Aug 11, 2022

Favourite TV Series

Top favourite TV series, not in any order. The ones I can watch over and over:

  • Buffy. All-time favourite. 'Once More With Feeling' is a supernatural tour de force. Perhaps the height of Joss Whedon's genius.
  • Yellowstone. Screenwriting is brilliant. Compelling characters.
  • Silicon Valley. 
  • Fringe. Great fun because the science fiction covers physics, chemistry, biology, and not so much computers. Would not be as good without Walter and 'Asterisk'
  • The Crown
  • Luther
  • Line of Duty. One of the best ever detective shows.
  • The Shield. Great dialogues. Forrest Whittaker's guest character is unmissable.
  • Frasier
  • Cosmos. The one with Carl Sagan. 
  • Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey (Cosmos: Possible Worlds was, painfully, nowhere near as good as the first two)
  • Sherlock
  • Firefly
  • Friends
  • Narcos
  • Fawlty Towers
  • Hot in Cleveland
  • Anne with an E. The first two seasons. The last season feels it became woke.
  • Belgravia
  • Justified
  • Cobra Kai. Nostalgia trip, but way better than the original 80's movies. William Zabka is the standout actor here.
  • Sons of Anarchy
  • John Adams
  • Black Books. Crazy fun. Tamsein Greig at her best.
  • Sanditon
  • Bosch. An ordinary police detective series that for some unexplainable reason is very good.
  • Maybe:
    • Picket Fences
    • Northern Exposure
Worth watching once:
  • The Big Bang Theory (maybe the first 2-3 seasons only)
  • The X-Files
  • Breaking Bad
  • The Simpsons
  • Downton Abbey
  • Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
  • The IT Crowd
  • The Knick
  • Poldark (2015)
  • Jamestown
  • Chernobyl
Good ones, but didn't really like them that much:
  • Peaky Blinders