Ever felt attached to a TV programme?

Whatsisname · 14-07-2013 04:01AM

I watched 3 seasons of Dexter in about a week and a half a few months back, I didn't think like myself anymore, I thought like Dexter would. I'm fairly convinced I am Dexter Morgan.

Also,

Opie's death and Jax's reaction

in Sons Of Anarchy put me into a state of shock for a few weeks.

danslevent · 14-07-2013 04:06AM

I become obsessed with tv shows, I love having a story to think about and becoming familiar with the characters.

I love Community, Girls, New Girl, Fresh Meat....I get so sad waiting for them to come out!

Oh, and Misfits! but only the first two seasons!

jebus84 · 14-07-2013 04:08AM

gotta say Lost watched from the start until the last episode there's something a bit more from being in from the start of a show im not saying ya cant like a show if ya jump in half way through it,but when ya watch that first episode of a show and your with it for a number of years the pay off is immense

p.s I loved the ending

Honorable mentions go to Arrested development The Wire ,The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and first 3 seasons of Community

danslevent · 14-07-2013 04:21AM

jebus84 wrote: »

gotta say Lost watched from the start until the last episode there's something a bit more from being in from the start of a show im not saying ya cant like a show if ya jump in half way through it,but when ya watch that first episode of a show and your with it for a number of years the pay off is immense

p.s I loved the ending

Honorable mentions go to Arrested development The Wire ,The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and first 3 seasons of Community

Why only the first three?

jebus84 · 14-07-2013 04:33AM

the show lost its voice and the quality dropped, alot of the brains behind the show left Dan harmond and the writers staff while the cast gave it every thing the material was rotten i think I liked only one episode and one of the cast members wrote that,while some of the shows I mentioned did drop in quality it wasn't enough to give up on the show in saying that Dan harmond has no returned for the fifth season so il see how the new episodes go

so its strange situation ive been very attached to the first 3 seasons gave up on it in the fourth and might go back for the fifth,so its very much like a relationship.

any big tv fans out there id recommend a book which is a must alot of the shows that have been talk about on this thread are discussed in it any hitfix fans out there will have come across it

http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Was-Televised-Slingers-Slayers/dp/1476739676/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373772712&sr=1-1

Ruudi_Mentari · 14-07-2013 04:41AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq_9i_Ueun4

The Doug Stanhope episode was great too. Climaxed with this revelation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2dCkOI6LY

northernpower · 14-07-2013 04:44AM

Everybody kept saying to me to watch 'Game of Thrones' but even though I had the first 2 series saved on my hard drive I never got round to watching it until what I call "the facebook episode" happened, (S03 E09) and facebook went mental, so I thought, 'I need to watch GoT before it gets even more mental', and I watched the whole 3 series in like 10 days, it was class.

Not a TV programme, but you wouldn't believe the state I was in when the 'off the ball team' left the 7 pm - 10 pm newstalk slot a few months back. OTB was my link to Ireland when I was living in Oz, New Zealand, Kampuchea or the UK. It was like sitting among your friends, talking about sport, you could be sitting in the pub, I don't know how to describe it to someone that wasn't in to it, it was just a massive part of my life - I remember trying to tell a friend (Welsh) about it, I was so depressed, she just didn't understand, apart from saying it was sweet that I missed it.

In the end it worked out ok, I was studying the final year of my degree yet I could never tear myself away from the radio from 7-10 and I got no work done in that time, so the fact that the OTB lads were gone while I was doing my dissertation and final exams was an absolute blessing in disguise!

ottostreet · 14-07-2013 07:55AM

Frasier....

that show had everything. And they really couldn't have ended it in a better fashion.

Yitzhak Rabin · 14-07-2013 08:11AM

northernpower wrote: »

Everybody kept saying to me to watch 'Game of Thrones' but even though I had the first 2 series saved on my hard drive I never got round to watching it until what I call "the facebook episode" happened, (S03 E09) and facebook went mental, so I thought, 'I need to watch GoT before it gets even more mental', and I watched the whole 3 series in like 10 days, it was class.

