Topic: Top 10 Favourite TV Shows?

[CHOPPER]

Mr Benn
Camberwick Green
Tales of the Riverbank
Pipkins
Willo the Wisp
Trumpton
Bod
Finger Mouse
Rhubarb and Custard
Chigley

[McrRed]

Everyone loves The Wire.  I have seen 4.5 episodes and find each episode rather hard to get through.  What is wrong with me? 

Do I have to stick through further or am I just not likely to get it?

The pace is slow. If you can get used to it you'd probably enjoy it. Don't think action-cop series, its more Tales of the Riverbank but set in Baltimore.

[Xxavi]

I also watched The Wire, in fact, finished the first season and went far along the second season. May have even watched the second season, but it seemed repetitive. May be you like it when you watch an episode every week. I tried to binge-watch it, so I got really bored at some point.

I am looking for other shows to get on to. This thread is nice because I can look some of the popular ones on here. I wish there were more historical shows like Rome.

[JovaJova]

Everyone loves The Wire.  I have seen 4.5 episodes and find each episode rather hard to get through.  What is wrong with me? 

Do I have to stick through further or am I just not likely to get it?

Brain dead ? 😉

Stick with it. There are 100 pages in the wire thread filled with people like you, who are then raving about it two weeks later when it clicks

[robertobaggio37]

The Wire
Breaking Bad
Game Of Thrones
Californication
True Detective
The Office USA/UK
Suits
Sherlock
Generation Kill
Boardwalk Empire

[richmond-red]

In no particular order:-

The Wire
Breaking Bad
Deadwood
Justified
Game of Thrones
House of Cards (UK version with Ian Richardson)
Sherlock
Blackadder
Monty Python
Lost

Honourable mentions for:-

Sons of Anarchy
Mad Men
Walking Dead
Fast Show
Twin Peaks
Sopranos

[oojason]

Game Of Thrones
Red Dwarf
The West Wing
Battlestar Galactica
The Simpsons
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lost
Person Of Interest
Frasier
Star Fleet (X Bomber)


with honourable mentions for Cracker, Deep Space Nine, and Dangermouse - just because.

[Raheems Baby Boy]

In no order.

The sopranos
Curb your enthusiasm
Roseanne
Steptoe and son
The Simpson's
Seinfeld
True detective
Arrested development
The office us
Only fools

Only a few from the list I feel were steadily brilliant from start to finish, obviously some wained off near the end.
For instance the Simpson's wained off, but the Simpson's best moments are possibly the best moments in tv comedy ever, which is why it will always be better than the likes of Southpark for me .

A comedy heavy list.

[Raheems Baby Boy]

Everyone loves The Wire.  I have seen 4.5 episodes and find each episode rather hard to get through.  What is wrong with me? 

Do I have to stick through further or am I just not likely to get it?

For me the wire is not a slow burner, I found it gripping from the get go, only on season 3, and been ages since I finished that so need to get back to it.
Infact I found it quite the opposite, as in, season one was brilliant, season two not so, and then season three brilliant.

[Sarge]

My list is the bestest.

[LFC_Verve]

In order of enjoyment -

1. Only Fools and Horses.
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Breaking Bad
4. Game of Thrones
5. Lost
6. Sherlock
7. The Office (UK)
8. Dexter
9. Father Ted
10. Misfits

Struggled to remember ten series that I've watched, to be honest. Luckily I had a nose of other people's lists in here and my memory sparked back into life.

[MagicHat]

Everyone loves The Wire.  I have seen 4.5 episodes and find each episode rather hard to get through.  What is wrong with me? 

Do I have to stick through further or am I just not likely to get it?

I didn't find the first season great to be honest though I did like it (accents are very hard to adjust to first time), I tended to really love the even numbered seasons however.

1) Game of Thrones
2) Rome
3) Upstairs Downstairs (original)
4) Buffy

Then it gets harder to separate the rest

5) Firefly
6) Chuck
7) Walking Dead
8. The Killing (original)
9) Desperate Housewives
10) Star Trek, the original series

Honourable mentions to

Death Valley, Sherlock, The Wire, Soprano's, Arrested Development, Twin Peaks, Deadwood, Misfits, Being Human (UK version)

[lfcss]

In no particular order

Game of Thrones
Battlestar Galactica (remake)
House of Cards (original)
House of Cards (remake)
Star Trek TNG
Band of Brothers
Spartacus
The Equalizer
7 up (not quite sure its a series but its going in anyway)
Tour of Duty......was great late night tv when you're wasted

[Amirul1973]

Sopranos
24
The Simpsons
Oz
Lost
Entourage
The Wire
Weeds
Breaking Bad
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air

[KiNki]

Mr Benn
Camberwick Green
Tales of the Riverbank
Pipkins
Willo the Wisp
Trumpton
Bod
Finger Mouse
Rhubarb and Custard
Chigley

that explains it.

