Binge-worthy TV Shows for Isolation

Spartacus...

 

Just finished binging the whole thing, one of the best shows I've ever seen.

Nothing like the Gilliam film, they're both two different masterpieces.

 

Man With A Camera!

 

The Blacklist
Archer
The Mentalist
House, M.D.
Vikings
White Collar
Fringe
Chuck

 

OH YEA!!!!

 

Twin Peaks
Lodge 49
Twelve Monkeys
Westworld

 

Lockdown.
Stuck indoors?

Twin Peaks.

Aside ..What cameras / film .. digital was used.
Very rich color pallet.

 

The Wire

and

The Bureau

The long term narrative vision is incredible. Each takes a couple episodes to kick in, because they're laying the ground work, playing long ball in the best sense, and turn all the conventional restrictions of episodic tv inside out. The Wire is about he best tv/movie/ whatever I've ever seen. Bureau isn't far behind.

 

Underbelly. I hope I can introduce at least person to this phenomenon tv series from Australia. It now available to stream for the first time ever in North America. It’s on Amazon Prime.
Watch Underbelly | Prime Video
There’s 7 seasons but unfortunately season 4 is unavailable. Luckily it’s an anthology series so skipping season 4 is no biggie. Each season of this multi award winning series takes you through a 13 episode run in the rise and fall of real life Australian underworld figures as told from both sides of the law.

 

I'm a big horror buff and I love gritty action cop dramas, but I needed a break. I'm in the middle of the second season of Heartland. It's just the balm I need in this crazy time we're living in. It's sort of a modern Canadian take on The Waltons. There are like 14 seasons of it and I believe it's still going strong. It can be really corny but it's just so comfy for a change of pace.

 

The Knick has arrived on HBO MAX so we have begun to watch. Don't know how we missed this on Cinemax back in 2014, great series. Really enjoyed episodes one and two so far.

 

yeah wtH?!

 

Trailer Park Boys and Superstore have been my primary binge watches - gone through them both twice and still dipping back in regularly. I’m surprised by how good Superstore is - it has a great ensemble cast and generally avoids the pitfalls of American sitcom writing (ie, idiot plots and forced misunderstandings).

 

The tv box sets I have watched in the lockdown.
Ozark
House MD
Bodyguard
Silicon Valley
Big Bang Theory
Curb your Enthusiasm
Gilmore Girls.

 

Oh, soooo many. Some of my faves:

#1 favorite: The West Wing - IMO, as good as TV can get

Other greats:

Blue Bloods
NYPD Blue
Frasier
Everybody Loves Raymond
Newsroom
Every Chicago series - Fire, PD, Med, and the single season of Justice
Barney Miller
WKRP in Cincinnati
Seinfeld
That 70's Show
Northern Exposure
All in the Family
Keeping Up Appearances
Grey's Anatomy
Law and Order (The original)
The Flintstones
The Jetsons
Last Man Standing
Home Improvement
I Love Lucy
Andy Griffith
Hogan's Heroes
Twelve O'Clock High
Drew Carey

 

Not gone through all this so...

Corner Gas. Simpler times...simpler people!

 

SPIRAL - utterly addictive French crime / police / legal drama. 8 seasons.

 

i enjoyed the British version of Skins

 

Veep
The Sopranos
Law and Order
Gomer Pyle
Newhart
Sanford and Son
Matlock
Twilight Zone
Parenthood

 

Royal Pains
Wings
*Liar
*Forever
Timeless
In Plain Sight
Rules Of Engagement
The Grinder
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Travelers
Humans
Dead To Me
Living With Myself
What/If

The last 5 I've finished (well, Dead To Me Season 3 is still to come (last announced scheduled possible release date is early 2022). I don't view 1 series by itsel @ a time, but am usually viewing several.



*Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor in both of these series; not viewed together or back-to-back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JmVnyJ16d4 - Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8qCHNfRjKg - Liar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFnI887xhBE - What/If

 

The Honeymooners ...The Lost Episode DVD Box...

 

I'd add:
The Munsters
The Addams Family

 

"Superstore" - I love this show!!! Highly recommended!!! I've been binging this show on the Peacock Network & plan to start it over again. I
want this entire series on Blu-Ray & DVD too.

 

Absolutely! Watched it three times, great acting, pacing, cinematography. I prefer tge first two seasons, the last two lost pace, more an afterthought.

 

The Shield
Breaking Bad
UK House of Cards
Tenko
BBC Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Spaced