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There is a blizzard coming to my city and I don't have to go to work for a few days. I thought I would curl up in my pajamas with my two kittens, eat comfort food and try a new TV show. Do you recommend any good TV shows to binge watch?
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Squinch
(50,989 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)with great character development.
madaboutharry
(40,216 posts)I loved that show.
underpants
(182,861 posts)Only 4 episodes so far. It's a murder mystery but the murder hasn't happened yet.
CurtEastPoint
(18,655 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,655 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,031 posts)It's a comedy set in Ireland, and I think it's really hilarious. Here's some info about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/arts/television/moone-boy-a-comedy-series-with-chris-odowd-on-hulu.html?_r=0
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)brewens
(13,612 posts)FenwayDonkey
(68 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Sneaky Pete or Mozart in the Jungle are good.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Is it really good?
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)charlyvi
(6,537 posts)Thanks
samnsara
(17,625 posts)..Absolutely Fabulous! And if you like British sit coms watch Doc Martin!
FireandIce59
(92 posts)Doc Martin is worth it. It is truly addictive....
You can find it on Netflix and Acorn TV.
Enjoy!
Sedona
(3,769 posts)Initech
(100,096 posts)Fla Dem
(23,722 posts)The third season of Fargo, an American anthology black comedycrime drama television series created by Noah Hawley, is scheduled to premiere on April 19, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(season_3)
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Great show. Particularly if you actually remember the Reagan days.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Season 5 has just began.
AND there will be a season 6, they say.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)It's my wife's favorite show. Very intriguing and intense. Makes a great escape from the pressures of daily life.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)for marvelous escapism.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)"Vikings."
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I used to watch it every week when it came on TV.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)furtheradu
(1,865 posts)If You like BBC/PBS/historical fiction. .I'm a fool for Poldark..
Sooo..what Comfort Food is on the menu?
enJOY Your jammies & kitties & have a snuggly goood time!
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)Also, I'm going to baked some cookies. I will probably pop some popcorn at some point and have hot chocolate with it.
fNord
(1,756 posts)Been unemployed for almost a year, and Netflix has been a good friend to me:
Leverage
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Trailer Park Boys (the Canadian it's always sunny)
Any Star Trek except "enterprise"
The Travlers (Netflix original. Awesome, but only one season out, and it leaves you on a hell-of-a cliffhanger)
On amazon prime:
Orphan Black
Dr Who
Torchwood
Alpha House (hilarious! 4 republican congressmen sharing a town house when they're "in town". John Goodman stars, with guest appearances by Bill Murray and Rachel Madow, among others!)
On YouTube:
LEXX (genius/insanity at its glorious best-ish. Surreal, tunge in cheek, irreverent, campy, and pure fun. The first "Season" is four 90 minute movies, the rest is shows.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLb6FwrPUfo75ZHG5BARHvT05pYuR6S6wG&v=SvqnjEQljYs
Q I (Bryant British show, as funny as it is educational. NOT for kids! Kind of like a less politically driven mix between Real Time with Bill Maher and Clive Anderson's "whose line is it anyway" but...different. It airs after the watershed, and is hosted by Stephen Fry. Each season is a letter, so if you YouTube it from the beginning, you look up QI a1.
I think there up to "N," but I'm only up to "K."
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I watched Leverage, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Trailer Park Boys. I enjoyed those shows.
fNord
(1,756 posts)It's only two seasons, but still worth the price of amazon prime
Leith
(7,813 posts)I love that show. Sandi Toksvig takes over in series N and she's very good.
If you like British panel shows, try Would I Lie to You on YouTube. Lee Mack and David Mitchell are captains of teams where the other two are guests of the day. The premise is that a panelist reads a sentence or two about themselves from a card. The other side asks questions about it, then decides whether the panelist is telling the truth or lying. There are endless jokes and sometimes Mitchell and Mack go off into the rants they are known for.
Kingdom is a very good comedy/drama starring Stephen Fry. The frustrating part is that it was cancelled after the third season with a heck of a cliffhanger.
There are many episodes of Who Do You Think You Are, British and American, on YouTube, too.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I was saving it to binge on, but hate those cliff hangers.
May wait till season 2.
doc03
(35,361 posts)Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)It is very good.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)It left quite a few new story lines started.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)But I think they're right. A good story must end sometime, or it becomes tedious and desperate. They would have to make Longmire start clowning around just to keep the show going.
No thanks.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)except Justified, but if it's as good as the others I'll watch it.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,208 posts)It's only 8 episodes. It's about a school teach who travels back in time to keep JFK from being assassinated. It's based on a Stephen King book.
rzemanfl
(29,566 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,036 posts)during the two cat nights.
essaynnc
(801 posts)Try Supernatural on Netflix. Try one or two, see if you like it. It's ALWAYS exciting, and 2 story linesonce you get into it. We watched s 10 e 15 last night, so there are a bunch of them !!
