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Noone has mentioned Avatar - The Last Airbender yet...? I thought that would be amongst the first answers.

Breaking Bad was 10/10 the whole way through. Basically every other show has had bad episodes, bad plots, etc...

IT Crowd for me

The Wire is the best show ever made.

Where are my Firefly fans!?

I don't see anyone mentioning DARK yet.

Probably one of the absolute BEST series I've ever watched. The ending was SO good.

Firefly, and the accompanying movie, Serenity.

Severance. It's only been one season, but goddamn it's so good. It's an amazing premise with some absolutely brilliant writing. The cast is amazing.

It's so hard to choose between Star Trek, Star Trek, Star Trek, or Star Trek... 🤔

I'm torn between Battlestar: Galactica and Dark. The first one is definitely my favourite space opera of all time. But the mind-blowingly intricate plot of Dark makes it the one of the best mysteries ever told I'd say.

Can't let Adventure Time go unmentioned. The first season was a little silly, but after that, I found that I was basically free to interpret most of the episodes and plot lines with as much depth as I could want. One of the few shows out there who's ending made me sad not because the writers wanted me to, but because I knew it was leaving an empty place behind in my soul.

The Wire. It's the only show I've watched more 3x and it got better with the rewatches. No show has come close to the raw grit. I may be biased because I lived in Baltimore for a few years though.

I think most TV shows overstay their welcome when they go past 5-6 seasons and run out of ideas.

Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad are my next two favorites.

True Detective Season 1

Red Dwarf

Yep, Game of Thrones. People get hung up on the hellishly stupid last season, but we spent the better part of a decade talking about it around the water cooler. The world was sucked into it.

Many of these shows wouldn't have been possible without Twin Peaks

I'm not watching TV or streaming tv, but "raised by wolves" I liked. From the evolutionary point of view.

Surprised to not see Mr Robot. Having experience in the field I can confirm its pretty bang on

Better Call Saul and Band of Brothers, both in my all time favorites.

Arrested Development

30 Rock

TV series Farscape. For its time it was cooler than the Stargate series.

Chernobyl ranks up there for me.

Bojack Horseman.

Red dwarf and all the Black Adder ones.

Edit: special dedication to "The lost room"

All of Star Trek, end of story.

Better Call Saul

One of:

• I, Claudius (1976)
• Connections (1978)
• Band of Brothers (2003)
• Breaking Bad (2008)
• Better Call Saul (2015)

Right now?

Our Flag Means Death

Such fabulously gay pirates 🥰

Drama

Six Feet Under
Pushing Daisies
Dead Like Me
After Life
Doc Martin

Sci-Fi

Misfits
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Stargate SG-1
The Star Trek Franchise (of course)

Comedy

Fresh Meat
The Young Ones
IT Crowd
Green Wing
Miranda
Black Books
Peep Show
The Mitchell and Webb Look

Murder Mystery

Death In Paradise (if you like campy)
Poirot
Inspector George Gently
Wallander
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

Better call saul. Deadwood. The Wire.

Impossible to pick a favourite one.

Lotta good shows people have already listed, but one that is conspicuously missing, Reservation Dogs. It is an absolute master class treatise on grief and loss, yet somehow manages to be fucking hysterical at the same time.

Better Call Saul

Peep Show

The Leftovers. Really great premise, the acting and writing is fantastic, etc, only 3 seasons so I didn't have time to get burned out. Watched it a year or so back and I'm already thinking it's time to rewatch

Edit, gotta mention Get Smart. My parents showed it to me when I was young and it has really shaped my sense of humor in a lot of ways. Very wholesome (although some episodes are very much a product of their time).

Gravity Falls

Futureman.. Gave it a shot and it became my favorite series.

How has Venture Bros not been on this list yet?

The Sopranos

The Marvellous Mrs Maisel.

Managed to be funny and heartfelt all the way through, with a well written conclusion. Anything that doesn't wrap up properly just sinks any enjoyment for me, but this show left me feeling satisfied.

The Leftovers. I'd been sleeping on it for years and finally watched it this year. The best ending to anything I've ever seen.

There isn't just one; that's an impossible choice.

Rake, Hard Quiz, Breaking Bad, The Expanse, X-Files, Malcolm In The Middle, Futurama...

Fringe and X-Files.