Not a TV programme, but you wouldn't believe the state I was in when the 'off the ball team' left the 7 pm - 10 pm newstalk slot a few months back. OTB was my link to Ireland when I was living in Oz, New Zealand, Kampuchea or the UK. It was like sitting among your friends, talking about sport, you could be sitting in the pub, I don't know how to describe it to someone that wasn't in to it, it was just a massive part of my life - I remember trying to tell a friend (Welsh) about it, I was so depressed, she just didn't understand, apart from saying it was sweet that I missed it.

In the end it worked out ok, I was studying the final year of my degree yet I could never tear myself away from the radio from 7-10 and I got no work done in that time, so the fact that the OTB lads were gone while I was doing my dissertation and final exams was an absolute blessing in disguise!

Why the hell do people call it that? It hasn't been called Kampuchea since the Khmer Rouge were in charge. The only people I've heard call it that are lads with dreadlocks and ponchos trying to sound sophisticated.

wendell borton · 14-07-2013 08:48AM

Ive been left down realy bad a good few times by tv shows, now I try not to get attached. First show that was unmisable for me was the x files but slowly over time we grew apart until finally it moved to Saturdays. its also happened with other great shows simpsons, lost, breaking bad etc. etc..

Notable exception to HBO shows which never seem to outstay their welcome.

Crooked Jack · 14-07-2013 08:56AM

I felt like Id lost a friend when Battlestar Galactica ended. Same with Ocarina of Time, although it's a game, not a TV show

sioda · 14-07-2013 09:10AM

Sharpe with Sean Bean huge gaps between shows but always remember seeing ads door the next one and getting excited writing the date on the fridge. No sky plus then :-)

quickbeam · 14-07-2013 11:10AM

I was very attached and cried when both Lost and Spartacus ended. Both brilliant series.

I also feel very attached to the TV Series Rome, but that was one I watched on boxset rather than as it was broadcast. I don't think I'd ever get tired of rewatching it.

Also an honourable mention to Band of Brothers though I've only seen it once through. It is something I plan to watch again.

MJ23 · 14-07-2013 12:14PM

Every day I imagine myself going into Spar for a coffee and a bar, heading to Vinos for my lunch and look at sexy Yvonne. Then that evening, head for a few pints with Leo, Ray and Bella, and sit there laughing at the size of Wayne's ears.
Other days I could go in buy a car from that grumpy git Paul, or I could go for a check up from the fine Doctor, and ask her what she sees in Blackie Connors.

northernpower · 14-07-2013 01:23PM

Yitzhak Rabin wrote: »

Why the hell do people call it that? It hasn't been called Kampuchea since the Khmer Rouge were in charge. The only people I've heard call it that are lads with dreadlocks and ponchos trying to sound sophisticated.

Its still the official name of the country to everyone that lives there

Czarcasm · 14-07-2013 02:07PM

Fringe is one show I could watch over and over again.

House was great up to season 7.

Heroes had so, so much potential, but never recovered from a bad season two.

Revenge - Fantastic season one, I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch season two yet. I watched the first couple of episodes, but usually I transfer the episodes to my phone so I can watch them on the go, just haven't gotten round to it yet.

FanadMan · 14-07-2013 02:21PM

I get addicted to quite a few shows - The Gilmore Girls, Mike & Molly (both starring the beautiful Melissa McCarthy). Love old stuff like MASH. Really hooked on Stargate SG1 and watch it on two different channels every day

But no matter what, I have to get a regular dose of Red Dwarf - have every episode on tape, dvd, Sky+ or download. Have the scripts to the whole lot - official and unofficial releases.

So.....(deep breath).......My name is FanadMan and I'm a Red Dwarf addict.

stannis · 14-07-2013 02:26PM

Don't watch much TV these days (partly because I live in China and have a poor internet connection). Back in the day I loved Farscape. A brilliant sci-fi show produced in Australia with great writing, well-drawn and quirky characters, sly humour and beautiful special effects. Unfortunately it seems to have been mostly forgotten and the fact that it is sci-fi will probably stop a lot of people even trying it out, which is a real pity because it definitely worth your time. If I ever fell in love with a TV programme, it's Farscape.

