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To ask if you think there is a perfect TV series?

394 replies

WeetabixTowels · 28/07/2023 18:23

For me it’s BBC’s 1995 Pride and Prejudice. Absolute perfection, I wouldn’t change a thing!

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lastminutewednesday · 28/07/2023 20:57

@Edwardandtubbs I love Maid Marion and her merry men. You can still watch it on YouTube

lastminutewednesday · 28/07/2023 20:59

Band of Brothers

JudgeJ · 28/07/2023 21:00

Witchcraftandhokum · 28/07/2023 18:29

The West Wing.

So agree, one of the very few things I can watch again and will concentrate on it rather than 'out of the corner of my eye' as I watch most things.
Am I alone in never like Fools and Horses? I get somuch abuse for not worshipping it but the bits I've seen are so unfunny.

tracylamont13 · 28/07/2023 21:01

Agree about the 1995 Pride and Prejudice. I've watched it again and again.

RafaThisAndRogerThat · 28/07/2023 21:01

This Is Us.

JudgeJ · 28/07/2023 21:03

Sugarplumfury · 28/07/2023 18:45

Schitts Creek
The Outlaws
Yes Minister/Prime Minister

I wonder why Yes Minister/Prime Minister never seem to date, so much is applicable now.

mamaca · 28/07/2023 21:05

ChillysWaterBottle · 28/07/2023 18:33

The Thick Of It is perfect imo. Every episode is so beautifully written and acted. I can watch it again and again and it never stops being funny.

I love The Thick of It too - Malcolm Tucker 😍

JudgeJ · 28/07/2023 21:10

viques · 28/07/2023 19:52

So many good ones I have forgotten. I must watch too much tv.

has anyone mentioned Dinnerladies yet?

One of the best written and observed programmes on TV, if anyone mentions a sash window it cracks me up even after all these years. The best part was that she didn't drag it on for dozens of episodes.

10HailMarys · 28/07/2023 21:12

Detectorists
The Thick of It
Succession

ShowOfHands · 28/07/2023 21:12

JudgeJ · 28/07/2023 21:10

One of the best written and observed programmes on TV, if anyone mentions a sash window it cracks me up even after all these years. The best part was that she didn't drag it on for dozens of episodes.

I quote it all the time. It was perfectly observed and acted.

It should be written dinnerladies (no capital). VW insisted.

JudgeJ · 28/07/2023 21:14

NeedMoMoney · 28/07/2023 20:16

Abit late to this but...come on...what could be a better watch!!!!

I can almost taste the Saturday morning fry-up as we watched this!

NadjaCravensworth1 · 28/07/2023 21:16

Succession. Impeccable.

Fleabag series 2

Sugarplumfury · 28/07/2023 21:18

JudgeJ. If you close your eyes so you don’t see the clothes and hairstyles , Yes Minister could be about today’s government. It just shows how duplicitous and cunning that whole environment has always been.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 28/07/2023 21:23

Sugarplumfury · 28/07/2023 21:18

JudgeJ. If you close your eyes so you don’t see the clothes and hairstyles , Yes Minister could be about today’s government. It just shows how duplicitous and cunning that whole environment has always been.

I listened to some of the original radio shows recentjy. So topical!

AnxiousFairyQueen · 28/07/2023 21:28

I like P&P but I prefer the BBC adaptation of Emma with Romola Garai. And the Detectorists.

TickTickTock · 28/07/2023 21:31

mum2jakie · 28/07/2023 18:27

Better Call Saul - best show ever from start to finish

Yes, this for sure!

Paulisexcluded · 28/07/2023 21:31

@MorrisZapp
"Godless, starring Lady Mary from Downton Abbey as a gun slinging prairie widow and Jeff Daniels as a psychopathic train robber.

Everything about it is 'chefs kiss', including the ending which pretty much seals off any further episodes."

Agree Godless is fantastic.

ASoapImpressionOfHisWifeWhichHeAte · 28/07/2023 21:31

I do and it's 'Six Feet Under'.

MissDollyMix · 28/07/2023 21:34

Frasier, Gavin & Stacey, Father Ted, The Inbetweeners and Outnumbered all immediately spring to mind.

I loved Line of Duty- that was so gripping - spoilt from perfection by the very last episode though.

MissDollyMix · 28/07/2023 21:36

oh I forgot an honourable mention for Friday Night Dinner too!

MairzyDoats · 28/07/2023 21:38

Floatlikeafeather2 · 28/07/2023 18:38

Green Wing

Yes!!! This.

MissDollyMix · 28/07/2023 21:39

I keep thinking of more! Life on Mars!! That was absolutely brilliant.

Lapland123 · 28/07/2023 21:42

Desperate housewives!!

neverbeenskiing · 28/07/2023 21:42

Oh I almost forgot Beef. Binge watched the whole thing over a weekend, I was completely hooked by it. Steven Yeun is phenomenal.

balatonbumm · 28/07/2023 21:44

The West Wing. Nothing else ever comes close.