My list:
The Wire
The screenwriter (By Sayed Kashua)
The Sopranos
Mad men
Atlanta
Black Mirror
Breaking bad
Better call Saul
The Americans
Borgen
Honorable mentions: The Bridge, The killing, } Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica
I am looking for a new series to get interested in. What is your list? Feel free to list more than 10, or fewer FFS!
The recent re imagining of Das Boot got sillier and sillier.
Hiemat, I Clavdivs.
SF/Fantasy/Horror:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Babylon 5
- Star Trek OS & TNG
Drama:
- The Wire
- The Sopranos
- Hill Street Blues
Comedy:
- Blackadder
- The Simpsons
- Seinfeld
The Avengers
The Prisoner
Randall and Hopkirk
The Persuaders
The Sweeney
The Beiderbecke Affair
Inspector Morse
Life on Mars
New Tricks
Hustle
Lovejoy
I Clavdivs
Oooh good call.
"IS THERE ANYONE IN ROME WHO HAS NOT SLEPT WITH MY DAUGHTER?"
You see that just makes me think of the mini series Lace and
"WHICH ONE OF YOU BITCHES IS MY MOTHER?"
#9 - loads, but not top ten.
The Singing Detective.
Not even ONE mention of Star Trek or Children's Programme Doctor Who yet
I Didn't Know You Cared
Twin Peaks
Selwyn Froggitt
Brideshead Revisited
The Liver Birds
Porterhouse Blue
Trinity Tales
Play for Today
John Player League Cricket
The Roads to Freedom
Mad Men
Heimat
Talking to a Stranger
The Enfield Haunting
Twin Peaks
Holding On
The Shadow Line
The Children of the Stones
Talking Heads
Boys from the Black Stuff
Not even ONE mention of Star Trek or Children's Programme Doctor Who yet
Check my #5
Humans
Borgen
Spiral
In Treatment
Brideshead Revisited
Clocking Off
Ripper Street
Happy Valley
Scott and Bailey
I CLAVDIVS
I used to carry around in my head a list of the most amazing things I had ever seen on TV. The list fixed in the early 90s and the series in it have all be mentioned already. But they were
The Singing Detective
Twin Peaks
HeimatThe fourth thing on the list was the film version of Peter Brooks' Mahabharata, which is absolutely stunning, but not exactly a series. But at five hours long it's a hefty piece of viewing. I remember Channel 4 showing it all at once through the early hours of a Saturday night/Sunday morning. I watched it as part of a small audience in the TV room of my uni halls of residence cafeteria. I remember finding the clash between the high art of the drama and the bathos of the ads so painful that every time an ad break came on I got up and took a brisk walk round the outside of the building, in the cool night air, to try and avoid the crass commercialism. It was one of my more transcendent tv watching experiences.
Deutschland 83 was epic.