Your favourite TV series that no one else you know has seen

[SinkGirl]

Currently unable to sleep so thought I would ask others!

I feel like I’ve seen everything that’s regularly recommended but I have a few TV shows I love that rarely ever come up in discussions. I figured I would share mine and maybe others could share theirs and we can all find something new to us!

The main ones that come to mind for me are:
Silicon Valley
Barry
Carnivale
Party Dowb

Almost all HBO so harder to get hold of but all absolutely brilliant and worth seeking out.

Also 30 Rock and The Shield - these come up more often but still not widely seen in the UK

What are yours?

@NiceGerbil

Erm I have some but they are going back a bit!

The Ritz - 80s, about a night club

Lexx - very odd sci fi late night when I was pissed and young

If anyone remembers those as well I'll be over the moon!

I remember Lexx, it was rather odd.

I feel equally out of whack

Frasier!!! Friday Night Dinner!!! Ghosts!!!

Anyway lots of others that I truly hadn't heard anyone else mentioning so glad to be reminded on here
How Not To Live Your Life.
Revenge
Mongrels

Loved them all

Someone on a thread the other day mentioned Cold Case which was fabulous

And I love Star Stories, Murder in Successville and Yonderland. Not many people talk about these

Also Sta

@JosephineBaker

I feel out of whack because I’ve seen so many of the things mentioned and didn’t think they were obscure at all! I move in the wrong circles

I mean, you couldn’t move for Good Omens coverage when it was first on the BBC, for example, and Casanova (very young David Tennant) was a massive hit at the time. Christ I’m old.

Northern Exposure was a gem. Due South and the deaf wolf Deifenbaker was sweet.
NYPD Blue was a game changer, as was Homicide: Life on the Streets, and then The Wire.
Loved Ultraviolet, Being Human, Grimm, iZombie etc,
Silicon Valley was so much fun. Also Brooklyn 99, Studio 60, Community, 30 Rock - lots of ace female characters.

Ones I haven’t seen mentioned are Fargo (the series), Haven and Once (upon a time).

We quote Friday Night Lights all the time - “I guarantee it” - and I have 3 Nashville albums. Scarlet and Gunner breaking up broke my heart.

I didn’t mention Fargo as I thought most had seen it! I love Fargo so much, absolutely brilliant. Haven’t seen S4 yet though.

If you love those police shows, have you seen The Shield? Currently on Prime and also on All4. While I love The Wire, The Shield is probably my favourite series of all time. It’s very different to The Wire but incredibly good. Quite disturbing in parts but I am so jealous of anyone who gets to see it for the first time!

Sean Locke's 15 Stories High, mentioned upthread. Great sitcom. I keep trying to get people to watch it...

Lexx, a minority taste, deeply flawed, puerile, dark and wonderful. Described at the time as “Star Trek's Evil Twin”

Lars Von Triers' The Kingdom, Danish with subtitles, spooky and odd. An American version was made some years later by Stephen King, but I prefer the original.

@SkiingIsHeaven
I watched The Night Of! Really enjoyed it but I felt like it left it hanging for another season that never happened.

I used to love an American cop series in the 80s called Sledge Hammer. It was about a slightly psychotic cop who I think used to talk to his gun. Haven't seen it since the 80s so possibly hasn't aged too well!

Has anyone mentioned The Americans yet? Brilliant drama about deep cover Soviet spies in the early 80s, living across the street from an FBI agent. It's on either Prime or Netflix now I believe, DH and I originally found it on ITV3 at some ridiculous time on a Saturday night, it's not surprising nobody had ever seen it!

Heimat was exceptional. Anyone?

Friday Night Lights

@hollyandkit

I used to love an American cop series in the 80s called Sledge Hammer. It was about a slightly psychotic cop who I think used to talk to his gun. Haven't seen it since the 80s so possibly hasn't aged too well!

You might want to try this then mentioned upthread - same writer, more twisted though from what i remember! m.imdb.com/title/tt1772157/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

@dayswithaY I know stir of echoes, fantastic film

The one with Stephanie Beecham was "Connie" and that too was fabulous and again too short lived only 13 episodes

@JellyTeapot The Americans was huge at the time of release but VERY poorly treated in the Uk which is a disgrace frankly. Messed about with in the scheduling and not promoted past the first season. Yet in America it won golden globes and prime time emmys! Ludicrous how Uk tv behaved with it!

It's on prime at the moment I think.

I loved
trollied
superstore
The good place

@SinkGirl - yes, The Shield was brilliant. It had such an incredible arc, started like a regular - if brutal - cop show and got better and better.

The Wire is my favourite because I cared deeply about so many of them. Just a perfect ensemble cast.

Speechless- with Minnie Driver. Very funny!
Mcguiver
How to get away with murder
Private Eyes

The following
Justified

I think a lot of these shows aren't seen as "cool" so either people don't watch them, or pretend they don't. This is particularly true for the gentle romance type ones and some of the sci fi.

Hart of Dixie.... Wade. Oh. My. God. Without a doubt the character in TV I've most fallen in love with over my entire life.

In the 90s/early 2000s I watched JAG and loved it. No one else I knew watched it.

Similarly, I loved Army Wives (thanks to this thread, I've just discovered it had a lot of additional seasons that somehow I missed. Have added to my Prime wishlist!).

Future Man was absolutely brilliant. I really felt Netflix missed a trick not promoting that one more. So funny.

"Someone on a thread the other day mentioned Cold Case which was fabulous*

Pick channel used to show cold case it was great I wonder what happened to it.

I love loads of these! Silicon Valley and 30 Rock in particular.

Also:

Recentish ones-

Devs
Motherland
Back to Life
Breeders
Catastrophe
Dead Pixels

Older ones-
Pulling
Big Train
Man Stroke Woman

Has New Amsterdam been mentioned yet?

I used to love Linda Green (with Liza Tarbuck), might have to dig out the DVDs and see if has stood the test of time!

Green Wing was another favourite.

I live in Australia and used to spend a fortune on DVDs so that I could watch decent programs :)

@jellybe

Roger and Val have just got in- bbc, dawn French and Alfred Molina. Brilliantly funny and beautiful as in places.

Grandma's house - Simon Amstal (spelling) sooo funny.

Might have to go dig out my DVDs of both of these for some weekend bingeing.

Loved Grandma's house!

Lead Balloon
Upstart Crow

Ringer with Sarah michelle Geller. Just wish they'd made a second series!

I loved

Mad Men (best series EVER)
Damages
Grey Zone (Scandi Walter Presents)
Deliver Us (Walter Presnts)

Mad Men (best series EVER)

No one you know has ever seen Mad Men? It was huge!