Favourite TV Show

Leif Johnson · 18-04-2015 10:45pm #1

What's your favourite TV show. Mine's Breaking Bad. Every episode has something to look forward to. The actors who play their roles are phenomenal. Some of them are clever and manipulative when they play their character.

Turtwig · 19-04-2015 1:58am

The Americans.

Excellent depth to the characters.

Dozer Dave · 19-04-2015 2:00am

The news.

smilerf · 19-04-2015 9:20am

I love Grimm

tosspot · 19-04-2015 9:25am

Outside of traditional tv series like The Wire, etc., current favourite is 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. Great contestants and delivers almost every episode

Fr Tod Umptious · 19-04-2015 10:47am

tosspot wrote: »

Outside of traditional tv series like The Wire, etc., current favourite is 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. Great contestants and delivers almost every episode

I have only stared watching it lately on More 4, its good fun.

Un Croissant · 19-04-2015 10:58am

Gavin and Stacey. The Thick of It. The office. Inbetweeners.

Just easy to watch stuff and makes me smile.

Went outside the obvious ones for this.

Supernatural is a good one too. DEEAANN!!

AMKC · 19-04-2015 11:12am

Extant. I think it is excellent. The story so far has been really good. The actors are all very good. There is Suspense and tension in the show too. It asks a lot of questions in it too like how would we react if there was robots that looked just like us and in some cases are smarter too. In this case its a boy that is the main characters son. I also like the vision in it that its a lovely clean world and we have one big space company that represents all of Earth. Also there is electric vehicles every where.

Arrow and The Flash too are also very good although Arrow is not as good as its first and 2nd season now.

The Mentalist is another great show and Castle too.

I used to like Continuum but than it just got very complicated and a bit silly so I got bored if it. A pity as it stated off brilliant in its first two seasons.

gazzamc · 19-04-2015 11:14am

Surprised no one mentioned Game Of Thrones yet, anyway that and Vikings.

Rosie Rant · 19-04-2015 11:32am

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek : The Next Generation, Breaking Bad, House of Cards, Monk, Game of Thrones, House, Better Call Saul, Modern Family, Frasier, Cheers, Friends, so many more!

Edit : Community, The Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted, Only Fools and Horses and Quantum Leap. I had to list those too!!

Dozen Wicked Words · 19-04-2015 11:44am

Longmire, fantastic show that's been saved by Netflix. Person of Interest is great, loved Justified and Parks and Recreation both of which recently finished.

wp_rathead · 19-04-2015 11:46am

Drama :
Hannibal
Game of Thrones
Breaking Bad
House
Criminal Minds (first 4 seasons)

Comedy:
The Simpsons (early Seasons)
Fr Ted
Black Books
Community
Parks and Rec
Fawlty Towers

AMKC · 19-04-2015 11:53am

@Rosie Rant Is it your first time watching Star Trek or have you seen it before?
The Next Generation was the first series I ever seen and loved it.I am a long time Star Trek fan. I love all the Star Trek shows now. I think if you like Star Trek you might like Extant too. It also has aliens in it although they are a quite different and quite mysterious too.

smilerf · 19-04-2015 12:52pm

Shameless us for me is better than the original. Better actors script and hotter women :-)

Rosie Rant · 19-04-2015 1:27pm

AMKC wrote: »

@Rosie Rant Is it your first time watching Star Trek or have you seen it before?
The Next Generation was the first series I ever seen and loved it.I am a long time Star Trek fan. I love all the Star Trek shows now. I think if you like Star Trek you might like Extant too. It also has aliens in it although they are a quite different and quite mysterious too.

I used to watch it with my brother when I was little. I recently re-watched the entire thing. It's just so perfect!

I haven't seen much of the rest of the Star Treks but I always meant to watch them. I'll give Extant a go as well, thank you!

flangemeistro · 19-04-2015 2:18pm

Scorpion, it's like a throw back to the great shows of the 80's where you don't have to over analyse everything and it's gripping edge of your seat fun in every episode.

