# Which TV show should I watch next? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394 "2009-01-08T17:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Leiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Leiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leiko)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/61 "2009-01-09T21:11:17Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > So I guess I’d better start watching _Flashpoint_. _Due South_ is one of my all-time favorites. Which led me to _Twitch City_ & _Slings and Arrows_. > > _Brisco County Jr_ is actually not “completely unrelated.” It featured John Pyper-Ferguson as Pete Hutter; don’t touch his piece! He also played in _Hard Core Logo_–which starred Callum Keith Rennie (of\* Due South\* & _Twitch City_) and Hugh Dillon–now appearing in _Flashpoint_. > > And Enrico Colantoni stars in _Flashpoint_. He was the father in _Veronica Mars_! (All part of the Canadian plan for world domination, no doubt.) I can’t believe I forgot the John Pyper-Ferguson connection! Pete was my second-favorite character, after Brisco himself, when I was a six-year-old kid watching Brisco in first run. Now he might be my favorite, because he’s just so weird. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/62 "2009-01-10T10:52:28Z")
I was just catching up on my missed episodes of _Friday Night Lights_ and realized that it is not mentioned in this thread. I don’t know why, it is surely one of the best drama series of the last few years and I regularly find it heartbreakingly difficult viewing. The personal issues that the characters deal with are not turned into by the numbers TV dross. The ensemble cast are superb and the way it is shot is different to every other TV show - the actors have no blocking for their scenes, the camera operators are trained to follow the actor’s lead and it feels like a documentary. Definitely one of the best things I have ever seen on TV. And it has sports scenes as a bonus - nothing with a sport’s theme is bad unless Adam Sandler is in it. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/63 "2009-01-10T10:59:50Z")
Another couple of votes, for **Dexter** and **Supernatural.** ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/64 "2009-01-10T12:19:49Z")
I see that no-one has mentioned _ **The Venture Bros.** _ (probably the _only_ Adult Swim cartoon with anything approaching a plot, sense of continuity, or general coherence ;)) or the British comedy _ **The Mighty Boosh** _, which- as the Series 3 blurb says- is the TV Comedy you’d get if Salvador Dali, Dr. Seuss, and Douglas Adams wrote a sitcom after a heavy evening drinking Absinthe. They’re both excellent shows IMHO, and well worth watching. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/65 "2009-01-10T14:33:38Z")
[St Elsewhere](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0083483/episodes#season-1) ---
**Author:** ![Unix\_Geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unix_geek/32/19368_2.png) [@Unix\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unix_Geek)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/66 "2009-01-10T14:47:58Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > The best show on TV now is **Burn Notice**. New episodes start 1/22 (3rd season) I too really enjoy **Burn Notice**. And just for fun you might want to check out another USA Network show **Psych**. ---
**Author:** ![Windwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/5e9695/32.png) [@Windwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Windwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/67 "2009-10-26T02:56:10Z")
I got a lot of great suggestions from this thread, though even in 9 months, I haven’t really been able to try too many of the recommendations here. However, the few I have tried have really hit the spot: **The Office** (US) - The show is becoming more cartoonish nowadays, but still has one of the best large ensemble comedy casts in American television. I love little throwaways like subtle reaction shots from minor characters (Stanley and Creed in particular). **It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia** - One of the best sitcoms ever. At first, I didn’t like the show, but then I realized that they were all sociopathic assholes, with varying dashes of crazy thrown in. When I stopped caring about them as people, I started laughing a lot more. It’s essentially Seinfeld on glue, and where everyone has more than a bit of Kramer in 'em. 🙂 **Six Feet Unde** r - I’m only on the second season, but this is one of the better character dramas I’ve seen. Not super realistic in a lot of ways, but I like how pretty much all the characters are compelling and three-dimensional, and that there is not only continuity in events and facts, but in character development, too. The Mom in particular is a character that I’ve been happily surprised with; she could have been a caricature, but instead she walks the perfect line of prissy old lady and mid-life crisis gal, grasping at elusive familial and congenial bonds as if her life depended at it, and not making a bad go of it (at least so far). After SFU, I’ll probably go for **Mad Men** next. In any case, thanks everyone! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/68 "2009-10-26T07:09:11Z")
My top tier recommendations: Homicide, Life on the Streets (same creator as The Wire; I still miss it. It started Simon’s TV career of police procedurals.) Dexter Durham County Veronica Mars Bakersfield P.D. - One season of brilliance. Anyone else seen it? 30 Rock Breaking Bad ---
**Author:** ![Staale\_Nordlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Staale\_Nordlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staale_Nordlie)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/69 "2009-10-26T10:18:30Z")
[The Middleman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1122770/). Short but brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-show-should-i-watch-next/480394/70 "2009-10-26T16:46:03Z")
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