Your Top 10 TV Series?

[vic mackey]

here are
My top 10 series
1 The wire
2 Homeland
3 The shield
4 The Big bang theory
5 Dexter
6 The Mentalist
7 Breaking bad
8 Battlestar galactica
9 Seinfeld
10 Supernatural

 

[James]

24.


And to all those who say otherwise...

 

[umerz]

2 and a half men

 

[oyei]

Entourage
Breaking Bad
Seinfeld
The killing(short only 2 seasons)
The wire
Boardwalk Empire (2nd season was kind of slow)

 

[pakistanalltheway]

Fresh Prince of bel air ?

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

In no particular order, these are more recent and have refrained from mentioning comedies/sitcoms

1) 24
2) The Wire
3) Lost
4) Prison Break
5) Breaking Bad
6) Dexter
7) Luther (BBC)
8) Sherlock (BBC)
9) The Walking Dead
10) Game of Thrones

 

[James]

Lately been watching two political shows with very different tones and settings!

The West Wing and The Thick of It.

Both pure class.

 

[Space Cat]

Anything by HBO.

Quality TV.

 

[PB]

Seinfeld
Two And A Half Men
8 Simple Rules
King Of Queens
Smart Guy
Anger Management

 

[leatherface58]

In no particular order

Twin Peaks
Supernatural
True Blood
The Shield
Dexter
The Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Mystery Science Theatre 3000
Firefly
Spartacus

Havent got around to watching 24 and Lost. Will finish Supernatural first. Damn addictive the show is

 

[Stewie]

Fringe

 

[Space Cat]

In no particular order

Twin Peaks
Supernatural
True Blood
The Shield
Dexter
The Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Mystery Science Theatre 3000
Firefly
Spartacus

Havent got around to watching 24 and Lost. Will finish Supernatural first. Damn addictive the show is

Firefly!

Loved that show.

 

[Blitzkrieg27]

West Wing - Classiest show of all time IMO. Aaron Sorkin and the best ensemble cast assembled on American Television

Suits - Pretty Refreshing

Big Bang Theory - Need I say more

Breaking Bad - Gripping

Two and a Half Men - Would just watch this for Charlie and ofcourse the pretty ladies

Seinfeld - No list is complete without this one

Game of Thrones - Very interesting

Yes Minister / Prime Minister - British Comedy at its intellectual best.

 

[I Believe in the Teesra]

For all those that love firefly, check out Castle. Nathan Fillion is a beast.

No Particular Order:

Community
Castle
Chuck
Game of Thrones
Alphas
Dexter

 

[Space Cat]

Nobody mentioned two other great shows.

The Sopranos
Deadwood

The HBO Hard Knocks and 24/7 shows are also awesome.

 

[leatherface58]

Oh yeah Castle is also a very fun show. I like it when it turns moderately serious but not TOO serious.

Even White collar is a good show. Its effortlessly charming.

Another quality show would be Tales from The Crypt. Some hilariously scary episodes with shocking endings.

 

[leatherface58]

delete

 

[Kwremb]

Arrested Development & Community

 

[Black Zero]

i have not seen many

but for me

seinfeld
sherlock (season 1)
x-files (first few seasons)

 

[B@$!T]

Entourage
Game of thrones
That 70's show
Big bang theory
How I met your mother
The Cosby show
Vampire diaries
Everybody hates chris
New girl
Family guy

 

[tdigi]

Seinfeld
Frasier
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Boardwalk Empire
Six Feet Under
Prison Break (1st season)
Lost (1st & 2nd season)
Curb Your Enthusiasm


Entourage
Damages (1st season)
Sex and the City
West Wing
X Files

Note: I have not watched The Wire.

