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Once you're done, you may unspoiler my next recommendation.
But don't watch episodes back-to-back. Your subconscious needs about 1 day's rest in between.
But seriously, go watch Rome.
Pretender also aired with Profiler. While not as good, it occupies the same universe and they have two crossovers. So if you like to watch one episode of a variety of shows every night (as I do), those two make for good interleaving.
And Early Edition, if you find yourself in need of programming that is family-safe. Just came out on DVD last year.
Very. Very Wrong. Maaybe throw away the first disc of season 5, as it finds its feet redefining itself as you get a couple of not so important throwaway eps... but also hot naked lady being hosed down... which is a plus if youre into that sort of thing. But most of season 5 is great... and very much the opposite of the 'ever darkening crap' that is complained of in the post.
There is an episode about a Mexican Wrestler for goodness sakes!
One of the best shows AS has ever had, I put it right up there with the venture bros.
Boosh!
How I Met Your Mother is quite good though, definitely the best laugh-track comedy on TV.
You and I...are on 2 different wavelengths.
Although I agree concerning How I Met Your Mother, so we cool.
Also, Breaking Bad. The dad from Malcolm in the Middle is a high school science teacher who snaps under pressure of a crisis and starts cooking crystal meth. Awesome.
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All four seasons are phenomenal, with Season 3 probably being my favorite for having Roswell that Ends Well and Time Keeps on Slipping in it.
I can't wait for this to come back on in March.
Breaking Bad is probably the best show to come out last year. And it was on basic cable of all things. Bryan Cranston is unfathomably brilliant in it.
Yeah, The Sopranos is a fantastic show but the DVDs are pretty awful. On the set I have, in the season 3 box there's even one double-sided disc in there, each side holding only two episodes. What the fuck is up with that? Some of the discs have four episodes on them, why did this one need to have a double-sided disc? God, I hate double-sided discs, espesially in this case because you have no way of knowing which side has what episodes so you gotta put it in, make through all the company logos and such, and then when you get to the menu you have to check the episode names to know which of them you should watch first.
I still recommend it, though. It's one of the best shows there has ever been. But dear god at the DVDs.
I never really noticed, but I didn't know about it at the time. I enjoyed the second season about as much as the first.
It had a good ending, for what it was.
Still, there's the movie to look forward to, if it ever comes out.
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Yeah, it had two or three good episodes, but the use of the metaphore as a baseball bat across your skull was fucking unforgivable, lazy writing.
February 17
Looks like it's for real this time too, as it's already been debuted on TV, and is available illicitly on the internet.
TV? O_o When and where and how?
Canada, eh.
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Curb Your Enthusiasm if you liked Seinfeld and don't mind high blood pressure.
I think it's great up until season 10-ish. Even Season 9 has some gems, and "Homer vs. the City of New York" is my favorite episode in the series.
10 is still good, but that definately is the tipping point for me. The first few episodes into the set, I was worried I'd wasted my money.
Edit: To Stig, everything is still golden up to Season 8 at the very least. How can you hate the season that had Hank Scorpio in it?
Dead Like Me
The movie, Life After Death, is being released on DVD Feb 17 and they're releasing the complete collection+movie in one box set for $69.99 (Amazon has it on sale for $47.99). Great series, created by the same guy who created Pushing Daisies (actually shares quite a few elements) and some other great series.
Just remember it was still doing pretty good around 2000. So your talking around 10 seasons of good (although frankly I think the first 1/2 are kinda shitty).
There is, of course, differing opinions on when it stopped being good enough to be worth it anymore.
Looking at the episode list, it's also when the Tree House of Horror episodes started getting dumb. Season 9 was OK (never really cared for Easy Bake Coven), but Season 10's was when got such "classics" as Hell Toupee and Starship Poopers.
There's still alot of great episodes, but looking over the list it's like "That was an awesome episode" and then "Wow, that episode was crap" and I never realised how back and forth it went in some of those seasons.
The only reason I have season four is because it was a gift, otherwise I would have started at 1. I hate going out of sequence, but I figure since I already am, I'm going to get the best one (season 5) next.
Also, thanks for the recommendations I'm getting. I'll probably actually get to most of these at some point in time. This Friday I have cash for Psych season 1, Spaced complete series, and one more show. Based on this thread I'm leaning toward: Dead Like Me, Avatar, Burn Notice, and Rome. The picture with the four Flashes does make a strong point for The Big Bang Theory though.
And Malkor, I feel your pain. I want Daria on DVD but thanks to music licensing it will probably never happen. Same with The Wonder Years.
EDIT: Also, Mad Men is great so far.
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The Hank Scorpio episode is my favorite ever. :lol:
I also say that getting all 4 Futurama seasons is mandatory, there's really no excuse not to.
And that box set, while awesome, is kind of a rip off. Both Dead Like Me seasons are only $20 now, tops.
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He's also in a couple other episodes.
Oh...oh god. The Kevin Birthday episode must be absolutely ruined.
What a shame. I've almost picked up that set so many times.
Everything Oakley & Weinstein touch is pure gold though.
The Office entire series (+ specials) and Extras (+ specials) -BBC one- were just up for like 14-20 bucks on Amazon.
Spaced, full series also available. If you like Simon Pegg, it's a must.
The Prisoner was the first DVD I ever bought. Full set. I imagine you could rent it for cheap it is only like 13 episodes. Kind of like Twin Peaks.
What's worse is that Oakley and Weinstein had a 10 year story arc planned, which tracked Andy as he moves from one job to another while becoming a more and more accomplished cartoonist, until he ends up a Matt Groening level.