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What’s been your favourite TV series?

AFKABartram
AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
in Not Sports Related
So that the New TV Series thread doesn’t go off track.

@hawksmoor posted up his top 3 US series being 1. Breaking Bad 2 The Wire 3 Sopranos 

Interested in any tv list or categorisation you see fit for you list. could be your favourite show, a top 3 or 5, Uk / US, documentary, comedy, drama, box sets, has to have a set number of series etc whatever you want you just explain what your list is. 
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  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Sharpe series has always been my favourite

    Watch back now and the story line at times really deviates from the books (equally my favourite book series) which is a shame and part of me would love to see it remade - The acting of both Sean Bean and the late Pete Postlethwaite help drag it along.

    More recently: Band of Brothers is up there
    Out at the moment (although going into its last series): Brooklyn Nine Nine
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,978
    Star Trek Deep space nine, with The Simpsons (90s to early 00s era) being a close second. 
  • Leeds_Addick
    Leeds_Addick Posts: 4,700
    1. Breaking Bad
    2. Succession
    3. The Wire

    Fargo, Narcos and Fauda all get honourable mentions
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    The Wire
    The Sopranos
    Game of Thrones
    Breaking Bad
    Oz

  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,987
    The Wire
    Twin Peaks
  • Rufus is a dogs name
    Rufus is a dogs name Posts: 1,517
    edited March 2021
    1. The Sopranos
    2. Band of Brothers 
    3. Breaking Bad

    Honourable mentions: The Wire, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire, Ozark, Chernobyl, Narcos.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,825
    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.

    My Top 10 non-comedy, multi-series box sets 

    1. Sopranos 
    2 24 
    3 Game of Thrones
    4. Narcos
    5. Line of Duty
    6. Peaky Blinders
    7. Boardwalk Empire
    8. Ozark 
    9. Narcos Mexico
    10. Power

    Found it really hard ordering below Sopranos. Honourable mentions for Scandal, The Crown, This is England, Killing Eve, Desperate Housewives and Sex and the City 
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    The Prisoner
    A very peculiar practise.

  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    edited March 2021
    The Sopranos, closely followed by The West Wing.

    Band of Brothers is up there too, amazing show.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    Chernobyl takes some beating 
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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,447
    edited March 2021
    This is England
    The Virtues
    Boys from the Blackstuff
    Last Chance U(sports documentary series)

    A lot of British stuff doesn't get enough credit.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    DaveMehmet said:
    Chernobyl takes some beating 
    Fantastic TV.

    Saw Paul Ritter in the supermarket once, got excited at the time as it was Martin from Friday Night Dinner (was tempted to ask him if he was bloody boiling...), but he's so good as Dyatlov.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,979
    Band of Brothers is a masterpiece.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    edited March 2021
    ValleyGary said:
    Band of Brothers is a masterpiece.
    Shame the follow up series: "The Pacific" didnt quite reach the same heights
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,463
    edited March 2021

    Nothing will beat Breaking Bad for me. So many cliffhangers.

    A lot of TV series can have a bad/disappointing ending but this one was perfect in my opinion. 

  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    I bet I'd think it was rubbish if I ever saw it again but an 8-part series from 1969 called Big Breadwinner Hog.  It was a big departure from regular TV at the time with explicit violence.  The lead gangster was played rather convincingly by Peter Egan, who has had a wide variety of differing roles over the years.
    Also, both starring Edward Woodward,
    Callan and The Equalizer
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    1 Boys From The Blackstuff  2 Sopranos  3 Minder
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,843
    edited March 2021
    Very difficult - not least it tests my failing memory! In no particular order:

    - Ashes to Ashes
    - Band of Brothers
    - Minder (with Waterman)
    - The Sweeney
    - Morse
    - Budgie
    - The Prisoner
    - The Professionals
    - Line of Duty (all)
    - Boardwalk Empire
    - The Boys from the Blackstuff
    - When the Boat Comes In



  • LonelyNorthernAddick
    LonelyNorthernAddick Posts: 2,423
    Another vote for Band of Brothers. Still need to watch Sopranos and The Wire!

    To throw something in that's a bit left-field - Spartacus was bloody brilliant IMO even if it did have gratuitious violence and nudity.
  • Jints
    Jints Posts: 3,491
    For anything with two seasons or more:

    1=Sopranos
    1=The Wire
    3 Breaking Bad
    4 Succession
    5 Better Call Saul
    6 Mad Men
    7 Gomorrah
    8 Peaky Blinders
    9 Halt & Catch Fire
    10 Last Kingdom

    One season wonders (no order)

    Unorthodox
    Queen's Gambit
    Chernobyl
    Firefly
    Freaks & Geeks




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  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    As for non-US series, Gomorrah would be No1 without doubt. 
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    Top 3 would be:

    The Wire
    Chernobyl
    Breaking Bad

    After that there are plenty of great shows that I could list but stand outs are the below. Once I get my arse around to watching The Sopranos that will no doubt end up on the list

    Band of Brothers
    Game of Thrones (up until the last couple of seasons)
    Better Call Saul
    Fargo
    Line of Duty
    OFAH
    Mindhunter 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    hawksmoor said:
    As for non-US series, Gomorrah would be No1 without doubt. 
    Did you ever see Romanzo Criminale @hawksmoor ?
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    edited March 2021
    Sopranos
    Spiral
    The Wire
    Secret Army
    Gomorrah
    Minder (old style....not with that Ray character)
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    edited March 2021
    Sopranos
    Gomorrah
    Chernobyl
    The Bridge (Scandi)
    The Killing (Scandi)
    Boardwalk Empire
    Line of Duty
    Romanzo Criminale
    The Curse of Oak Island (I just wish they would find some shit!)
    This is England
    Narcos
    Any BBC Attenborough Series
    Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World


  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,608
    SuedeAdidas said:
    hawksmoor said:
    As for non-US series, Gomorrah would be No1 without doubt. 
    Did you ever see Romanzo Criminale @hawksmoor ?
    Is this the one set in the Seventies? Flares and Fiats?
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,035
    Wish I could be more edgy and unique but it’s:

    1. Sporanos 
    2. Wire
    3. Breaking Bad 

    I love Gomorra, Wandavision* and Succession but that could just be recency bias.  


    *not sure if this counts for this thread as it’s a one of series rather than a multiple-series type thing. 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    hawksmoor said:
    SuedeAdidas said:
    hawksmoor said:
    As for non-US series, Gomorrah would be No1 without doubt. 
    Did you ever see Romanzo Criminale @hawksmoor ?
    Is this the one set in the Seventies? Flares and Fiats?
    Yeah....70's and 80's.....was also a spin off from a film.

    I really liked it.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,960
    Spiral 
    The Bridge 
    OFAH
    Breaking Bad
    Line of Duty
    Sopranos 
    Luther
    Narcos
    The Bureau 
    The Office 


  • Chaz Hill
    Chaz Hill Posts: 5,217
    The Wire - Ground breaking in showing the dire state of life for the ‘underprivileged’ in the US. Each series focussing on different aspects. Who can forget the character Omar Little :)

    The Sopranos - Just got better and better with each series.
    The Bridge - Amazing acting by Sofia Helin as main character Saga Noren.
    Boys from the Blackstuff - fantastic characters and great messaging of the dire state of the country at the time.
    Spiral - came to this late on. Binge watched and gutted when we reached the final episode.
    Homeland - was very watchable. Claire Danes was great as Carrie Mathieson. Final series was a bit disappointing.

    Ozark is up there of the more recent stuff. Also looking forward to the new series of Line of Duty as well.


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