Lately my husband and I use lazy summer nights to catch up on good tv series that we don’t have time to watch during the school year.
In the past we’ve watched Battlestar Galactica, Firefly and rewatched The West Wing.
We’ve watched Lost in real time, so that’s out.
So- any suggestions for shows On Demand or DVD? sci fi, drama, comedy, it’s all good.
How about the latest incarnation of the Dr Who series?
Burn Notice.
I’m in the middle of catching up on Chuck. It’s not a must-see show, but it’s good fun.
The Big Bang Theory
Well, as a summer series, I’m quite enjoying “Lie to Me.” I’m a huge fan of “Supernatural,” too, and it’s not just for the eye-candy. 
For sitcoms, we found two new ones from last year to be much better than we expected - “Modern Family” and “Cougar Town.”
I second Cat Whisperer on Supernatural. Aside from the horror/supernatural theme which I love, the show has great humor. And most episodes feature great classic rock songs.
Eureka is also a wonderful sci-fi show with wonderful humor.
The Middleman
Better off Ted
My fallback answer to these things is always HBO’s “Carnivale”. It is remarkable if you like eerie. Though it was cut off in it’s prime, you can always ignore the last 5 minutes (where it should have been continued) to get closure.
These sound great! I think Carnivale sounds particularly good.
I’ll weigh in with my usual recommendation: Breaking Bad.
Three seasons have been shown (two available on DVD so far); season four doesn’t premiere until July 2011.
Extremely well-written, well-acted, and gripping. You will thank me one day.
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ETA: From the link:
The Wire – aka “The Best Drama on TV Ever”. If you don’t have time for five seasons, I’ll second Breaking Bad and Carnivale and add Mad Men and The Shield.
I suppose you’ve watched Buffy and Angel?
Mad Men is on our regular must watch list.
Breaking Bad looks good!
Dexter. Great series about a serial killer, who works with the Miami metro police as a blood spatter expert. Series 1-3 are on DVD now, the fourth coming in August, and the fifth series starts on Showtime in late September.
My favorite recednt series: Rome. Conceived as just two seasons, 20 episodes in all, great from a historical perspective as well as fantastic characters, story and sets.
Nomination for recent comedy series: Flight of the Conchords. You won’t mistake it for any other show you’ve seen.
Breaking Bad and The Shield are really good dramas too.
My favorite sci-fi series (after ST:TNG) is Farscape. Lower budget than most but the plot will suck you in and never let you go.
Best current comedies on TV are 30 Rock and Big Bang Theory.
I’d like to second The Middleman. It was such a fun little show.
I’m ready to start Season 4 of HBO’s The Wire as soon as my wife gets caught up on Season 1. (She started late and we’ve seen Seasons 2 and 3 already, but she wanted to go back and be in on the origin of stuff.)
Our past few summers have been spent doing what you’re doing and because we didn’t have Showtime at the time, we caught up on Weeds and * Dexter* and then signed up for the network to keep up with things.
Before that we did similarly with Grey’s Anatomy which for the first few seasons was good TV. It’s gone to pot nowadays, so you may not want to do the whole thing.
The biggest surprises and most fun have been the AMC shows Mad Men and Breaking Bad which we had missed because AMC had gone to heavily commercial interrupted movies and had driven us away. It took folks here saying to catch those shows before we finally broke down and got the Netflix catch-up discs. We’re keeping up after those summer sessions and can’t wait for the new seasons.
If and when Justified gets out on DVD it’s a must. Another FX series to be sure you see is Sons of Anarchy which resumes in September. But by far the best FX show is the now-defunct The Shield.
Other HBO shows I can endorse are Rome and Carnivale.
I checked, but I didn’t see anyone suggest Dexter. I suggest it!
