What are your favorite TV shows?

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Before starting this thread I searched for “favorite TV shows” and “best TV shows”. I was very surprised to find many threads about TV shows but none were along the lines of your “favorite TV shows”.

Recently, I have been blown away by the wonderful show “Fargo”. It is currently halfway through its 2nd season (ten episodes per season) and I’m finding it very tough to have to wait 42 weeks between seasons.

So, I’d like to ask you to please post some of your favorite TV shows (both present and past) so that people might find some enjoyment in other shows while they wait for the next episode or next season of their favorite shows. The following are obviously just my opinions. But I hope that you might try some of these and that you might enjoy them as much as I do.

What are your favorite TV shows? If you feel like it, you might also post some shows that you would warn people to stay away from because they are just terrible (Supergirl comes to mind). Here is my list:

1st tier - Game of Thrones, Fargo, The Americans

2nd tier - American Horror Story, Downton Abbey, Mr. Robot, Murder in the First, The Knick

3rd tier - Agent Carter, Gotham, River, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Schitt’s Creek, The Last Man on Earth, Unforgotten

Past shows - Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Friday Night Lights, Mad Men, Six Feet Under, Taxi, The Rockford Files, The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wire,

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My fave tv series ever was “The Prisoner.” Brilliant, surreal, thoughtful, surprising, eerie, and clever.

My fave tv episode is “City on the Edge of Forever” from original Star Trek.

I’m not watching TV right now…but my b.i.l. tapes “Miss Fisher Mysteries” and I watch them when I can. That’s a really jolly fun show! Good mysteries, and GREAT characters!

If I were watching any one show today, it owuld be “Gotham.” I loved the few eps of the first season.

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I have to start watching those new ones you mentioned like Fargo. I will only mention new shows and not old ones. I would say Blacklist and I also like Mysteries of Laura. I need to catch up on Blindspot and Supergirl. I do watch Law & Order and what not but I stick to new shows for this thread.

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I like Jeopardy!, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The West Wing, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Kim Possible, Darkwing Duck, and Batman: The Animated Series, in no particular order.

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** Doctor Who**

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The Walking Dead. I don’t know if I’m in the demographic, but I wouldn’t miss an episode even if it was Christmas Eve or my own birthday…And American Horror Story, Downton Abbey, Once Upon A Time, Sleepy Hollow, and for relaxation purposes, Antiques Road Show.

Past: Northern Exposure. Mad Men. Twin Peaks.

Late at night, I still enjoy the half-hour sitcoms. Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens, Golden Girls, Roseanne, and I have discovered and am enjoying New Adventures of Old Christine and How I Met Your Mother. I always find something to laugh at, and thats all I care about.

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I’ve never seen Northern Exposure. But a friend keeps raving about it. I will have to try that.

Thanks very much for that info.

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I have to agree with Fargo. Excellent show. It feels like a long feature film rather than a TV show. The first season was awesome, and so far the second season is even better than the first.

I also like The Leftovers. I love how the show is not about solving a mystery, but about watching people deal with a mystery they cannot solve.

My top three shows would be Fargo, The Leftovers, and Orange is the New Black. Pretty much the only shows I look forward to watching. Every year I buy a one month Netflix subscription for the month where OITNB is released.

Other shows I like include The Good Wife, Scandal, Game of Thrones, Louie, You’re the Worse, Veep, Silicon Valley, Girls, The Americans, and Mr. Robot.

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Fargo
Rick and Morty
Big Bang Theory
Venture Brothers
The Americans
Black Mirror
Sherlock

I don’t watch a lot of tv and when I do it’s often for mindless unplugging. The above shows are still airing and not only will I go out of my way to record them I won’t watch them until I’m in the right frame of mind and can devote all my attention to it.

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I’d like to add another show to my list. It is “Frontline”. Produced by PBS, every week a different producer or production team does a story on newsworthy events.

It is one of the highest quality programs I’ve ever seen. There have been so many diverse episodes and almost all of them have been truly excellent.

I will never forget one episode titled something like, “The Madoff Affair”. It was the story of how this Madoff fellow bilked many, many people out of millions and millions of dollars, driving some of them to suicide. His own son killed himself.

He was sentenced to “FOREVER” in prison which was not long enough to satisfy many people. Last I heard he was actually happy in prison because all the other prisoners treated him like a celebrity and admired him for a great achievment. I suppose they can’t empathize with the victims and I can understand that. Understand, yes. But not agree.

I guess many of these other inmates view his victims as part of the establishment and they don’t see the broken-down elderly people who have lost everything they had in this world and were left crying their eyes out. But, before I get off on this tangent, perhaps I can recommend that you search Youtube and see if you can find any of the Frontline episodes available for viewing.

It is so much better to be able to examine a list of all the episodes and then pick and choose the ones that interest you. IMO, that is so much better than just waiting every week and taking whatever they decide to broadcast on that particular evening.

In any case, I’m sure there are other PBS shows. I love documentaries - especially ones that teach the audience about history or historical events. Best wishes to all of you. I hope you will find some episodes that will interest you. There are just so many to choose from.