Best three TV shows you've watched in the past 5 years?

Call the Midwife

Archer

Big Mouth

Rectify

Penny Dreadful

Peaky Blinders

Mad Men

The Leftovers

Penny Dreadful

Dark

Please Like Me

Last Tango In Halifax

Game of Thrones

Orphan Black

The Good Wife

Only Connect

University Challenge

Big Fat Quiz of the Year

Black Sails

Penny Dreadful

Hannibal

Mad Men

The Handmaid’s Tale

Westworld

Mad Men

Better Call Saul

The Crown

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

Black Mirror

Bojack Horseman

The Leftovers

Twin Peaks: The Return, Breaking Bad, and Black Mirror.

Good call [R2] on Rectify. That would have made my top 5.

Honorable mentions,

Sherlock, Vikings

Berlin Babylon

Peaky Blinders

Man in the High Castle

The Crown

The Honourable Woman

Babylon Berlin

Peaky Blinders and Man In The High Castle would have been my 4 and 5, R14

Followed by Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Handmaid's Tale, Ozark, Mr. Robot, Sneaky Pete, Fauda, and Homeland

Mama June: From Not to Hot

Finding Bigfoot

South Park

Black Mirror

Mad Men

The Good Wife and The Crown--a tie

Better Call Saul, Ozark, Homeland

The Americans, the Crown, A French Village

Better Call Saul

Moving On

Veep

F is For Family House of Cards (first season only)

The Terror Hannibal The Knick

Rectify

Better Call Saul

The Americans

R10 and his Breaking Bad triple play has it right. I am rewatching the entire series and it's even better than the first time. The only reason I didn't name it is that it was 10 years ago, not five. Nonetheless, best TV series ever.

Better Call Saul

Breaking Bad

Bojack Horseman

Victoria

The Crown

The Great British Bake Off

Deutschland 83

Please Like Me

Broadchurch

Breaking Bad

Westworld

Masters of Sex

Law and Order SVU

The Voice

Murder She Wrote

True Detective - Season 1 only Ray Donovan Silicon Valley

R24 Breaking Bad ended 5 years ago. So it still qualifies.

Babylon Berlin

Turn: Washington's Spies

Endeavour

Special Mention:

Fargo

Six Feet Under (Maybe my favorite of all time but over 5 years old)

Mad Men

Billions

Grace and Frankie

Sherlock, Hannibal & Broadchurch

Bosch

Goliath (season 1 only)

The Good Fight

R32 I feel the same way about Six Feet Under. And I also didn't put it because of the 5 year limit.

Six Feet Under, Mad Men, and The Mary Tyler Show I think are all perfect. Even the imperfections in them are perfect.

Mad Men I truly do think is a perfect show. Every single episode is like an excellent independent feature film. It doesn't make a wrong move. Six Feet Under makes some odd moves here and there. And in season 4 it falters a bit for me. But ultimately it is my favorite all-time series. And Mary Tyler Moore is just--well, Mary Tyler Moore. Defining.

R34 I only love the Hannibal finale

Better Call Saul The Americans The Expanse

Hannibal GLOW Ozark

Boardwalk Empire

The Handmaid's Tale

True Detective Season One

Does Mrs Brown count ?

Hannibal

Vikings

True Detective S1

Honorable mentions: Mindhunter, The Terror

I forgot about Mindhunter. And The Terror. And Bosch. And Veep. And Ozark. Fuck, it really is peak TV isn't it?

"Justified," "Magic City," "The Riches"

Storage Wars

Pawn Stars

Op, Fargo is so overrated

Penny Dreadful

Breaking Bad

The Walking Dead (before they ruined it with the last 2 seasons) tied with Damages (not the later seasons) tied with Sherlock (also the early seasons!) tied with AHS freak show and coven

Can you see Handmaids tale for free or do you have to pay for Hulu?

[quote]Op, Fargo is so overrated

Season 3 with Ewan McGregor was a disappointment - stumbling and creaking forward, never quite coming together.

