Must Watch Series

[Buehler445]

All this talk about series, how network TV Sucks, and how hard it is to find quality shows, and some excellent shows that fly under the radar, I need a comprehensive review of all the series I need to see.

For good entertainment, I would be willing to buy DVD sets. But I've recently picked up HBOGO by kiping it from my parents, and recently got Netflix and Amazon Prime.

Here is a listing of shows that I currently own or have seen all the episodes of. If it isn't on the list, just assume I haven't seen it.

Spoiler!

Great Shows – Must See
Game of Thrones
Mad Men
Longmire
Burn Notice
House
Spartacus
House of Cards
Justified
True Detective
Breaking Bad
The Assets
The Wire
Sherlock (BBC)
The Americans
The Walking Dead
Deadwood
Netflix: Daredevil
Jack Taylor
Luther
Bosch

Good shows
Travelers
Ozark
The Leftovers
Conviction
Medici
The Last Kingdom
Firefly
Dollhouse
The Good Wife
Hell on Wheels
Big Bang Theory
Falling Skies
Suits
White Collar
Agents of SHIELD
Arrow
Boss
Rome
Orange is the New Black
Orphan Black
The Knick
Goliath (Amazon)
Iron Fist
Show Me a Hero
Hell on Wheels
Shooter

Mediocre
Robin Hood (BBC)
Vikings
How I met your Mother
Scrubs
Chuck
That 70's Show
Top Gear
Graceland
Hung (HBO)
Gotham
Conviction


Crap
Camelot
Top Shot
Defiance
Legends of Tomorrow

Here is a listing of shows that I'm currently watching

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Great


Good
Boardwalk Empire
Westworld

Mediocre

Crap

Here is a listing of shows on my list to watch (mostly due to this thread)

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The Sopranos
24
Fargo (missed getting it on the DVR )
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
The Comeback
6 Feet Under
John Adams
Battlestar Glactica
Friday Night Lights

I work a ****ton, so it is hard for me catch a series while it is on to get it on the DVR, but I recognize the entertainment value and am willing to go after the Must See shows. Accordingly, I'm not necessarily looking for anything that is still running. I'm up for watching stuff that has run its course.

So what say you, Planet? Which shows should I see?

UPDATED for the shows I've seen recently.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I watched the first few seasons. It's pretty decent. The bondage/kink stuff was weird. But it was good enough to keep me engaged. I should probably go finish it up.

I've watched all 6 seasons. They all pretty much blend together as derivatives of each other until the last couple when there are some changes.

It's okay. I wouldn't say it's jumped the shark and I'll probably always watch it because it's my profession and there's an amusement factor. But the dialogue gets to be insanely pedantic and the storyline is just meh.

If you're looking for shows to watch, The Patient, White Lotus season 2, and any of the Fargo seasons are recent ones that have grabbed me.

[HemiEd]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Yeah, when I quit, it had just started it's own fund and was still pretty compelling.

Given how many seasons it went after that it's hard for me to believe it didn't get pretty derivative given how far they went with each character in the first few seasons, but it's earned the right for me to get back to it.

Season 4 is starting out to be the best so far IMO.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

I’m really enjoying 1899.

****, i started watching it last night. Ended up binging the first 5 or 6 episodes.

Can't wait to finish it tonight.

What a mind **** this show is, eh? Much better than i thought i thought it was going to be interesting.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by unlurking

The English. Totally not what I was expecting from a Western.

This has been really good.

[Kiimo]

I'm on episode five or six of 1899 and it was infuriating at first how many times somebody asked a question and then the other person walked away or they cut to another scene but that's a minor gripe. Way better than that German show Dark

[blake5676]

Originally Posted by KCUnited

This has been really good.

I've watched three episodes so far but can't really get into it. I think there's only six total so I'll finish it but hasn't been my cup of tea yet.

[BigRichard]

Just finished season 2 of For All Man Kind... I am hooked on it now but all the women power shit has me about vomiting

The lady playing Tracy has the nicest cans... oh boy.

[Coochie liquor]

Vikings is so ****ing good. Season 4 is some of the best television I’ve watched. Just very well written and acted.

[KCUnited]

Originally Posted by blake5676

I've watched three episodes so far but can't really get into it. I think there's only six total so I'll finish it but hasn't been my cup of tea yet.

I finished it last night and can say I wasn't expecting it to go the way it did. Not that it gets any more exciting per se, its more of a story development.

Its a western that's not really a western yet captures the brutality of the wild west in a way I appreciated. Probably just the right amount of episodes before I would've started checking out though.

[lewdog]

Finished "The Watcher." An interesting story line and suspense didn't lead to much else past episode 3. I give it a "Meh" rating.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by lewdog

Finished "The Watcher." An interesting story line and suspense didn't lead to much else past episode 3. I give it a "Meh" rating.

Agreed. The show peeked early on and then kinda died a slow death. By the end i just felt like i wasted my time

[phisherman]

I've been binge watching "What We Do in the Shadows" for the past week or so on Hulu. Hilarious show.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Yeah, so I should have waited until this was finished before I started it. I'm not sure I can wait a month to finish it out. I also didn't know it was based on a novel.

I don't know how I'm going to feel about the conclusion of the show, but the interim is damned enthralling.

It is an interesting choice that the Libby character is the narrator for the story. The writing is pretty tight, and there is some facepalmy stuff when Eisenberg gets preachy. I don't know if that was the intention or not. Bot some of it is pretty tight like the comment about "I make 300K that would be a great living anywhere except the 40 blocks you insist we live." Most of the dialogue is really tight.

The 90's stuff is cheeky enough to be funny and keep it light. Eisenberg does a really REALLY good job on the performance. Same with Lizzy Caplan and Claire Danes, plus a TED sighting. It wound me up enough I restarted Homeland to get some more Claire Danes Action. She was really good. Damned compelling even.

Anyway, it's a nice look at the nuance of humanity.

This show is amazing.

And this latest episode released today - Me Time - is on par with any TV episode I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Claire Danes is ****ing brilliant. What a great show.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

This show is amazing.

And this latest episode released today - Me Time - is on par with any TV episode I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Claire Danes is ****ing brilliant. What a great show.

Queing it up now. I never knew when it posted. Thanks.

I'm a pretty good sized Claire Daines homer, so you're preaching to the chorr a bit there bud.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

This show is amazing.

And this latest episode released today - Me Time - is on par with any TV episode I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Claire Danes is ****ing brilliant. What a great show.

Yeah, the shit is heavy. I'm not sure I expected that. At least THAT heavy.

Spoiler!

That is a really good (IMO) look at mental trauma.

1. **** that Doctor. Thank Christ we had good doctors for our kids.

2. My wife had some post-partem depression with our first kid and a lot of that stuff resonated (I know the point was that it wasn't PPD)

3. The stay at home mom shit also resonated. Wife and I both have a sister that chose to stay at home, told us how much harder they work than us, and then proceed to complain about being broke. Obviously small town Kansas is much different from High End NYC, but I was like LOL NO WAY.

Personal shit aside, that was a good look into the spiral that you can go through with mental trauma.

I'm 39, so I'm the age of the people in the story, and some of the plot points resonated with my experience. Again, small town Kansas/Nebraska/MBA is much different from NYC, Isreal semester abroad stuff, medical school/liberal arts stuff but I really am surprised at how much it resonates with me. Further it makes me wonder how close I was to a similar miserable existence that affects the lead characters.

EDIT: I should point out in our case the problems are our sisters, not stay at home moms in general.

Really an interesting watch for me.