Series as good as GAme of Thrones?!

[AngryBeaver]

Only recently watched it, and we loved it so much we watched all the seasons in 2 weeks!
Now looking for something as gripping.

Have tried true blood.
It was alright but a bit daft.

It kinda lost me when one vampire said " i need someone on my JOHNSON!"? At which point a young woman ever so kindly obliged.

Dh now finds it very amusing to boom randomly "i need someone on my Johnson"

Sooo, then we tried The Borgias? Yawn.

And Breaking Bad, also yawn, although admittedly we only watched the first one, and they're often a bit shaky.

So, anyone have any good recommendations?

[danaerysstormborn]

Sorry posted before readingthe millions of other bb posts and about the gibberish!

[danaerysstormborn]

I would say run watching a bit more breaking bad. Gets better

[danaerysstormborn]

We did the same thing! Currently halfway through season 3 (hence name change!) Reading with inhave to read books!

[Tallalime]

Oh and Vikings, that was really good too.

[Tallalime]

Walking Dead - my number 1 show, GoT is my second.

American Horror Story and AHS-Asylum, also really good, mainly for the quality of the acting, the storylines are a bit bonkers.

Firefly is fan too, and Rome, and The Returned if you can do subtitles.

[Yama]

Deadwood

[RiffyWammal]

We have just started watching Sons of Anarchy. We've watched seven episodes in two days! It's brilliant - a perfect substitute for Breaking Bad and GofT until they return. It's about an American motorcycle gang, and is gripping, violent, and a bit sexy in parts, and has a great cast - including Peg Bundy from Married With Children who is awesome!

[MysteriousHamster]

Fringe is standaloney and not that special for the first year, then it transforms into something else. It's completely serialised by the end of it.

Amazing show, but less gritty/real than the likes of BB and co.

[Isesgirl]

Bitchy... (awesome name btw, very 'now' daaahling! :D )... that comment TOTALLY sums WW up, I love it!

I'm at the end of S3 and I'm going to take a break from it for a few weeks. I will definitely go back to it and finish it but it's very... intense and I find my internal moral compass spinning so much every episode a tad dizzying!

I'm up to date with the US on Dexter and OMG, the end of the most recent episode made me actually gasp out loud!!

Think I'm going to watch Fringe next, sounds a bit 'lighter'. I'm told each episode is kind of standalone, rather than a continuous series. I also want to watch a series called Cosmos by Carl Sagan (astronomy, non-fiction) as I'm really interested in that.

Keep the suggestions coming folks, I'm all ears for some juicy series to list for my evenings. I will be stuck home most nights for the next few years with my twins so any 'escape' is good! :)

[BitchyRestingFace]

He is terrible, but brilliant to watch. What a performance. I read a critic's comment once that BB is "a study of one man slowly losing his soul", which nails it, I think.

DP and I are watching HBO's Rome at the moment - it's very good, Game of Thrones-esque.

[MysteriousHamster]

Walter is so unsympathetic in BB that I find him unredeemable. I don't think you're supposed to root for him any more. The only reason I am watching is to see him meet his end in one way or another! /mean.

[Isesgirl]

Just a quick pointer for anyone watching Breaking Bad. If you don't have the box set and are watching it... ahem ... ''elsewhere'', if you come across scenes (from season 3 onwards) where the entire dialogue is in Spanish, make sure you have a copy that has captions that translate it at the bottom of the screen!!!

Nothing more frustrating that knowing the conversation you're watching has huge implications for the characters and plot but not understanding a word of it!! I had to search two or three different "providers" until I found one that had the subtitles!!

I'm now on ep 8 of season 3 and hoping to blast through to the end of this season once the kids are tucked up tonight. I sometimes find WW's ''hardness'' a bit difficult to take. I already have a little reservation in rooting for him as by definition of what he's doing he's not a conventional 'hero' (a bit like Dexter, now I come to think of it!) and when he turns on the nasty side it sometimes makes me shrink even further back from him.

Also, MY GOD I DETEST SKYLAR!!! Like, with a PASSION!

