nine recently signed. Longest-running show in BBC 4 history, I’ve heard. Of course, being a British show, there are only six episodes per season. We’ll be watching more of the seasons for sure.