I’ve got a bit of downtime off of work, and could use some delicious bingewatching. I just binged on Orange is the New Black and loved it.
Here are some other shows I love but have already consumed, like a hungry shark to give you an idea of my tastes:
Fargo
Breaking Bad
24
The Americans
So, hardcore, dark comedy crime/drama/scifi is always good. I’ve seen older loved shows such as the Sopranos, and I gave Game of Thrones a shot, but for some reason just couldn’t get into it… but I’m craving something current and of high quality, no camp.
I was thinking of giving House of Cards a shot, but any other opinions on some good serialized television series would be most appreciated.
Since I’m a former print graphic artist and you’re a former Detroiter, I’ll try to help you out:
I’ll give a big second to “House of Cards”. Very entertaining, even though (or because it’s?) borderline ridiculous at times. Kevin Spacey is a hoot as an evil conniving congressman. His wife played by robin wright is good too, but she plays her part a little more understatedly.
Also on Netflix:
Portlandia is a fun little sketch comedy about a series of quirky characters in Portland Oregon, who are mostly played by Fred Armison from SNL and Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney.
I believe all four current seasons of “The Walking Dead” are on Netflix now. I bingewatched the first 3 and caught up to the 4th in real time. The first 2-3 seasons were great, but by the fourth… eh, YMMV. Maybe I just enjoyed the first 3 seasons more due to binge-watching them.
If you like 24, I believe the Showtime series “Homeland” has the same writers. It’s NOT on Netflix, but I rented the first and second seasons for free from our local library.
All very good suggestions. I’m already a huge Walking Dead fan, but I’ve heard good things about Justified. I’m a sucker for Timothy Olyphant too, but I’ve been dragging my feet on that for some reason.
If you haven’t watched it yet, House is about as serialized as you can get. I wouldn’t suggest binging on it or you’ll get tired of it because each episode is very similar to the previous us one (patient comes in, doctors are wrong, wrong, wrong, right! and it’s never lupus). Just pepper in a few episodes here and there to break up whatever else you’re watching. Also, as you start to recognize the pattern (they got it this time!, wait there’s still 20 minutes left, this can’t be it yet), concentrate on what’s going on between the doctors and not pay so much attention to the patient of the week.
It really is a good show as long as you don’t try to watch 9 episodes a day.
It’s very similar to Sherlock Holmes. Not just all ways people talk about, but even with the Sherlock Holmes short stories I couldn’t read them every night for the same reason, they just started to get too predictable.
Between the end of April and the beginning of June, I watched every episode I hadn’t seen yet for each of the following series:
The new Dallas (all of season 3);
Boardwalk Empire (seasons 2–4);
Mad Men (all 6 1/2 seasons);
Boss (seasons 1 and 2; pity there apparently won’t be any more);
Life on Mars (UK) (only the first half of the first season, so far);
Lillyhammer (only the first half of the first season, so far);
24: Live Another Day (every episode so far);
plus every episode of the new Cosmos and regular helpings of Jeopardy!, Family Feud, and Family Guy. All are available for free on the Internet (streaming).