[payback]

not in any order

the sopranos
the simpsons
the world at war
blackadder
teachers
whose line is it anyway?
only fools and horses
i'm alan partridge
fawlty towers
the office (english version)

[gritsvanilla]

The Wire
Mad Men
Oz
Brass Eye
Our Friends In The North
I'm Alan Partridge
The Sweeney
Fawlty Towers
Bagpuss (only cause i had to have something in there by the absolutely brilliant Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin)
Jam

[gritsvanilla]

I also watched The Wire, in fact, finished the first season and went far along the second season. May have even watched the second season, but it seemed repetitive. May be you like it when you watch an episode every week. I tried to binge-watch it, so I got really bored at some point.

I am looking for other shows to get on to. This thread is nice because I can look some of the popular ones on here. I wish there were more historical shows like Rome.

Rome was class, cancelled by HBO/BBC due to it's incredible costs, it was quite probably one of the most expensive television programmes ever made.

If you're put off by The Wire's unrelenting realism and attention to detail and If you like things a little more surreal you could maybe try "Carnivale", there's only two seasons but it's one of the most offbeat, surreal pieces of television ever, there's an episode directed by the filmmaker Peter Medak that is one of the weirdest things you'll ever see, alternatively maybe try something a little lighter like the always excellent "Justified" or the largely under rated "Burn Notice", that last one is pure entertainment though, don't expect "I Claudius" which if you like historical dramas and haven't seen it might be worth checking out.

[telekon]

1. Freaks And Geeks
2. The Office (UK)
3. Star Trek: The Next Generation
4. Twin Peaks
5. Flight Of The Conchords
5. The Office (US)
6. Seinfeld
7. Undeclared
8. Parks And Recreation
9. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
10. The X-Files

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Boys From The Blackstuff
Twin Peaks
The Wire
Spiral (French)
The Killing (Scandanavian one)
State of Play
True Detective
Brass Eye
Treme
Homicide: Life On The Streets

that was quite hard.

Honorable mentions to:

Six Feet Under
The Sopranos
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (original)
Game of Thrones
The X-Files (before it went shit)
Nathan Barley
The Man From UNCLE
House of Cards (new one - not seen the old one)

[telekon]

1. Freaks And Geeks
2. The Office (UK)
3. Star Trek: The Next Generation
4. Twin Peaks
5. Flight Of The Conchords
5. The Office (US)
6. Seinfeld
7. Undeclared
8. Parks And Recreation
9. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
10. The X-Files

Ah, completely forgot Clown, the Danish show. Curb Your Enthusiasm, but better.

[Kenny's Jacket]

Everyone loves The Wire.  I have seen 4.5 episodes and find each episode rather hard to get through.  What is wrong with me? 

Do I have to stick through further or am I just not likely to get it?

Don't bother mate, its Gash. A tip, if you cant get into the wire, stay well away from True detectives

[Kenny's Jacket]

1. Only Fools and Horses
2 Spooks
3 Blackadder
4 House of Cards
5 Silent Witness 
6 Waking the dead (UK Cop show, not to be confused with that American crap about zombies)
7 Inbetweeners
8 Alan Partridge
9 The Shadow Lines
10 Suits

[jillcwhomever]

Mr Benn
Camberwick Green
Tales of the Riverbank
Pipkins
Willo the Wisp
Trumpton
Bod
Finger Mouse
Rhubarb and Custard
Chigley

How can you not have Mary, Mungo and Midge, the best one of the lot.

[AriGold]

1. Lost
2. Prison Break
3. Entourage
4. Only Fools and Horses
5. The Big Bang Theory
6. Supernatural
7. One Tree Hill
8. 24
9. Homeland
10. Friends

[jillcwhomever]

Sherlock
GBH
Spooks
Fraisier
Planet Earth
Line of Duty
GOT
Merlin
Being Human
Only Fools and Horses

[DrTobiasFunke]

In no particular order

Deadwood
The Wire
The Simpsons
Arrested Development
Seinfeld
The Sopranos
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The Shield
Carnivale

Tried not to include any shows still on TV* but Mad Men's nearly over and I can't see anything happening to change my opinion on it.

