Which old TV shows would you like to watch but they just have too many episodes?

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I am not one for rewatching shows but I recently did start Stranger Things from the beginning again in preparation for Season 5 (and because I couldn’t remember a damn thing from my first watch!), and to be honest, I really enjoyed refreshing my memory. I started to think of some other TV shows that I missed the first time round but the amount of episodes are putting me off starting any! My list so far is:

The Sopranos
Mad Men
Boardwalk Empire
Game of Thrones
Sex and the City
Game of Thrones (maybe… 🤔)
Lost (I watched all but the last series of this so would need to start again to refresh my memory!)

You don't have to watch ALL the episodes to the end if you don't like it.

Just watch the first two series and if you aren't hooked and wanting to watch the rest by then just bin the rest.

It was hard to get an ending as good as the build up to it.

And yes for a long time everyone was speculating it was purgatory and the rumor was (dunno from where) that it actually wasn't. And then it turned out it was.

Basically the writers just couldn't live up to the suspense and mystery that they delivered in the first 2-3 seasons.

I recently rewatched Downton Abbey, it was an absolute joy. I also started Glee and intend to watch Desperate Housewives too.

I only saw In the line of duty recently, very late to the party. Dh never saw it so we plan on watching it from the start in a few months..I'm looking forward to that.

Dh rewatched Mad men and How I met your mother recently, we both loved them first time around.

I know what you mean OP about too many episodes. It feels like a commitment!

@TakingTheHorseToFrance love the username, presume you are referring to the ad? Dh and I literally have that silly conversation every time we use real butter.

Most series IME its the first 2-3 seasons where all the meat is.

The big exceptions to the for me are NCIS (I did like the first 2 seasons the best, but the next few up until Gibbs left were still pretty good, once Gibbs left that was it for me, he was a hard act to follow).

Star Trek TNG is another exception. After the first 3 seasons or the actors really grew into their roles and got a lot better - the first 3 seasons are pretty amateurish.

GOT kept it up for all the seasons except the last one, which was a bit crap compared with the rest.

X-files, Lost, Westworld. Not much to write home about after the first couple of seasons.

Cell block H.....we do have some old videos, used to watch it every week !!

I love Desperate Housewives too, watched them all from when they first aired. I've been rewatching lately but I stop after series 6 as I like to pretend series 7 and 8 didn't happen. Utter shite. Especially 8

The Good Wife
Sex and the City
The Larry Sanders Show

Oldies
Take Three Girls
The Invaders
The Big Valley
Z Cars
Play for Today
The Munsters
The Adams Family

I’d recommend Private Practice if you haven’t seen that and are finding Grey’s is going a bit downhill (which I’d agree with). It follows Addison after she leaves, and introduces Derek’s sister Amy (not sure if you’ll have met her yet in Grey’s Anatomy). 6 seasons so not too long.

@CloakedInGucci thank you, I will have a look for Private Practice as I loved Addison!

Rewatched Spooks in lockdown with DH who hadn't seen it. It's not too dated at all and we both really enjoyed it.

I really want to watch The Handmaid's Tale but I can't watch too many episodes of something before I start losing concentration so it seems like a big commitment to get through all 6 series!

This is SUCH a useful thread, lots of suggestions for after Ive finished Silent Witness ( up to season six now!)

I'm now thinking I should watch Silent Witness ws well which I have never watched before

Arg, that was the one I meant in my PP. I said Prime Suspect. I meant Silent Witness. Yes, 29 series to catch up on. That is quite a commitment!

It is a really good series, but my god it will make you so angry too.

I am really jealous that you're watching it for tne first time! What a series.

Started The Sopranos for the first time recently and it is INTERMINABLE! Got as far as season 3 and happy never to have to watch any more. I don't like leaving a story unfinished but there is no story and it goes on forever. Each episode lasts about 3 hours and I find myself asking are we near the end yet.
I don't usually like to read or watch anything more than once but potentialy might revisit Peaky Blinders or Slow Horses in a decade or so.

I’m not wild about it (Sopranos) so far to be honest but we’re only four episodes in so I will persevere.

Gilmore Girls

Number of episodes wouldn't bother me, I can't binge watch so I watch one episode of something a day. Rewatched all of Mad Men last year, now rewatching Schitt's Creek since Catherine O'Hara's death

Sopranos
The Simpson
Game of thrones

I recently binged West Wing, third time and there will be a fourth in a couple of years, the actors and scripts fabulous even if I don't understand all the political points

Try the Mentalist rather silly but enjoyable

The quality of writing in THT falls off a cliff after the first two series, but you'll get caught up in Sunk Cost Fallacy and watch the rest of it because you feel obliged to. Really though, it just gets more and more ridiculous as it drags on, and on, and on, and on....

Northern exposure. It is currently on prime which i don't have. Contemplating a free 1 month trial but it is 124 episodes..... also Episodes which was on bbc2 might be good for a re-watch.