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!

If we’re doing kids shows then Shaun the sheep, especially the episodes with the pigs in.

This is Us
Bump
Ted Lasso
The Queen’s Gambit

Six feet under
Sons of anarchy
This is England
Happy valley
Phoenix nights
The Royle family
I also loved Dexter which I thought was fantastic until season 5 ,I thought the later seasons were not a patch on the earlier ones.
The same with The walking dead.

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

has anyone mentioned Dinnerladies yet?

First thing that springs to mind is the Christmas Eve adaptations of MR James stories. There were two made in the 1970s that were masterpieces (Whistle and I'll Come to You was one, I think).

Mark Gatiss' documentary on M R James is also a forgotten masterpiece

I Claudius (1970s)

Colditz (1970s)

Brideshead Revisited (1980s)

Cranford (2007, with Judi Dench)

Bleak House (2005, with Charles Dance – easily the best ever adaptation of a Dickens novel)

Andrew Graham Dixon: Secret Lives of the Artists

Matthew Collings: Hello Culture (he also did a brilliant series on modern art)

The Office (the original British series, not the American re-make)

Kenneth Clark: Civilization

Alan Partridge: The first series, when he had his chat show

Bruce Parry: Tribe

Fawlty Towers

Blackadder: Final series (set in WW1)

Parade's End (Benedickt Cumberbatch, script by Tom Stoppard)

Sherlock Holmes (starring Jeremy Brett)

Sopranos without a doubt. In fact I'm going to watch it again NOW.

west wing

Ghosts
Game of Thrones (minus season 8)
West Wing
The Office US
Dark
Quantum Leap
El Ministerio Del Tiempo
Fleabag
Bluey

Also
this is England
I may destroy you
flea bag
league of gentlemen
the accused (well the Sean bean and Stephen Graham episode)

BoJack Horseman, it's a cartoon about a horse but it made me SOB.

Blackadder. Yes Minister. The Thick of It.

The Americans
The Shield
Golden Girls

Oooh why do you hate John Stamos?

As for the original question….
ER
NYPD Blue
Seinfeld

Ally McBeal, the good wife

And Wolf Hall. Claire is the perfect Ann Boleyn

I recognise so many awesome series (I watch too much TV)!

I'll add

Upstairs Downstairs (the olden day one, not the reboot) there's just something so sweet about it.

Star Trek the next Generation - so wholesale

Six Feet Under - for me, the last episode, particularly the last ten minutes is better than anything else I’ve seen.
Fleabag.
I Claudius.
I thought the Shield dipped in places, but the ending… stunning.
Unforgotten, particularly the Nicola Walker series.
If I want a trashy wallow, original Dynasty.

I liked ally Mcbeal but haven’t seen it repeated recently?

Schitts Creek - divine TV

Traitors from last year, excellent reality TV

Psych - about a fake psychic detective, was never appreciated over here

Due South - brilliant stories, brilliant music, really quirky, plus Paul Gross dressed as a mountie!

They finished the story with 2 books I think but I don't think the person that wrote them had seen much beyond the series finale. I don't actually remember how they ended though now 😂. Season 2 just seemed like they added loads of mutants and a really daft plot device to keep them apart.

Anyway, off screen there have been some comments made by Jessica Alba that make it sound like she was heavily pressured into the relationship by the (significantly older) Michael Weatherly. She was 18 ish, he was 30.

I'm sorry apparently I've come on this thread to ruin shows. 😂😭

The Yes Minister/Prime Minister series. And, showing my age, before that Monty Python's Flying Circus and Morecambe and Wise...

Better call Saul
Breaking bad
The thick of it
Only fools and horses

Psych was so funny! I do wonder if I would have enjoyed the mentalist if I'd never seen psych 😂

The Thick of It - season 3 onwards - is absolutely perfect.

House - god, I love Hugh Laurie!