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Noticed the conversation about Breaking Bad in the other thread so thought I start one :)

Breaking Bad is the best series I've seen for some time.

I am on series 5 of "Dexter" at the moment. Very good and addictive. A tiny bit behind BB but still worth a watch.

I've also seen Prison Break recently which I enjoyed.

Can anyone recommend anything for when I've finished Dexter? 



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I was a latecomer to Breaking Bad too. It's on Netflix so can be watched for a fiver without the need to buy it.

I have the box sets of Frasier and also The West Wing...both highly recommended.

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I've seen Fraiser on in the morning on E4 (I think!?)

Just can't get into it hmm



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Ooh, liking this thread.

My desert island pick of boxsets would be.... :

  • Game of Thrones. (unbelievably just keeps getting better and better)
  • Breaking Bad (Perfect and complete. Not a minute too long or too short)
  • Sarah Connor chronicles (To my mind the best of the Terminator franchise and cancelled way too soon by Fox)
  • Firefly (+ Serenity which is a film finishing off the series... Hang your heads in shame Fox for cancelling this one)
  • Fargo (2014 TV series + Film which is a prequel)
  • Sons of Anarchy (All of it but seasons 1 & 2 were the best)
  • Suits.

Don't even get me onto films!



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+1 for Sarah Connor Chronicles.

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I've been watching Frasier on Lovefilm.  I'm on season 7.  Just finished watching White Collar and waiting for the last season to start.

I do hate it when you just get really into something and they stop it.  Was like this with Jericho and more recently Revolution.



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Never heard anyone ever mention "The Good Wife" but it's the number one "must see" in our household.

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bro0010 wrote:

Never heard anyone ever mention "The Good Wife" but it's the number one "must see" in our household.

 Not heard of the Good Wife, must be in the fantasy category biggrin



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I think it's what they call an oxymoron Dave! Actually I'm forced to watch this and it's been quite good until the last series

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RobH wrote:

Actually I'm forced to watch this ...

 Now there's a closet fan if ever I saw one!



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Just one more in a long line of guilty pleasures Ian!

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I can't get into American Drama at all. Other than NCIS, which when watched I enjoyed, none of these mentioned hold any attraction for me.

However, I love British Drama. Recently watched Without You (starring the brilliant Anna Friel) on catch up, and before that Broadchurch when ITV encore launched.



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in no particular order:

Scrubs, west wing, dexter, six feet under, sopranos, game of thrones, the tudors



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Hannibal was amazing! And I just finished watching The Smoke, which was an 8 part british drama, but very very good

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West wing, Friday Night Lights & Suits are the 3 I am catching up on at the moment

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Are we all going down the route of BB characters as our avatars then? :D

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Rob started it.

I notice we now have two cooks and no bitch.

Have an A1 day now y'all.

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Oi Matt...too many cooks spoil the broth!!!wink



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Sorted :)

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Bbbbbbbeeetch!

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No mention of Boardwalk Empire..... worth watching just for Steve Buscemi and for the double-take when realising Stephen Graham was playing Al Capone.

Only about 4 episodes of BB to go, so don't say anything :)

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You've got some great TV to look forwards to Tim in those last four.

No spoilers but I will just say about the episode three from the end (Ozimandiaz) scored the elusive perfect 10 on the IMDB ratings.

Game of thrones came close with 9.9 for the episode "The raines of castemere" (the one that includes the infamous red wedding) but to the best of my knowledge no other episode of a TV series has scored a perfect 10.

I'd have money on it that you watch the last four in a single sitting.



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I've just started on Season 3 of Star Trek Enterprise. Not that that's any recommendation for it! I bought Season 1 out of curiosity because I'd never seen it, Season 2 to find the outcome of the cliffhanger at the end of Season 1, and Season 3 because I was curious about how Season 4 takes the story to the start of the original Star Trek, and it seemed silly to miss it! Just ordered Season 4 for when I've finished it! All secondhand, as I'm tight!

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Who noticed Q from Star Trek in Breaking Bad? I implore the world and her mother to watch Breaking Bad, right off to watch more season 3.

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Enterprise is an exception to the rule that I only watch DVDs of programmes from before I banished the evil one eyed mind control device!

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I only watch DVDs of programmes from before I banished the evil one eyed mind control device!

I assume that you are talking about the TV.

Its only a mind control device if you have a weak mind.

Therefore, anyone such as yourself with the intelligence to recognise that they were being manipulated by the media is not being so there was no point banning it as you had already identified the risk.

Yes some TV is bubblegum for the brain, there is also biased reporting and mass manipulation. But, for all of that there are also great TV shows that challenge the way one thinks.

Why rob yourself of being able to see them due to the stuff that you knew to avoid anyway.



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Oh my thinking has been well challenged without it. I have challenging discussions on Facebook instead! Psychology is a favourite topic at the moment. I know far more about what's really going on in the world than most people with a TV licence do!

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Having banished the TV, EPF_Solutions wrote:

I have challenging discussions on Facebook instead!

Oh dear. That kind of reads as though you've effectively replaced the TV with Faecesbook. In which case there are many who would say that you've opted for something far, far worse.



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I haven't seen a fluffy kitten for days Vince! It depends who your friends are, and I've got some very interesting ones I can discuss deep meaningful stuff with.

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Although the people who use it day to day are a part of the problem - in which case, having the right friends helps to some extent, but I'll not comment further on that in case I get all ranty - I'm really talking about Faecesbook itself, and some of the questionable behaviour they've engaged in.

From changing settings from time to time and opting people in to things instead of presenting them with the option, to the more recent revelation of their manipulation of what appears in some people's timelines in a trick cyclist experiment.

I had a Faecesbook account, but made a point of filling the personal data they wanted to collect with bogus information - incorrect date of birth, my address was actually the Information Commissioner's Office, and so on. However, I eventually did the sensible thing and deleted it.

Since then I have set up another (again with slightly less than truthful information) to check something, but other than that it goes unused. (Which, on Faecesbook, does make me look like Billy Nomates, but I don't care.)


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