But Seasons 1 and 2 were pure magic

R48 So what with that stupid UFO thing in S2 ?

"Shameless" - All of it.

Insecure Dear White People Game of Thrones

Atlanta

The Crown, Mad Men, The Night Manager

I tried "The Night Manager" but I never could get past the first few episodes

I've noticed that most series lose their edge after the first couple of seasons

The creators, writers, etc. all get lured away by other projects once they've created a hit series, I suppose.

The only series that sustained their original season quality and actually got better with each subsequent season

Six Feet Under

Mad Men

Endeavour

Wentworth

Arrested Development - the initial network run (I only recently watched it this year on Netflix)

House of Cards (the first 4 seasons)

The past 5 years?

1 = The Walking Dead was still on top back then.

2 = The new & vastly improved Will & Grace. It's now what it should've been during it's first run = Very gay, very funny, very campy, very timely & very unapologetic. About damn time. I quit watching it somewhere in the middle seasons but came back for the crazy ending. Can't wait for it's return.

3 = Young Justice season 2 ended in 2013. The smartest, funniest, hippest, action oriented soap opera-ish animated show that I've ever watched. The artists put other shows like Teen Titans Go & The Batman to shame. I was crushed when it was cancelled because the toy line wasn't selling as expected. I hope the upcoming season 3 matches the first two seasons in all of the above listed qualities.

Peaky Blinders

Bosch

Goliath

Mad Men

Orphan Black

Hannity (just kidding)

Killing Eve had a great first season, (it has potential).

TaskMaster

Black Sails

The Last Leg

In the UK - tried all the GoT, Walking Dead etc, just didn't appeal.

Twin Peaks

Mad Men

Hannibal

For some levity- GLOW

A Place to Call Home The Americans Please Like Me

The Americans The Borgias The Expanse

honorable mention: Moving On Please Like Me

Game Of Thrones

Twin Peaks: The Return

Veep

Golden Girls I Love Lucy The Lucy Show

Golden Girls

I Love Lucy

The Lucy Show

Grace and Frankie

Transparent

Orange is the New Black

I loved Fargo S2 up until that point, r49.

Game of Thrones

Transparent (best show about Reform Jews in America ever)

Bosch

Goliath

Flowers Transparent season 1 only Game of Thrones last season

Forgot about Transparent and agree 100% R70-- I felt like I knew the Pfeffermans, the show was far more realistically "Jewy" than Seinfeld or the Goldbergs other shows where the Jewish characters aren't allowed to actually be Jewish.

Even something as basic as the fact that the landmarks in the Pfeffermans lives revolved around Jewish holidays--that was something you never saw on TV before. Red Oaks, funny enough also n Amazon, sort of came close.

The Path Archer Always Sunny in Philadelphia

The Path

Archer

Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Dear White People

Game of Thrones Peaky Blinders

Sons of Anarchy (I've only watched it in the last five years, and only for Charlie. He captivates me.)

Getting On

Veep

Rita

I'm so glad someone mentioned Rita! I love that show.

Getting On

The Returned

Breaking Bad - the best show ever made

Thank you for this thread, OP. I have learned of many new shows to watch.

The Night Of (HBO)

Game of Thrones

American Crime Story: The Trial of OJ Simpson

The Americans Homeland Masters of Sex

Honorable mention Veep, The Good Fight, Dexter (season with John Lithgow), Grace and Frankie

DARK

Atlanta, Master of None, Handmaiden’s Tale

CHI, Dear White People, GoT

I wish I'd liked The Americans. There was so much of it. But I couldn't go any further than season 3. Maybe part of 4 (I lost my place a couple of times).

House of Cards Orphan Black The Crown

Notable others - Fringe, Fargo (1st season), Peaky Blinders, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Unforgotten, Endeavour and probably loads more.

Mad Men

Stranger Things

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Mr. Robot

Breaking Bad

Game of Thrones, when it was good

You guys really need to watch Mr. Robot, just the best and very gay too.

