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salparadise1000

(48 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 01:37 PM Jun 2012

Looking for TV recomendations (streaming)

This thread may have already come and gone. I didn't see it in any of the recent posts.
Here is a list of shows that I have enjoyed (some may no longer be streaming) Many of them are BBC or from cable channels that I don't get. I tend to like dramas that have an ongoing story. Netflix is great for that because you can engrossed in the story and watch them all. The comedies are great too, but I tend to watch them more occasionally because they don't have an ongoing plot that develops over the whole series.

Just went over my history to help me remember some of the shows I watched last year - I Watch way TOO MUCH Television.

The first list is ones that thought ere especially good.

The United States of Tara
Life on Mars
Terries
Daybreak
Sports Night
The Good Guys
Commander and Chief
Luther
Sports Night
The Good Guys
Survivors

Archangel
The Unusuals
The Kill Point
Psych
Damages
Arrested Development
Commander and Chief
Persons Unknown
Flash Forward
The State Within

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Looking for TV recomendations (streaming) (Original Post) salparadise1000 Jun 2012 OP
Try Nikita. I loved it. Hard to catagorize but kind of a rouge agent with a really strong OffWithTheirHeads Jun 2012 #1
I second the nomination for Nikita NV Whino Jun 2012 #2
If you like British TV Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #3
I hope "Copper" won't take too long to hit Netflix...looks pretty good: Lars39 Jun 2012 #4
Breaking Bad Son of Gob Jun 2012 #5

NV Whino

(20,886 posts)
2. I second the nomination for Nikita
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 02:26 PM
Jun 2012

White Collar
Outrageous Fortune (New Zealand series, quite good)

There are some others, but I have to check my list.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
3. If you like British TV
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 05:23 PM
Jun 2012

A Touch of Frost (sad-sack older detective in northern English city)
Wire in the Blood (police psychologist, not for the squeamish)
The Last Detective (a detective with a troubled home life, not respected by his peers)
House of Cards (a miniseries about a slyly evil politician)
MI-5 (about Britain's equivalent of the FBI/CIA--willing to bash some sacred cows, considered "anti-American" by right-wingers)
Trial and Retribution (Law and Order as if the cast were fully rounded characters with real lives)

A Kid's Show that Adults Can Enjoy:

Shaun the Sheep, made by the same people who produced the movie Chicken Run

If you like Doc Martin, as shown on PBS, try
Kingdom, with Stephen Fry as a small town solicitor

Sci Fi

The new Doctor Who and Torchwood

Son of Gob

(1,502 posts)
5. Breaking Bad
Thu Jun 21, 2012, 12:53 AM
Jun 2012

Sons of Anarchy
Jericho
The Tudors
Nip/Tuck
Rescue Me
Harper's Island
24
Lost
Louie
Todd Margaret
Sarah Silverman Show

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