Ever felt attached to a TV programme?

keelanj69

I have to say I like TV. It's produced some amazing pieces in recent years, perhaps to the detriment of cinema.

But have you ever felt attached to a programme? I don't neccesarily mean you feel for the characters while you watch it, thats natural. I mean you'd watch it over and over and enjoy it endlessly.

For some reason I love the British Office and Gavin and Stacey (called my new kitten Uncle Bryn ). I can watch them endlessly.

Anyone else?

Breaking Bad? Sopranos? Eastenders?

1ZRed

Anyone with an emotional attachment to a TV show like Eastenders needs to be shot for the good of the human race

Renegade Mechanic

I find Tallaghfornia impossible to peel myself away from.

keelanj69

1ZRed wrote: »

Anyone with an emotional attachment to a TV show like Eastenders needs to be shot for the good of the human race

Get out of my thread!*

*Read: Pub.

ringadingding

I'm counting down the days until breaking bad like a 5 year old waiting for Christmas.

I whooped like a girl at the cliff hanger of the last episode.

Breaking bad is my lover

Ihatecuddles-old

I could watch arrested development over and over. Wouldn't say I'm attached to it, I just never get sick of it!

Annasopra

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

I find Tallaghfornia impossible to peel myself away from.

I'll dig out my psychiatrists number for you

Karl Stein

The Wire.

I had withdrawal symptoms when the series ended and used to watch clips on youtube.

Paco Rodriguez

I was hooked on Breaking Bad. Watched it religiously until I bored myself with it because I watched it so much back to back....I never watched after S5 E1.
Im captivated by the story up to the point but I just couldnt be bothered turning it on again. Thats Netflix for you...if i had to wait between episodes i probably would watch them all...

Peregrine

Only one show..


Friends



Leave me alone!! She's his lobster!

keelanj69

Paco Rodriguez wrote: »

I was hooked on Breaking Bad. Watched it religiously until I bored myself with it because I watched it so much back to back....I never watched after S5 E1.
Im captivated by the story up to the point but I just couldnt be bothered turning it on again. Thats Netflix for you...if i had to wait between episodes i probably would watch them all...

You are missing out

Mugatuu

Yes! I got so hooked on The Sopranos! What a brilliant series. Oh Breaking bad also! I almost felt like I was part of the series! Haha!

Aidric

The Sopranos was the only TV show I considered to be unmissable.

downonthefarm

oz was good but very dark and menacing at times,the wire was good too

fussyonion

I love Gavin and Stacey too!

For me, it's the show Benidorm. I've got the entire boxset and I've ordered the Christmas Special from 2010, which I'm dying to get in the post.

I think it's cos it's funny, warm and the characters remind me of people I know, that's why I like it.

I could watch it all the time!

ringadingding

keelanj69 wrote: »

You are missing out

Series 5 is some of the finest television ever produced.
I've been glued to the edge of my seat for an hour, but it felt like 2 mins.

Irish Guitarist

The first series of Lost. I liked the characters and really wanted to find out what was going on on the island. I still enjoyed some of the second and third series but was getting sick of how most of the characters were turning out. Very few of them were still likeable. It was also apparent by then that the writers were making it up as they went along. By the fourth series it had just become total nonsense. They created too many mysteries for the sake of keeping viewers hooked but couldn't resolve them in a way that wasn't ridiculous.

At the moment I like Revolution. When it started I thought it was a ridiculous plot and in some ways I still do. I've somehow started to become engrossed in it though.

Wacker The Attacker

I had sex with my wire boxset last night.

I have also made sweet love to various episodes of breaking bad.

I have also jerked off the red headed secretary in mad men with the tits.

Lisha

Sopranos also Gavin & Stacey

Sex n the city

keith16

The Thick of it is great TV. Could watch it all day.

Wacker The Attacker

keith16 wrote: »

The Thick of it is great TV. Could watch it all day.

Malcolm Tucker should be knighted

Renegade Mechanic

mango salsa wrote: »

I'll dig out my psychiatrists number for you

Heh heh heh, jokes aside though, The walking dead was very very good to me.

Ace Attorney

Was glued to Bones for a while but stopped watching it and lost intrest after season 5.
started watching NCIS and got as far as season 8, must get back into series again

Frank Lee Midere

Nice to see the love for Gavin & Stacy. I wudda thought it a bit uncool to like, and I didn't expect to but I did. Very warm hearted comedy.

Wattle

Curb Your Enthusiasm. Series 8 was maybe a small drop in standards but 1-7 is absolute genius. I never get tired of watching Larry David offending everyone in sight.

Birroc

I do love Survivor on TG4. Some great characters emerge from it.

downwithpeace

I really liked SG1 and SGA, sad when SG1 ended and p*ssed off like mad when SGA was canceled.

Banjo String

Aidric wrote: »

The Sopranos was the only TV show I considered to be unmissable.

Meadow in a bikini

Talib Fiasco

Prison Break. I cried at the end....and my parents were in the room at the same time....no regrets :pac:

ChunkyLover_53

Heroes broke my heart.

I fell in love with it in series 1
Fell out with it in series 2, dire Irish accents!
Series 3 & 4 brought us back together & things were looking up
Then one day she packed her things went away...

