Discovering a series years after!

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Has anyone been late, as in very late, to the party with a series? Something it turns out was a phenomenon in its time.
I've just discovered Torchwood in the last week! Circa 18 years after it initially aired! I mean I knew it existed, knew it was Dr Who related, but beyond that wasn't hugely interested at the time. I was so busy with life back then, and also didn't have a television for a while (trying to read, craft etc more).
I think the new series of Dr Who kind of put me in the mood for some sci-fi or fantasy, and browsing iPlayer the other day, I came across it.
I was looking for some MN threads on it, and they mostly, if not totally, date back to the noughties! I'm so late to the party. In fact I think everyone's gone home, got changed out of their party clothes and the glasses cleared away - years ago! So, here I am having a party of one! Loving it though.
Anyone else? Telly, films or even literature you've discovered years later?!

Eek, sounds scary. I haven't got that far yet. Still a while to go before I get to that one, series 3 I think?
I think because of the recent sunny weather I've been getting through it all very slowly. I spent much of the weekend at the allotment!
Anyway, I can't cope with anything that depicts anything upsetting re children or animals. So maybe I should give that series a miss?
Thank you for the heads up.

A lot of people on this thread have mentioned Sopranos. I've never seen it either. Don't even know what it's about! 🤭
No spoilers please, but what is the genre?

Actually, just googled The Sopranos, and don't think it'd be my cup of tea. I'm a funny one with drama and literature. I mostly like feel-good innocent stuff. Don't like violence at all. But, for some reason when it's sci-fi or fantasy I've got a much higher threshold. So, for example, I couldn't easily watch a scene of trench warfare from world war 1. But, am fine with watching orcs in Lord of the Rings! The fantasy element kind of eclipses the violence! If that makes sense...

I binged The Sopranos long, long after it had finished; ditto Breaking Bad.

Loved The Shield. As good as The Sopranos.

Is The Wire as good as I have read? Tried watching it years ago but the constant swearing in the very first episode put me right off. I like a good fuck as much as the next woman but this was off the scale.

Just binged all of Fat Friends.
Also watched The Bridge in danish years after it came out.
Found Scott and Bailey on ITVX and binged it

I'm binge watching law and order, that mostly passed me by because of children.

Detectorists,The name put me off, i thought it was about detecting crime.

Totally brillliant.

Oh yes!

Actually we didn't start watching until late series 5 being aired, but then we caught up by getting all the earlier series on DVD. After that it was must see, edge of the seat stuff and buy every series on DVD as soon as it was available.

By now we have watched most of it several times. Still good.

First time around I thought Adam Carter was the highlight. But I must be more mature now as I am a Harry Pearce fan through and through. 😆😆

Benidorm. Never heard of it until 6 months ago. Absolutely hilarious 🤣

In the last year couple of years , I’ve binged:

This is us
Blue Bloods
Shetland
The Giod Wife/Fight
and have recently finished Professor T

ive now started Greys’s Anatomy - plenty of episodes to get through before I need to find something ‘new’. I can’t believe they all passed me by, first time around!

Was watching This is Us, after ER quite recently.
also recently seen Derry Girls
now catching up with The Young Offenders.
Fat Friends has no subtitles and I cant get my head round the slim one taking part.
I resisted Detectorists for a few years but Loved that

I spose everyone’s seen Peepshow. best comedy ever

The slim one is so bloody annoying.

I love the shows of that time about regular people in unusual situations. Loved At Home with the Braithwaites and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Shows are all detectives, dead women and ambushes now.

We've just started watching Band of Brothers. I can't believe it passed me by until now, it's excellent!

AlwaysTheRenegade · Yesterday 00:19

Where are you guys all watching the old school English shows now britbox has ended? I was a few episodes into at home with the Braithwaites 😂 very vaguely remembered I loved it in primary school, and fat friends. I love the older syndicates that Kay Mellor wrote too

ITVX shows Britbox stuff. But Fat Friends is on Netflix

You can Bodies ( Jed Mercurio) on iplayer

Derry Girls, like others have mentioned, watched it last year. Had seen clips of teenage girls and assumed we wouldn't be the target audience so wouldn't really 'get it'. Brilliant series and well balanced humour with the (obviously) more serious issues of the times.

I just ploughed my way through most of the series of Silent Witness, I still have the last couple of series to go.
I really enjoyed The Brokenwood Mysteries set in New Zealand as well. The Russian autopsy doctor in that is so funny.
I also got through Inspector George Gently as well.

Thanks to this thread, I've started watching Clocking Off. I keep exclaiming, "That's him/her from: Corrie, Life on Mars, The A word" etc. They all look so fresh faced!

Too many! Seinfeld, Life On Mars, Shameless, Brideshead Revisited, Jewel in the Crown, Buffy, Dr Who, Spaced...

I love Series 1 & 2 of Torchwood, but Series 3 (Children of the Earth) was utterly incredible. It's one of the best things I've ever watched ever. It is harrowing and does stay with you, especially if you aren't good with bad things happening to kids, but honestly, it's so worth watching because it's so brilliant.

Series Four (Miracle Day) was bad.

Took me years to work out Torchwood was an anagram