Your favourite TV series

Ok here's the deal.

Suggest TWO tv series and tell everyone else why these series are so good - and why they should watch them.

C'mon people - sell these! Show that these shows are so good people can't NOT watch it.


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#1 The Wire


FANTASTIC Tv series - showing both sides in Baltimore; the drug dealers and the police.

The police are not the cliched shite you will see on other programes - but all come across as real people. The drug dealers likewise; some have honour, some don't - some are happy doing what they do - others got roped into it - either way they all come across as real people.

Over the course of the seasons you can't help but develop a genuine sympathy for the drug dealers - as you come to realise that ultimately most of them are in the situation they are in as they lack an education and lack oppurtunities - most of them are just trying to make a living in a world where the odds are stacked against them - society does nothing for them, and so they do nothing for society.

Likewise, the police are a mixed bunch - some are just in it cause they are good at it, others like McNulty are in the job to make a difference, but the difference they make is minimal due to 'red tape' and corruption - and even this small difference comes at a cost to their own private lives.



It's all very well acted and the story moves at the pace of a good book - in fact, you'd be forgiven for thinking this was a book set out over 20 episodes - as it was written not by 'script writers' but by authors - and boy do these guys know how to tell a good story. You won't find many cliches in here - you won't find the Cop who does things his own way and everyone else - you won't find the hard-ass chief who does things by the back - nothing is black and white - everything is coloured in shades - if it can be said to be 'coloured' at all.

Well worth a watch - but it takes a few episodes to settle into the swing of things.

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#2 Battlestar Galactica


Unlike normal sci-fi programes this one focuses on the human race as the underdog - fleeing the very machines they created which are now intent upon exterminating every last one of them.

After a surprise attack humanity numbers a mere 50,000 and has only one battleship, the rest being transport/civillian vessels.

The script is good and the acting likewise is of a good standard. The best thing about this is despite the fact it involves humanity fleeing from killer robots it comes across as believable - only a few episodes in and you can connect with the characters and understand what they are going through.

Some of the characters are superbly done - such as Gauis Baltar - on the one hand responsible for humanity's brush with extinction, on the other hand; the only man who has the intelligence to come up with a way to save humanity. This constant conflict between traitor and hero that Baltar experiences (the rest of the crew unaware of his role in the initial attack) makes for compelling viewing.



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So come on people - post your own and let's see what is worth watching and what isn't!

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X-files
Supernatural
The Sopranos etc

Hustle
Rome.

I will suggest only one and this one is great- Las Vegas.
As they say, fast-paced sexy drama or comedia or simply dramedia.
Great show, lot of beautiful women, good jokes & quotes such as: " poor men are pervert, rich men are eccentric" and things like that. Good music too.
I don`t watch too many series.:hmmm: Watched only Prisonbreak besides this one. I`m kinda dissapointed with Prisonbreak, first season was great, maybe even second but third&this last one are just bs, nothing more than that.

House, Dexter, The Wire, Lost and X-files.. And the first season of Prison Break.

1. Rome

2. Sharpe

3. Bottom

4. Terminator :- The Sarah Connor Choricles

5. Las Vegas

X-Files - Amazing conspiracy story arc combined with brilliant acting and direction.
Firefly - Uhhh the same as X-Files, would be superior had the show last longer.
Twilight Zone - I cannot get enough of this amazing series when I see it on late night television. One of the best shows ever made.

ReGenesis

A Canadian series about a team of scientists of the fictional organisation "NorBAC", investigating epidemics, bio-terrorism etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenesis

The intro of the first two seasons alone was extremely spooky. It showed a suit on his way, the camera focused on what the guy touched (i.e. the handrail of an escalator), then you see him buying a newspaper, the camera focusing on his hand giving the clerk his coin, next you can already see something's wrong with him - he's using a public telephone, when suddenly some blood flows from his nose.

He walks on and suddenly collapses on his way. The last shot of him shows him in a plastic bag...

What makes this series so cool is that it's topic is something spooky that can affect everybody, unlike some internal secret service conflicts like in 24 and the like.

Check it out!
-Der Ketzerfreund.

Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It doesn't even require this self defeating qualifying statement.

OP: I take it you are on about the new Battlestar Galactica? I've not seen it, but I grew up with the real one. Even clips of the remake make my toes curl...

Originally Posted by Ummagumma

Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It doesn't even require this self defeating qualifying statement.

OP: I take it you are on about the new Battlestar Galactica? I've not seen it, but I grew up with the real one. Even clips of the remake make my toes curl...

I always used to watch the Original on the Sci-Fi channel!

Seinfeld and Rome.
Odd mix, but hey, what can you do?

The X-Files. I discovered it about 20 months ago and I finished it a couple of months ago. It was absolutely brilliant from beginning to end. I didn't actually watch TV shows for the sake of the story before I came across The X-Files. But something about it just pulled me in. I doubt that a day goes by without me watching an episode.

EDIT - Am far too tired to follow rules of thread.

Deep Space 9
V (The mini series )

Originally Posted by Noble Savage

V (The mini series )

Yeah, remember having watched this series as a kid on tv and only later found out, it actually had a 18+rating.Loved the sand sharks...

HBO's Rome
Sopranos
Obviously Daily Show + Colbert Report

The Prisoner ~Groundbreaking, surreal, years ahead of it's time. Made by the 1960's biggest TV star with no regard for ratings or popularity, something that would be impossible to do nowadays. All the best judges love this show


I can't think of a second at the moment. The Twilight Zone does deserve an honourable mention though.

Has no one seen Burn Notice or Rescue Me? Those are two outstanding shows!!

Dexter, Criminal Minds, CSI, Bones, Las Vegas, Seinfeld and Futurama. I will hate Fox forever for cancelling that show.

1. Trailer Park Boys (Soon to R.I.P.) *NOTE* 1-hour special, Series finale set for 2009
2. Rome (R.I.P.)
3. Prison Break
4. The Wire (R.I.P.)
5. Tudors

Heroes
Prison Break, only the first season
The simpsons
House

Love em

1.Rome-the best ever(too bad only 2 seasons)
2.x-files
3.lost
4.Highlander
5.MacGyver(the man could build a nuclear bomb using toothpicks)