But now I've found a new mistress & her name is Game of Thrones....and she is cruel.

downonthefarm

home and away,that april one though is a see you next thursday

Lin1880

My favourite ever is the killing, danish version. I find myself thinking about it all the time . Series 2 has just reappeared on Netflix.

keelanj69

downonthefarm wrote: »

home and away,that april one though is a see you next thursday

A quick google search enables me to say that she is a fine looking woman.

downonthefarm

keelanj69 wrote: »

A quick google search enables me to say that she is a fine looking woman.

yes ,yes she is but she is an awful cntbag her sistertenfold

fryup

The Sopranos (best tv drama ever, don't think we'll ever see anything as good again)

Mysteriouschic

One Tree Hill one of my favourite series and used to love the quotes they use in the episodes and all the characters.

Desperate Housewives love this show so good wish it was still on.

Henlars67

Friday Night Lights.

I don't know anyone who's watched it that didn't have an emotional attachment to it.

The greatest set of characters ever created for television.

NegativeCreep

I was attached to friends when it was on! I cried during the last episode!

meoklmrk91

I was a big fan of the O.C. back in the day, I was so sad when it got cancelled. Also was a bit misty eyed when house ended last year, I had followed it for all 8 seasons, seen every episode and really loved and identified with that character. I'd say I will be a bit lost when Dexter finishes as well, again a character that I love and identify with. Southland was cancelled this year and I was really pissed, such a great show and so criminally under appreciated

I am a big television fan and heavily invest in a lot of shows but some characters I just love, when you have a show like Dexter or House your talking of 8 years of your life spent watching and investing so its weird when they end. Nothing upsets me more than a show I like being cancelled before its time.

1ZRed

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I was attached to friends when it was on! I cried during the last episode!

I didn't cry but I got really sad at the last scene when they threw all their keys in the bowl and left the apartment for the last time and the camera looks back at the emptiness of it...

Looking back at it again and it's aged so badly, the constant years of repeats that were on E4 every single weekday at 5 didn't help either. Still though it was great at the time

FreeFallin94

The first 2 seasons of Grey's Anatomy. I can't watch those episodes over and over and never get sick of them.

Arrested Development. I have the boxset and it is well-loved.

dark crystal

Yeah, I'm well into Breaking Bad. I could watch episodes of Breaking Bad all day long and never get sick of it. Can't wait for the last half of the season to air in August, although I'm choked that they'll be the last ever episodes of quite possibly the best TV show ever made

My guilty pleasure would be Sex and the City. I have the entire box set and must have watched each episode at least 7 times! I was gutted when it ended.

NegativeCreep

1ZRed wrote: »

I didn't cry but I got really sad at the last scene when they threw all their keys in the bowl and left the apartment for the last time and the camera looks back at the emptiness of it...

Looking back at it again and it's aged so badly, the constant years of repeats that were on E4 every single weekday at 5 didn't help either. Still though it was great at the time

It's the saddest thing ever! I didn't cry at bambi, but the last episode of friends has me in bits every time :L

Ihatecuddles-old

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

One Tree Hill one of my favourite series and used to love the quotes they use in the episodes and all the characters.

Desperate Housewives love this show so good wish it was still on.

I was obsessed with One Tree Hill. I can't even describe how much I loved that show. Going to watch it from the start again

Mysteriouschic

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I was obsessed with One Tree Hill. I can't even describe how much I loved that show. Going to watch it from the start again

I need to do that too downloaded all of the first series onto my laptop love that show it's the best.

1ZRed

NegativeCreep wrote: »

It's the saddest thing ever! I didn't cry at bambi, but the last episode of friends has me in bits every time :L

Bambi can suck a dick.

Fry's dog in futurama was the saddest thing, then friends was up there, and after that I couldn't tell you. Beer has destroyed my brain and memory

fergiesfolly

The West Wing. If real politicians were a fraction of Jed Bartlett, I'd have a lot more faith in the political system.
From my childhood...Magnum PI. I have the entire series on boxset. Framed my childhood.

TimeToShine

The Wire and The Sopranos are probably the two that had me hooked the most...I love Breaking Bad as well but I feel less attachment to the characters than I did in the other two.

Teared up at the Scrubs finale as well for what it's worth, may not have been the best TV show but had some great moments.

MadMardegan

Rescue Me and The Simpsons

calanus

Aside from those already mentioned;

Community - Even after the kind of terrible last series. Not enough Leonard, Magnitude or Garrett!!!
Happy Endings - They've cancelled a genuinely funny US sitcom AGAIN
It's always Sunny in Philadelphia - The implication

solas111

keelanj69 wrote: »

I have to say I like TV. It's produced some amazing pieces in recent years, perhaps to the detriment of cinema.

But have you ever felt attached to a programme? I don't neccesarily mean you feel for the characters while you watch it, thats natural. I mean you'd watch it over and over and enjoy it endlessly.

For some reason I love the British Office and Gavin and Stacey (called my new kitten Uncle Bryn ). I can watch them endlessly.

Anyone else?

Breaking Bad? Sopranos? Eastenders?

One programme that always made me want to puke was The Office and after watching it for some time I was surprised to see it described as comedy. To me it was as funny as toothache.

On the other hand Faulty Towers is one of those timeless gems that will always make me laugh.

Rowan Atkinson doing the wedding speeches (the vicar, father of the bride and best man) was brilliant.

Nearer to home, one of my all-time favourites was the RTE “Hands” series, which I am reminded I had intended to buy on DVD.