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What are your top 5 series of all time?

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Calistan · 10/02/2023 23:05

It's pretty hard to narrow it down. Mine are (at this moment anyway)

Utopia
Dr Who
This is England
Queer as folk
Buffy

It's really hard to narrow down, I bet I have forgotten loads.

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samqueens · 10/02/2023 23:55

This Life
ER (the early years)
The Wire
Prime suspect
Cracker

(showing my age much?!)

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Calistan · 10/02/2023 23:58

Nah great is great samsqueen, I love all of them apart from the wire, never could get into it

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Nannyamc · 11/02/2023 00:00

Call the midwife
Happy Valley
Broadchurch
Mad men
Behind her eyes.
All superb

Nannyamc · 11/02/2023 00:01

Should add last in Halifax

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Calistan · 11/02/2023 00:01

I was just the right age to be utterly in love with Jordan catalano, shame jared leto made such crap music and is such a weirdo, he has aged fabulously Blush

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3kidsaremorethanenough · 11/02/2023 00:01

True Dectective ( Series 1 only)
Life on Mars/ Ashes to Ashes
Black Books
Father Ted
Phoenix Nights

Libre2 · 11/02/2023 00:03

Auf Weidersehen Pet
Spooks
Quacks
What we do in the Shadows
Happy Valley

samqueens · 11/02/2023 00:03

Calistan · 10/02/2023 23:58

Nah great is great samsqueen, I love all of them apart from the wire, never could get into it

I struggled with The Wire so much in the first season - but the payoff for getting through it is another four seasons of some of the best and most important TV drama ever made…
Just saying!

Libre2 · 11/02/2023 00:03

Oh damnit - I forgot The Detectorists

JennyJone · 11/02/2023 00:04

Libre2 · 11/02/2023 00:03

Oh damnit - I forgot The Detectorists

Oh yessss! Me too StarStarStarStar

LozzaChops101 · 11/02/2023 00:04

Spooks x 5!

or

Spooks
BBC Pride and Prej (1995)
X Files
I loved Cold Feet at the time but hated the reboot.
Tenko.

You could probably put an exact age on me 😭

WarmSausageTea · 11/02/2023 00:05

Six Feet Under
Dynasty (80s incarnation)
Unforgotten (stick with it, OP)
Vigil
Schitt’s Creek

JennyJone · 11/02/2023 00:05

samqueens · 10/02/2023 23:55

This Life
ER (the early years)
The Wire
Prime suspect
Cracker

(showing my age much?!)

No early prime suspect was the begging of everything TV !

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Calistan · 11/02/2023 00:06

I will cheat and put top 5 comedy

Father Ted
It crowd
Jam
The simpsons
Royal family

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Gonksmum · 11/02/2023 00:08

This Life
Nurse Jackie
Peep Show
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Girls (bonus one!)

mondaytosunday · 11/02/2023 00:08

In no particular order
Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul
Brideshead Revisited
Pride and Prejudice
Money Heist
Poirot (with David Suchet)

UWhatNow · 11/02/2023 00:10

Schitts Creek
This Country
Detectorists
True Detective (season one)
Horrible Histories

Nannyamc · 11/02/2023 00:10

I forgot to include,my all,time,favourite This is us....remarkable...so worth watching!!!¡

GlitchStitch · 11/02/2023 00:11

In no particular order-
The Wire
Greys
Frasier
Law and order (original)
Sen Anlat Karadeniz (Turkish drama, probably my very favourite, Turkish dramas are amazing)

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Calistan · 11/02/2023 00:11

I'm sure girls would have taken a top 5 place if I had thought harder

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UWhatNow · 11/02/2023 00:12

Oh Damn - now you’ve said Father Ted I’m thinking:

Father Ted
Derry Girls
Knowing me, knowing you
The IT Crowd
Peep Show

(Nod to the genius Graham Lineham there)

UWhatNow · 11/02/2023 00:13

Hard to pin it down to 5!

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Calistan · 11/02/2023 00:13

Nannyamc · 11/02/2023 00:10

I forgot to include,my all,time,favourite This is us....remarkable...so worth watching!!!¡

I watched a few series of that, was enjoying it but then I realised no fucker on earth actually talks like that and my immersion was broken, did my head in after that.

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Calistan · 11/02/2023 00:15

UWhatNow · 11/02/2023 00:12

Oh Damn - now you’ve said Father Ted I’m thinking:

Father Ted
Derry Girls
Knowing me, knowing you
The IT Crowd
Peep Show

(Nod to the genius Graham Lineham there)

Yes, I didn't get count arthur strong though, felt like there was some premise or context I was just not getting.

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Nannyamc · 11/02/2023 00:16

Stick with it remarkable tv... tears at each and every episode