A thread for amazing TV recommendations to cheer us all up!

[Newstart20]

As the title says really, any top TV or movie recommendations to get stuck into over our lockdown Christmas?

I'll start with:

• Line of Duty
• Prison Break
• The Walking Dead

• Dr Dolittle (New version)
• 1917
• Bad Moms

Virgin river
Emily in Paris

Only just discovered Grace and Frankie ... love it

Good girls, on Netflix. Really binge worthy

Ghosts
Father Ted
Drop the Dead Donkey
White Gold

This, if you're short of time.

Zoeys extraordinary play list. Be prepared to laugh and cry tons especially towards the end of the series! Absolutely beautiful series and seems to have flown under the radar (maybe cos the concept is a bit out there and light hearted so people don't realise how moving it is but seriously people should watch it!)

Amazed no-one has suggested "The Good Place" - Brilliant comedy, and (even better) actually has a proper ending

If you like hard science fiction (and some do) I recommend Altered Carbon on Netflix (though beware the flash-forwards/backwards confusion!) and The Expanse on Amazon. Both are sublime.

I loved the first series of The Good Place but lost interest after that. Enjoyed Good Girls as well, it's good fun. Sneaky Pete is good craic as well, especially the first series.

Jessica Jones

The Good Wife.
It's absolutely fantastic.
Also The Sopranos. Old but gold

Friday Night Lights. Don't let the football theme put you off, it's really beautiful, insightful, amazing television.

The West Wing.

Parks and Recreation. Lesley Knope is my favourite TV character.

The Night Shift. Decent medical drama.

Waking The Dead - BBC iPlayer
Foyles War

Agreeing with Ghosts! Just getting into Outlander...

Staged
This is Us

GLOW
Suburra: Blood on Rome

As a pp says, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Also, I’m thinking I’m of rewatching all of The Split (with Nicola Walker) this Christmas holiday - mostly for the outfits...

There is a Ghosts Christmas special

Not a TV series but a film. The Road is a laugh a minute, and will give you a good idea of life in post Brexit Britain

Watched Borat last night. I know I’m way behind but was funny and worrying at the same time.

Ghosts
The Goes Wrong Show

(Both BBC1)

@GrouchyKiwi

Friday Night Lights. Don't let the football theme put you off, it's really beautiful, insightful, amazing television.

The West Wing.

Parks and Recreation. Lesley Knope is my favourite TV character.

The Night Shift. Decent medical drama.

Where can I watch Friday Night Lights please?

My TV recs:
Bloodline (Florida Keys scenery porn)
Schitt’s Creek
Gangs of London
Unbelievable

Staged - the Netflix version is slightly longer than the iPlayer version, iPlayer version more tightly focussed on the big name stars, Tennant, Sheen, SPOILER and SPOILER. Netflix adds more background to director and his sister.

Oh I forgot; ‘What we do in the Shadows’ BBC iPlayer

The Mandalorean - I was a sceptic, but it really is good
The Queens Gambit - as good as the hype
Red Oaks -msaw it years ago, it it still is on `Amazon and really worth watching
Mrs Maisel
Friday Night Lights - saw this rec above and wholeheartedly agree. Not freely available on prime anymore
Pose
The Good Fight - liked it better than the Good Wife

@SillyUnMurphy I'm not sure, I'm afraid. It is sometimes on Netflix, sometimes free on Prime. The DVD boxset isn't a crazy price to buy, though.

[quote GrouchyKiwi]@SillyUnMurphy I'm not sure, I'm afraid. It is sometimes on Netflix, sometimes free on Prime. The DVD boxset isn't a crazy price to buy, though.[/quote]
Thanks. I know it was on Netflix a while ago but we didn’t watch it and I’ve not seen it on there since. We’ve also got Prime, so I’ll keep an eye out.