Close runners-up would be Futurama and Star Trek TNG, the latter mainly because I grew up watching it as a sprog in the early 1990s. It was on every Saturday evening after Mass.

PhlegmyMoses · 14-07-2013 02:39PM

The Wire and Deadwood. Was gutted that Deadwood never got a proper ending and the Wire was just an incredible show. It was handy that the last season was the weakest, so it was a good time to finish it up.

bodice ripper · 14-07-2013 02:43PM

Star Trek TNG

I feel like I was raised by that show. In fact I am fairly certain I was raised by that show...

stinkle · 14-07-2013 02:47PM

Six Feet Under. Such a great show, full of flawed but mostly likeable characters. I watched it most weeks when it was first aired on Channel 4 (I think), but scheduling messed it around a bit and it'd be on at weird times or cancelled one week but two episodes another week. The final series was out in the US when I lived there and I was raging when I read a spoiler in a TV guide, cos was planning on catching up with it on return to Ireland.

I treated myself to the box set a while back cos I knew there were episodes I'd missed and really wanted to watch it in order. A week off work for minor surgery got me to midway through the 4th series, but I've resisted watching the rest cos I don't want it to end! I have seen bits of the last season and know the ending (one of the best TV finales IMHO), but I just keep making excuses and putting off watching it.

Speisekarte · 14-07-2013 02:55PM

I'd have to say, the first 4 series of Friends. They were brilliant, then series five hit and the characters became morped into different people barely recognisable as human beings. Much the same thing happened to the Simpsons after series 9 back in 1998. They were also incredible, but now we have fifteen years of absolute silage infecting the tv.

I'm nearly finished watching The Sopranos and that will be added to the list.

I'd also put Star Trek TNG on that list, the last episode was brilliant. It would be hard to find many better final episodes out there.

AnnaSophia · 14-07-2013 03:14PM

stinkle wrote: »

Six Feet Under. Such a great show, full of flawed but mostly likeable characters. I watched it most weeks when it was first aired on Channel 4 (I think), but scheduling messed it around a bit and it'd be on at weird times or cancelled one week but two episodes another week. The final series was out in the US when I lived there and I was raging when I read a spoiler in a TV guide, cos was planning on catching up with it on return to Ireland.

I treated myself to the box set a while back cos I knew there were episodes I'd missed and really wanted to watch it in order. A week off work for minor surgery got me to midway through the 4th series, but I've resisted watching the rest cos I don't want it to end! I have seen bits of the last season and know the ending (one of the best TV finales IMHO), but I just keep making excuses and putting off watching it.

I second, third and fourth this! Some of the best characters in any show I've seen, and the final three episodes... Jaysis. Probably the most emotional I've ever gotten at a tv show, I cried for about an hour after it finished!

Birneybau · 14-07-2013 03:19PM

bodice ripper wrote: »

Star Trek TNG

I feel like I was raised by that show. In fact I am fairly certain I was raised by that show...

First series free on UPC on demand at the mo

bodice ripper · 14-07-2013 03:23PM

Birneybau wrote: »

First series free on UPC on demand at the mo

I am watching series 4 downloaded last night

phasers · 14-07-2013 03:29PM

Community, and any other fan will know that we've basically been put through the ringer for the past 3 years with hiatuses, reduced episode numbers, behind the scenes squabbles and actors walking out.

Then season 4 happened and I stopped caring.

jebus84 · 14-07-2013 03:37PM

just opened my press to see what other box sets I have and found the Shield another great show from start to end

Schwiiing · 14-07-2013 03:38PM

Ashes to Ashes. Keeley Hawes and that Quattro.

jebus84 · 14-07-2013 03:38PM

phasers wrote: »

Community, and any other fan will know that we've basically been put through the ringer for the past 3 years with hiatuses, reduced episode numbers, behind the scenes squabbles and actors walking out.

Then season 4 happened and I stopped caring.

My thoughts exactly

jebus84 · 14-07-2013 03:39PM

oh happy endings what a great show that was

Ever felt attached to a TV programme?

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