As you may have noticed I have been a bit lax in checking out and leaving comments, on the numerous blogs I read on a regular basis. No I have not developed the dreaded bloggers burnout. As a matter of fact I feel quite well, perhaps even a bit giddy. To be honest the reason I have been a bit absent lately can be blamed on one man.
His name is Walter White but you might know him better as Heisenberg. Much like the blue crystal that Heisenberg cooks I can’t get enough Breaking Bad. Thanks to the wonderful addictive nature of Netflix, the lovely misses and I have spent the last two weeks watching 4 seasons of the show. Every spare moment I had was devoted to watching the exploits of my favorite chemist create his blue rock candy.
Sure I have a few other shows that I watch on a regular basis. I look forward with eager anticipation to each episode of The Walking Dead and sit on the edge of my couch when I see the intro to Game of Thrones on my big screen. However, the ability to stream 4 seasons had a profound effect upon me and my ability to blog consistently. So now that I will be waiting until season 5 is available to watch, things should pretty much be back to normal. That is of course, if I can talk my wife out of watching all the episodes of Sons of Anarchy, that she wants to stream.
So todays, hump day question… What is your favorite TV show or even better have you streamed a show and become addicted to it? O please, no show spoilers for anyone who has not seen the show yet.
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Battlestar Frakking Galactica! I didn’t watch it when it aired, but got the discs from Netflix. It wasn’t streaming at the time so I had to go old school. I was obsessed and had to time sending discs back to get new ones just right. My roommate gave me a ton of shit about it telling me how ridiculous I sounded when I talked about it…..until she actually watched an episode. We got our BluRay player and the box set of all 4 seasons in time to finish it up on BD…..then I started it all over again from the beginning.
On the sci fi front I used love to watch Quantum Leap. Something about history and time travel.
Quantum Leap and Sliders were both very good. Like Star Trek the whole time paradox, cause and effect thing makes for interesting stories.
Tracy are you talking about the original Battlestar Galactica with Lorne Greene? That show rocked!
Adam – Funny you should bring up the original BSG. The roomies and I were surfing through was Netflix instant had to offer and saw the original on there. So we started watching it. It was horrible. And awesome. It was horriblawesome. Still a classic though
I have several, Breaking BAd being one of them, I also like the Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, Shameless, and The Killing but my favorite is Breaking Bad at this point. I also watched the whole first season of Newsroom which I liked and unfortunately I have watched every season of True Blood but the last 2 seasons has really left a sour taste in my mouth.
I also love Game of Thrones.
I have never seen that Newsroom or Shameless. I used to watch True Blood but it seemed to jump the shark a few season ago and I stopped watching it.
Oh yes, Breaking Bad. Did the same thing – saw all 4 seasons in a week or 2 not so long ago. Amazing show, though I’m not in love with season 5.
My all time favorite is Deadwood, The Thick of it and Friends are just after that one.
Sati I loved Deadwood. I was so pissed when they did not keep that series going. Didn’t the creator cancel that so he could make that goofy John From Cincinnati show that lasted one season?
Great post, made me think about which tv shows I was not only addicted to when I laid hands on them, but could imagine watching all over again at some point. The immediate candidates may sound a bit conservative, but I cannot remember having been as enthused about anything on tv before or after.
• The Wire
• Sopranos
• And Tony Soprano’s evil twin at Deadwood (I still cannot get over the fact that a tv company would be unable or unwilling to finish this amazing show, co*%su@#ers!)
• Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom (technically a tv show, even though it was screened in cinemas internationally … I spent some nice seven hours in a row in a run-down arthouse theatre… time of my life!)
• The Killing (Forbrydelsen, Danish original): wow, fantastic, and the Danish original is so much better than the US remake
• The Thick of It: Malcolm Tucker is the most fun tv character I can remember, seriously!
• Twin Peaks: just watching it again, oh I love David Lynch for what he is doing to network tv here!