[RiffyWammal]

Definitely stick with Breaking Bad!

Have you seen Homeland OP? Really gripping and exciting.

[RonaldMcDonald]

I thought
Purefoy was rubbish in the Following

[BitchyRestingFace]

Veep is very good too, we watched that recently.

[tinypolkadot]

We're half way through House of Cards, Kevin Spacey is the main character. The first episode was a bit confusing, but we're well into it now and finding it very good.

We're only watching it actually as Dh said we need to watch something else before series 4 of Breaking Bad, so originally I just wanted to power through it so we could get back to business, but it's actually quite good

[Isesgirl]

Yet another screaming, "STICK WITH BREAKING BAD!!", I'm halfway through Season Three and I cannot WAIT for my kids to get to bed on a night so I can back to back episodes of it.

I was really unsure at first, watched two or three and was like, "Hmmm..." but I stuck with it and now I am HOOKED. It has everything - suspense, humour, education (have learned a ton of stuff from it) and excellent writing. Also, if you can watch Jesse Pinkman SOB without crying too, you're a better person than I!

Also, Battlestar Galactica is SUPERB. It is my all-time favourite series of EVER. The relationships, betrayals and politics is (if you will forgive the pun) out of this world.

Another, more quirky, series is Misfits (on Channel 4 a good few years ago). For me, I stopped after season 3 as it was becoming a little tired and desperate but the first three seasons are ROARINGLY funny.

I can't bear to wait a week between episodes so I usually wait until a season is done and then marathon them, either via Netflix of a couple of sites on the net that have pretty much everything on.

That said, I'm watching Season 8 of Dexter "as it happens" because I NEED TO KNOW how it ends dammit ! (no spoilers please, if anyone knows!)

Looks like I'm in good company on this thread for things in common - I'll be back! :)

[BitchyRestingFace]

Oh yes, agree with MH. Nothing better than discovering a brilliant comedy and having a huge mine of episodes to catch up on. So far this year DP and I have gone through:
Community
Parks and Recreation
Party Down
Arrested Development
Which are all so good I have bought them on DVD and look forward to re-watching in future.

[MysteriousHamster]

Battlestar is about people not spaceships, so it's good if you can get past the sci-fi (plus there's lots in Fringe!) but you do have to find things that strike a chord with you.

Do you like comedy? Eg as a fan of Seinfeld and Curb your Enthusiasm I've just discovered It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which means I've got tonnes of episodes to catch up on. It's about a group of four/five narcissists running a bar. They're awful people (ala Seinfeld/Curb) but that's what makes it funny.

[BitchyRestingFace]

for trying Breaking Bad again

Battlestar Galactica is much, much better than you'd think - the sci-fi setting is really incidental to a superb character-based drama with loads of political intrigue. As a PP says, it does lose focus in the last couple of series, but the first three are really tight and dense and brilliant (and I enjoyed the later ones anyway, too)

[AngryBeaver]

Ok ok! I'll try breaking bad again!

I can't see me going for Battlestar Galactica though.

We're really enjoying Fringe, had never heard of it before, so thanks for tht.

We live on a country with NOOOO decent tv, so to be enjoying watching something again is great :)

[PatFenis]

The Following!! Why did nobody tell me about this series? It's bloody fantastic!

Very gory, bloody and graphic, excellent storyline and stars Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy. What's not to like?

I'm not sure where it can be viewed on tele as my son recommended that I download the series ....so I did and now I'm gripped and a leetle bit obsessed

[guineapiglet]

Justified
Sons of Anarchy

[MysteriousHamster]

The Wire is excellent.

I didn't like Breaking Bad because the main character is too much of an anti-hero for me.

West Wing is very well written but we started it recently and it felt/looked very dated.

Firefly is great. Battlestar Galactica starts off fantastically but gets weaker as time goes on.

Fringe is good - but its first season is the weakest. If you are having doubts, watch the last ep of the first season. It pulls a blinder and changes the whole thing.

What about Justified or Damages?

[JazzAnnNonMouse]

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