best shows to binge-watch?

[Anonymous]

Don't know if you can get them, but we liked

Freaks and Geeks
Arrested Development
Sports Night

Also, not light hearted but early seasons of 24

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friday Night Lights
Veronica Mars
Freaks and Geeks

+1 on Veronica Mars. It takes maybe 2-3 episodes to figure out the characters, but then the characters are the best thing about it. It has a small but passionate fan base that crowd-funded (Kickstarter) a VM movie that was released earlier this year.

[Anonymous]

I second the Americans. Not light but more of a thriller than anything super dark or depressing.

Also second Friday Night Lights and Freaks and Geeks. Freaks and Geeks is the lightest of these three.

[Anonymous]

Battlestar Gallactica! (the new version not the 70s version)
Downton Abbey
Carnivale
Mad Men!!
Sopranos
Heroes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friday Night Lights
Veronica Mars
Freaks and Geeks

+1 on Veronica Mars. It takes maybe 2-3 episodes to figure out the characters, but then the characters are the best thing about it. It has a small but passionate fan base that crowd-funded (Kickstarter) a VM movie that was released earlier this year.

"Take Backup!"

[Anonymous]

Was trying to expand my horizons just watched:
Being Mary Jane
Broadchurch (British version)
Orphan Black

Good/Reliable
OINB - Season 1 was the best
House of Cards

[Anonymous]

I was somehow the only person in American who didn't watch Friends when it originally aired, but when I was stressed out studying for quals in grad school I ripped through all ten seasons. Great for mindless relaxation.

Many great suggestions above - Sports Night, Veronica Mars, Friday Night Lights, Good Wife are all excellent (and if you catch up on the Good Wife now, you can start watching season 6 soon). I think Amazon has an exclusive on Season 5 of the Good Wife (the rest is on both Amazon and Hulu+, if I recall correctly).

[Anonymous]

Call the Midwife

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friday Night Lights
Veronica Mars
Freaks and Geeks

+1 on Veronica Mars. It takes maybe 2-3 episodes to figure out the characters, but then the characters are the best thing about it. It has a small but passionate fan base that crowd-funded (Kickstarter) a VM movie that was released earlier this year.

"Take Backup!"

I forget whether Backuo was in the movie, I think he was. I guess it's time to watch the movie DVD they sent me for contributing to the Kickstarter campaign.

[Anonymous]

Just off a Blacklist binge. Very satisfying--almost thinking of doing it over again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friday Night Lights
Veronica Mars
Freaks and Geeks

+1 on Veronica Mars. It takes maybe 2-3 episodes to figure out the characters, but then the characters are the best thing about it. It has a small but passionate fan base that crowd-funded (Kickstarter) a VM movie that was released earlier this year.

"Take Backup!"

I always take Backup. (Never go the Camelot without.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty Little Liars... judge if you must but I caught a marathon once in a similar situation and I have been hooked since.

I totally binge watched all 5 seasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Call the Midwife

Oof. I love that series, but it's emotionally exhausting for me. I can take only one episode at a time.

[Anonymous]

Black Books. British comedy show about an anti-social bookstore owner (who happens to be sort of attractive) and his misfit friends. Only a few seasons, so it's not a huge investment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Black Books. British comedy show about an anti-social bookstore owner (who happens to be sort of attractive) and his misfit friends. Only a few seasons, so it's not a huge investment.

Yes! That's a good one. I also really like Peep Show, but the pov camera takes some getting used to. It really gets hilarious and inappropriate after season 1.