TV series

[tnelson1134]

sopranos

[bubbathudd]

Sons of Anarchy is good.
Justified (I have only watched the first two seasons though)
Homeland

[DeltaCharlie75]

The wire
The Shield
Elementary
Sherlock
24
The Americans

[Marius_Ursus]

Oh, yeah. Tour of Duty was an outstanding show.

[lhprop1]

Carnivale was supposed to go one more season. Shame it didn't. The ending of show was abrupt and stupid, and the whole series up to that point was gold.

X2 for Carnivale.

Also check out
The Americans
Rubicon (unfortunately, it got cancelled after the first season)
And of course, Breaking Bad

[thnikkaman]

Sherlock
The first season of Elementry was epic.
Person of Interest
The I.T. Crowd

[lolakitten]

Love top gear but it has to be the brit version. I enjoy british humor.

Deadwood is a good series too but they only did 3 seasons. "BACK DOOR WU!" haha
I believe that was an hbo series

oops didnt see deadwood mentioned. that'll learn me for not going to the bottom of the page

Oh yeas absolutely the Brit version - I didn't even realize there was any other.

[Marius_Ursus]

Oh yeas absolutely the Brit version - I didn't even realize there was any other.

Yeah, the American version is boring and terrible...like all the other American adaptations of Brit shows.

[lolakitten]

Yeah, the American version is boring and terrible...like all the other American adaptations of Brit shows.

Why did they even bother???? No one can top the original. Geez.

[thnikkaman]

Why did they even bother???? No one can top the original. Geez.

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The success from The Office perhaps?

[Marius_Ursus]

I think it all started with Three's Company as the Man About The House knockoff.

[nebraskaheat]

I need help in suggestions for a new TV series to watch. The wife and myself just got through with the final episode in Game Of Thrones for season 3 last night.

So far we have watched in their entirety.

Game of Thrones
Spartacus
Prison Break
Weeds
True Blood


We are not looking for anything that has a major political plot, and must have action and plot twists are a huge plus.

If you haven't seen Arn: The Knight Templar Series yet, you should try it.. It's great so far, I'm on episode 3.. More of a mini series than a multi season series however..

And it's an international show that flows in multi languages, from swedish to Italian, to English to Arabic... So there will be some reading of subtitles in it..

If you like medieval era stuff though it's awesome..

Oh, and "Louie" is hilarious too.

[phikappa]

Duck Dynasty

[Corbi]

Top Gear.

Totally doesn't fit your requirement, but everyone & thier brother needs to watch it.

Have watched Top Gear since the beginning and it's freakin hilarious, this season so far hasn't been as good as previous ones though. The American version sucks donkey cock mainly because Rutledge Wood is a fukkin tool and everything they do is a pale imitation of the Brit version. If they would go out and do their own thing instead of trying to copy everything and at times it's almost a damn near carbon copy.

[HumblyMuscles]

British Crime series are awesome: "Waking the Dead" A cold case series.

" Wire in the Blood" : About a Psychologist who helps a criminal unit track serial killers

and "New Tricks" another cold case unit- bit more comedy in that one.

All excellent...

[HumblyMuscles]

Also if you like Medieval drama/ action/ swords etc: "World Without End" and "The Pillars of the Earth" ,
both adapted from the excellent Ken Follett novels- they have a touch of "Games of thrones "about them- nudity, violence, sex, great costumes and settings, action, political intrigue etc etc

[Brackneyc]

Duck Dynasty

Total win.

I used to lie ER as well.

[ChazWood]

Total win.

I used to lie ER as well.

Freudian slip.

IN FACT you watched ER because you had a secret man-crush on George Clooney and had to lie to yourself to avoid the shame.

or you forgot to type the "k".

[Brackneyc]

Freudian slip.

IN FACT you watched ER because you had a secret man-crush on George Clooney and had to lie to yourself to avoid the shame.

or you forgot to type the "k".

Damn key board. I did like ER, and GC, well, he did have just the right amount of silver in his hair, wait....wut.

[MartinMaggie]

Banshee. Drips from testosterone as mostly just violence and sex, yet soundtrack is awesome. Discovered many good artists from there, like Jude Christodal.

[pharmamarketer]

Heroes on Netflix is really cool.

I heard good things as well. I am going to start watching it

To OP- if you never watched Mad Men it is worth it

[anonymous]

RAY DONAVON!!!! I am sorry about the caps, but this show is great - Jon Voight is so sick and crafty, and Liev Schreiber is.......HOT! Ok, I wll stop now.
If you like Games of Thrones (and who doesn't?!), you would enjoy "The Borgias" - similar type of dynastic, greedy, sell your kids/wife/mother for power and or wealth, set in the time of Pope Gregory - the acting is great, and the story lines are, well......you have to watch!

[lolakitten]

To OP- if you never watched Mad Men it is worth it

I could not get into this... I tried!!!!

[Lunu]

Definitely Dexter, Homeland and Breaking Bad. Hubby and I watch all of those together.

All of Louis Theroux's series are amazing to watch as well.

[dbx]

sopranos

^^^^^^^^^^^^

One of the best written AND acted TV shows of all time. OK, an HBO series show, but it will entertain anyone, but the brain dead. I have the entire series on DVD. Sopranos rocks.

Oh, and my oldest son got me watching Breaking Bad a few years ago. It rocks, also. Great acting and nice plots.

[Brad805]

Dexter is a great series.

[StressMonkey]

Sherlock is fantastic but there's not really action.

I heard good things as well. I am going to start watching it

The first season of Heroes is great but the show jumped the shark bad in the following seasons. It went out with a whimper.

[deadwoodgregg]

Justified, House, Top Gear (british), Top Shot, and of course Deadwood.

[Perry3]

"The Shield" with Michael Chiklis. Absolutely incredible show. Lots of action and some jaw-dropping plot twists. It is impossible to watch the first episode and not want to see more.

Fantastic series! 10-4 on the plot twists.

The Tudors was a really good series.
Also if you enjoy shows set in roman times check out the two seasons of Rome.

Both of those are worth the time. I loved Rome.

Deadwood

Oh man oh man that was a good one.
See a theme across most suggestions? Not much from the Big 3.

My suggestion: DEXTER
In the final season now. I got Showtime just to watch this show.

[djflex]

I kinda like that new show , elementary