Mr Robot

Stranger Things

A Place to Call Home

Please Like Me

First and third seasons of Mr. Robot are great, but season two was a near-train wreck. It’s kind of amazing they were able to get it back on the rails for season three. Unfortunately, by then, they’d lost their good will, their buzz and a lot of their audience.

There's a bunch of shows on this list that I tried to get into and bailed, and always say I'm going to go back and try again. Most of them I gave 3-4 episodes to grab me, but many just didn't. I dropped: Breaking Bad, The Americans, Stranger Things, The Sopranos, Halt and Catch Fire, Preacher, The Path and Peaky Blinders, etc. I think I'm going to restart Breaking Bad, buckle down and stick with it.

One show that I'm really enjoying now is Animal Kingdom on TNT. It even has the gay - a cute surfer couple.

I loved season 2 of Mr. Robot. A bit slower, artsier than 1 and 3, I guess, but still full of suspense and easier to love than Twin Peaks. However, I also love Twin Peaks.

Game of Thrones

Better Call Saul

Episodes

From the shows mentioned here I quit the loathsomely boring Better Call Saul as well as Vikings, Peaky Blinders, Fargo, Mad Men... I'd really advise anyone to watch Breaking Bad, as long as you can deal with violence and bleakness on TV at all.

Bloodline

Ozarks

Better call Saul

While listening to some music on another thread I thought it would be interesting to add up the votes on the shows from A to L.

I limited it to 3 votes within the last 5 years like the OP wanted. Shows that begin with T like The Crown Or The Americans are not included here.

After 96 replies here's the best shows that start from A to L =

11 = Game Of Thrones

9 = Better Call Saul

7 = Hannibal /Breaking Bad

4 = Bosch

3 = Black Mirror /House Of Cards /Goliath /Dear White People /Babylon Berlin

2 = Archer /Black Sails /Dark /Broadchurch /Bojack Horseman /Atlanta /A Place To Call Home /Homeland / Grace & Frankie / Endeavor

1 = Big Mouth /Call The Midwife /A French Village / Boardwalk Empire /A Place To Call Home/ Animal Kingdom / Arrested Development /Finding Bigfoot /Fargo /F Is For Family /GLOW /Justified /Insecure / Dexter /Getting On /Bloodline / Episodes /Flowers /Killing Eve /Law & Order: SVU /Billions /It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia /Deutschland 83 /American Crime Story: OJ Simpson /Big Fat Quiz Of The Year /Last Train To Halifax /CHI

I don't understand.. Why A- L, what's the logic here?

R98 I didn't have the time to do the entire alphabet.

I started off only doing a to h & then adding i to l because there weren't very many of them.

M to z will talk about a half an hour to make the list, add them up & then type it out on the DL.

Maybe I can do it later if someone doesn't beat me to it.

The Young Pope, Dark, The Fall Special mention: Legion, Preacher, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Rectify was an underrated gem.

YES, R101. Amazing show in every way. Great article at link.

Thanks R102! there was very little buzz around it. Some of the writers also worked on The Path (which I loved even more.)

Veep

game of thrones

homeland

dexter

Mad Men

Breaking Bad

Rectify

darn it I forgot about Fargo, season 1 especially

This is Us

The Magicians

Being Human (American version)

Endeavour

hell any bbc crime show, wire in the blood, vera, lewis, morse, on and on....

ive re watched ev episode of endeavor multiple times. theyr so complex and beautifully done.

Thanks for this thread, OP.

Dallas 2012 - love the return of JR as an old warlock, and then got hooked on Judith Light and Mitch Pileggi

Silicon Valley - really miss Ehrlich Bachman and Bighead though

Downton Abbey

I couldn't watch more than a couple episodes of Mad Men because of all the smoking. Reminded me too much of my childhood.

Game of thrones Homeland The Killing The Crown True Detective season 1

R67One Mississippi.

