Suggestions, please.

Posted by Eudaimonia 10 years, 10 months ago to Entertainment
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Over dinner, my wife and I like to log into netflix and watch an episode of a television series.

But most series are the same, fair to great episodes at the beginning, then somewhere before the second season the progressive drum comes out and each episode is yet another excursion into social issues pontification land.

I was really getting into "House, M.D.", but then we got to the second season.

Can anyone suggest any television content on Netflix which actually wants to tell a damned story, not beat me over the head with the same tired sermons?

Thanks.

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  • Posted by Mitch 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Jericho was awesome but they canceled the series just when it was going to get really good. First three episodes are a little slow, then it’s straight up from there. Modern version of a new war of independence. I’d add the fourth and fifth vote for Jericho if you be kind to allotted two votes.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 10 years, 10 months ago
    A couple of addictive TV series are the Murdoch Mysteries, a Canadian Victorian-era police series; and Doc Martin, a UK series about a London surgeon who develops a phobia about blood and relocates to the quaint village of his aunt.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That's my favorite. Come to think of it, seeing how different surviving groups try to govern themselves is becoming pretty interesting. Next season starts with our main (not killed off yet) characters being end of last season imprisoned in a boxcar by a community that tricked them by appearing friendly. The show will be back in October in time for Halloween.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 10 years, 10 months ago
    I do not know if these are on netflix or not, but if you have not seen them I have found these to be entertaining shows:

    Stargate SG1
    Continuum
    Burn Notice
    Blood Ties
    Castle
    Falling Skies
    Grimm
    The Men Who Built America
    Suits

    I do not know which of those are available on Netflix but it gives you a few to take a look at. I like each of them for different reasons, and its about everything I have watched more than an episode or two of in the last 20 years or so.






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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    really? it jabs at political correctness all the time. all of the characters and stereotypes are made fun of
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 10 months ago
    Merlin (BBC production) is good. Also liked BBC Sherlock a LOT.

    Second mention for Babylon 5, Jericho. And Firefly (skip the movie).
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  • Posted by radical 10 years, 10 months ago
    "Bonanza" and "Victory At Sea" would be worth watching if they're offered.
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  • Posted by NealS 10 years, 10 months ago
    Personally I really liked "Breaking Bad". It was a no brainer, but fun, and had some incidents that made you jump out of your chair once in a while. But then again, I have a sick mind. Also liked "Hell on Wheels", seemed like a bit of history with a twist. I especially liked it until Dominique left the show, but then again, I'm just a dirty old man who has but memories to keep me going.
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I never can understand the appeal of a tv show where the protagonist is a predatory drug manufacturer/dealer.
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  • Posted by Rglab 10 years, 10 months ago
    Sure-24, Boardwalk Empire and Downton Abbey. Hope you and your wife enjoy these as much as we do .
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 10 months ago
    I think it was Bones I was watching the other day, when one character asked, "who said she could carry a gun!?"

    Another character replied, "The Second Amendment"
    I've started watching it a bit then. I think people here would like it.

    I've been watching NCIS lately, cause Ziva is annoying, Tony is annoying, Jethro is annoying, Illya Kuryakin* is entertaining and Abby is cute.


    * David McCallum's character in "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."... in this he's called "Dr Donald Mallard" aka "ducky".
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  • Posted by woodlema 10 years, 10 months ago
    Scrap it all and watch MeTV.
    Gunsmoke, Leave it to Beaver, Father Knows Best, M*A*S*H*, Big Valley, Bonanza, Little House on the Prarie...The Brady Bunch....You pretty much have to go back to the 60's and 70's some early 80's TV series to escape that crapola. Back when writing was well done.

    Sanford and Son, Chico and The Man...
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  • Posted by Animal 10 years, 10 months ago
    Petticoat Junction. F-Troop. An of the various Ernie Kovacs shows and specials. For newer stuff: Firefly. Archer. And for some of the best social satire ever done on television, South Park.
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  • Posted by mi650 10 years, 10 months ago
    I'm almost thru season 1 of Miami Vice. After I'm finished with the series, Magnum PI will be next.
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  • Posted by Abaco 10 years, 10 months ago
    I'll tell you what...I have been watching "Manhattan" and am very impressed with it. I'm not a big TV guy but I really am enjoying this show.
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  • Posted by jimjamesjames 10 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I second JERICHO. Story of a small town in Kansas after a series of a-bombs go off around the country. Things to think about.
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