• Life on Mars (UK version, of course, should anybody wonder)
• Kir Royal: no that’s a German Special.. I have no idea whether it makes sense outside Germany, but it is the greatest thing I have ever seen coming out of German tv. A short series about the life of a Munich gossip columnist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kir_Royal_%E2%80%93_Aus_dem_Leben_eines_Klatschreporters; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090465/
I added some other (slightly flawed or not yet classic) shows to my longer list at http://thomas4cinema.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/great-tv-shows/
Damn Thomas you are giving your Tivo a serious workout.
My wife loves her some Twin Peaks she makes me watch about every other year.
I would like to check out that original The Killing series
let’s say my DVD shelf needs some steel reinforcements… greetings to your wife, she has good taste
Fawlty Towers is probably my favorite(only 12 episodes). Twin Peaks and The Big Bang Theory are up there at the top of my list too. I watch tv mostly for comedy, because I think 20-30 minutes is perfect for a good laugh. There are solid feature length comedies I love, but for me they are few and far between.
Chris I have never heard of the Fawlty towers show. What channel is that on?
British comedy show from the 70s. You can find Fawlty Towers on dvd, or maybe on youtube. Either way it’s out there. In UK it is a classic together with Monty Python.
Doctor Who. I re-watch that at least once a year and the ability to stream it means it consumes all of my time.
I watch a lot of shows after they’ve finished at least one season. I spent the last twoish weeks watching Lost for the first time on Netflix. Being able to sit and just run through an entire series is hard to resist. The advantage of being able to do that is that I give more shows a chance. Instead of waiting a month to figure out whether I actually like the show I can find out much faster by watching the same number of episodes in a day or two.
Nic, Agreed I like the ability to stream a bunch of shows all at once. Really allows you to get into the show. Sometimes it seems the waiting between episodes and the small amount of shows that they release is a real drag.
I recently got Netflix and have been watching a British series called Survivors about people that survive a global virus outbreak it is a remake, I’ll watch the original too. It is compelling drama. For those cold winter nights to come soon I’ll get into the complete series DVDs of Homicide: Life on the Streets. Aside from that I’m glued to CBS’s Survivor and Big Brother. My all time fav show is St. Elsewhere.
OOOO boy you are going to dig that Netfilx. Are you streaming that on your new xbox? Check out the Crackle (free) but with comercials and the Vudu (pay per view) they are both pretty cool xbox apps.
My favorite current television show is Burn Notice. Gotta love the action-movie aesthetics in a one-hour weekly format.
Hmmmm, I have never seen that show Morgan I might have to try and check that out.
I have yet to sample the delights of Breaking Bad but it was I deliberately avoided until it was all over with and I could rattle through the lot. Much like you’re doing yourself sir. Boardwalk Empire I’ve avoided so far for the same reason.
My favourites though, have been The Sopranos, Nip/Tuck and gotta love a bit of Twin Peaks.
Mark it is well worth the wait… now I am stuck waiting for season 5 to come out on dvd ;-(
Loved The Sopranos still have yet to watch Nip/Tuck, Twin peaks always makes me want to eat pie and drink coffee.
For crime/drama, it doesn’t get any better than The Wire. It blows Breaking Bad out of the water, and that’s coming from a huge fan of both shows.
My all-time favorite show is still Seinfeld, though. I can’t even tell you how many times I have seen each episode, and I will always sit down and watch it any time I come across a repeat on TV.
I don’t watch any TV nowadays but I was quite addicted to Battlestar Galactica a few years back, we got on the bandwagon late but it was fun catching up. The shows I used to watch regularly was WINGS and FRASIER, man I love those two sitcoms! I also like a lot of BBC stuff, the last one I watched was Sherlock, still waiting to catch up on second season.
Most people seem to be naming their favorite older show, rather than a current show. I don’t watch much current TV at all. About the only show I still watch is Castle. Game of Thrones is more a mini-series than a series, but it is very good.
If you are talking all time series then I highly recommend Buffy the Vampire Slayer (seriously.)
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