The Wire
Boardwalk Empire
The Borgias
Monkey Dust
Still Game
Stargate's always good. If it has to be recent, Universe was fairly good. First series was a bit slow, but it got a lot better into the second series, and then they killed it.
Archer! 😈
The Walking Dead is a quality series
oh yeah forgot about that.
and True Blood, Stargate Universe. I forgot about them too
WTF is Archer?
The Walking Dead is great if you like that sort of thing. Adored the first season, really should catch up at some point.
Not watched it yet, but I've had a few people recommend Community to me recently.
Community is awesome. One of the most creative and original shows I have seen. Would have recommended it, but thought we were on a crime/police angle.
Here's just one clip to whet Cougar's appetite 8)
...and one to whet everyone elses 😉
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If we are doing comedies, [url= http://www.metacritic.com/tv/arrested-development ]Arrested Development.[/url]
Game of Thrones.
Archer is class.
RichPenny - Member
Secret lives of our streets, about social change in housing. Based around London but pretty good apart from that. Has some interesting history interwoven with a bit of life story.
+1. Absolutely fascinating.
Here's just one clip to whet Cougar's appetite
Well, I'm sold.
Eastbound and Down. If you like your humour with no morals (saying that they did cut stevies nursing home confession) It is brilliant.
Quite enjoyed series 1 and 2 of sons of anarchy - slow burner though but by mid way through each series i wanted to see the rest .... Being the only english speaking guy in the middle of the ocean would make anything seem good though 🙂
Chuck
http://www.bbcshop.com/drama+arts/the-fades-series-1-dvd/invt/bbcdvd3537
Way better than the write up on that page makes it sound. Clever writing, great media-savvy dialogue and a couple of pretty good performances.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charlie-Brookers-Black-Mirror-DVD/dp/B006B893B2
Not really a series, but well worth a watch if you didn't see them when on TV.
slainte 8) rob
Brass eye
West wing
An hour of people talking tax policy but quite compelling
The Wire
The Shield
Somebody on your other MTB forum may be able to loan both to you too...
The Fades was excellent.
Breaking Bad is awesome, season 5 just started and it's looking great so far.
I love Community. Parks and Recreation is good if you can get through season 1 as well, really picks up a lot in season 2+3.
The obvious suggestions already mentioned and I thought Awake was good, really liked the vulgarity, gore and boobies of Spartacus as well.
Been said before, but honestly... Battlestar Galactica!
Got to get me that bluray box set!
Watched it all through twice and can still spend hours talking about it.
Holy shizzle, just noticed Breaking Bad s05E01!!!11111 😯
The Boondocks.
The Wire
Deadwood
Game of Thrones
just dont watch Game of Thrones with your mum!
Breaking Bad next for me.
Mad Men and the Wire, take your pick for greatest TV ever made. Mad Men being shown again from Season 1 on Sky Atlantic every Tuesday night.
Anyone else ever see Bodies? Tucked away on BBC2/BBC4 was a fantastic, dark hilarious drama based around a bunch of NHS surgeons. Max Beasley, Keith Allen and that bloke from The Office......very very funny and VERY RUDE! It won loads of awards then got cancelled after two series because the BBC needed the money to make another series of that piece of cr4p "Rome". Seek it out, you wont regret it.
+1 Secret History of Our Streets. I just love this.
......am watching The Hollow Crown bit by bit with my 9yr old, along with the documentaries on Shakespeare on BBC2. All of a sudden it doesnt feel so high-brow, TV of the year so far.
Moving away from drama and americana... Theres a series of very lovely and gentle documentaries called 'Working Mans Death'. Not a 'things explained' kind of documentary but a more observational quiet walk with someone for a while.
Al Jazeera screened them and you can watch them on their [url= http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/workingmansdeath/ ]website.[/url] 'Ghosts' is particularly lovely - check out that singletrack!
Pretty much what everyone else has posted :p
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
West Wing
Weeds
24
I never really got into BSG, Deadwood or Mad Men - might need to give them another go. Weeds doesn't get mentioned much (think only one other person on the thread) but it's brilliant IMO, actually prefer it to Breaking Bad.
Sons of Anarchy
The walking Dead
Falling skys
Yep bodies was fantastic stuff - just don't watch it if your other half is expecting a baby.
Eastbound and down and community also superb on the funny side of things. Also add 30 Rock to that
Forget West Wing try Green Wing much funnier 😆
Married With Children, let Al teach us what life is really like.
Generation Kill. Was only 6 episodes but definitely worth watching if you havent.
Another vote for Battlestar Galactica, best TV series ever (with space ships)
The Wire best TV series ever (no space ships category)
Have you seen the Danish documentary Armadillo ? OK I know it's not a series but filmed like TV. Riveting, and scary.
I worked my way through Twin Peaks recently, was released on DVD last year. Surprisingly un-dated, apart from the lack of cell phones. Still brilliant.
And I have to confess I enjoyed Spartacus, historically accurate but very raunchy, they carry out entire conversations while inserted inside some slave girl's orifice or other. Rome, the same idea but without the constant shagging, also good.
And I'm going to go really left field here: Eyes on the Prize.
Documentary series about the American Civil Rights movement, using lots of original footage. Both entertaining and educational. I am old enough to remember it showing originally, and again was re-released a couple of years ago.
Wilfred.
Weeds is probably my favourite TV show after the Wire.
It's just excellent.
Also love 24, SOA, Walking Dead, House, Mad Men and many many others.
Going back to the OP - please don't waste your time with Lost I did and I don't feel like I'll ever ever forgive JJ Abrams for that - or that tool Tim Kring and his Heros/Touch tripe.
Weeds was good until they had to move away from the original neighborhood, then it got shite.
First season of Heroes was great. They'd very obviously not planned any further than that, though.
Red Shoe Diaries
+1 for the west wing, i think we're on our 3rd run through the box set now.
if all else fails it'll have to be Lost or Prison Break
why not just watch lost?
First season of Heroes was great. They'd very obviously not planned any further than that, though
Agreed, Sylar was a great character, it went downhill bigtime after the first series with all the floppy haired floaty idiots and just pretty naff story.
The first few series of Lost are some of the best TV I've seen, the ending was a let down but I'd probably watch it again.
Game of Thrones
Walking Dead
Spartacus
My name is Earl. (Hey, Crabman.)
These are the 4 me & Mrs Bit keep coming back to -
West Wing - witty, clever & some of the best writing on TV (or film for that matter)
30 Rock - very funny with some crazy characters & moments
The Wire - gritty crime at its 'its 3am, I'm up in 3 hours but I need to watch just one more...' best
Arrested Development - dysfunctional family fun - very funny & clever
If you're an Aaron Sorkin fan I'd also reccomend Studio 60
Speaking of which,
If you liked the pre-twaddle Lost and Heroes, I can heartily recommend The Lost Room. It's a mini-series (three or six episodes depending how you define 'episode') so not a huge investment, and it's ace.