 

[ddss]

Suits
Breaking Bad
Modern Family

 

[DW44]

10 - CSI NY
9 - Heroes
8 - The A-Team
7 - How I met your mother
6 - Friends
5 - Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
4 - Fawlty Towers
3 - Person of Interest (Just one season in but what a season it was)
2 - Boston Legal
1 - The Simpsons

 

[lonex]

Friends, did I mentioned friends.. and i love friends ...

big bang theory,
the office
two and half men (charly sheen version), now it is super gay.
south park

 

[musaarthali]

Breaking bad
Prison break
Wire
Big bang theory
Game of Thrones
Sherlock
Evrybody loves Raymond
Lost
Arrested development
Dexter

 

[Robert]

Ever?

Thunderbirds
Star Trek (original series)
Doctor Who (1970-76)
Hill Street Blues
Babylon 5
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
South Park
The Wire
Family Guy

 

[RexRex]

Mcgyver.
The Fall Guy
Saved by the bell.
Moonlighting.
Remington Steele.
Tour of Duty
Mash.
Santa Barbara.

 

[James]

Ah Robert!

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Stingray and Scarlet were class as well.

 

[Garuda]

Yeh jo hai Zindagi
Phir wohi Talash
Fauji
Office Office
Nukkad
Humlog
Dekh Bhai Dekh
Srimaan Srimati
Yes Boss

 

[bixby]

in no particular order:

dr who
chicago hope
24
starfleet
incredible hulk
only fools
red dwarf
porridge

 

[SempreSami]

Parks & Recreation
15 Storeys High
Peep Show
Black Books
Forbrydelsen (The Killing)
Wallander
Taggart
Frasier
The Thick of It
Battlestar Galactica (Ronald D Moore version)

 

[BMW Power]

wow, almost the end of the 1st page and no mention of Top Gear?

 

[shaykh1985]

24
The Wire
Oz
The Shield
Sleeper Cell
Dexter
Prison Break
Law and Order
American Dad
The Ali G Show

 

[Namak_Halaal]

- Only Fools and Horses
- Spooks
- The West Wing
- Las Vegas

Nothing else really.

 

[Akmal Dynasty]

My favourites now.

Game Of thrones.

True Blood.

Spartacus.

Californication.

 

[SempreSami]

wow, almost the end of the 1st page and no mention of Top Gear?

It hasn't been good for a while.

 

[sa88]

The Thick of It
Doctor Who
Lost (except the finale - that was retarded)
Scrubs (Seasons 1 - 4, I like to pretend there were no episodes after that)
The Sopranos
Firefly
Rome
Game of thrones
Planet Earth
Battlestar Galactica (again - weird ending)

Frensh prince must also be mentioned.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

Shows bein watched at the moment are

the thick of it
community
Fresh meat(again)

Big fan of other shows mentioned here such as the wire,Prisonbreak lost etc

Also loved Spooks on BBC before it got canned.

 

[James]

On episode 8 of Homeland. Magnificent stuff.

 

[Kwremb]

My full list:

The Wire
Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Boardwalk Empire
Game of Thrones
Deadwood
Simpsons
Community
Arrested Development
Friends

 

[Poison]

Suits
Breaking Bad
Dexter

/thread

 

[bmwduran]

Supernatural
Planet of the Apes
Ghost Whisperer
Legend of the seeker
Star Trek
Six Million Dollar Man
Battle Star Galactica

 

[imrankhannsu]

24
Two and a Half Men
Shelock (BBC)
The Cosby Show
The A Team
Friends
X Files
Dallas (original)
Twin Peaks
Misson Impossible

 

[USaqaf]

here are
My top 10 series
1 The wire
2 Homeland
3 The shield
4 The Big bang theory
5 Dexter
6 The Mentalist
7 Breaking bad
8 Battlestar galactica
9 Seinfeld
10 Supernatural

Deadwood, Justified, Veep , Hell on Wheels, Louie, Lillyhammer are pretty good too.

