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My favorites, in no particular order...

Breaking Bad

Dexter (how can you not like a show where you are lead to root for the bad guy?)

Boardwalk Empire

The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (just discovered this one - frigging hilarious)

Mad Men (I want to marry January Jones (and so does my wife!)!!)

Life on Mars (the UK series only!)

The Office (again, the UK series only)

Fringe

Modern Family

30 Rock

Arrested Development (all-time best comedy series ever!!)

Freaks and Geeks

Undeclared

Todd Martin is hilarious

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Just started watching justified, don't mind it at all.

Archer. Absolutely hilarious!

Penny dreadful gets a vote from me. Silicon Valley is quite funny

My favorites, in no particular order...

Breaking Bad

Dexter

Mad Men

Modern Family

30 Rock

Arrested Development (all-time best comedy series ever!!)

Same shows for me, and bless you for reminding everyone about the genius that is Arrested Development (movie on the way!)

I'd also recommend Community, which is one of the most underrated shows out there at the moment.

Parks and Recreations is pretty funny as well, the show really found its voice in the past seasons. Ron Swanson is one of the best new characters on TV right now.

But I'd start with Breaking Bad, that show really deserves all the credit it's getting! So well written and the story arcs are incredibly well thought out! The premise of the entire show is something that's probably never been done on TV before.

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Big Bank theory for me

And Modern Family is a good laugh

And also Sherlock is good value though only three episodes per series,but very clever

OZ :cigar:

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So far, I've been enjoying these series:

Walking Dead (based on one of my favorite comic series)

Community

Castle

Hell on Wheels (It's on AMC. Surprised no one mentioned this.)

Game of Thrones

Firefly (It's old and cancelled, but I love it. I hate Fox for cancelling it.)

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I have to add that I agree Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a good TV series. It isn't in the same league with the Wire. The Wire is the best television show there has ever been by miles. Unlike a lot of fans of the show, I would not describe it as being more realistic than other cop shows. Instead, I think it dramatizes things that no other TV show does, at least in US TV. For example: police making serious mistakes with rotten consequences for all, police acting out of malice, complex portrayal of a union, US's decaying infrastructure, paperwork, city politics, poor kids in public school, small city newspapers, etc. Seeing this kind of subject matter in a TV drama is pretty incredible.

Back to Buffy. I'm not quite sure what to make of this series. I saw the entire thing when it was on the air. I was never quite sure if the writing was good, or bad in a way that came out unintentionally good. The show is pretty dark sometimes. It has a depressing air about it, that I think comes partly from the odd jokes which are presented without a laugh track, and delivered without the "right" emphasis. It works. I can't say I would recommend it, because what I like about it is pretty idiosyncratic, but I definitely agree with Ken. It isn't consistent, though. I think the show got much better over its life.

Breaking Bad is the only other TV drama, besides the Wire, I have watched and liked.

some great stuff.

the best of the lot not yet mentioned. and i know the responses but....

buffy.

seriously, one of the classics. very funny show. done so cleverly. and yes, the thought of watching a show about a 16 year old american teenager who has powers to kill vampires sounds horrific but the show was done so well, the writing so sharp and clever, it is a must.

west wing. brilliant series.

sopranos, mad men, supernatural, stargate, heroes, 24, alias, lost. all good fun, in degrees.

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Echoing everybody's sentiment on Breaking Bad, love the show have so much depth in cinematography, script and etc. Really disappointed that it's gonna be the last season.

Spartarcus, the third series just came by the way. CGI's are getting much better. Started out liking it because of soft porn factor but the overall story grew on me. Other notable mentions are Weeds, Sopranos (one of the best) and Borgias.

Comedy sitcoms Modern Family and Frasier.

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Another classic: 6 Feet Under. Never saw a show before where I hated every single character and still loved the the show itself.

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Another classic: 6 Feet Under. Never saw a show before where I hated every single character and still loved the the show itself.

I think it's because they are so interesting. I liked Nate but agree on the other characters but ultimately they were all intriguing characters

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