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..And preferably Netflix, so I can actually watch the episodes...when I'm trying to sleep...which is the only time I watch TV...except for movies cause they're the shit sometimes... And enough multiple periods that represent hanging thoughts which precede other sentences (there's a fem-dom joke in there somewhere, eh?). Too far? Anyways.....

I vote "Always Sunny In Philadelphia". No explanation required.

Close second to "Supernatural", as I can watch it when I can't sleep and can be entertained because I love horror but don't care about it so much that if I wanna roll over and pass the fcuk out I'm not missing anything.

Of course Breaking Bad. Incredible, yea, but please nothing cliche unless I haven't seen it.

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The office stays on repeat for me. Also cant get enough of ancient aliens 👽
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I'm partial to dramas, so my recs may not fit your preferences but since you asked...

I just started "Ozark" last night. Looks pretty good so far. If you like Breaking Bad, you might like this.

Trying to get into "Sense8", but only seen a couple episodes so far. Visually stunning. Sci-fi drama.

"The Fall" w/ Gillian Anderson. British crime drama. 3 short seasons (17 total episodes) so not a big time suck.

"Luther" w/ Edris Elba. Another BBC crime drama.

"Black Mirror". Kind of like The Twilight Zone with a focus on the dark side of technology. Each episode stands alone.

"Terriers" I think I may have been the only person to watch this show when it originally aired. Probably why it only got one season. But enjoyable, fun former-cop/not-a-cop buddy crime drama. Only 13 episodes.

"Rectify" is one of my favorite shows of all time. Love the characters, great acting, brilliant writing. But it is the epitome of slow TV. If you're looking for action, this is not the show for you. But if you appreciate character development and beautiful storytelling, check it out. But not a binge-worthy show. Take it in slow.

Not on Netflix but favorites of mine...

"The Leftovers" (HBO)
"The Americans" (FX)
"Humans" (BBC/AMC)
"Orphan Black" (BBCA)
"Mr. Robot" (USA)
"The Man in the High Castle" (Amazon Prime)
"Catastrophe" (Amazon Prime)
And of course, "Game of Thrones" (HBO)
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Okay. Mis-read your post. Thought you were asking for recommendations.

Best show on TV: Breaking Bad.

Rectify, Game of Thrones, Mad Men tied for second place.

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I have recently enjoyed Suits (USA network or amazon prime streaming) and blacklist. Those were shows I enjoyed enough to keep me awake.

I just started the tick on prime streaming. I don’t love it, more of entertertaining white noise while I clean the kitchen.
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The best thing on TV is netflix/hulu/amazon prime...b/c there are no commercials its all automatically better than that other stuff.

Funny thing happened once my first kid was born...I was stuck inside alot with out the ability to really do much so for the first time in my life I seriously started watching alot of tv....

The Best? unquestionably is in the anime genre...its a visual paradise with the worlds best mixed media fine arts people working with some of the most imaginative writers on the planet...they are not bounded by silly things like budgets and market expectations...at least not to the degree hollywood is. Attack on Titan, knights of Sidonia, sword art online...the list goes on and on and this stuff isnt just for kids...
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Hands down, "The Missing", a 16 part series has been the best thing outside of "Breaking Bad", which rules them all...
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I don't really watch much TV. That is not to say that I don't watch stuff but not the tv itself. My wife and I have movie night on Friday and at the weekends might watch a few older series that we bought on DVD. Aside from that, though, we are anime watchers. Me more so than her. Or rather, she is really into long running main stream shows and I am more into short 12-26 episode SOL shows.

I don't have much hope for the fall season but it has to be better than the previous summer season. I have not even started watching anything from this season but from last my top picks would be Sakura Quest and New Game season 2. A few seasons old but Sakurako-san no Ashimoto ni wa Shitai ga Umatteiru is a gem!

If I do watch TV it is discovery....so yeah.

Oh, and you likely won't find this on netflix but it is not hard to find on the net. Or if you have crunchy roll... :mrgreen:
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I know you're a Star Wars guy so this might be blasphemy... but there's a lot of Star Trek on Netflix. TNG has a rough ratio of 5-1 good episodes to bad, and the great episodes truly are some of the best things ever put on tv. Voyager finds its stride once they get seven of nine, and even deep space nine has a handful of good episodes every once in a while.
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The only things I've seen in the past few years that I really enjoyed were American Gods and White Rabbit Project.

