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puddingsmith ([personal profile] hope) wrote2008-02-12 10:12 am
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Idiot Box

This is a sticky post of my TV habits: what I'm watching, what I want to try, what I've tried and rejected. Feel free to recommend me new stuff!!

I've added what I can remember thus far. Will add more as I recall them.

A note on my tastes & preferences: straight-up drama (cop shows, law shows, medical shows) tend to leave me cold. I like scifi and magic realism and quirkiness; if a show has a reasonably generous quota of those then I'll probably give it a go.



What I'm currently watching:
PLEASE DON'T SPOIL ME for these. I'm not up-to-date with all of them.

  • Beautiful People

  • Merlin

  • Life on Mars

  • Doctor Who [up to S4]

  • Torchwood [up to S2]

  • Battlestar Galactica [up to S3]

  • Scrubs [up to S6]

  • Rome [up to S1]

  • Gossip Girl [catching up on S2]

  • The Sarah Connor Chronicles [catching up on S2]

  • Skins [up to S2]

  • House [up to S3]

  • Being Human [seen pilot]



What I've seen:

  • Bleak House

  • Princess Tutu

  • The IT Crowd

  • Deadwood

  • Dexter

  • Six Feet Under

  • Wonderfalls

  • Firefly

  • Carnivale

  • Ultraviolet

  • Oz

  • Band of Brothers



What I've got on the agenda to watch: (* what I've got/tasted already)

  • * Pushing Daisies

  • * Strangers with Candy

  • Big Love

  • Journeyman

  • Friday Night Lights

  • Criminal Minds



What I've tried and haven't continued pursuing, but probably will:

  • Eureka [seen pilot]

  • The Mighty Boosh [up to S3]

  • The Middleman [first couple of eps]

  • Northern Exposure

  • Supernatural

  • Heroes

  • Dead Like Me

  • Farscape

  • Xena

  • Twin Peaks

  • The L Word

  • Arrested Development

  • The X-Files

  • Angel



That I enjoyed but probably won't pursue just for the sake of completism:

  • 21 Jump Street

  • Jericho

  • Red Dwarf

  • Dark Angel

  • Veronica Mars



What failed to pique me completely (i.e. couldn't make it through first season/episode):

  • Reaper

  • Stargate: Atlantis

  • Entourage

  • Extras

  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer

  • Gilmore Girls

  • Grey's Anatomy

  • Smallville

  • Chuck



Other things people have recommended:

  • Nip/Tuck

  • The West Wing

  • Slings & Arrows

  • Life on Mars

  • Bones

  • Burn Notice

  • Kyle XY

  • ReGenesis

  • Spooks

  • Skin

  • Starsky and Hutch

  • The Wild Wild West

  • The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.

  • The Avengers

  • Due South

  • Ashes to Ashes

  • The Shield

  • Blade the Series

  • Life

  • The Wire

  • Sleeper Cell

  • Hu$tle

  • Professionals

  • NCIS

  • Criminal Minds

  • Magnificent 7

  • Man from UNCLE

  • Harsh Realm

  • Young Riders

  • Lonesome Dove

  • Homocide: Life on the Street