So much stuff that could be on here Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Smiley's People Wolf Hall.... and I know I shouldn't say this but a kids TV series Bear behaving Badly was superb.
Band of Brothers Breaking Bad Sopranos Homeland Prison Break The Looming Tower The Wire Succession This is England Chernobyl Peaky Blinders Line of Duty The Street (90’s gritty British drama) You Mad Dogs The Following
Comedy
OFAH The Office Peep Show Alan Partridge The Royal Family
24 seems to have fallen off a lot of peoples radars but to me was pretty revolutionary and a big influencer in the switch from films to TV.
The first series was extraordinary and truly ground-breaking but I think I got bored part way through the third - did you think it was good all the way through? Any particular good seasons?
That’s fair. I think they got hamstrung by their USP of it being over 24 hours. It meant over the 8 series and bits there was well over 200 hours, crazy to sustain if you compare a film being 2-3hrs. After say 3 series they should have reassessed and changed it 12. But I think a lot of of producers and tv execs learnt a lot from what 24 brought.
It got a bit repetitive in places and a little predictable once you got used to the format, but I still though it was great and Jack Bauer was an amazing lead character.
24 was lots of fun, but some of it was waaaaay too far fetched (I vaguely recall some nonsense with a nuclear bomb at some point). I’m willing to suspend disbelief but some of 24 was almost science fiction!
I've just started watching The Sopranos for the first time. It is excellent but oddly I don't find it bingeworthy. Maybe it changes but unlike Breaking Bad, for example, there's little continuity between the episodes. Maybe this changes as it develops.
I've just started watching The Sopranos for the first time. It is excellent but oddly I don't find it bingeworthy. Maybe it changes but unlike Breaking Bad, for example, there's little continuity between the episodes. Maybe this changes as it develops.
There's loads of continuity once you get into Season 2. The first few episodes of season 1 are really scene setting.
My Brilliant Friend. It was adapted from the book of the same name by Elena Ferrante.My only regret is that I wish I had read the book first. Brassic is excellent as well.Very funny.
I must be the only one that doesn't get the Sopranos, massively overrated imo. Not saying it's bad, just not on the same level as shows like The Wire or Breaking Bad.
All very samey, storylines dragged out with no change. Carmela has the same guilt ridden storyline for 5/6 seasons, Paulie & Chris cock up, Tony fixes, rinse & repeat. Tony with his therapy, we all knew he wasn't going to change, don't keep it up for so long. The show doesn't evolve the characters enough for such a long run.
Boys from the black stuff. A work of pure genius which was so relevant and of its time. Shake hands.
the singing detective the monocled mutineer anything Stephen Poliakoff, especially friends and crocodiles and perfect strangers GBH Underbelly Aussie crime drama The Killing Ozark Breaking Bad Sopranos The Wire (number 1 in my book ). It’s all in the game y’all’ The Sinner. Bill pullmans the don in this True Detective Legion (utter madness) the end of the fucking world 1st series Utopia
you will note from all of this that ITV have never made anything worth a wank EVER.
Boys from the black stuff. A work of pure genius which was so relevant and of its time. Shake hands.
the singing detective the monocled mutineer anything Stephen Poliakoff, especially friends and crocodiles and perfect strangers GBH Underbelly Aussie crime drama The Killing Ozark Breaking Bad Sopranos The Wire (number 1 in my book ). It’s all in the game y’all’ The Sinner. Bill pullmans the don in this True Detective Legion (utter madness) the end of the fucking world 1st series Utopia
you will note from all of this that ITV have never made anything worth a wank EVER.
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The Shield
Ice Road Truckers
Deadliest Roads
I Claudius?
and
The Singing Detective?
Chernobyl? Saw 1 episode and couldn’t get into it at all.
1. The Wire
2. The Sopranos
3. Breaking Bad (but Better call Saul is a great follow up and pushes it hard)
others I’ve watched and enjoyed are Sons of Anarchy, Boardwalk Empire, Lost, Peaky Blinders, GoT
never finished the walking dead but enjoyed up until about season 9 or 10
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Smiley's People
Wolf Hall....
and I know I shouldn't say this but a kids TV series Bear behaving Badly was superb.
six feet under
game of thrones
sons of anarchy
us office
Interesting that Bob included When The Boat Comes In. Really enjoyed that too (going back a bit😀)
This Country
Detectorists
Both beautifully written
Not once. If anyone did manage to get out I’d say ‘fair play, enjoy your freedom’.
M*A*S*H
Band of Brothers
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Homeland
Prison Break
The Looming Tower
The Wire
Succession
This is England
Chernobyl
Peaky Blinders
Line of Duty
The Street (90’s gritty British drama)
You
Mad Dogs
The Following
Comedy
OFAH
The Office
Peep Show
Alan Partridge
The Royal Family
The Sweeney
The Prisoner
Danger Man
Dr Who with Eccleston and Tennant
As a child
Thunderbirds
How
Fireball XL5
Space Patrol
I'm not sure if this is a joke, but it's a good one if it is
Stick it with it and you'll love it.
Brassic is excellent as well.Very funny.
Only another 76 to go!
All very samey, storylines dragged out with no change. Carmela has the same guilt ridden storyline for 5/6 seasons, Paulie & Chris cock up, Tony fixes, rinse & repeat. Tony with his therapy, we all knew he wasn't going to change, don't keep it up for so long. The show doesn't evolve the characters enough for such a long run.
the singing detective
the monocled mutineer
anything Stephen Poliakoff, especially friends and crocodiles and perfect strangers
GBH
Underbelly Aussie crime drama
The Killing
Ozark
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
The Wire (number 1 in my book ). It’s all in the game y’all’
The Sinner. Bill pullmans the don in this
True Detective
Legion (utter madness)
the end of the fucking world 1st series
Utopia
you will note from all of this that ITV have never made anything worth a wank EVER.