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)It is one of my favorite shows. It has been on for 12 seasons so far and I have seen every episode.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Acorn TV and binge watch Wild At Heart. I loved loved loved loved this series. A British family relocates to the African bush. I binged watch the entier series during my free trial month. The setting, the animals, the storyline. I loved this series.
Net Flix:
House of Cards (if you haven't watched it yet)
Ripper Street
Death in Paradise - My favorite on Netflix - A mystery series set on a Caribbean Island. Sun, sand water and interesting mysteries.
Murdoch Mysteries
Leverage - Another great favorite. Timothy Hutton leands a modern day band of Thieves to right the wrongs and help the innocent.
The Paradise
Rebellion
Turn: Washington's Spies
Continuum - A gret Sci-Fi
Life - Damian Lewis is so quirky in this show
Cosmos: A Spaceime Odyssey - Neal DeGrasse Tyson
Dark Matter - a decent Sci Fi series
Trevor Noah: Afraid of The Dark (a new comedy special)
Jim Jefferies: Bare (another Comedy Special)
Try the free month of Acorn TV, great British television
Wild At Heart
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (also on Netflix)
Murdoch Mysteries
Republic of Doyle
The Code
avebury
(10,952 posts)as a 6 part mini-series with extra footage. It is well worth watching.
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
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usually DETESTS sitcoms of all types and from all eras. It was the cast that made me watch the first one - Eugene Levy, Catherine Oheara, Chris Elliot - Eugene Levy's son plays the "metrosexual" son and is quite hilarious, I think they may be improvising at times. It can be LOL funny or surreal one minute and then totally unexpectedly quite moving and real for a brief moment. The characters actually change and grow over time. It took a couple of episodes though before I was hooked.
FrankfurtCat
(1,213 posts)I love it too.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)One really good season. Hopefully Showtime and them make more. It is great sci-fi-fi drama that keeps you guessing. It stars Eric McCormick (He is not Will in this one) and was put together by the producer of Stargate-SG1.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)Zorro
(15,747 posts)If you have Amazon Prime, I'd recommend The Shield and Justified.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)It starts off a little slow, but about 5 episodes in really gets going.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It's on Netflix.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)I get zombie nightmares!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Metsie Casey
(208 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I've seen every episode.
sarge43
(28,942 posts)If you have a taste for the gothic and fantastic, this is for you. It's what The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen should have been.
JHan
(10,173 posts)Trust me.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I have watched every episode on Netflix.
JHan
(10,173 posts)If you're a fan of Downton Abbey, you might dig that series - I thoroughly enjoyed it.
rzemanfl
(29,566 posts)Warpy
(111,316 posts)over the weekend when TCM was showing old Robert Osborne interviews all weekend. I did love Osborne's taste in film but celebrity interviews bore the hell out of me. The WMC videos, one full season of them, were very diverting.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)problem is it is only one episode and lasts two minutes only...nothing happens
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)If someone wrote him as a character in a TV show or film, it would be criticized for being too over the top and unbelievable.
cmeneer
(253 posts)Good Girls Revolt
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)Korean Dramas are like Crack
Watch Goblin.........OMG!!
You can thank me later.
You can also watch on line
AJT
(5,240 posts)Drama set in a small Australian town post WWII
auntAgonist
(17,252 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)I don't watch a lot of TV, but I enjoyed that one, as well as Fargo, True Detective and Better Call Saul.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Call it "Rory the Vampire Slayer."
madaboutharry
(40,216 posts)The chemistry between Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlinson is priceless. And Martin Sheen and Sam Waterson are perfect.
IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I have bing watched the whole show.
longship
(40,416 posts)Fla Dem
(23,722 posts)Has anyone watched this? It is so plodding and tedious, yet in just the 1st 3 episodes, they've introduced at least half a dozen pivotal characters. They keep jumping from 2002 to 2012 to 2017; from Milwaukee to Washington to Luxemburg to Dusseldorf to Antwerp to Brussels to Amsterdam. Also everything is so low key, it's like all the actors are on valium.
Is this one I should stick with? It's gotten good reviews. One thing it's got going for me is I watch it while I'm doing my bike for 45 minutes. At least it's keeping me occupied.
OTOH just last week I finished watching "The Do Over" with Adam Sandler and David Spade. Not a big Sandler fan, but the movie was funny. Watched it in 4 installments.
lame54
(35,311 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)Metsie Casey
(208 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)still_one
(92,320 posts)FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)3rd season coming out soon.
Metsie Casey
(208 posts)Metsie Casey
(208 posts)pnwest
(3,266 posts)area51
(11,916 posts)IrishEyes
(3,275 posts)I have the series. My friend and I still quote lines from it. Everyone should watch it.
Metsie Casey
(208 posts)clementine613
(561 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,835 posts)earthshine
(1,642 posts)It was hard for us Trekkers to admit that another Sci-Fi show could be so good that it could threaten to dethrone Trek as the greatest thing that ever was.
B5 needs to be binged as it is highly serialized.
The first season is a bit slow, but worth it.