I really wanted to enjoy Black Mirror and all of the Marvel stuff after Daredevil. Black Mirror was supposed to be a modern sort of Twilight Zone. I felt like it asks you to believe both that the scenarios presented in show are possibile and therefore something to fear and to simultaneously suspend your disbelief because some of the subject matter is so weird and ridiculous, which I always found at odds. The Twilight Zone dealt with a lot of the same themes but was firmly surreal; it has episodes about a possessed slot machine and a haunted car that prevents its owner from lying. It never asked me to fear a given scenario directly, so it was able to get me to fully suspend my disbelief, which let it explore the same themes of personhood, pride, truth, and what have you through symbolism.

I kind of liked Luke Cage because I enjoy the subject matter and the hero was always a favorite of mine, but it was weak compares to Daredevil. Jessica Jones was maybe a bit better but I don't have any affinity for the character or subject. Iron Fist is a train wreck from casting to script to direction to editing.

Edit: I agree that TNG is perhaps the best television show ever made and almost certainly the best sci-fi show taken as a whole; Firefly is better but is a depressing half show. I'll never forgive Fox for ruining it. The BSG remake is close on its heels, but it limped to its conclusion.
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The Great British Baking Show... don't you judge me.
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Lepus wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2017 1:25 pm The only things I've seen in the past few years that I really enjoyed were American Gods and White Rabbit Project.

I really wanted to enjoy Black Mirror and all of the Marvel stuff after Daredevil. Black Mirror was supposed to be a modern sort of Twilight Zone. I felt like it asks you to believe both that the scenarios presented in show are possibile and therefore something to fear and to simultaneously suspend your disbelief because some of the subject matter is so weird and ridiculous, which I always found at odds. The Twilight Zone dealt with a lot of the same themes but was firmly surreal; it has episodes about a possessed slot machine and a haunted car that prevents its owner from lying. It never asked me to fear a given scenario directly, so it was able to get me to fully suspend my disbelief, which let it explore the same themes of personhood, pride, truth, and what have you through symbolism.

I kind of liked Luke Cage because I enjoy the subject matter and the hero was always a favorite of mine, but it was weak compares to Daredevil. Jessica Jones was maybe a bit better but I don't have any affinity for the character or subject. Iron Fist is a train wreck from casting to script to direction to editing.

Edit: I agree that TNG is perhaps the best television show ever made and almost certainly the best sci-fi show taken as a whole; Firefly is better but is a depressing half show. I'll never forgive Fox for ruining it. The BSG remake is close on its heels, but it limped to its conclusion.
Yeah, I watched one episode of Black Mirror and maybe it was the worst example but I just won't give it another shot after that. Pig porking doesn't shine a good light on the show...
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Yeah, that's a reasonable and I am sure common response. I've seen that episode (The National Anthem), Fifteen Million Merits, The Waldo Moment, Hated in the Nation, and White Christmas. The National Anthem is the first episode and the most aggressive in terms of dealing with taboo subjects, but the others indulge in what are subjectively darker themes; in particular Fifteen Million Merits deals heavily with pornography and sexual slavery. Most of the episodes explore erosion of the self and privacy. None of it bothered me much, but I wouldn't show it to my mother. Leading with the most offensive episode is perhaps not a great way to hook people, but anyone relatively desensitized to violence and unsentisized to sex should be able to manage the rest. White Christmas was my favorite of them all and I actually quite liked it. It truly stands up to the Twilight Zone comparison and by itself it's exceptional; if it had just been a movie named Black Mirror I'd have nothing to say but praise.

The other four didn't live up to the Twilight Zone's legacy. National Anthem showcases what I dislike most about them; the plot is just ridiculously implausible, to the point I couldn't suspend my disbelief. All I could think about were what I considered plot holes while the show was focused on making itself serious and dark. If you want me to think of your show as gritty, I need to believe it's at least vaguely plausible given the confines of the reality you set forth. If you set forth a reality that stems from our own, it needs to follow our own society's logic. In the end I thought it was self-righteous, pretentious crap, but not because of the pig.

