Recommend some TV series!

[Alzar]

I got Netflix and made a post about it awhile ago asking for good movies, but I have found with a full time job that I generally don't have the time to watch movies during the week, whereas a ~47 min tv series perfectly fits into a "watch before sleeping" routine.

I just finished "The Wire", and it was probably the best TV series I've seen, I would highly recommend it to anyone. It's one of the few shows that, after I watched it, I felt like I learned something, beyond entertainment.

After that I'm at a loss. I've already seen, and enjoyed:

Sopranos
Season 1 + 2 of Battlestar
Firefly
Lost (up to now)
Heroes (up to now)
Flight of the Concords

What are some other "must see" type TV series?

[JLaCroix]

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Battlestar Galactica.

[Ms. Porkchop]

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Sex in they City LOL.

[Vanilla Iced Tea]

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Arrested Development is probably the funniest show ever made.

[Shard]

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Dead Like Me is good fun. It was cancelled fairly early on though, 2 or three seasons in. I'd throw Sports Night in there as well, even though it suffered the same fate. Sports Night was what Aaron Sorkin worked on before The West Wing.

[John Mora]

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You should totally check out Twin Peaks (spiritual predecessor to LOST). Carnivale is another good choice if you don't mind a very, very deliberately-paced series.

But probably the best example of live-action dramatic television I've ever seen is Six Feet Under. It's an incredibly personal, emotional series that centers pretty much solely around the character development of a family that runs a funeral home. It has some of the most vivd, realistic characters I've seen on a television show and at several points in the show so far (I'm only about halfway through the series) I've cried or come close to crying. EVERYONE with an interest in character-centric dramas should check this show out.

[Kire]

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John Adams was pretty cool, but I'm not sure if that's on DVD yet.

...and I LOVE Six Feet Under.

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[Alzar]

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Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Six Feet Under now in queue. I remember reading that the Six Feet Under finale was one of the most satisfying of any, at least something to look forward to through a whole series

I'll try out "Dead Like Me", Shard, and I put Sports Night is in my Queue. I kind of like series that are cancelled early but still have a following, at least it helps them not get stale.

VIT - I forgot to mention Arrested Development, great show. I also forgot "Freaks and Geeks". Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, and AD are the only tv series in my paltry DVD collection.

[Red Dragon]

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Star Trek

[Loki]

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Sports Night is bad. Don't watch that.

[John Mora]

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Sports Night is bad. Don't watch that.

Agreed. Peter Krause is much better in Six Feet Under. :3

[Chrono]

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The X-Files, I guess if you haven't already. Deadwood is great. I enjoyed the first two seasons of Rescue Me, and the first 3 seasons of Nip-Tuck weren't too bad.

[Jamos]

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Spongebob. Because I don't feel like thinking right now.

[jacquel]

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Buffy through season 3. After that it got tired and lost direction.

I've heard Dexter (seriel killer, not 5 year old cartoon genius) is really really good.

[Marc M.]

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Deadwood
Dexter
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

That's about all I can think of at the moment.