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[Vicious Parker]

Here's a new thread in this forum for recommending things for people to watch, without having to make an entirely new thread for it. Pretty simple.

Inspired by The Shield being on Hulu+. Yeah, yeah, hulu+, but still a fantastic show and I recommend you watch it if you can.

[Tau]

The Shield was awesome. Season 3 of The Walking Dead has been pretty good so far.

[Donkeymog]

If you liked the Shield then I recommend The Wire.

[Xteven Xavier]

I Love the show Dexter and you should too

[kspr]

Wilfred is a funny show about a guy who sees his neighbor's dog as a human. they go on adventures and smoke weed.

[Monkeydog]

/>I Love the show Dexter and you should too

Really?

Dexter is a very bi-polar show.

Season 1 is great. Season 2 is awesome despite its flaws. Season 3 is bleh. Season 4 has a lot more flaws than Season 2 but is still really good. Season 5 I've never seen but I have never heard anything good about it. Season 6 is dreadfully horrible and stupid. Season 7 starts pretty great but as of the last two episodes its quality has dovetailed, although it could certainly be fixed...but

Spoiler

Dexter has become such a horrible character and none of the supporting cast is never really ever any good to begin with, aside from maybe Deb or Vince (and that's because he never has anything to do).

Also for suggested watching:

Freaks and Geeks

It's on Netflix. It's not that many episodes. It's a wonderful show that I wish there was more of. Just a couple of highlights:

• It's the starting point for a lot of awesome people. James Franco, Jason Segal, Seth Rogen, Judd Apatow, and Paul Feig. It's basically Feig's show, and if you don't know who he is he worked on Arrested Development, early seasons of The Office, early seasons of Weeds, Nurse Jackie, Bridesmaids, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec...and Martin Starr whose biggest thing since Freaks has been Party Down, and Sam Levinne who was in Inglorious Basterds
• It has a lot of awesome guest stars. Including other up and comming people like Jason Schwartzman, Lizzy Caplan, Kevin Corrigan (who I effin' love and wish was in more things), and Rashida Jones.
• Tom Wilson aka Biff Tannen is the P.E. Teacher
• Trace Beaulieu and Joel Hodgson are in the show. Basically the only thing Joel has ever really been in that wasn't on the Satellite of Love
• It's just so damn good.
• There is an episode devoted to Disco and Dungeons and Dragons where James Franco plays as a dwarf. And Jason Segal dances.

[Kamau]

Freaks and Geeks

This.

The show is an amazing piece of work. My only issue with it is that it goes downhill about 3/4 through the season. The theory my friends and I came up with is, that was the point the writers discovered they weren't renewed for season 2, so they (a) had to scramble to tie up as many loose ends as possible, therefore forcing things to be rushed, and/or (b) lost the motivation that created the amazing beginning episodes, because what was the point if they weren't going to be renewed no matter how good the show was?

I've been meaning to rewatch it. Especially because it's on Netflix.

[Monkeydog]

I don't know. I have to disagree.

I mean maybe it feels worse because nothing really gets solved because it does get canceled. And the overall ending is kind of a bleh ending.

But I really like the last episode, the penultimate episode with Lindsay and Bush is really blah for the most part (although the stuff with Rosso is good), but the last episode is still good despite the Lindsay stuff.

I think a lot of it is because the last part of the show deal a lot with Neal and Lindsay and none of it really ever gets resolved because the show got canceled which can make the last few episodes seem lower quality but I don't think they're any worse than the rest of the show. It's just build up with no pay off which isn't the the fault of the show.

If you want to see a last episode that was rushed to fill in loose ends and sucked watch the last ten minutes of Pushing Daisies.

Also everyone watch Pushing Daisies!

[Glaciermage]

/>Wilfred is a funny show about a guy who sees his neighbor's dog as a human. they go on adventures and smoke weed.

I also thoroughly enjoy Wilfred.

And I would recommend the I.T. Crowd to anyone who hasn't seen it.

[toysintheattic]

/>If you want to see a last episode that was rushed to fill in loose ends and sucked watch the last ten minutes of Pushing Daisies.

Aw, thanks for opening up that old wound. I love Freaks and Geeks, too. Those and Firefly are all basically perfect shows that ended too soon.

[Tau]

@Bean - Yeah my GF has been complaining about comitting to her so I suggested we just get the box set of The Wire as it would probably last longer.

[lazlo falconi]

/>Also everyone watch Pushing Daisies!

So very this.



Everyone should go watch Spaced. It stars a young Simon Pegg and has all of his best friends in it--who are very funny people. It's also short and has a disappointing ending, but in the meantime is a very worthwhile show.

[Monkeydog]

I second Spaced. It's pretty short too, you could finish it in a day.

[Xteven Xavier]

I did watch it in a day, good show

[kspr]

Mission Hill was full of potential and cut down after 1 season. it's easily watchable in a day.

[lazlo falconi]

I could have sworn there was a second season to that, but upon further inspection you were right. Maybe I was just thinking about the "unaired" episodes.