 

[ads101]

No particular order:
Seinfeld
Curb your Enthusiasm
Black Books
Cheers
South Park
Only Fools and Horses
Peep Show
Fraiser
Futurama
Inbetweeners

 

[Keith]

Cheers
Mash
Fawlty Towers
Big Bang Theory
South Park
Frazier
Seinfeld
2 and a half men
Game of thrones

 

[shaykh1985]

Finished watching the Danish version of The Killing this week...was pleasantly impressed...Scandinavia does do good crime shows...

 

[Bewal Express]

My Favourite All time 10 are:
Only Fools and Horses
Porridge
Fawlty Towers
Blackadder
Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister
The IT Crowd
The Peep Show
They Think its all over
Mock the Week
Moonlighting

 

[shortbread]

For fans of 'The Wire', I found a lot of similarities when I started watching HBO's 'We own this city' lately. It's almost nostalgic.

While I'm not here to say it's as good as Wire, that's for each watcher to judge. But soo many eerie similarities. Again this is set in Baltimore, dare I say this I missed Baltimore (as a TV viewer atleast).

This time the tables have turned, they're chasing the corrupt and brutal inside the Baltimore police department. Wire taps, money, courtrooms etc..etc..

To top it all 'We own this city' is based on a true story. Created by The Wire's team David Simon and George Pelecanos, along with former writers and cast members of legendary show.

Bad news, it's only 6 episodes.

https://youtu.be/Ig9BcW7gXvE

 

[Robert]

Ever?

Thunderbirds
Star Trek (original series)
Doctor Who (1970-76)
Hill Street Blues
Babylon 5
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
South Park
The Wire
Family Guy

Updated:

Lose South Park and Family Guy and include Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

IASIP, Arrested Development, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Chicago Fire, Parks & Recreation, The Office (both), Barry, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mind Your Language

 

[Firebat]

In no particular order:

Daredevil
Better Call Saul
Breaking Bad
The Office US
Community
Severance
Fargo
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Boys
Black Mirror

 

[sweep_shot]

Don't really have a top 10 list as I generally watch more movies than TV shows.

But, I used to enjoy these:

Law and Order: Criminal Intent
Relic Hunter
Family Guy
South Park
The Simpsons
King of the Hill.

 

[Robert]

The Boys

I wanted to like it but Butcher and Hughie are horribly miscast IMO.

 

[IMMY69]

How about the following shows?

Gavin and Stacy
The Inbetweeners

Anyone rate these two? I love'em

 

[jeetu]

Its tough to pegionhole tv series , so i recalling the first one that came to my mind by category
Indian - Mahabharat (B.R.Chopra) , Buniyaad , Hum Log , Ramayan (Ramanand Sagar) , Chanakya , Yeh Joh hai Zindagi , Discovery of India , Chunauti
British - Yes Minister/Prime Minister , Coupling , Fawlty Towers , Sherlock Holmes ( Jermy Brett) , Sherlock , Doctor Who (David Tennant-MattSmith episodes) , Mr Bean , Blackadder , The IT Crowd
Science Fiction - Star Tek (TOS , TNG) , Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined) , Farscape , Babylon5 , Lost
Comedy - Friends , Seinfeld , The Big Bang Theory , Arrested Development
Crime Based - Breaking Bad , Criminal Minds , Law and Order SVU (early seasons) , The Mentalist , Miami Vice , The Profiler
Superhero - The Arrow , Daredevil
Horror Thriller - The X-Files , American Horror Story

 

[Saj]

House of Cards surely has to be in any top 10.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

House of Cards surely has to be in any top 10.

A show tainted by its lead being a, supposed, deviant

 

[nextover666666]

Im just going based on top of my head their this wayyy too many shows i love mainly funny shows but here goes. This is just my opinion


1) The Boondocks

2) People just do Nothing

3) The Office

4) Community

5) Everybody Loves Raymond

6) Home movies

7) The Simpsons ( season 1 to 10) after that was downhill and stopped watching

8) The Steve Harvey Show

9) Everybody hates Chris

10) The IT Crowd



Non- Comedy Shows.


