# Netflix TV series recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 3, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181 "2009-03-03T19:16:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/21 "2009-03-03T22:12:18Z")
And Wonderfalls Farscape BSG Dexter Weeds Firefly ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/22 "2009-03-03T22:18:27Z")
Ha, and L Word – The Mrs. and I just worked our way through seasons 1-5 and we’re anxiously awaiting Jenny Schecter’s death The Tudors – We watched the first disk of this, but it was too hard to hear and the DVD doesn’t include subtitles. Kind of disapointing about that. Arrested Development Venture Bros (Now I’m looking through Netflix) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/23 "2009-03-03T22:23:03Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Oh, I got another one. Mad Men. My wife and I liked the first season enough that we bought the second season on iTunes so we didn’t have to wait for the DVDs to be released. Yes! That’s a definite possibility. Ever since my boycott of AMC, because of their mutilation of movies with excessive commercial interruption and “editing for time allowed and content” bullshit, I don’t even check their schedule, missing what must be a great series. That’s way up on the list now. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/24 "2009-03-03T22:41:36Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I saw most of the episodes to Secret Agent and The Prisoner when they were new. Did you see the half hour ones? I had seen many of them also, but hadn’t been aware that the early ones existed. I’m also watching **Have Gun Will Travel** now, which I saw as a kid - but I’m getting a lot more out of it as an adult. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/25 "2009-03-03T22:43:54Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Spaced Just finished watching this. If you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, you’ll like it. I did. Especially the end of Ep. 6 of season 2. Well played! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/26 "2009-03-03T22:52:09Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Did you see the half hour ones? I had seen many of them also, but hadn’t been aware that the early ones existed. > > I’m also watching **Have Gun Will Travel** now, which I saw as a kid - but I’m getting a lot more out of it as an adult. I honestly don’t remember their length. The Encore Westerns Channel is running old episodes of the “classic westerns” including The Rifleman, Bat Masterson, and others, and I have seen a bunch of at least scenes from some of those old shows on YouTube. It was a sad experience for me to see an episode of _Have Gun, Will Travel_ not many years ago. That was my favorite (or nearly so, along with Gunsmoke, Maverick and Cheyenne) of the 50’s and 60’s westerns, and I thought Richard Boone was ultracool. But the rerun was so weak and sleazy that I almost cried. I was naive enough in those days to think that Paladin’s first name was Wire! :o ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/27 "2009-03-03T23:16:52Z")
**Dead Like Me** **Pushing Daisies** - the first season is only 9 episodes (I think) and is a lot of fun. The show was cancelled in the fall during its second season. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/28 "2009-03-03T23:21:10Z")
Eli Stone: a quirky and endearing comedy/drama about a lawyer with an aneurysm and quite a few vivid hallucinations. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/29 "2009-03-03T23:35:38Z")
_Nicholas Nickleby_, the one from the early '80s, by the Royal Shakespeare Company. _The Duchess Of Duke Street_ from the '70s, I believe. Doubtful if Netflix carries it, though. I’ve only caught one episode of an English series just starting to show here in the U.S., _Doc Martin_. I liked it instantly and started a thread about it, and other Dopers concur that it’s a good one. It’s from about 2004-ish, but I don’t know if Netflix will have it. ---
**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/30 "2009-03-04T01:35:34Z")
Trailer Park Boys. It’s a Canadian comedy about life in a trailer park. It’s not for everyone, especially if you live in a trailer park and are easily offended. There’s lots and lots of profanity, and the humor is often crude and often dark. Having said that, I think it’s the funniest TV series I’ve ever seen. I feel like I know the characters and that they are my friends. I’m almost at the end of the series and am going to be sad when it’s over. It’s apparently only had limited airing in the U.S. Wikipedia reports: "In the United States, BBC America formerly aired a censored version of the show, but it is no longer part of their lineup. " ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/31 "2009-03-04T02:44:22Z")
[quote=“teela\_brown, post:29, topic:488181”] _Nicholas Nickleby_, the one from the early '80s, by the Royal Shakespeare Company. _The Duchess Of Duke Street_ from the '70s, I believe. Doubtful if Netflix carries it, though. QUOTE] I think I have it in my queue. They do indeed have it after all. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/32 "2009-03-04T03:24:21Z")
I came in to confirm that the Wire had been mentioned, it has. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/33 "2009-03-04T03:30:12Z")
1. The Wire 2. Veronica Mars 3. Battlestar Galactica 4. Arrested Development 5. Alias 6. Wonderfalls ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/34 "2009-03-04T03:37:19Z")
30 Rock Psych Monk (but imho it gets a bit boring after 3 or 4 seasons) Northern Exposure Scrubs ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/35 "2009-03-04T08:32:31Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Thanks! Yes, we do need to get that one going. I know I’ll like it, but I’m not sure she will. I’m starting in on Season Five as soon as I get off the Dope. It really is story telling at it’s finest. But it’s important to realize that’s ALL it does. It tells a story. A story that’s often frustrating and sometimes not easy to watch. If you start watching the series you have to watch it all. The size and scope of each character is really amazing (wouldn’t get too attached to any of them though :smack:). ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/36 "2009-03-04T12:11:14Z")
In your boycott of AMC you also missed **[Breaking Bad](http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Bad-Complete-First-Season/dp/B001DJLCRC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1236168564&sr=8-1)**, with Bryan Cranston as a chemistry teacher that turns to making meth when he finds he has cancer and nothing to leave his family. Amazing acting and characters. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/37 "2009-03-05T04:16:55Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > In your boycott of AMC you also missed **[Breaking Bad](http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Bad-Complete-First-Season/dp/B001DJLCRC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1236168564&sr=8-1)**, with Bryan Cranston as a chemistry teacher that turns to making meth when he finds he has cancer and nothing to leave his family. Amazing acting and characters. I just recently added Season 1 to my queue. ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/38 "2009-03-05T06:02:36Z")
I’m working my way though **Dr. Who.** ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/39 "2009-03-05T18:31:02Z")
Father Ted - seriously, don’t miss this one! Carnivale is also a great suggestion. If you like the Britcoms, go for: Last of the Summer Wine, Waiting for God One foot in the Grave (I don’t beLIEVE it! ! !) Red Dwarf Ballykissangel ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181/40 "2009-03-05T18:38:59Z")
For those recommending Carnivale I have a question. I have thought about Netflixing that series a couple of times, but keep stopping myself because I thought that the show was cancled before they were able to get any resolution in the plot. What happened there? Is it that it’s worth watching even without an ending, or were they able to put an ending onto the DVD release? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netflix-tv-series-recommendations/488181.md?page=3)