Alfred Borden · 19-04-2015 2:19pm

Sopranos will always be #1 for me

alroley · 19-04-2015 2:27pm

Drama: Lost, Breaking Bad, Fringe, House (and first 4 seasons of The Walking Dead)

Comedy: Community, Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office(US), Bob's Burgers, How I Met Your Mother(minus the horrendous last episode)

Over all I'd probably pick It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

AMKC · 19-04-2015 9:16pm

Rosie Rant wrote: »

I used to watch it with my brother when I was little. I recently re-watched the entire thing. It's just so perfect! I haven't seen much of the rest of the Star Treks but I always meant to watch them. I'll give Extant a go as well, thank you!

Your welcome.
Cool. The Original series has some great stories in it and as it has all been remastered it looks better than ever. The sets and that do take a bit of getting used to after say The Next Gen but its worth watching for the excellent stories.
DS9 is really good too and it has stories that are more than one episode.It has a few story arcs in it that last for a lot of the series.
Voyager is good but there is some bad episodes in it too. The acting in Voyager is never as good as what is in The Next Gen or DS9.
Enterprise can take a bit of getting used to and it is a lot darker than all the other Star Treks but it also has a lot less technobabble as it was called. It is based before even the Original Series so the Ship and technolagy they have is much more simple.
I would go with watching DS9 next then Voyager and then the other two.

Do give Extant a go. Might want to wait till you can watch it from the beginning do.

hfallada · 19-04-2015 9:40pm

Sopranos. I have yet to see a show, that is able to portray a mob criminal as a loving father like it. If you listen to any children of Mob figures, the children will tell you they had an amazing life and their fathers were caring. Yet Love Hate has the most 2 dimensional characters I have seen on TV in years. They come across as indecisive gangster with no compassion or redeeming features like Tony as.

I think HBO girls is incredible too. Its the only TV show, that accurately captures whats its like to be young in modern day America. The fact most Americans are underemployed. How ****ed up relationships can be. That not everyone in real life is skinny, beautiful and perfect. Also that not everyone has dozens of friends, who are constantly there for you. Its almost like a documentary.

Tomagotchye · 19-04-2015 9:48pm

Life on Mars. Watch it.

19-04-2015 10:35pm

Tomagotchye wrote: »

Life on Mars. Watch it.

loved this. never got into the follow up one without John Simm. Just love John Simm - fantastic actor

actually another great series with John Simm was the lakes from the late '90s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lakes_%28TV_series%29#Reception

somesoldiers · 20-04-2015 1:12pm

smilerf wrote: »

Shameless us hotter women :-)

God that wouldn't be hard- although I still remember Maxine Peake, braless, doing the ironing, whenever I see her trying to be serious in Silks etc

Deathwish4 · 20-04-2015 3:42pm

glasso wrote: »

loved this. never got into the follow up one without John Simm. Just love John Simm - fantastic actor

actually another great series with John Simm was the lakes from the late '90s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lakes_%28TV_series%29#Reception

John Simm is a brilliant actor - if you haven't seen it, he gives an exceptional performance in the film Boston Kickout.

Deathwish4 · 20-04-2015 3:44pm

"30 Degrees in Thailand" is my favourite Drama - Just finished on Sky Arts.
"Detectorists" is my favourite Comedy Drama.

Rosie Rant · 21-04-2015 9:06am

AMKC wrote: »

Your welcome.
Cool. The Original series has some great stories in it and as it has all been remastered it looks better than ever. The sets and that do take a bit of getting used to after say The Next Gen but its worth watching for the excellent stories.
DS9 is really good too and it has stories that are more than one episode.It has a few story arcs in it that last for a lot of the series.
Voyager is good but there is some bad episodes in it too. The acting in Voyager is never as good as what is in The Next Gen or DS9.
Enterprise can take a bit of getting used to and it is a lot darker than all the other Star Treks but it also has a lot less technobabble as it was called. It is based before even the Original Series so the Ship and technolagy they have is much more simple.
I would go with watching DS9 next then Voyager and then the other two.

Do give Extant a go. Might want to wait till you can watch it from the beginning do.

Thanks again

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