*In case someone has the nerve to question me, The Simpsons ended about 15 years ago

[just Riggins?]

1.  Friday Night Lights
2.  Breaking Bad
3.  Dawson's Creek
4.  Parenthood
5.  The Shield
6.  Curb Your Enthusiasm
7.  Drake & Josh
8.  Rescue Me
9.  The Office USA
10. The Good Wife

Tried to restrict it to shows that are over apart from Parenthood (looks like it might be curtains anyway) and The Good Wife which has been consistently brilliant for 100+ episodes now.

Watching about 40 shows at the moment so it'll most likely change a lot in the next 5-10 years when most of those finish.

[Titi Camara]

1. House
2. Six Feet Under
3. Game Of Thrones
4. Band of Brothers
5. The Sopranos
6. Twin Peaks
7. Boardwalk Empire
8. Hannibal
9. True Detective
10. Sherlock

Honourable mentions to:
House Of Cards
Luther
Boss
Utopia
Orange is the New Black
Breaking Bad
The X Files
Justified
Death Valley

[Yiannis]

Titi, your future on this message board depends on how you'll answer the following question:

You didn't include The Wire because you haven't seen it yet or you have but you don't rate it?

Think carefully before you answer 

[hide5seek]

Sopranos and House equal number 1 for me.
Fraisier, best American comedy show ever imo
Porridge and Only fools and Horses best British comedy shows ever imo.
World at war, the music, Laurence Olivier's voice and not even going into each actual shows content.
Band of brothers, quality.
Hill Street Blues, one from my youth years.
The Wire, slightly ruined by the 2 guys who are shot dead but you can see breathing.
The sweeney, your nicked.

[UntouchableLuis]

Six Feet Under
The Office UK
Seinfeld
The Sopranos
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Louie
Entourage

[Barefoot Doctor]

No real order:

The Sopranos
The West Wing
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Deadwood
Parks & Recreation
Father Ted
Frasier
Arrested Development
Friday Night Lights

[Titi Camara]

Titi, your future on this message board depends on how you'll answer the following question:

You didn't include The Wire because you haven't seen it yet or you have but you don't rate it?

Think carefully before you answer 

Ha ha I know how precious peeps can be about the wire so I'll try and thread carefully...

I didn't catch it first time around, or even second of third....I was literally years late to the party. As a result, for me it felt derivative, even a touch hackneyed or cliched. I appreciate this isn't the case as it was the precursor rather than follower.....but try as I might (and I tried thrice) to get into into I just couldn't as it felt dated and like several shows I'd seen before. I imagine if I'd have caught it when it first came out I'd have loved it but as it was it lacked impact for me....

It's a difficult spot to be in as I don't know anyone who doesn't bloody love it lol

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

Ha ha I know how precious peeps can be about the wire

*inserts apoplectic response here*

[Rob K]

Game of Thrones
The West Wing
Parks And Recreation
Arrested Development
The Thick Of It
I'm Alan Partridge
Spaced
Band Of Brothers
Blackadder
The Big Bang Theory

[Pistolero]

Sgt Bilko
Seinfeld
The Sopranos
The Larry Sanders Show
Boardwalk Empire
The World At War
Garth Merenghi's Darkplace
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Wire
Porridge

[dave 5516]

1. House
2. Six Feet Under
3. Game Of Thrones
4. Band of Brothers
5. The Sopranos
6. Twin Peaks
7. Boardwalk Empire
8. Hannibal
9. True Detective
10. Sherlock

Honourable mentions to:
House Of Cards
Luther
Boss
Utopia
Orange is the New Black
Breaking Bad
The X Files

I can't begin to understand your lack of love for both The Wire and Breaking Bad...but it's cool...

What's not cool is your lack of love for Deadwood!! Cocksucker!!

The dialogue in Deadwood is better than anything on the tv...ever.Cocksucker!!

 




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[dave 5516]

1. House
2. Six Feet Under
3. Game Of Thrones
4. Band of Brothers
5. The Sopranos
6. Twin Peaks
7. Boardwalk Empire
8. Hannibal
9. True Detective
10. Sherlock

Honourable mentions to:
House Of Cards
Luther
Boss
Utopia
Orange is the New Black
Breaking Bad
The X Files

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[Titi Camara]

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No idea why I've never given this a go. Stellar cast like. On episode two now, excellent stuff so far!