<p>I love Hell on Wheels. </p>
<p>I binge watched Dallas this past summer. So cheesy & soap opera-y but it kept me entertained! Guilty pleasure.</p>
<p>Have also been binge watching Friday Night Lights but now that classes have started up again, it’s gonna be hard to watch so many. I’m still on the first season! But I did manage to catch up on The Good Wife & Suits so there’s that, although I was getting sick of the latter. </p>
<p>Also binge watched Ray Donovan & I’m all caught up now. What an astounding show!</p>
<p>Binged on whole season of Growing Up Fisher (which NBC apparently cancelled). </p>
<p>I haven’t read the whole thread yet…but I didn’t see these listed:
In no particular order…all on Netflix:
Dramas: The Fall, Breakout Kings, Call the Midwife,
Comedies: Better off Ted, Ugly Betty, Arrested Development, Psych, </p>
<p>I binge watched all of Season 7 of Doctor Who (which I watched when it was first broadcast) in preparation for the Season 8 premiere. It gave me a new perspective on the overall season story arc and one major character.</p>
<p>Hotel Gran (or Grand Hotel) on Netflix is a fun series. It is a Spanish production with subtitles and has been called Spain’s version of Downton Abbey. It’s a little cheesy but entertaining and is great for binge watching. Seasons 1 and 2 are out but waiting on release of season 3.</p>
<p>We just finished watching all of the Poirot episodes starring David Suchet. I feel almost bereft. We’re going to miss the witty Belgian and his little grey cells. I have the dvd of the final episode on pre-order but feel somewhat conflicted about watching it.</p>
<p>I sprained my ankle Saturday and have been binge watching…Spartacus. It’s terrible in a way - lots of sex and violence and gore - but the gore is soooo fake, the sex almost comical, and the gladiators…well they’re really attractive and run around in these little underwear-wrap things. And honestly for all that, the story is pretty interesting. Begins with some speculation about Spartacus’ life before becoming a Roman slave and actually develops characters to the point that I care what happens to them.</p>
<p>It’s no Game of Thrones or Tudors or even Borgias, but it is in the same general vein, with more slow-mo fighting and more nudity. It was originally on Starz so is no longer on Netflix - you have to buy on Amazon or have Starz.</p>
<p>D15 is excited that Once Upon A Time will be back on tv soon. It’s one of the few shows we watch as a family. Can’t imagine that next year she won’t be watching it with us! :(</p>
<p>I see where “The Wire” is being digitally remastered and then re-broadcast on HBO. Let me be the first to start the chant: “Omar! Omar! Omar!”</p>
<p>Lark rise to Candleford-------a gem. ( watching on amazon prime ) </p>
<p>@scholarme, since DD was abroad last semester, she and I have been catching up on “Once Upon a Time.” We enjoy it a lot, too! Captain Hook and Robin Hood aren’t bad to look at, either!</p>
<p>Oh, and DD is a HS junior, and I’m already dreading her departure. </p>
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<p>My H and I have been rewatching the series for the past few weeks. I love it just as much the second time around. Such excellent writing, interesting characters, superb casting and acting…sigh. Why can’t all tv be this good? </p>
<p><em>whistling The Farmer in the Dell</em> :)</p>
<p>Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Mad Men,The Sopranos, The Wire;
The Fall, Forsyte Saga (2002), Homeland, House of Cards (American),True Detective,Twin Peaks,Wallander (British), Wallander (Swedish);
Bletchley Circle, Damages, Downton Abbey,The Good Wife, Grand Hotel (Spanish), Hidden, the Killing, Luther, Orange is the New Black, Salamander,The Silence, Spiral,Top of the Lake;
The Americans, Anika Bengtzon, The Paradise</p>
<p>Happy Valley on Netflix. British, 6 episodes and one the best crime dramas I’ve seen. Couldn’t stop watching. </p>
<p>It only took me three weeks to binge-watch 8 seasons of Psych. I think that that says something about me that I hadn’t particularly wanted to hear.
The problem with binge-watching Sherlock is that it’s basically watching nine frickin FANTASTIC movies in a row and then just staring at the screen, waiting for the next one. That’s what I’m doing. I’m living life in standby mode- you may think I’m being normal, but really I’m just going through the motions, really spending my energies on waiting to see whether <em>spoiler</em> Moriarty’s actually alive- I hope he isn’t but you never know… <em>end spoiler</em>
My point is that it’s just not a very good binge-watch because it doesn’t take more than three days done properly. But after those three days…
I liked binge-watching Elementary. Going through seasons of Doctor Who can be fun as well.
And then, sometimes, when I really, really need a separation from all logical parts of me (and let’s face it, that’s what binge-watching is), I curl up in a chair, eat marshmallows and licorice, and binge-watch The Big Bang Theory. And then wake up five hours later, head in a spin and on a sugar crash, and wonder WHY WHY WHY.</p>
<p>will look into some of those mentioned.</p>
<p>Sax, another huge Dick Van Dyke Show fan here. It’s smart, sophisticated, stylish, and character driven, and still the gold standard for TV comedy. Laura Petrie is my all-time favorite TV character. </p>
<p>Where are you watching it?</p>
<p>The one we’ve enjoyed that I haven’t seen mentioned here is Lilyhammer. It’s a Norwegian television series with Steven Van Zandt (from the Sopranos) playing a New York gangster who goes into witness protection and decides to move to Lillehammer, Norway. Funny for both Americans and Norwegians.</p>
<p>Other than that, another vote for Orphan Black, Game of Thrones, Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Homeland, House of Cards, Scandal (quit after about 2 seasons, though), Lost, Once Upon a Time, Good Wife, and Fargo.</p>
<p>I watched Game of Thrones first and am now reading the first book. I usually read the book first. I’m not sure which I’d do first. So far, the show follows the book fairly closely, but the book includes lots more detail and some extra characters and settings.</p>
<p>I need to watch Firefly next, I think.</p>
We are finishing up season two of “Sons of Anarchy”. It is addicting. We’re also recent converts to “Justified”. After we watch four or five episodes, our normally subtle country accent is 1,000x more pronounced. Ha!