Started Sherlock tonight...very good, interesting, funny...thanks for the recommendation
Also Awake...hmmm...I need the second episode for an opinion but it makes you watch more
Series I've watch over and over again:
- Seinfeld
- Twin Peaks (Who killed Laura Palmer?)
- Arrested Development
I think I'll still be quoting Seinfeld when I get old, I just can't have enough ..:
I also highly recommend The Wire, it took me two or three attempts to start but then it was finished in a few days..
30 Rock was pretty good for the first two or three seasons but then I gradually sort of stopped watching, haven't seen the recent stuff, maybe it's back on track?
X-Files is also a classic..
And I can't wait for Game of Thrones, the countdown has started..
Series I've watch over and over again:
- Seinfeld
- Twin Peaks (Who killed Laura Palmer?)
- Arrested Development
I think I'll still be quoting Seinfeld when I get old, I just can't have enough ..:
I also highly recommend The Wire, it took me two or three attempts to start but then it was finished in a few days..
30 Rock was pretty good for the first two or three seasons but then I gradually sort of stopped watching, haven't seen the recent stuff, maybe it's back on track?
X-Files is also a classic..
And I can't wait for Game of Thrones, the countdown has started..
EVERYONE will be quoting Seinfeld for years. We already have been since it ended.....not that there's anything wrong with that.
No one has mentioned True Blood yet. It's fantastic!
Psyche
Monk--gotta love him
Any season of Survivor
I loved Reaper, but it didn't last all that long
Any season of 24
The Office
Apart from 'Sherlock', 'Downton Abbey' and 'Rome', all the series mentioned are from the US and (I must confess) I find with very few exceptions, American series lack a raw edginess that great British TV has. The last US made series that really grabbed me was 'The X Files'.
I'd recommend:
Wire In The Blood
The Body Farm
Prime Suspect
Rome (only somewhat historically accurate, but more so than Hollywood)
Frost
Lightweight, but still fun, are: Midsomer Murders (set in a genteel English county with a murder rate higher than South Central LA), Pan Am (total, fluffy, nonsense - with great 'eye candy') and 'Call The Midwife' (the latter based on a former Midwife's memoirs).
Having a lot of English blood in me, I am biased towards UK comedy. US comedy I find for the most part trite and puerile (and take away the laff-track and there are quite literally no laughs to be had). The shows that do start out funny (Mork and Mindy, Taxi) get ruined when the "suits" go and "improve" them (Robin William's improv in M&M had been pretty much eliminated by season 2). The only US comedy show that has been consistently funny is Saturday Night Live, and even then it's now less funny than in it's heyday in the 70s (I'm showing my age, I suppose...). I do like The Big Bang Theory, not always funny, but has some great science jokes
Great English comedy I'd recommend:
Blackadder
The Young Ones
Absolutely Fabulous
The Vicar of Dibley
Little Britain (spotty, but when it gets it right - incredibly funny)
Watch:
Game of Thrones
Shameless (US)
Walking Dead
House (as always)
Being Human (US)
Hardcore Pawn
Modern Family
True Blood
Raising Hope
American Horror Story (although the end kinda sucked)
Top Gear
Avoid:
Greys Anatomy (Yawn- Is it really still going? I bet there is a love triangle somewhere etc)
Lie to me (Next episode: Main guy- "So you did it.", Other- "No I didn't", Main guy stares at other guy, "Liar". Rinse and repeat.
Any Ghost Hunting show. "Shhh, what was that?"
Oh my word no one has mentioned 'the good wife' on more4 Thursdays at 10pm. Can,t get better than that. But better even to get the DVDs of series 1 -3 first, you'll never go out again.
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