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!

Succession
Better Call Saul
The Thick of It
I May Destroy You
The Bear

Buffy
GOT (excluding final season!!)
My So Called Life

It's A Sin! Couldn't stop thinking about it for months.

For me it was "The West Wing".

Downtown Abbey, how has no one mentioned it.

Yes Maid Marion was great

Queer as folk (uk series)

Cardiac Arrest
Bodies
Line of Duty
Homeland
LA LA Land (TV series not film)

Firefly.

But only because it's so short it never had a chance to have a bad episode. Buffy was the better series over all, the highs were so much higher, but when you do 130ish episodes you're always going to get the occasional stinker. Firefly is just 14 episodes of perfection. Not a single step wrong.

I thought about my answer before opening the thread and thought it had to be BBC's Pride and prejudice! I also agree about Miss Marple with Joan Hickson and have to add Poirot with David Suchet. I loved Dinner ladies too.

Orphan Black
Friends
Not Going Out
You
Stranger Things
Haunting Of Hill House
The Sinner
One Foot In The Grave
Red Dwarf
IT Crowd
Happy Valley
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Doctor Who with David Tennant and Matt Smith
Torchwood

Offspring
The West Wing
Parks and recreation
US Office

can dip onto any episode of these and happily watch

Happy Valley every single episode was fantastic the acting the script everything

Buffy
charmed
the good wife…this got me through my divorce!

Detectorists.

It is beautifully conceived, written and acted. I would say elegiac, moving and funny. Not tame or twee in the slightest.

Another vote for Dopesick

Raffles - 1970s serries with Anthony Valentine. I agree with loads already mentioned, but this would be my Desert Island Series. So comforting, so clever, so full of heart, such great acting and plotting.

And a much happier ending than the EW Horning stories, thank goodness.

Also, for pure kitch, UFO - the Gerry Anderson series. Another brilliant 1970s series, and I just love every minute of it. Irrational, nonsensical, but utterly wonderful. And there's the small matter of Paul Foster, my childhood crush.

The Wire
Arrested Development
I May Destroy You
Peep Show
Succession

Desperate housewives
the l word
fleabag

Fawty Towers

Still hung up on Ted Lasso, think it was great
Also loved Detectorists

Oooh, I almost forgot Brass Eye
The Day Today
Alan Partridge when he was living at the Linton Travel Tavern

I bloody loved Baywatch to be honest.

Parks and Recreation. Perfect.

What happened off, screen?
I always wondered what stage 3 of manticore would be?
I can sorta understand the point about season 2 especially some of the missing main characters