Box sets ahoy!

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I think there was a thread on this a while ago but can't find it, sorry.

33 weeks and BORED plus going to try BF twins so need plenty for the old DVD player!

Am just about to finish season 3 of the West Wing, so got that (and love it, PLEASE can he be our PM). Thinking about 24 and also Mildred Pierce.

Have devoured the whole of Spooks. Bloomin' brilliant. Loved Ashes to Ashes too.

Any other reccs?

I assume if you've seen Ashes to Ashes you've seen Life on Mars? I caught up with that just recently while ill in bed ? loved it.

Thought Mildred Pierce was dull and pointless.

My suggestions:
Six Feet Under (best telly programme ever IMO)
Sopranos
The Killing (Danish, but the American one is good too)
Borgen
Sherlock (series I and II)
Lost
Buffy
The Pillars of the Earth
Black Books
Spaced
This Life

Oldies (if available)
Brideshead Revisited
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
The Jewel in the Crown

The Wire

Motherfucking brilliant

Definitely do 24 - it's bloody fantastic.

My DH and my older two DCs love Prison Break, but I have never watched it.

I loved Flash Forward and Mad Men.

Currently loving Damages, starring Glenn Close as a ball-breaking bitch of a lawyer - sooooo good.

I bought DH The Wire for Xmas but he never got past episode 2 - he just couldn't understand a word anyone was saying!

Oooh yes, Mad Men! And Damages. Can't wait for the new ones.

I'm working my way through 24, it is brilliant! Can also recommend The Sopranos.
I have The Wire to watch too and have read somewhere, (here?) that it is best to watch it with subtitles? Also remember reading a review that said something along the lines of 'if you don't love The Wire then you are either dead or you haven't seen it yet!'

ooOoo GREAT thread!

Am on series 4 of TWW and loving it!

I've tried The Wire twice but each time I gave up.

They muttered their words and it looked all brown and dirty. No.

Breaking Bad - Brilliant!

Never seen Breaking Bad.

Thought of more:

The Big C
Episodes
ER
Northern Exposure

Fringe
The Shield

Both rather good!

ER
House
(though avoid any baby-related ones!)

Medium
6 feet under
Nip/Tuck
Weeds

I started a thread about this a while ago, it had a great link to the top 100 box sets or something, will try and find it.

Bugrit, I can't find it

Prisoner Cell Block h.
(I am up to volume 9.)
Bad Girls.
You rang milord
Hamish Macbeth

I have just bought series one and two of Grey's Anatomy. I have never seen it before in my life but there seems to be a long running obession with it so I figured it must be ok. Does anyoen know what it is like?

Pinot, agree about the Wire - mumbly, hissy, fuzzy, brown and dirty. Yup.

The Wire is the best series ever.
Oz is good.
Entourage is good and easy watching.
Mad men.
Deadwood.
Sopranos but not watched that myself yet.
Oooh and Sons of Anarchy for a bit of biker totty

Brilliant, thanks all! Yes, jareth remember that thread but can't find it either!

Is The Good Wife any, well, good?

It was in chat, so has vanished :(

Good Wife is v good, yes.

The Sopranos
Desperate Housewives

Murder One, if you can still get it. I've just checked and it's 17 years old. Where did the time go? A Stephen Bochco thing. Follows a murder trial over about 20 episodes. Loads of faces you'd recognise like Stanley Tucci in a rare role as a master of evil. He wasn't in series two. It wasn't very good.

Sleeper Cell - Muslim FBI agent infiltrates an American cell of Islamists plotting terrorism. Unnervingly intelligent for a US show about Muslims. stars this bloke. Mmm

Royal Pains - brilliant surgeon gets fired from New York hospital on a matter of principle. Sets himself up as a private doctor to rich, arrogant people in The Hamptons. Finds a way to treat poor people at the local hospital on their bill. Yay! Stupid escapism. Makes me want to go on holiday.

This thread has reminded me that my mum has yet to return my unwatched boxsets of The Sons of Anarchy and Brotherhood.

I'd second The Good Wife. It's a bit soapy at times but I quite like that. Julianna Margulies is fab and Cary is hot stuff.

Band of Brothers
Dads Army

at Dad's Army.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum is the one to beat in that genre.

Good Wife
Brotherhood
Battlestar Galactica
Fringe
ER
Boardwalk Empire
Grey's Anatomy
House
Lost
Sons of Anarchy

I watch too much telly.