1) Breaking Bad

2) Narcos

3) Better Call Saul

4) Prison Break

5) Supernatural

6) Black Mirror

7) Al- Hayba

8) Spawn cartoon - very dark show

9) Dark Matter

10) X-Files

 

[BunnyRabbit]

1. That 70s Show (Grew up watching it)
2. House M.D (Something related to my profession plus solid writing)
3. The Punisher (The acting, action and dialogue is perfect for my liking)
4. Twilight Zone (A must see for horror fans)
5. Ash vs Evil Dead (Big fan of Bruce Campbell and his signature comedy alongwith Raimi stuff)
6. Sherlock (Nosedived after the second season quickly)
7. True Detective (Just the first season)
8. Peacemaker (Although it's been only 1 season, but it has my kind of humor)

Respectfully not including Breaking Bad, The Wire, Fargo, Oz and a lot more cause they are just too much anxiety provoking and I watch shows to escape it.

 

[Robert]

8. Peacemaker (Although it's been only 1 season, but it has my kind of humor)

Respectfully not including Breaking Bad, The Wire, Fargo, Oz and a lot more cause they are just too much anxiety provoking and I watch shows to escape it.

True Detective didn't provoke anxiety but those others did? I found it extremely alarming in places, the child molestation themes particularly.

 

[BunnyRabbit]

True Detective didn't provoke anxiety but those others did? I found it extremely alarming in places, the child molestation themes particularly.

It did especially with McConaghey's character . But Matt gave a Daniel Day Lewis-esque performance that made me engulf in it. It was only 8 episodes long. So that's why it makes my list. Others are lengthy series with a lot of seasons.

Breaking Bad and The Wire were seasons of tense atmosphere.

 

[Stewie]

Stranger Things
The Boys
Night Sky

 

[in_cutter]

1. Dark
2. Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul
3. Chernobyl
4. The Inbetweeners
5. The Office UK
6. The Office US
7. What We Do In The Shadows
8. Black Mirror
9. The End Of The F*****g World
10. Narcos (S1)

 

[Robert]

It did especially with McConaghey's character . But Matt gave a Daniel Day Lewis-esque performance that made me engulf in it. It was only 8 episodes long. So that's why it makes my list. Others are lengthy series with a lot of seasons.

Breaking Bad and The Wire were seasons of tense atmosphere.

Yeah, stunning performance.

The latter Better Call Saul seasons are nerve-shredding in places too.

 

[Browncaps]

The X-files

Criminal Minds

Snowpiercer

Better Call Saul

The Blacklist

FBI

The Walking Dead

Riverdale

Young Sheldon

Fargo

 

[daytrader]

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter

Comedy series Fawlty Towers is set to be revived after more than 40 years.

John Cleese, who played Basil Fawlty, will be returning to write and star alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

The two-series show, which featured on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979, followed the lives of Torquay hotelier Basil and his wife Sybil as they tried to keep their business and marriage afloat.

The new series will explore how the dramatic and cynical Basil navigates the modern world.

Castle Rock Entertainment announced on Tuesday it had closed a deal with Cleese to bring back the television series.

The revival will also see Basil and a daughter he has just discovered is his, team up to run a boutique hotel.

Cleese is also well known as one of the original members of the Monty Python comedy group.

...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64563839

 

[Robert]

Further update….

Thunderbirds
Star Trek (original series)
Doctor Who (1970-76)
Hill Street Blues
Babylon 5
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul
Bojack Horseman

 

[SpiritOf1903]

Further update….

Thunderbirds
Star Trek (original series)
Doctor Who (1970-76)
Hill Street Blues
Babylon 5
The Sopranos
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul
Bojack Horseman

Bojack. Genius

 

[Robert]

Bojack. Genius

Glad you like it. An animated show about funny animal people, that is as good drama as most of the rest of my list.

Interesting take on generational trauma leading to Bojack’s addictions and irresponsible behaviour.

