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31 Aug 2015, 8:11 pm

Scatterbrain93 wrote:

Only just joining this site, I realize I watch way more TV than the average person. It's kind of scary, actually. If I had to create of list of shows you absolutely have to watch, though, here you go:

-24
-30 Rock
-The Americans
-Arrested Development
-Battlestar Galactica (New version)
-Boardwalk Empire
-Breaking Bad
-Community
-Deadwood
-Dexter
-Doctor Who
-Fargo
-Game of Thrones
-Hannibal
-Homeland
-House of Cards
-It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
-Justified
-The Leftovers
-Lost
-Louie
-Mad Men
-Masters of Sex
-Orange Is the New Black
-Orphan Black
-Parks and Recreation
-Penny Dreadful
-Sherlock
-Silicon Valley
-The Simpsons (Seasons 1-10 only)
-Six Feet Under
-Sons of Anarchy
-The Sopranos
-True Detective
-Veep
-The Walking Dead
-The Wire

Like I said, I watch too much TV. Every Aspie has their obsession. TV's mine.

What, no Nurse Jackie?

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31 Aug 2015, 10:52 pm

justkillingtime wrote:

Scatterbrain93 wrote:

What, no Nurse Jackie?

It's very enjoyable but not "you must watch this before you die!" enjoyable.

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11 Sep 2015, 3:23 pm

I recommend trying Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Buffy, StarTrek Enterprise these shows are very good on character development it builds up like an rpg game. The story is mostly the best in the Stargate though.

This might sound oddly but the Stargate shows has helped me to socialise more of learning more facial expressions compared to what I knew before.

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11 Sep 2015, 9:40 pm

The Sopranos.

I like the character development, psychology and social psychology. I like to learn what the characters really think and feel because they lie most of the time. I take things very literally so it is fascinating for me to try to understand characters that don't mean what they say.

It is interesting to see how they communicate threats and dominance. The family dynamics seemed spot on.

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13 Apr 2016, 2:47 pm

Scatterbrain93 wrote:

I'm not far behind you although I have other obsessions as well as TV

Most of my all time faves are in your list ...A to Z Boardwalk Empire ( apart from the last series ) , Breaking Bad , Dexter , Game of Thrones , The Sopranos , The Wire .

I'd add Mad Men ( ( last series aside ) , Vikings and a few more .

My fave TV of all time has to be Peaky Blinders though . ( based of real life characters , situations and events ) although there is a lot of poetic license thrown in there of course . Like Boardwalk Empire did supposedly ).

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13 Apr 2016, 2:49 pm

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So i have been watching a lot of tv series recently, and it seems like they have been changing. I think TV was often not considered as artistic or as important as film. I am currently watching the tv series True Detective, and i think that really shows the artistic potential of TV. A series also has the potential, in some ways like a novel, to explore to greater length, subtitles in character, and changes over time, helped by the amount of hours available in a TV series. I would love to hear some recommendations from fellow aspies, and hear why they matter to you. My recommendation is going to a the series called, Utopia. I love the look of the series, visually its really pretty, i like the graphic novel theme, the characters are so well cast, and there are strong and often kick ass females! I think the people who worked on making it really cared about what they were doing. So that's my recommendation, a British TV series called Utopia.

True Detective series one or two incidentally ??

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14 Apr 2016, 12:38 am

I'm going to say I' Claudius. It's about the fallout from the machinations of Augustus' wife Livia as she attempts to clear the line of succession for her son, Tiberius. The show is full of suspense and humor, and even enters horror territory frequently, particularly when Caligula enters the stage. It stars many of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the day, many of those have also been prominent in fantasy and sci fi in the years since.

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14 Apr 2016, 12:49 am

Considering what you liked about True Detective you might also like The Leftovers.

Best UK show I've watched recently was River.

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14 Apr 2016, 1:11 am

Nebogipfel wrote:

I'm going to say I' Claudius. It's about the fallout from a series of assasinations orchestrated by Augustus' wife Livia as she attempts to clear the line of succession for her son, Tiberius. The show is full of suspense and humor and wisdom, and even enters horror territory frequently, particularly when Caligula enters the stage. It stars many of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the day, many of those have also been prominent in fantasy and sci fi in the years since. It's almost a line for line adaptation of the Robert Greaves books which are mainly a fictionalised account of Seutonius's, The Twelve Caesars, so it's a worthwhile entry point for learning about the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Greaves' Claudius was also an inspiration for Tyron Lannister. Dinaklage even seems to have based much of his character's vocal inflections on Jacobi's performance.

That show was so great that even my NT friends back in junior high tuned into PBS to watch it.

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17 Apr 2016, 10:47 am

See my top 10 below.

You want a reason, you say? Well, I prefer to let the scenes speak for themselves

1. Game of Thrones

2. Breaking Bad

3. Silicon Valley

4. Band of Brothers

5. Firefly

6. Batman: The Animated Series

7. Mr. Robot

8. Utopia

9. The Adventures of Tintin

10. The Office

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20 Apr 2016, 8:38 pm

Too many that entertained me. I'll put those that were a renewal of great surprises or that were multi-dimensional interesting (considering I still have a lot to watch):

Gossip girl
Ghost whisperer
Smallville
Mutant X ...

Kidding

The x-Files
Battlestar Galactica
Dr who
Six feet under
House MD
Oz
Cold case

and

Sherlock
Hannibal
Dexter
The Sopranos
The fall
True detective looks good (just started)
Breaking bad
Homeland
Orange is the new black
Millennium
Skins
Mad men
Twin peaks (Denise Duchovny, why won't you love me)
Luther
The good wife
Game of thrones
The Tudors
The closer
Without a trace

What a nerd. Open to suggestions particularly on new shows running. Or not. I need my fix.

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21 Apr 2016, 6:16 pm

I have a little list: Sherlock, Doctor Who, Digimon [especially Adventure and Tamers], and Star Trek.

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22 Apr 2016, 9:59 pm

I also recommend Fargo, True Detective (first season), Game of Thrones, and The Walking Dead.

Another I'll recommend is Trailer Park Boys. Why? It's a better version of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (another great series). Great acting, and good, believable yet hilarious dialogue.

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23 Apr 2016, 6:51 pm

Danae wrote:

Great choices but you've missed the two best

The Wire BoxSet

Peaky Blinders series 1 & 2 . ( series three coming soon )

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29 Apr 2016, 5:08 pm

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Yes! Trailer Park Boys is my favorite. It's so low brow in the best way, yet somehow has it's own weird sense of wit. The characters are really great and likeable. Not the most brilliant thing in the world comedically, but it just works so well. Between the interplay of the characters, the subject matter itself, and the style of the show itself, there really isn't anything I've seen like it. I love the mocumentary style, but they got rid of that the last three seasons that came out on Netflix.

But it's vulgar, childish and filled with liquor and weed, what's not to like? :lol:

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30 Apr 2016, 9:49 am

Twin Peaks.

Writing as someone who is frequently disconnected from reality, Twin Peaks is an excellent representation of what my world feel likes. I still believe it's the most original TV series of all time.

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