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What are your favourite tv shows of all time?

134 replies

Goders · 20/09/2025 17:48

I’m not much of a tv watcher but I’m about to be in bed for an extended period of time (major surgery). Was hoping for tv shows recommendations. Just trying to think of ways to occupy my time.

Have bought a bunch of books and downloaded some games to my laptop.

I loved The Sopranos. But there isn’t a particular genre I don’t enjoy.

Thanks in advance

OP posts:
GingersOwner26 · 21/09/2025 00:04

namechangetheworld · 20/09/2025 22:55

Lost (nobody has mentioned it yet, which saddens me!)
Game of Thrones
Rome
Dark
Teachers
Arrested Development
New Girl
Parks and Rec
Motherland

I also really enjoyed The Walking Dead until the quality dropped significantly after they lost Andrew Lincoln.

Edited

Lost is my favourite of all time, and Dark is another! Ever checked out From? That’s the other of my top 3

RainBow725 · 21/09/2025 00:17

perimenopoppet · 20/09/2025 18:03

The West Wing
For All Mankind
Six Feet Under
Mad Men
House
The Newsroom
Studio 60 on the sunset strip
Homeland
Game of Thrones

A fellow Sorkin fan 🥰.

bellabelly · 21/09/2025 00:18

Frasier

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 00:22

Yes prime minister.
Downton Abbey
House of cards
game of thrones
band of brothers
the west wing
ungorgotten
the split
line Of duty
ted lasso

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 00:23

RainBow725 · 21/09/2025 00:17

A fellow Sorkin fan 🥰.

He’s brilliant. Sooo many words though..

XWKD · 21/09/2025 00:25

The Beverly Hillbillies, Dallas, and Dynasty. 😉

tramtracks · 21/09/2025 00:25

Ooh - fogot these absolute bangers.

our friends in the north
cold feet
This life

PurpleRobe · 21/09/2025 00:26

24
Lost
Homeland
Good wife
Boss
Saving grace
ER

Echoeingecho · 21/09/2025 01:49

Better Call Saul
Ozark
A Place to Call Home
Slow Horses

UnderThePressure · 21/09/2025 02:11

Slow Horses
Killing Eve
Sandman
Game of Thrones
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Suits
Dead to Me
True Detective
Yellowstone
Good Girls
Peep Show
Superstore

Quism · 21/09/2025 02:23

X Files
The Magic of Dance
Frasier
Peep Show
Lost

...and an opening series about a coach crash in the French Alps {I think??) and a child who came back from the accident after everyone else died? Something about a lake, maybe. It was one about 7 - 8 years ago, but no idea what it was called.

MudLark87 · 21/09/2025 02:34

War and Peace
The Wire
The Fall
Vikings
Line of duty
The Last Kingdom
Bridgerton
Nobody wants this

RedRiverShore5 · 21/09/2025 05:37

Quism · 21/09/2025 02:23

X Files
The Magic of Dance
Frasier
Peep Show
Lost

...and an opening series about a coach crash in the French Alps {I think??) and a child who came back from the accident after everyone else died? Something about a lake, maybe. It was one about 7 - 8 years ago, but no idea what it was called.

I think it might be Les Revenants (The Returned), it's on Prime

TheGrimSmile · 21/09/2025 05:37

Ladhood
Am I Being Unreasonable
Motherland
The Office
Peepshow
Happy Valley
I also used to like Ally McBeal and Desperate Housewives - not sure I would now
Time ( with Stephen Graham) was also excellent
One Summer (from the late 80s)
Brookside

TheGrimSmile · 21/09/2025 05:39

Oh I forgot - Breaking Bad

TheGrimSmile · 21/09/2025 05:41

Oh and Fleabag!

TheGrimSmile · 21/09/2025 05:43

Also: Catastrophe.

Echoeingecho · 21/09/2025 11:34

Anyone who hasn’t seen Ozark, I really recommend it. There are some amazing strong, female roles in this which I loved.

Purpleturtle45 · 21/09/2025 11:38

This is Us

Best show ever!

Everyonelikecapybaras · 21/09/2025 14:11

Happy to see lots of people mentioning Modern family (which i forgot on mine list).
They were amazing. As someone with foreign accent and occasional issue with words her "Do you even know how smart I am in Spanish" touched me😂

aLittleWhiteHorse · 21/09/2025 14:28

Lots of old favourites mentioned above like:
Gilmore Girls
The Last Kingdom
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Catastrophe
Derry Girls
Modern Family
The Last of Us
Wednesday
Veronica Mars
Last Tango in Halifax

BBC iplayer has some great Aussie shows:
Five Bedrooms
The Newsreader
Bump

Best of luck with your recovery!

MyElatedUmberFinch · 21/09/2025 14:38

Shtisel

Les Mis BBC adaptation

Ancestral Land (Russian)

Wayne

Bertiebiscuit · 05/04/2026 22:29

Person of Interest - best series ever, absolutely gripping, set in Manhattan, fantastic actors & actresses, utterly original concept for me, strong female characters, very unusual story lines and the gorgeous chic Jim Caviezel, love a Man in a Suit, with a lovely dog! 100% perfect. When life is stressful i rewatch the dvd box set.

Bertiebiscuit · 05/04/2026 22:35

Person of Interest.
The good wife
The good fight
Line of duty
Endeavour
George gently
Grantchester
Miss Marple
Brideshead revisited - the original, not the remake
Suits

Piemam · 05/04/2026 22:39

Love Motherland and Ghosts, like a lot of PPs here. Also love Manifest on Netflix, my comfort watch as such; weird considering it's about a plane crash/ missing/ time lapse thing.

Anyway, also rank Father Ted as ultimate comfort watch.