<p>Thanks for that info . I’ve just discovered The Killing and am watching season one on Netflix - final episode tonight! Gripping and intense.</p>
<p>Thank you! Just got a facebook post about it.</p>
<p>Son and I love Psych and are thrilled it’s back for another season. Caught some episodes on On Demand today. I forgot to TiVo it, so I’ve missed a lot, but he’s been catching it at school.</p>
<p>While son is home for Spring Break, we’ve watched Bates Motel, The Americans, Ripper Street, Law and Order UK.</p>
<p>THE BOOTH AT THE END. Can’t recommend this highly enough. Available only on Hulu. All the action takes place in a diner where in a booth is a man who “provides opportunities.” You make deals, and then you have to tell him about it. “I’m interested in the details,” he says. A nun wonders if he’s the Devil. She wants to hear God again. Her assigned task: get pregnant.</p>
<p>During a recent illness, watched all 72 episodes of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (the reboot), followed by CAPRICA, the prequel.</p>
<p>INSPECTOR MORSE and FOYLE’S WAR for Brit crime drama. </p>
<p>SLINGS AND ARROWS, a Canadian series about a theater group.</p>
<p>WEEDS (comic Breaking Bad). Good, but then it lost its way.</p>
<p>Some of my favorites are:</p>
<p>The Mentalist
Continuum
Doll House (a Joss Whedon series, though cancelled, was excellent)</p>
<p>So this year I am hooked on The Following. And, hate to admit, but I’m a Dallas junkie!</p>
<p>Starting to really like Monday Mornings</p>
<p>I’m OK with Psych, but it’s no Monk, which I miss greatly.</p>
<p>I watched both seasons of Luther, a British detective series on BBC, last week with my daughter who was home for spring break. We both loved it and are eagerly awaiting season 3 – which just wrapped – in the (hopefully) near future.</p>
<p>GeminiMom, we, too enjoyed Luther. But then we enjoy everything that Idris Elba does! We loved him in The Wire, especially. He was also very good in his story arc on The Office, and on The Big C. We have seen him on stage and also many of his films. I’m looking forward to Long Walk to Freedom where he’s playing the role of Nelson Mandela.</p>
<p>Slings and Arrows is one of my all-time favorites. I love: Sherlock, Louie, and Veep. Very sorry to see that Louie CK is not doing his show this year.</p>
<p>Call The Midwife on PBS. Based on the journals of a woman who was a midwife in the East End of London in the early 1950s.</p>
<p>So glad to see The Killing is coming back. My other favorites are Homeland, Episodes, Game of Thrones, American Horror and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Loved House of Cards. D and I are watching West Wing together - she never watched it and I’ve forgotten much of it. It’s amazing, and a little sad, how relevant it still is.</p>
<p>The Killing premiere is on June 2 at 8 pm on AMC.</p>
<p>The Wire. People say it’s the best written TV show in history. Probably true, at least in seasons 3-5. But I think its greatest strength is the acting followed by the character development. I watched the entirety of season 1, without having a clue what was going on, and was enthralled simply by how real the characters are. I can’t recall ever feeling as strongly that I was a part of a fictional community as I felt when watching The Wire.</p>
<p>I have to resist the urge to start listing my favorite actors in The Wire because I fear it would never end.</p>
<p>If The Wire isn’t the best written show, it’s Arrested Development. I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned. I had to watch the whole series several times, with many episodes out of order, in order to get even half of the humor due to how intricate and often how subtle it is.</p>
<p>Firefly. In 14 episodes before its premature cancellation, that show did what I’d thought impossible in terms of character development and philosophical depth.</p>
<p>Friendship Is Magic. Written for little kids? Yes. Felt weird for watching it after my friend insisted I do so? Quite. The most intelligent and entertaining cartoon on television since Avatar: The Last Airbender? HELL yeah. There’s a reason it’s a cult classic with such an unbelievably huge audience.</p>
<p>Nobody else here loves Hannibal?</p>
<p>Our three teens love Psych so we watch it with them, I love its a show that is not serious at all! My two daughters like Criminal Minds so I buy them the DVD’s when they come out, a little too much reality for me. I don’t know why but I really like, and always have, Deadliest Catch. For comedy its the Big Bang for us. Other shows we like Castle, Revolution, NCIS and Person of Interest. Now that summer is here we’ll watch Rizzoli and Issles, Motive and Major Crimes.</p>
<p>I have been re-watching “Breaking Bad” in its entirety, waiting for the last season to start in August. This time around, I’m able to appreciate how much sly comedy there is in the show. When I see an episode for the first time, I’m too much on the edge of my seat to notice.</p>
<p>Our 20yo son came home from school and got us totally hooked on House of Cards. It’s unique in that it is shown originally on Netflix, not network TV. There’s only been one season (13 episodes) that came out in February. It’s an adaptation of a BBC miniseries, staring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright, and Kate Mara. Set in DC, Spacey plays a congressman (house majority whip) from SC who has been passed over for Secretary of State and plots his revenge. It really is excellent. We blew through the entire first season in two days and are now stuck until next February.</p>
<p>To fill the void we are introducing our ‘kids’ (22, 20, & 18) to The West Wing. We pause for commentary on what was going on then when something becomes obvious that this was 20 years ago. Oddly, the boys seem to enjoy the discussion on the ‘dark ages’ or we wouldn’t bother. Our 20yo had watched some episodes at school as Netflix is great entertainment for his young and underfunded college crowd (they all simply log into their parents accounts). :)</p>
<p>I did the same thing with House of Cards. My daughter was an extra on a couple of shoots so we had a personal interest too. They didn’t use any scenes she was in though. She and I are also watching West Wing. What amazes, and disappoints me, is how few of the pressing issues then have been resolved since. Many of the warnings from then have come true too.</p>
<p>The West Wing is a great show. We watched it as a family when it was on and have watched the DVDs several times since. It wasn’t 20 years ago, though! It ran from '99 to '06.</p>
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<p>Amen to this. It’s absolutely brilliant, and like nothing else I’ve ever seen on TV.</p>
<p>H and I were re-watching a Sopranos episode last night, and when a minor character appeared on the screen we both yelled “Omar!” We’d forgotten that Michael Williams was even in that show.</p>
<p>Have you seen the BBC show The Hour? Dominic West is the star of that, but with his normal British accent, and it’s quite a shock to see him as a character 180 degrees away from McNulty.</p>
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I had that experience, too. 
A chess-loving father in the projects who helps gangsters is just… the perfect role for Williams, no matter how little screen time he gets.
No but now I want to!</p>