I wonder if they had the series mapped from the beginning, as events in seasons 2 and 3 became critical in season 6.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

Glad you like it. An animated show about funny animal people, that is as good drama as most of the rest of my list.

Interesting take on generational trauma leading to Bojack’s addictions and irresponsible behaviour.

I wonder if they had the series mapped from the beginning, as events in seasons 2 and 3 became critical in season 6.

With regards the plotline it becomes seriously serious.

Isn't Bojack a predator?

 

[DeadlyVenom]

My top 10.

1. The Wire
2. The Sopranos
3. Ertugrul
4. Better Call Saul.
5. Breaking Bad.
6. Line of Duty
7. Community
8. Prison Break ( jumped the shark midway through season 2 but still loved it).
9. Narcos ( combined mexico and columbia).
10. House of Cards

 

[Robert]

6. Line of Duty

Brilliant especially seasons 2, 3 & 4. The two Lindsey stories and the Ros story.

 

[Robert]

With regards the plotline it becomes seriously serious.

Isn't Bojack a predator?

In my opinion, no. He was desperate for love and attention due to his awful parents. His depression and his pills and booze problem made that far worse. He made a lot of irresponsible and cowardly decisions because of this tearing need.

The long argument between Bojack and Diane at the “Philbert” launch is superlative drama.

 

[MenInG]

Fawlty Towers: John Cleese to revive series with daughter

Comedy series Fawlty Towers is set to be revived after more than 40 years.

John Cleese, who played Basil Fawlty, will be returning to write and star alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.

The two-series show, which featured on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979, followed the lives of Torquay hotelier Basil and his wife Sybil as they tried to keep their business and marriage afloat.

The new series will explore how the dramatic and cynical Basil navigates the modern world.

Castle Rock Entertainment announced on Tuesday it had closed a deal with Cleese to bring back the television series.

The revival will also see Basil and a daughter he has just discovered is his, team up to run a boutique hotel.

Cleese is also well known as one of the original members of the Monty Python comedy group.

...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64563839

Any Fawlty towers fans?

 

[SpiritOf1903]

In my opinion, no. He was desperate for love and attention due to his awful parents. His depression and his pills and booze problem made that far worse. He made a lot of irresponsible and cowardly decisions because of this tearing need.

The long argument between Bojack and Diane at the “Philbert” launch is superlative drama.

A very ambiguous situation but that heavily leans on Hollywood culture.

Arnott is superb. Flaked is worth a watch.
[MENTION=93712]MenInG[/MENTION]

Fawlty Towers is a British icon bit the reboot won't work, surely.

Frasier coming back too

 

[Robert]

Any Fawlty towers fans?

Not particularly - while the stories were superbly written I was always uncomfortable with the extreme incompetence, creeping to the upper classes, and self-hate of the protagonist.

 

[SpiritOf1903]

Not particularly - while the stories were superbly written I was always uncomfortable with the extreme incompetence, creeping to the upper classes, and self-hate of the protagonist.

And the racism.

 

[Robert]

And the racism.

Was it racist? “The Germans” has a lot of nationalist slurs but those were more about Fawlty’s ignorance.

 

[KB]

The Wire as many have mentioned already was amazing. I marvel at the scale of the ambition, at way it says something so profound on the human condition.

I also thought Mad Men was brilliant. A fine cultural history of the 1960s in the US. Also brings out the ambivalence we feel about advertising - on one side we associate advertising with cynicism, fabrication, hucksterism, creating a secular religion of mass consumption, of inventing want, of leaving us never satisfied. On the other we can see it as a creative process that taps into what we would like and may lack and at its best is rooted in real emotions.

Something a bit different - I really liked the British sitcom, Yes Minister. So many brilliant lines in it. We also get to observe the British art of never quite saying what is meant.

“Minister, if I am pressed for a straight answer I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one thing with another, in terms of the average of departments, then in the last analysis it is probably true to say that, at the end of the day, you would find, in general terms that, not to put too fine a point on it, there really was not very much in it one way or the other."