I finished binge watching "Grey's Anatomy" last night

[Jilly_in_VA]

I feel lost. I really like multi-seasonal dramas, preferably long term, for my late-night watching. "Heartland" was the one before "Grey's" and I felt just about as lost when it finished up. Now I'm looking for another long-termer. I'm not much for comedies, so "Schitt's Creek" is definitely out. I watched "Hart of Dixie" awhile back and someone had suggested "Virgin River" but when I tried that it turned out to be nearly the same story in a different setting, with even the same actor as the same grumpy doctor, so YUK! I was a huge fan of "E.R." back in the day. I'm up to date on "Call the Midwife". What do I do? I do like some police shows. Looking for something on streaming, preferably Apple TV. Netflix, or Amazon Prime. I don't have Hulu.

[hlthe2b]

1. If you never watched Doc Martin, do a week long free Acorn subscription and watch 9 seasons...

BTW, a final 10th season is due in 2022.

I just adore the quirkiness and the scenery brings my BP down 20 points.

IF you have Roku, seasons 1-6 are free on the Roku channel there with ads, then you could trial subscribe to Acorn to watch the rest.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. I have, and I don't.

[underpants]

2. Wow you have strength.

For short watches I’d suggest Sherlock with Benedict Cumberbatch. Good Omens is really good.

We are currently watching Ozark - there are only 30 shows so far.
A lot of people love Yellowstone but I haven’t watched it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. I have tried to like Cumberbatch

I just cannot. I don't know why, but something about him turns me off. Way off.

Haven't watched Ozark: 30 shows is kind of short. Yellowstone is one we both like and are waiting impatiently for the next season. We also both like The Good Fight.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. Looking forward to season 4 of Ozark, and of course Stranger Things ...

Can't wait!

Ozark is dark, and freaking stressful though. And there's kinda nobody to really 'root for' cause pretty much everyone is an asshole in some way. The son is like the only actual 'good guy'.

*I* don't mind that, but some people definitely do.

Stranger Things is like my favorite show ever.

[viva la]

16. Love Good Omens!

It's got a lovely redemptive ending.

[EYESORE 9001]

3. I took some downtime during the pandemic last year

and, to my surprise, I binge-watched most of NCIS. It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s moderately engaging. One could do worse, I suppose.

[kairos12]

5. Try "Harrow" on Hulu3 seasons. About Australian

pathologist. Kind of like “House.”

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. I don't have Hulu.

[kairos12]

10. Sorry. I missed that.

Crime show on Netflix “Ozark” is very good. 3 seasons. I think.

[BoomaofBandM]

9. We are streaming Chicago Med and Stargate One.

[3catwoman3]

18. Chicago Med really likes gore. I just retired from almpst 50 years in nursing, and...

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...not much bothers me - I can watch documentaries on facial plastic surgery where the face is peeled down to allow access to bony deformities while I am eating dinner and not turn a hair. Some of the moulage makeup in this show has caused me to gasp out loud.

I just finished watching season 5. The writers are particularly partial to pus, to patients puking on the doctors and nurses, chest tubes and tracheostomies, and seizures.

I did have to laugh at one scene in which "Dr. Halstead" was listening to a patients lungs with only the right ear piece of the stethoscope in his ear - the left ear tip was on his cheek.

[BoomaofBandM]

21. Lol, I did mention the puking to the husband. I think they started a trend.

Hard to watch any show where someone doesn't vomit anymore. We never watched until this season so we figured we would go back and get their stories.

[zanana1]

24. I'm streaming Chicago Med, too.

Of course, there's a crisis in every episode and that gets a little old, but there's plenty of soap opera in it as well. I highly recommend it.

[chia]

11. The Wire, House of Cards, Homeland, Suits

For starters.

[chia]

12. Oh, how could I forget Big Little Lies and Little Fires Everywhere? I did NOT want those to end

Limited series both, unfortunately.

[First Speaker]

13. Try "Endeavour"...

...the Oxford settings are to die for, Shaun Evans is terrific as the young Morse, and Roger Allam is Beyond Good And Evil as Fred Thursday. Some of the best TV ever...

[luv2fly]

14. Hell on Wheels on Roku

Five seasons, over 50 episodes roughly 45 minutes each and it centers around the push to build the railroad after the Civil War. Of course it's about much more than that and some of the characters are intriguing.

