Love OITNB, and have now moved onto Wentworth on Netflix and really like that too. Also like game of thrones, Prison Break, walking Dead, Breaking Bad. Ellen keeps me laughing when I'm on the treadmill...
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All of the ones listed so far are fiction! They are populated by men and women reading lines written for them which they've memorized!!
If one of them flubs a line, a director yells "cut!" and they do it over!
They use focus groups to determine what will keep your eyes glued to the screen...
For the above reasons I have eschewed all the series mentioned so far and limited my exploitation by the powers that be to the purity of Futurama ... and the occasional "Broke Girls."
Sopranos had to be my first TV series addiction as an adult. I couldn't look away and had to watch every episode. Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad had the same effect on me. I'm persistently fascinated by the American criminal underclass. The gutters run with blood, and just like that my big screen TV is the Colosseum and I'm a Roman.
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For my money the best series ever produced for television was "The Wire". So gritty and intelligent on so many levels. Very memorable characters: McNulty, Stringer Bell, Bubbles, Bunk etc. Not for the faint on heart, however. Is available for streaming on Amazon.
Initially I got a real kick our of House; Hugh Laurie is terrific!
But I bet, even with all the money they were paying him, he probably got tired of playing 'guess the disease' every single week.
That one where at the last minute he yanks a cootie out of woman's cooler, in an elevator, in front of her Boston Brahmen parents, was the best. He had to push them a side as he dived into her 'business' with a magnifying glass and tweezers ...
Craig Stevens played Peter Gunn. I found a TV movie on Amazon Prime video last month with him and lots of the cast as the series. Made about 10 years after the series went off. It was in color.
I don't watch TV anymore---not the kind that is broadcast, anyway.
I do watch certain series on DVD...
...NUMB3RS was a favorite of mine, starting with the pilot...
...and I've also liked Kage no Gunden ("The Shadow Warriors," from Japan), and Zatoichi (also from Japan; Zatoichi is the name of the main character in the series)...
...and right now, I've been watching NCIS (some of the episodes are much better than others, and some of the SCRIPTS are much better than others!!!), but I just started on NCIS and I'm still in the initial episodes of the show.
P.S. I missed the treadmill part...none of these would probably be good for treadmill time. :(
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With one or two exceptions I am not much into network series. Perhaps this won't work too well for a treadmill but the Danish series The Bridge is excellent. Great characters. There are two seasons of this and the sub titles may be a put off for many. Don't bother with the US version which I think was cancelled. One Danish series that did convert very well is The Killing...rather dark and set in rainy Seattle. If you have watched and enjoyed House of Cards perhaps you might enjoy the original British series from more than 20 years ago. Unlike the American producers they didn't milk it past three seasons.
I had to be practically forced to watch Breaking Bad, but glad I was. Best series ever!
Lost Orange is the New Black Downton Abbey
Manhattan. Not well known, probably because it is on WGN, but a great series about the Manhattan project, building of the bomb in the 40's. Semi fiction, but some of the characters that are portrayed, were real people involved in the project. Best semi ensemble series I've seen, since Breaking Bad.
"Mad Men" was my favorite. But I'm a business woman.
Other than that, I like more cerebral mysteries, like Sherlock, and the British mysteries. Too much violence makes me depressed, so I go for more up-beat shows, that hold my interest, like NOVA, Cosmos, Great Performances. These are escape shows. I love to watch Poldark on his horse, galloping along the sea-cliffs, with Demelza clinging onto him. Sigh.