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What is the best TV series from start to finish?

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Soubriquet · 13/03/2024 09:48

Gotta be

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Good Place

there are other shows I love but I think these two don’t have a single bad episode. It’s all brilliant right from the pilot to the finale

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StoatofDisarray · 13/03/2024 20:53

Better Call Saul, I reckon!

HRTQueen · 13/03/2024 21:00

The Wire
The Sopranos
Friday Night Dinner
Happy Valley

HRTQueen · 13/03/2024 21:05

Prime Suspect and Cracker both absolutely fantastic

has Line of Duty finished? I thought we would be getting another series did I miss something 😬

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Legendairy · 13/03/2024 21:16

Ted Lasso
Crazy Ex Girlfriend
How I met Your Mother (except the very end, I hated the ending)
Desperate Housewives
Designated Surviver
Law & Order SVU (all 20+ seasons)
Big Bang Theory
Friends
This Is Us
I also loved Dexter although some people disliked the last season, I just loved it overall
Six Feet Under
Lie To Me
Private Practice
I also loved 24, I watched all seasons and loved them, some are exceptional though, in particular 1 and 4.

I have watched all the above more than once

Mumtobabyhavoc · 13/03/2024 21:21

Mad Men and The Sopranos. No question.

Marcella was also quite good.
(trying to recall lock-down binges). 🤔

Legendairy · 13/03/2024 21:23

Also

Vampire Diaries
Suits
Young Sheldon
Call the Midwife
The Fall
Mindhunter
Ghost Whisperer
Firefly Lane

Couldn't get on with

Handmaids Tale
Sopranos
Lost
Manifest

Dolallytats · 13/03/2024 21:25

Sons of Anarchy
Strike back
Prodigal son
The rookie
True detective-first one
The night agent
Seal team
Blind spot
Bones
The equaliser
SWAT
911
The recruit
Warrior nun
Ozark
The affair
Strike

I'm sure there are many more I can't think of right now

Legendairy · 13/03/2024 21:29

@Dolallytats I forgot about Prodigal Son and 911, loved both of those.

Legendairy · 13/03/2024 21:30

I keep thinking of more.

Loves Nashville and also When they See Us, not really a series, only 3 episodes I think but one of the best pieces of TV I've ever seen.

storagefilter · 13/03/2024 21:30

ER
Line of Duty
Yellowstone

colouringindoors · 13/03/2024 21:32

ER

colouringindoors · 13/03/2024 21:35

Happy Valley

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Femme2804 · 13/03/2024 21:38

FrIeNDS!! obviously its friends.

Gobimanchurian · 13/03/2024 21:47

Sleeplesnights · 13/03/2024 10:12

This is England
The last of us
Stranger things
Gavin and Stacey
Queer as folk (UK)
It's a sin

All of these!

Plus The Good Wife / The Good Fight

Notaflippinclue · 13/03/2024 21:48

Orange is the new black

kenadams86 · 13/03/2024 21:55

Breaking bad
Afterlife

Perzival · 13/03/2024 22:06

911
Criminal minds
Supernatural
Manifest
Cold case
Once upon a time
Why women kill
Quantum Leap (the original)
Star trek tng

Catsmere · 13/03/2024 22:13

Hamish Macbeth
Black Books
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Elizabeth R
Foyle's War

Escaperoom · 13/03/2024 22:18

Top of the Lake
The Bodyguard

bookworm60 · 13/03/2024 22:23

Recent - Ghosts
Vintage - MASH

Both have the perfect blend of comedy and pathos, they can have you laughing and crying a matter of minutes apart

Mindovermatter247 · 13/03/2024 22:29

I’ve got a few…

ER… no doubt about it…
the rookie… not finished yet but season 1-5 was amazing

Elderflower14 · 13/03/2024 22:31

As Time Goes By
Houdini and Doyle
Ashes to Ashes

Touty · 13/03/2024 22:37

Cagney and Lacey - grew up watching them. Great role models.

WhatFlavourIsIt · 13/03/2024 22:53

Downton- it's almost perfect (apart from the Bates story lines I fast forward through )
I'm watching again for the 3rd time.

louderthan · 13/03/2024 23:11

Jewel in the Crown
This Life
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Brideshead Revisited
Broadchurch s1

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