# What TV series should I Netflix now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-should-i-netflix-now/426412 "2007-11-14T20:12:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-should-i-netflix-now/426412/81 "2007-11-18T23:39:27Z")
Oh, I can’t believe I didn’t mention this before (or that another dozen or so people didn’t): Arrested Development. The only series I actually bought. Only three seasons and it is great. I suggest it just below Firefly. ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-should-i-netflix-now/426412/82 "2007-11-18T23:58:47Z")
Oh my god! Seriously nobody has even mentioned this yet? You said you wanted quirky stuff? _ **ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT!** _ It’s got an ensemble cast. Michael Cera! Jason Bateman! Will Arnett! It’s too good for words, and it’s three seasons, so not too long either. edit: I hear ya flight…I was wondering myself ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-should-i-netflix-now/426412/83 "2007-11-19T00:59:39Z")
I second [Veronica Mars](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=443840), having just finished the first season. (I know some people compare it to Buffy, but aside from being centered around a strong, blond high-schooler, they’re not that much alike. I’ve tried to get into Buffy, but I do feel like I’m too old to fully appreciate it—not so with Veronica.) I would second _Firefly_ but at this point it doesn’t need yet another person seconding it. Another short (prematurely cancelled), quirky series: _Wonderfalls_. It doesn’t attain greatness, but it is fun. If you like comedies, I’ll second _Greg the Bunny_ and _Futurama_ (which is definitely smart and well-written); and has _My Name Is Earl_ been mentioned yet? ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-should-i-netflix-now/426412/84 "2007-11-19T01:51:18Z")
Veronica was a little cute for me. I don’t know, I guess it was pretty good. Maybe if I had watched it more. Some shows are like that, you need to see it every week and be “in” with it. Boston Legal is like that. A show, btw, I highly reccommend. But you gotta know the characters. Work your way up to the “cow love” (I don’t recall the actual title) episode and you’ll be hooked. Or not. 😃 Always stay for the chat at the end. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-should-i-netflix-now/426412/85 "2007-11-19T01:59:29Z")
I’ll mention, since no one else has (I don’t think) **Carnivale** , Dan Knaupf’s short-lived HBO series. Planned for six seasons, it only made it through two. That has positives and negatives for you; on the bright side, it’s just two seasons. To the left, though, the story arc had really only just gotten off the ground by the end of season two; in fact, viewed from the perspective of someone who’s seen the final episode, the first two seasons feel more as if they were meant to be a prologue to the real story that would’ve been told in the seasons to come. That said: It’s dark and eccentric, though not gritty in the way **Oz** or even **the Wire** is–it’s a depression-era dust-bowl sort of gritty. It doesn’t hold your hand, though; you go into it knowing about as much as Ben Hawkins, the main character, and you figure it out with him, more or less. Characters are eccentric, mysterious, intriguing; I wouldn’t call them quirky because that feels a bit too light-hearted for most of what **Carnivale** was like. It’s not all gloom, but it does tend towards the creepy, weird side, in a Twilight Zone sort of way. I liked it bunches, as you might guess, but obviously others didn’t, given its short run. YM, thus, MV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tv-series-should-i-netflix-now/426412.md?page=4)