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Tell us about your favourite Box Sets for your chance to win a bunch of DVD Box Sets

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SandyMumsnet · 29/04/2015 15:01

Do you love a good Box Set?

Is there one that you have been raving about or discussing on Mumsnet?

Have you just watched your last season and need to make the tough decision of what to watch next?

Share your suggestions below of the best Box Sets to get stuck into and one lucky winner will be chosen on 12th May and we will send you a bumper package of DVD Box Sets care of Twentieth Century Fox, including Alvin and the Chipmunks, Modern Family and Bones.

Good luck!

Tell us about your favourite Box Sets for your chance to win a bunch of DVD Box Sets
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wonkylegs · 05/05/2015 07:28

Love Bones, Rookie Blue - crime stuff - it's my go to entertainment whilst doing the ironing.
DH & I both love The Good Wife - I think it's managed to keep its pace & hook over the series which is fab as often I find that long running series lose this.

HollyJollyDillydolly · 05/05/2015 09:33

Grey's anatomy
24
my new favourite is Once upon a time.

AngelBlue12 · 05/05/2015 11:09

At the moment we are watching Third Rock from the Sun! Just finished watching Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. Love sifi over here :)

TotallyAnonymousUsername · 05/05/2015 15:39

Buffy and then Angel got me through hours of cluster feeding when dd was a newborn.

DH and I have just finished how i met your mother and i miss it! I love racing through a great box set. Unfortunately I'm then left bereft when it finishes until i find a new one to get absorbed in

1wokeuplikethis · 05/05/2015 18:31

Walking dead
Dexter
Breaking bad
Orange is the new black
Modern family
Sopranos

WE LOVE BOX SETS!

Really interested in greys anatomy now everyone is talking about it.

In pre-child days:
The OC
Sex & the City
The Hills
The office
Gavin & Stacey
Outnumbered

I should go out more.

turns on Netflix

teabagsmummy · 05/05/2015 19:11

We love 80's stuff like Roseanne box set also enjoyed French and Saunders. More up to date stuff as we'll like 24 was great

forcookssake · 05/05/2015 21:23

I came to say Bones Grin Friends spent a few years repeatedly mentioning it and when I finally began watching it I was hooked so quickly!
Other than that, I'm a long time Whedon fan, so both Buffy and Firefly are viewing staples round here. Also, BBC Musketeers keeps me very happy and looses nothing with repeated watching Wink

daimbardiva · 05/05/2015 22:07

Oh, there are so many! Homeland has to be a favourite - can't wait till season 4 is out as a boxset next month.

We have just finished S4 of Game of Thrones - and have agreed it will probably be our last. I just can't stand the relentless violence and grimness anymore, and there are just too many characters to keep track of!

Our next one will be House of Cards 2 - loved the first one.

Dreamiesrcatopium · 05/05/2015 22:13

All the girly ones. I'm a bad box set wimp! Don't do violence. I love Friends, Desperate Housewives; Sex and the City, How I met your Mither and Big Bang Theory.

My DH loves all the murdery shizzle though.

jollyjester · 06/05/2015 09:26

I remember back fondly to the pre DD days when DH and I would get immersed in a box set and stay awake until 3 or 4 in the morning watching! As the closing credits appeared it one of us would always say 'just one more wee episode'

Notable box sets watched were Prison Break, 24, House MD, Heroes and Greys Anatomy. We're currently waiting on the last season of Spooks to be added to Amazon Prime.

We're a bit stuck for what to watch next, think it might be House of Cards on Netflix, love Kevin Spacey so looking forward to that.

We do have a life outside of tv though, promise! Grin

NanFlanders · 06/05/2015 10:48

So many - Breaking Bad, True Blood (till they introduced the stupid faeries anyway), currently on Game of Thrones. All time favourite has to be Six Feet Under though. Unusually for a US series, they didn't keep eking it out till it got lame - 'Everybody dies' has to be the best ending to a TV series ever.

gruffaloshmuffalo · 06/05/2015 12:02

I hammered through Mad Men, but I love and rewatch Gilmore Girls and Grey's Anatomy whenever I can.

At the minute I'm really loving Nashville

LocalEditorBirmingham · 06/05/2015 16:23

West Wing was the BEST.

Have also enjoyed:
Six Foot Under
Mad Men
Cold Feet

Haven't had time to get into Breaking Bad, but the pilot was good :)

ReallyNotMe · 06/05/2015 18:07

Friday Night Lights is my first choice.

Also love Gilmore Girls, Sons of Anarchy, Game of Thrones, One Tree Hill, Mad Men, The Vampire Diaries.

Still go back to Friends and Sex and The City for a bit of nostalgia.

excited99 · 06/05/2015 18:26

I have only recently discovered box sets as a way of watching tv. Boardwalk Empire was the first box set I watched, I was addicted. I enjoy watching them with my husband once the kids are in bed. We enjoyed Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and scandi dramas Spiral and Braquo. I also binge watched "girlie" box sets Scandal and Grey's Anatomy. Box sets are definitely the future of tv.

ldt87 · 06/05/2015 21:22

I have loved greys anatomy, house, criminal minds, game of thrones and nashville recently. I also enjoyed gossip girl while pregnant and home with the TV to myself in the daytimes.

ldt87 · 06/05/2015 21:23

I talcum sons of anarchy, breaking bad and scandal next. I'm addicted to boxsets!

Catnap26 · 06/05/2015 22:51

Scandal-every season unravels a different mystery...love it!!!

bobs123 · 07/05/2015 00:33

Only started watching boxsets recently as I'm getting divorced and can't afford Sky or large enough broadband allowance for Netflix any more. So I buy them on ebay. Favourites are

How I met your Mother
Big Bang Theory
Lost
Orange is the New Black

I also have a lot of individual movies for when my niece and nephew come to visit

Newquay · 07/05/2015 08:11

Classic box sets were 24 and sex and the city.

All time favourite though was Entourage. We still haven't seen the last series!

Purplehonesty · 07/05/2015 09:09

Ooh lots
The shield is my all time favourite I cried so much at the end. We watch it again every couple of years
The good wife
Mad men
Game of thrones
Scandal
3rd watch - that's one from dh

pinkcomet · 07/05/2015 10:38

I've got a 4 month old so boxsets have been a lifesaver recently! We have binged on Game of Thrones and rewatched (and rekindled our love for) Peep Show plus Fresh Meat, The Mighty Boosh and The IT Crowd. I LOVE boxsets ??

DurhamDurham · 07/05/2015 13:06

Two of my favorites are:

Boardwalk Empire.....one of the best shows in the last twenty years. Full of twists and turns, brilliant cast and beautiful to look at. Steve Buscemy is fantastic. I'm not sure how he makes his character so likeable given the horrible things he does but he pulls it off perfectly.

The Following.....Kevin Bacon is brilliantly cast in his role as an FBI agent chasing after serial killers and cult leaders. I was on the edge of my seat and watched six in one go.....even though I needed the loo by the end of the third one.

ClaireCampA · 07/05/2015 18:18

West Wing and Greys Anatomny

wonderwooman · 07/05/2015 21:00

DH and I were totally hooked on Sons of Anarchy for 7 Seasons! It took over our lives!