To ask for your favourite binge worthy tv series?

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Three questions:

1. what is the series called?
2. what genre is it?
3. how did it make you feel?

Just bought a spin bike and am planning on watching an episode a night and exercising at the same time. Need some suggestions. I'm open to anything!

The Protector on Netflix

Sort of fantasy series but set in modern day Istanbul (basically tourism porn). Imagine Buffy was a hot young guy working in an antique shop called Hakan and he discovers he has a destiny to protect the city from evil Immortals.

I’ve been binging it while cycling on an exercise bike and I LOVE it. I’ve made myself a promise that the only way I can watch it is while cycling and I’m averaging at least an hour every day (and at the first season finale I was so desperate to see what happened I cycled for an hour and forty minutes to head into the next episode!).

There’s a dubbed version but it’s a bit cheesy. I watch it with subtitles because it seems easier to concentrate on while cycling (whereas of an evening I’m often half watching tv half playing on my phone which makes subtitles more of a faff).

Mad Men - about an ad agency in the 60's. Really enjoyed it.

Suits - legal, funny.

Bones - forensic anthropology drama. Nice mix of the work and their personal lives.

Dr foster
Dexter
American horror story

Prison break, Wentworth miller🤤

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I adore GA I might watch it again. Are you team McDreamy or McSteamy?

@Johnsonsfiat I love This Country. Daisy May Cooper's instagram is fantastic if you're on there!

@Motoko I loved DEVS.

@DivisionBelles The Bridge is the best series I've ever watched. Saga is fantastic, Sofia Helen plays the part incredibly well. I also have a bit of a crush on Kim Bodnia

@shas19 I loved Dr Foster but it made me feel very uncomfortable in parts.

The secret she keeps
Thriller/drama
Edge of my seat

Designated survivor on Netflix. I'm terrible at explaining plots, but it's an amazing watch!

@formerbabe think I might give that one a try!

@GinDaddyRedux 🤣

This is Us on Prime. It's funny and poignant and heart breaking and just brilliant.

@GinDaddyRedux I have a 22 month old. I assure you I've seen every episode

Sex Education, so clever and funny.
The Crown, I loved this and was surprised how addictive it is.
ER
Mrs America
Buffy
Scrubs

Luther, Marcella and Line of Duty

I know it’s not the best....

But it has to be Benidorm. It just makes me chuckle. Part of me just wants to be Madge for a weekend and ride around Benidorm 😂

Please don’t judge me.... I work in A&E and it was lovely to go home and watch it and just switch off

Love This is Us too!

Mrs America on bbc iplayer is also good

I second The Crown. Also, I was binge-watching Mad Men on Netflix and really enjoyed it, but then Netflix pulled it before I had a chance to watch all the episodes

Community, comedy set in a community college in the US, it's one of my favourites

Schitt’s Creek

My usual recommendations are The Wire (cops & drug dealers in Baltimore, incredible) , Breaking Bad (chemistry teacher with cancer starts cooking meth), The Sopranos (mob drama/dark comedy), The Shield (following a corrupt cop unit) and The Americans (set in the '80s, about a couple in the US who are secretly Russian spies).

I'm currently watching Fringe - halfway through S4 at the moment. It's Sci fi/FBI investigation and utterly ridiculous, but I can't stop watching as I love the characters and some of the Sci fi concepts so much . It reminded me a bit of Elementary (the American Sherlock Holmes series with Johnny Lee Miller), but that may be due to one of the actors being in both.

A much better example of a similar Sci fi scenario (trying not to give spoilers) is Counterpart (set in a world where a portal exists between two universes, the public is unaware and spies are sent through from each side to gain info as both worlds have developed differently). That was amazing.

Babylon Berlin is very good too (German police/societal drama set in the late '20s).

Line of duty, hands down.

Stranger Things...Winona Ryder sci fi series about teens set in the 1980s. Fantastic. Made me nostalgic for ET, The Goonies, The Lost Boys etc

Also Schitts Creek is brilliant but stick with it as it has a slow start.

The Wire...but you need to concentrate!

Lucifer...light hearted and easy to lose yourself in.