Looking for a show for the ould fella to watch

Foresty

BUT it has to be over with a good proper ending or have a good few seasons and be building to a proper ending.

Not Sopranos, GOT, Breaking Bad, The West Wing as he's watched all them. He's watching Criminal Minds, Major Crimes and NCIS and a few others at the min but he hates the wait between eps of new shows and has got burned with a few cancelled shows lately aswell.

Any ideas?

I wonder has imdb got some killer list now that I write this...

sadie1502

Foresty wrote: »

BUT it has to be over with a good proper ending or have a good few seasons and be building to a proper ending.

Not Sopranos, GOT, Breaking Bad, The West Wing as he's watched all them. He's watching Criminal Minds, Major Crimes and NCIS and a few others at the min but he hates the wait between eps of new shows and has got burned with a few cancelled shows lately aswell.

Any ideas?

I wonder has imdb got some killer list now that I write this...

House of cards?

hamsterboy

Justified
Longmire
Fringe

fermanagh_man

The black list

NTC

Deadwood

The_Honeybadger

Deadwood

exaisle

Yeah....motherf***in Deadwood!

realdanbreen

Banshee
Suits

Tzardine

Stranger things was good.

abff

Blue Bloods?

colm_c

Sons of Anarchy

invicta

From an auld fella,


Peaky Blinders!
From series 1 to series 3,
one of the best dramas aired in the last 10 years, -imo!

Joeseph Balls

Narcos, The Walking Dead? What's he into?

Foresty

sadie1502 wrote: »

House of cards?

All watched as well but thanks. I need to get an up to date list off him, it's not that long though really.

fermanagh_man wrote: »

The black list

I think thats a great show but not for him.

hamsterboy wrote: »

Justified
Longmire
Fringe

NTC wrote: »

Deadwood

Ooh yea, Longmire and Deadwood (see that mentioned the whole time on here but had literally no clue what it was about till there now) these have definite potential. They'd keep him going for awhile if he likes them. Dark evenings are a fecker.

Thanks guys.

Tzardine

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Narcos, The Walking Dead? What's he into?

+1 for Narcos . Great show.

Foresty

realdanbreen wrote: »

Banshee
Suits

He blazed through Banshee in a few weeks. Loved it. Breaking Bad and GOT were the same, he'd stay up all hours if really likes it. I tell him not to so they'll last him abit but "I had to watch one more"

We've all been there.

colm_c wrote: »

Sons of Anarchy

Watched it.

invicta wrote: »

From an auld fella,


Peaky Blinders!
From series 1 to series 3,
one of the best dramas aired in the last 10 years, -imo!

I'll nab the first few, looks different.

Joeseph Balls wrote: »

Narcos, The Walking Dead? What's he into?

Didn't take to either, he'd literally give anything a go.

Have him watching Dark Matter at the minute aswell, so any genre really.

Jimbob1977

Band of Brothers

Our Friends in the North

Joeseph Balls

Foresty wrote: »

He blazed through Banshee in a few weeks. Loved it. Breaking Bad and GOT were the same, he'd stay up all hours if really likes it. I tell him not to so they'll last him abit but "I had to watch one more"

We've all been there.

Watched it.

I'll nab the first few, looks different.

Didn't take to either, he'd literally give anything a go.

Have him watching Dark Matter at the minute aswell, so any genre really.

Wow, I think both are great. Prison break but it's a bit Murphy's law like. The wire?
Maybe scratch prison break, it gets predictive

Kenjataimu

hamsterboy wrote: »

Justified
Longmire
Fringe

+1 for Justified

chrisire

the Killing,the bridge,,damages,homeland

Foresty

abff wrote: »

Blue Bloods?

He couldn't take to Wahlberg, I actually dropped it because of him myself.


Longer running shows the better, if he likes one I can just drop him over a rake of eps to keep him going.

