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Unwatched Shows with Universal Acclaim

Doogles
Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,867 Founders Club
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It's sunday, my laziest day. The day I flip a coin on continuing the bender or chewing B vitamins to prepare for monday.

Inspired by that bullshit Empire thread, I was thinking about what I should watch for the next 16 hours and it hit me that I should detail an off top list of the shows i've heard nothing but rave reviews, but can't seem to pull the trigger on starting. Perhaps all you Ebert & Roepers (75k, Rip) can point me in the right direction.


Haven't Seen:

Cheers
The West Wing
The Newsroom
House of Cards
Six Feet Under
Shameless
The X-files
Girls
Veep
The Americans
Masters of Sex
Downton Abby
EMPIRE (LOL)
OZ
MASH
The Blacklist
Nip/Tuck
The Tudors
Sex in the City
Nurse Jackie

These shows have all been around a couple seasons or more, which make the investment of catching up pretty difficult. Especially for something like Cheers, where you know it's going to consume a fuck load of your time for a 1980s sitcom, but I hear it might be the best comedy ever.
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    House of Cards and Downton Abbey are the only great shows on this list.





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  • RavennaDawg
    RavennaDawg Member Posts: 846
    I recently bingewatched The Wire, after hearing about it for 10 years. I have made it through 4 seasons, which are supposeabley the best seasons.

    If Fonzie were gay, black, and homeless, he would be Omar.
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  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,867 Founders Club
    RavennaDawg said:

    I recently bingewatched The Wire, after hearing about it for 10 years. I have made it through 4 seasons, which are supposeabley the best seasons.

    If Fonzie were gay, black, and homeless, he would be Omar.

    I've seen a ton of TV. Watched the Wire in its entirety and loved it. Final Season is a bit of a drag.
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  • haie
    haie Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 24,870 Founders Club
    I feel like Vikings gets zero respect, yet it's the only show I give enough of a shit to watch every week.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,963 Standard Supporter
    The fucking Blacklist?!? Are you kidding me?? Jesus H Lockner. Sex in the City?

    And your lack of Ginnifer Godwin's pokies on Big Love leaves me questioning your sexual preference.

    Entourage, Band of Brothers, Friday Night Lights. All better than the chick shit on your list. Even if you're homo - there are hot dudes on those shows, too.

    Blacklist. Christ.


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  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,867 Founders Club
    edited March 2015
    @PurpleThrobber I've seen Entourage, Band of Brothers and FNL. Maybe my list is so homo because it's shit i haven't seen yet? I'm just basing it off what I've read and heard in my experience as Top shows.

    @haie I'm completely up to date on Vikings, great show.
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  • section8
    section8 Member Posts: 1,581
    Shameless is pretty good, season 1 of Newsroom was okay then it went full retard. Six feet under was just on the air to long. First couple seasons were good then it got tedious and painful but the finale was well done.
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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,324 Standard Supporter
    edited March 2015
    Cheers is good, not great. I was a kid and young teen for it so the humor whooshed (Rofl) me at the time. As an adult and a binge drinker, it's understandable. I'm sure it's on TV Land, Nick at Night, MeTV or something.

    House of Cards is good. The first season is really good.

    Newsroom is OK. They give too much time for sappy office romances and the writers get too cute with the one liners.

    I watched a few SexCitys years ago. For a womyn's show, not bad. At the time I had this bi woman roommate that always watched it (would have hit, nice rack). I haven't seen any of the rest.
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  • PurpleReign
    PurpleReign Member Posts: 5,480
    House of Cards - Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are badasses. Usually.
    Six Feet Under - Surprised me, put it off for years but actually liked the show.
    Shameless - naked Emmy Rossum
    The Americans - cold war espionage, 80's music, & occasionally Keri Russel's naked butt appears.
    Masters of Sex - naked Lizzie Caplan
    The Tudors - naked Natalie Dormer (and quite a few others)
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  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,867 Founders Club
    PurpleReign said:

    House of Cards - Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are badasses. Usually.
    Six Feet Under - Surprised me, put it off for years but actually liked the show.
    Shameless - naked Emmy Rossum
    The Americans - cold war espionage, 80's music, & occasionally Keri Russel's naked butt appears.
    Masters of Sex - naked Lizzie Caplan
    The Tudors - naked Natalie Dormer (and quite a few others)

    Shameless and Masters of Sex it is.
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