I binged on House of Cards last weekend. It's a good show, the acting by Spacey and Wright is superb.

This week I plan on going through season 2 of Continuum so that I can be ready for season 3 which just started playing on SyFy. Season 1 (which I watched last summer) was really fun.

I am looking forward to the fourth season of Game of Thrones.

Excellent that everyones seen - Wire, Sopranos, Breaking Bad Game of Thrones (On tomorrow!)

Current one to watch if you haven't is True Detective which is excellent.

The Thick of It was the best thing on TV in 100 years. Malcolm Tucker is the best character on TV in over 125 years. Bring on the Daleks!



I'm half way through the first series of Hannibal, and justified both look good so far.

Walking Dead I had to drag myself through. Like Prison Break, Heroes, True Blood, 24, and Dexter it's starts well, and has so much potential, but end's up just meh.

Given whats in the top pile and the bottom pile, any suggestions? I like to binge watch.

My Gf and I have watched various series together, like Utopia, True Detective, and Orphan Black. I convinced her to watch the Battlestar Galactica mini-series, and she's hooked. It really is tremendous. I'm thrilled I get to rewatch the whole thing again.

Definitely in my top 5 of all time.

I actually really really wanna watch BG, right from the start, but i'm an immoral free streamer. i can't find it online. I know just pay for it! Thing is I just finished series 1 hannibal, and theres now way I'm starting 2, so what a waste of money that woulda been! .. Imagine buying the entire walking dead box set... Just how ****ed off would you be right now?!

For the past couple of weeks my HBO On Demand has had virtually every season of all of their series up so for the past 2 weeks I power rewatched all 5 seasons of the Wire. Still great but I liked it much more the first time through. Easily one of my top 5 ever TV shows. Best final episode ever.

BG is good tv, it's on the Netflix! It's not that much.

The Wire is probably no.2 I don't see how it doesn't stroll in to a top 5. Whats it up against? BB and Sopranos.. so far clear as the top 3 its easy. Then Cracker.

If unsure as to the unreal masterpiece that Sopranos is look at this:

http://masterofsopranos.wordpress.co...on-of-the-end/

That is an impressive level of soprano dedication!

Also it reiterates the idea of the story being planned from start to finish, only Wire and Sopranos does this. BB makes it up as it goes along, but it works brilliantly, most series do, they don't plan series 2/3/4/ for obvious reasons. sopranos and The Wire seem as if they've been perfectly orchestrated, to the point of every spoken word, and I don't think it's a fluke.

Netflix is a consideration.

Started watching the British version of House of Cards after finishing the American version. Not a bad watch if you're joensing for Season three to come around, even if you don't know anything about how UK politics works.

Didn't know there was a British version.

Normally this is the other way round?!

I don't think I'll bother, HoC is basically the Spacey show.. I doubt the British version is the Spacey show. We ain't got no Spacey to do the Spacey show.

I am half way through the pilot of Miami Vice. Here's the thing

1) It's nowhere nearly as cool as it's trying to be (I suspect that comes with later episodes)
2) I completely forgot Tubbs actually talks
3) I forgot Sonny lives on a yacht, with an alligator called Elvis
4) There was a lot of bad acting among secondary characters in the 80s


otherwise,

What TV series has aged the best, do you think?

Star Trek TOS has, mostly because Nimoy's performance is for the ages, but Shatner and DeForrest Kelly are pretty good too

But highest for me is probably Twin Peaks. It didn't use cultural references, it created them.

Cracker, Quantum leap, Blackadder, Faulty Towers.

Any shiw like Miami Vice is obviously going to seem dated.

star trek tos is going to age well because there is an aspect of self admitted fail in the cheezeball sets and special effects. this has to go along with the great characters and stories and vision the show had.

Need another show to get hooked on. Have watched Sopranos, BB, The Shield, GOT.

It depends on what you mean by "aging" well. If you mean something that still seems timeless, technically and otherwise, there won't be many. If you mean stuff that still holds up well today, then there are a bunch of older shows that are pretty mind boggling with how well they must have played for audiences in their time to still stand up as well today. A few examples are The Twilight Zone (timeless stories with possibly some of the best execution in TV history), Perry Mason (can't think of a better law procedural), Cheers (arguably the best comedy of all time), and Leave It To Beaver (even though some of the child performances are stilted, the good ones outweigh it, and a lot of the dialog and delivery was incredibly subversive and hilarious). I only recently started watching any of it, but The Burns and Allen Show might be one of the funniest TV shows I have ever seen. Gracie Allen is one of the funniest people I have ever witnessed.

All TV shows are a product of their time, and will generally look horrible all the way through most of the 90s (mostly due to the ridiculous styles people were into in various eras, a big reason why period stuff tends to hold up better than contemporary stuff in older TV). I typically base how well a show holds up with how easy it is to watch today, and then think about how it was perceived in its original era. Nearly every comedy that is considered a classic can be watched again and again (love MeTV and Antenna TV), and that's what aging well means to me.

Battlestar Galactica
Orphan Black
Utopia
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Justified
Firefly
Archer

Malcolm Tucker is a brilliant character.
House of Cards: the British version I watched a decade ago it is alot shorter and tightly written I think it is 10-15 hours total.

However my favourite character from a political drama, possibly my favourite TV character is


Sir Humphrey Appleby, Yes Minister

"Yes Minister: A Question of Loyalty (#2.7)" (1981)

Betty Oldham: Look, Sir Humphrey, whatever we ask the Minister, he says is an administrative question for you, and whatever we ask you, you say is a policy question for the Minister. How do you suggest we find out what is going on?
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been government policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Ministers and administration as a responsibility of Officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confusion between the policy of administration and the administration of policy, especially when responsibility for the administration of the policy of administration conflicts, or overlaps with, responsibility for the policy of the administration of policy.
Betty Oldham: Well, that's a load of meaningless drivel. Isn't it?

band of brothers
deadwood
justified
shameless
veep
curb
archer
east bound and down
rome
six feet under
generation kill

RuPaul's Drag Race

Vikings! Ragnar ftw

this

Going to try 6 Feet Under. What can I expect without spoilers?

5-6 series seems long enough for me when it comes to dramas.

Six Feet Under is excellent tv but it's not that macho. It's a great tv show, watch it. Emo somewhat but not that bad emo.