Joeseph Balls

Granted TWD season 1 is a bit average and two the same, it really kicks off after that. 'One more episode' sort of thing.
Love/Hate, like marmite though

realdanbreen

Foresty wrote: »

He blazed through Banshee in a few weeks. Loved it. Breaking Bad and GOT were the same, he'd stay up all hours if really likes it. I tell him not to so they'll last him abit but "I had to watch one more"

OK so now that you have established that your father is big into sex(banshee) and drugs(breaking bad) it has narrowed the field.

Joeseph Balls

realdanbreen wrote: »

OK so now that you have established that your father is big into sex(banshee) and drugs(breaking bad) it has narrowed the field.

One night in Paris on repeat

Icsics

Madam Secretary
The night of

Sleeper12

The night of. Sky Atlantic only 8 episodes in total. I thought it was excellent

Mr. Guappa

The Wire

ButtersSuki

The Shield

NIMAN

If he's into doc's, then check out The Jinx, the lives and deaths of Robert Durst.
Excellent.

ButtersSuki

Can't believe I forgot to mention this:

Ray Donovan

Tilikum

Mr. Guappa wrote: »

The Wire

This

cumulonimbus

Dexter

Unearthly

Deadwood is great but it didn't have a proper ending. It got cancelled after season 3. I think they might be making a film to wrap it up.

I'd recommend The Shield. 7 seasons and mostly consistent

PeterTheNinth

Gilmore Girls.

He'll never speak to you again.

Frank O. Pinion

Stuff that hasn't been mentioned:

-Better Call Saul, if he liked Breaking Bad.
-Fargo, the film too if he's never seen it.
-Oz
-True Detective, the first season at least, but I also enjoyed the second season.
-And one of the greatest shows ever, Twin Peaks.

Sleeper12

11.22.63 It's a Stephen King 8 part series. (It's not horror)

maximum12

The Americans.

One of the best things I've seen over the last few years. And because it's set in the early eighties Cold War its more likely to appeal to someone who can remember the era.

dave1982

The shield

Nody

Dr House
White Collar
Luther
Elementary

Foresty

Nody wrote: »

Dr House
White Collar
Luther
Elementary

Oh white collar, nice one. Definitely has potential. He's watching/watched the others.

Does Deadwood have a real bad ending? I've got the first 2 EPs but he'll have my head haha if I get him into another one with a sh1t ending.

InTheTrees

Foresty wrote: »

Nody wrote: »

Dr House
White Collar
Luther
Elementary

Oh white collar, nice one. Definitely has potential. He's watching/watched the others.

Does Deadwood have a real bad ending? I've got the first 2 EPs but he'll have my head haha if I get him into another one with a sh1t ending.

Deadwood was great but it was cancelled.

childsplay

Madmen. My own father loved it.

Nody

Legends; only two seasons but worth it.
Ripper street

maudgonner

Spooks maybe.

It got progressively dumber the longer it went on, but it's enjoyable stuff.

pickarooney

He's no man if he doesn't like Justified.

Friday Night Lights?

Only messing.

Kind of.

He may love it. But he'd hardly admit it.

Sleeper12

pickarooney wrote:

Friday Night Lights?

I watched this a few years ago. I actually thought it was OK.

Oat23

Foresty wrote: »

BUT it has to be over with a good proper ending or have a good few seasons and be building to a proper ending.

cumulonimbus wrote: »

Dexter

Possibly the worst ending in the history of TV. A few good seasons in the middle, but I can't get over just how sh*te the ending was!

testtech05

Broadchurch or the missing. Season 2 of the missing being aired now but 1st season was a separate case and I really enjoyed it!

Going by what he has watched Boardwalk Empire miught be worth a rattle

InTheTrees

On the war series; Someone already mentioned Band Of Brothers which was good, there's also The Pacific which covered the war with Japan and was really good.
There's also Generation Kill about the invasion of Iraq.

smilerf

Justified all day long
Best cast I've seen in anything