What television series would you recommend to someone to start from scratch?
For instance, I’ve never watched Lost but I don’t think I could handle 7+ years or whatever it was of shows mainly because I heard the show ended up like X-Files where the creators were kind of winging it.
Any suggestions?
-1 for people who suggested TBBT, that show has stop being about geeks using science in their everyday lifes, but rather back to where every comedy is right now.
If you are a follower of modern culture, you might want to watch Community.
However, Fringe is a great series to watch. I watch the pilot episode of The Wire and got really bored.
Oh, and "Missing" .... current thriller series
"Once Upon a Time"... a fairy tale with a modern twist
+ 1 for "Game of Thrones".... also, "Legend of the Seeker" but less blood
.... and "Roar" a Medieval-type fantasy... has Heath Ledger before the Batman crap
Community is easily the best comedy, but you got to watch it from the start to get the feel.
Fringe is a great sci fi, recommend it to every sci fi junkie.
I think Draginol already 've seen it.
Vorlons - Arnor
Shadows - Dread Lords
I've heard excellent things of Downtown Abby.
We just finished watching "Doc Martin". Excellent blend of drama, comedy, mystery, romance, and character study.
Dead like Me - both comedy and serious, starring Mandy Patinkin... i think its fairly highly rated on IMDB too and its really worthy to watch - i think it has more than entertainment value.
The Event, Surface, Flash Forward, Invasion, Odyssey 5, Threshold - all 6 sci-fi, all 6 great IMHO and all 6 canned after the first season. That can be a positive too, at least they stopped at their best and you dont have to watch following seasons most likely full of mediocrity and recycled ideas
Frogboy!
Read homestuck!
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6
that prolly looks really boring!
So heres a slighly shitty trailer video (that i made) that makes it look not so boring!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TsEpDS7-Mw
not quite a TV series, but. awesomes.
Here is what Dante Basco (TV and movie actor, writer, producer), has to say about it:
"I truly find this whole “Homestuck” amazing… It’s something I’ve never seen before. It’s like a book or a comic, only it’s not a book or a comic… it’s something new. It’s like an entirely new way of telling a story. I’m reading this story on the internet, learning what’s going on through pictures of these characters and their “IM” conversations… There is no other time in history that a story like this could be told and in this way, except for now… That’s kind of amazing."
I'd recommend Fringe. John Noble is brilliant.
Also Heroes. Season 1 was one of the best sci-fi/fantasy tv series I've ever seen. Don't watch other seasons, it's a waste of time (at least was for me).
I would recommend the latest adaption of Sherlock Holmes. Its a Miniserie with 3x90min episodes per season. Absolutly brilliant. Cumberbatch (Holmes) and Freeman (Watson) are fantastic.
M*A*S*H
All Creatures Great and Small
Agreed, GREAT series. It's Holmes in all the good ways, and modern in all the good ways.
Thats true. First i was very sceptical. I´m a big Holmes-Fan since my teenage years, when i read the books. It was like "Holmes with iphone and internet? wtf! That can´t be good" But it works perfect. And Cumberbatch is one of the best Holmes i´ve ever seen.
Its great, but i felt the second season went bit over the top.
Fringe
Dexter
The Walking Dead
Shameless
Califorication
Game of Thrones
Alcatraz
Boardwalk Empire
and I highly recommend Spartacus.
all avail. on-demand.
yeah farscape wasn't to shabby,you don't mention the peace keeper wars that part was made two years later to end the story as season 4 was ended incomplete.
Back on topic:
SG1
Stargate Atlantis
Earth Final Conflict
Mash
It Ain't Half hot Mum
Allo Allo
Does The Two Ronnies count,very funny
Black Adder
Open All Hours
Who can forget the A-Team or the Original Mission Impossible
I like Two and a Half Men before Charlie Sheen left. And The Office before Steve Carrell left.
Extras, Curb Your Enthusiasm, EastBound And Down.
Peep Show, That Mitchell and Webb Look
and I second Black Adder
Watching thread.
House goes off the air this season. It's all I watch. I don't know what I'm going to do after it's gone.
**Highly recommend Firefly , though it's just one season and the 'Serenity' movie. Definitely worth watching. My problem was I was so hooked I ended up watching all of it in a weekend.
If you're into it (Japanese series kind of like Ultraman) and going for nostalgia, I would also offer up 'Space Giants'. As a kid, it was the first time I ever saw a series have an actual 'ending', not to mention the ending was epic. These were giant space robots that 'transformed' into rockets. It sounds corny and cheesey (and is to a point) but had great continuation and tied up everything in the final episode and climaxed with an awesome battle on the moon.
Pretty hard to recommend without knowing your taste/what you're looking for, but most of the good ones have already been said. Probably my favorite series are (in no particular order):
Sci-Fi/Fantasy:
Babylon 5 (really cheesy to start but just keeps getting better and better)
Firefly (Its cancellation is still one of the great crimes of the new millennium)
Game of Thrones (Just don't watch it with the kids)
Drama:
House (The 2nd and 3rd seasons are just pure gold, great mix of cleverness, humor, drama and medical mystery... things start to go downhill around season 5 but it's still worth watching just for Hugh Laurie)
Boston Legal (Great mix of legal drama & sillyness, James Spader and William Shatner are great together)
The Wire (Pure Excellence)
Sitcom:
Spin City (Great series until Michael J. Fox had to leave because of his Parkinson's. Didn't work too well after they replaced him with Charlie Sheen)
Big Bang Theory (Because geeks are funny)
Frasier (a classic, consistently funny throughout its 11 seasons)
Arrested Development (slow moving, but the quirky humor snowballs every episode, only 2 1/2 seasons)
Now that brought back some memories.
+1 for the scifi choices and Frasier, House is obviously good choice too, dont know much about the rest, might give it a try myself
when we are at the sitcoms, i would add the english ones, especially Black Books, IT Crowd and Father Ted - they are brilliant. Different kind of humor to both shows like Frasier and BBT, but equally good, if not better on occasion
I can't recommend season 1 of Doctor Who. 1964 was not a great year for television and many of the episodes were destroyed by the Cybermen in an attempt to take control of Earth. I would start in the 70's with color and a more entangled plot. There is a convenient time shift at which you can start watching, though i forget where it is. From there you only have about 30 seasons to present events. Certainly the best show ever made. Also, the longest show ever made. You really can't go wrong there.
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