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

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

Firefly
Friends- perfect comfort viewing and still funny after so may rewatches
With caveats: Game of Thrones (up to Season 7) & The Office US (until Michael left).

It's A Sin made me sob and sob

Gilmore girls 🍁

The Bridge (original)

ER
Six Feet Under
Northern Exposure
This Life
Brothers and Sisters
Frasier
SATC
Brideshead Revisited
As Time Goes By
Peep Show
Nighty Night
Mad Men
Call the Midwife
Rev.
Benidorm
This Is Us
Last Tango In Halifax
Motherland
Mum
Unforgotten

happy valley
peaky blinders
breaking bad
doctor foster
line of duty

Okay a rethink

Succession
The Bear
Detectorists
The US Office

Outlander
The Last Kingdom
Strike

I like the first few seasons of things and then lose interest a bit. So the first 2-3 seasons of Buffy, Orphan Black, Frasier, Futurama, Friends, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul.

Clearly I will need to look out for the Detectorists.

Lost
Game of thrones

Everybody loves Raymond

Father Ted

Waking the dead. Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston were excellent.

Dr Who with Dave d Tennant

Up to about series 15 of Silent Witness

'95 Pride and Prejudice
Sleepers (the miniseries with Nigel Havers and Warren Clarke)
In the Red
Oliver's Travels
The Barchester Chronicles
Hamish MacBeth

Succession, the writing, the acting, the music, sublime
Fleabag (the restaurant episode in the second series blows my mind
The Detectorists
ER
Frasier

I cried when we finished the last episode of Ted Lasso, just so funny and heart-warming and amazing characters.

Oh and Black Books.

Loved the early ER but not the later ones.

If we had categories then surely Outlander would win for best sex scenes in a series. Sadly they also went in for some truly disturbing scenes....we didn't need to see it!

I thought Ted Lasso was cringeworthy, the titular actor was great but the supporting cast were awful esp the blonde woman with zero clue how to add any depth to her acting character

The Haunting of Hill House.
Golden Girls
In Living Colour
Joan Hickson Miss Marple
Poirot

Tipping The Velvet. Perfect story, casting and everything 😃

I agree with a lot of these. If we are going back to the 70's, Porridge. Re crime I'd add Vera and Broadchurch. I'm watching Suspects on my 5, that and ITV X has had some great stuff, especially as it's free, Unforgotten, the Bay and Trigger point hasn't had a mention. The Vikings (re shown on prime) is fantastic.

Oh LOVED that version of P&P! Watched it over and over. Also Brideshead Revisited. I used the theme music in my wedding.
More recently Money Heist (Spanish, on Netflix) - OMG that was excellent!

Reading through some of these - yes agree West Wing was excellent and have recently rewatched it with my daughter and even got a Bartlett for President sweatshirt printed.
The US version of House of Cards was amazing too.

The Durrells

Mum

Ever Decreasing Circles

Modern Family
Outnumbered
Darling Buds of May-Not the latest adaptation
Lark Rise to Candleford

Ditto to P&P and the Joan Hickson Miss Marples, but more recently I’d say The Detectorists.
And Last Tango In Halifax.

A subtitled French series we became absolutely hooked on was Spiral (Engrenages) - Parisian police drama, masses of episodes. Excellent, and apparently shown in France only on a subscription channel - maybe not on national TV because it didn’t always portray French officialdom in a good light.