Fifteen Million Merits was the most frustrating because I expected it to be satisfying, but the ending had all the subtlety and panache of a jackhammer. THIS IS SYMBOLISM. YOU ARE AN ANIMAL. LIFE IS SAD. YOU ARE ALONE. THE PENGUIN IS SAD. THE CHARACTERS ARE SAD. YOU ARE ALONE. ALL PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS. I'M HITTING YOU WITH SYMBOLISM. Etc etc etc. You have had seventy years to learn a little tact in from Huxley and Orwell in the face of dystopia, Mr. Brooker. Neither the pen nor the keyboard is a bludgeon.
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I don't have much patience for TV dramas or even sitcoms anymore. I'm not sure why. A couple I really enjoyed in the past few years were Breaking Bad and Mad Men. I enjoyed Billy Bob in Goliath.
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Lepus wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:51 pm Yeah, that's a reasonable and I am sure common response. I've seen that episode (The National Anthem), Fifteen Million Merits, The Waldo Moment, Hated in the Nation, and White Christmas. The National Anthem is the first episode and the most aggressive in terms of dealing with taboo subjects, but the others indulge in what are subjectively darker themes; in particular Fifteen Million Merits deals heavily with pornography and sexual slavery. Most of the episodes explore erosion of the self and privacy. None of it bothered me much, but I wouldn't show it to my mother. Leading with the most offensive episode is perhaps not a great way to hook people, but anyone relatively desensitized to violence and unsentisized to sex should be able to manage the rest. White Christmas was my favorite of them all and I actually quite liked it. It truly stands up to the Twilight Zone comparison and by itself it's exceptional; if it had just been a movie named Black Mirror I'd have nothing to say but praise.

The other four didn't live up to the Twilight Zone's legacy. National Anthem showcases what I dislike most about them; the plot is just ridiculously implausible, to the point I couldn't suspend my disbelief. All I could think about were what I considered plot holes while the show was focused on making itself serious and dark. If you want me to think of your show as gritty, I need to believe it's at least vaguely plausible given the confines of the reality you set forth. If you set forth a reality that stems from our own, it needs to follow our own society's logic. In the end I thought it was self-righteous, pretentious crap, but not because of the pig.

Fifteen Million Merits was the most frustrating because I expected it to be satisfying, but the ending had all the subtlety and panache of a jackhammer. THIS IS SYMBOLISM. YOU ARE AN ANIMAL. LIFE IS SAD. YOU ARE ALONE. THE PENGUIN IS SAD. THE CHARACTERS ARE SAD. YOU ARE ALONE. ALL PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS. I'M HITTING YOU WITH SYMBOLISM. Etc etc etc. You have had seventy years to learn a little tact in from Huxley and Orwell in the face of dystopia, Mr. Brooker. Neither the pen nor the keyboard is a bludgeon.
Hah, when it came on I was watching it with my wife, mother in-law and sister in-law. It didn't go over so well. Funnily enough it was my SIL that wanted to watch it to begin with. Me, I wanna see the happy go lucky hug a bunny kind of stuff. :o Seriously, real life is messed up enough that I don't need to see it on tv as well. :lol:

Damn it, just thinking about that episode makes me wanna watch Usagi Drop as a form of mind bleach.
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I used to be an SNL guy but now all they talk about is trump.

Old and gold : the wire , Oz, sopranos , office , Star Trek TNG


New and fresh :black mirror (always loved twilight zone), stranger things , I REALLY like aziz ansaris show Master of None

HBO people : the deuce (new)
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Anime : +1 on attack on titan
One punch man is very good
Kenshin of course .
Death note was intriguing .

Kit I was warned to skip the first episode in black mirror , and I did . The rest was fairly well done .

Also agree about TNG, some of those episodes were deep , he characters so well formed over time , and just such a mixed bag of themes that it never got boring . You'd have a serious sci-fi episode , then a worf episode , then a riker romance, data as Sherlock or something , loved it . When I was younger I thought Star Trek was so nerdy and lame . When I got older and more into scifi, a good friend urged me to go revisit it. It took me 3 years of 1-2 (mostly 1) episode a night or every other night after work to finish . Man was I sad to see the final credits roll.
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Inhuman wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:07 pm Anime : +1 on attack on titan
One punch man is very good
Kenshin of course .
Death note was intriguing .

Kit I was warned to skip the first episode in black mirror , and I did . The rest was fairly well done .

Also agree about TNG, some of those episodes were deep , he characters so well formed over time , and just such a mixed bag of themes that it never got boring . You'd have a serious s I go episode , then a worf episode , then a riker romance, data as Sherlock or something , loved it . When I was younger I thought Star Trek was so nerdy and lame . When I got older and more into scott do, a good friend urged me to go revisit it. It took me 3 years of 1-2 (mostly 1) episode a night or every other night after work to finish . Man was I sad to see the final credits roll.
Not a fan of attack on titan or one punch man but I liked Rurouni Kenshin a lot. One of the first anime I watched growing up. Death note is a favorite of my wife.
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