I know it used to be on AMC, not sure if it's on anything other than the Roku Channel now.

[hlthe2b]

20. A favorite show of mine... Love the cast and the very realistic and gritty telling of that history..

The music is great too.

[viva la]

15. British detective and mystery shows go on forever.

Vera, Hamish Macbeth, Midsomer Murders, Line of Duty.

[3catwoman3]

17. If you like the police/crime genre, try Bosch and Longmire.

We really liked both. Several seasons each.

[csziggy]

19. If you want to watch long running series with lots of episodes

Midsomer Murders has 17 seasons with 128 shows. The cast is great and I love their quirky mysteries. Plus lots of stars did roles early in their careers on the show - Orlando Bloom for one. On BritBox without commercial but also on Tubi and some of the other free streaming channels with commercials.

I am currently watching Silent Witness, a forensic science show. Great characters and wonderful detailed plots. Most shows run two episodes and are very deep. 23 seasons and 212 episodes so far. On BritBox.

Death in Paradise is a light hearted crime show with a few change overs in cast, but the quality is till there. Set in the Caribbean on an ficticious island, there are ten seasons and 80 episodes. One of my favorite characters is Dwayne Myers, played by Danny John-Jules (who played Cat on Red Dwarf). Unfortunately he left the show in the tenth season to return to the stage.

Jonathan Creek is another off beat mystery show with a magician (actually the guy that designs things for magicians) as the detective. It only ran 5 seasons with some Christmas specials so only 32 episodes.

As you can tell, I run heavily to mystery/crime shows. I also like science fiction and can recommend Red Dwarf (for humor), the various Star Trek series, Babylon V, Travelers (on Netflix), Sliders, Quantum Leap, among others. For fantasy, I like The Magicians, Stranger Things, and The Umbrella Academy. None of these (other than Star Trek) have the extended number of episodes of the mystery shows above.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

22. I am watching my second round of binging with Grimm.

I did Grey's anatomy twice, Haven for the millionth time, Lucifer 3x, Eureka for the millionth time, and many others. Covid brought on a lot of binging.

[Jilly_in_VA]

23. I finally landed on Chicago Med

like someone else in the thread, I have quite a few years in grade as a nurse so not much bothers me. (I also like to pick apart flaws in the script.) I tried an episode of Criminal Minds but oddly the gore in it bothered me more than the gore in Chicago Med--I guess it's context. Also it was a bit creepy for watching before bedtime. I think Chicago Med will occupy me for a few weeks at least.

Here's a funny--I enjoyed Upstairs, Downstairs way back when. I went back and tried to watch a couple of episodes and found it was amazingly simple and kind of stilted next to Downton Abbey.

And as I mentioned before, I don't have Hulu, nor do I have Roku. Still taking suggestions though.

[3catwoman3]

27. Finding flaws in the scripts is fun - been doing that...

...since nursing school. Also fun to diagnose before the story line does.

I remember watching an episode of one of the medical shows that would have been on in the early 1970s (Marcus Welby, The Bold Ones) with one of my classmates. The case being discussed involved some visual symptoms that we had just learned about in class, and we both shouted out, with one triumphant voice, "Homonymous hemianopsia!"

We thought we were hot stuff.

The Chicago Med docs never listen in more than 2 places to the lungs, and the rate of CPR compressions seems way too fast.

[Jilly_in_VA]

28. Also

they don't compress hard enough. Seattle Grey-Sloan docs were much more realistic with those, even on the baby dolls. My complaint with all the shows, even "Call the Midwife", is that newborns look too old.

[3catwoman3]

29. Did you know that in birth scenes, cream cheese is...

...used to simulate vernix, and red jelly for blood? I read that somewhere years ago. Might not be the case anymore.

Call the Midwife comes the closest in using pretty young babies. Most TV "newborns" look at least 1-2 months old, to me. 45 years as a peds NP has me pretty well able to estimate infant ages.

[RobinA]

25. Try

Six Feet Under if you can find it. I was so lost when I finished that! Loved it. The people are very real.

[Akoto]

26. Funny. I've been binge watching House on YouTube. Someone uploads tons of clips from that show. n/t