(Just adding one more)

Oops. R67 again. The Baskets (Hulu)

Shameless, Breaking Bad, and House of Cards. Better Call Saul has been mentioned so many times on this thread, I think I'm going to go ahead and que it.

Gamorrah

Ride Upon the Storm (would have said Adam Price's earlier Borgen excepting 3years thing)

No Offense

Honourable Mention (if it can be so described?!): GoT of course owing to the big bucks splashed across the seasons episode by episode, though recent seasons have become a bit too broad brushstrokes with characters which is what draws me into most series, script and production design backing that up.

Otherwise - if it's Scandi drama, I'm there: The Bridge, Midnight Sun, Trapped, Blue Eyes, Bedrag, Aber Bergen, Jordskott Borderliner were all top notch with dark or funny or weird characters.

The Brits? Wolf Hall has to be mentioned, along with Broadchurch. Detectorists is understated quiet gem. The Last Kingdom. (I haven't watched The Crown or Victoria yet.)

Wanted to add Babylon Berlin, but it's already been listed a few times. Can't wait for fiurther seasons.

Not r97 but M-Z thru r114. Honorable mentions not included.

11- Mad Men 4- Penny Deadful, Peaky Blinders, Please Like Me, Rectify, True Detective season one, Veep 3- Orphan Black, Ozark, Twin Peaks: The Return, Transparent 2- Masters of Sex, Mr Robot, Sillicon Valley, Shameless, Stranger Things, Westworld, The Walking Dead 1- Man in the High Castle, Moving On, Magic City, Master of None, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, the Magicians, The Night Manager, The Night Of, Only Connect, OITNB, One Mississippi, Pawn Stars, The Path, Ray Donovan, The Riches, The Returned, Rita, Sherlock, Storage Wars, Six Ft Under, Sons of Anarchy, The Terror, Turn, This is Us, Taskmaster, University Challenge, Victoria, The Voice, Vikings, Wentworth, Will & Grace, Young Justice, The Young Pope

Happy Valley Please Like Me Raised By Wolves

"I Married Joan," "Car 54" and "Prisoner Cell Block H"

Master of None, Hard Knocks, and Atlanta, which is a masterpiece

GAME OF THRONES IS GOING DOWN THE SHITTER.

Punch and delete.

Gomorrah is the best.

Big Little Lies Bojack Horseman The Real Housewives of New York (yep.)

Big Little Lies

Bojack Horseman

The Real Housewives of New York (yep.)

Bates Motel - I could watch hours of Vera Farmiga screaming @ Freddie Highmore NORRRRMMMANNNN!

Dynasty 2017 - The finale was so good, they've definitely found their groove and can't wait for season 2.

Le bureau des légendes (The Bureau)

Professor T

Der Tatortreiniger (Crime Scene Cleaner)

Honourable Mention: No Offence

R116 Thanks for completing my post for me. :)

Putting R97 and R116 together (I'm neither) and updating for the responses on A-L that happened after R97 and on M-Z that happened after R116, we get the full list so far:

13 = Game of Thrones

12 = Mad Men

9 = Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad

7 = Hannibal

5 = Please Like Me

4 = Bosch, Penny Dreadful, Peaky Blinders, Rectify, True Detective season one, Veep, Homeland, House of Cards

3 = Black Mirror, Goliath, Dear White People, Babylon Berlin, Orphan Black, Ozark, Twin Peaks: The Return, Transparent, Endeavor, Atlanta, Bojack Horseman

2 = Archer, Black Sails, Dark, Broadchurch, A Place To Call Home, Grace & Frankie, Masters of Sex, Mr Robot, Silicon Valley, Shameless, Stranger Things, Westworld, The Walking Dead, Dexter, Master of None, Gomorrah

1 = Big Mouth, Call The Midwife, A French Village, Being Human, Boardwalk Empire, A Place To Call Home, Animal Kingdom, Arrested Development, Dallas 2012, Finding Bigfoot, The Fall, Fargo, F Is For Family, GLOW, Justified, Insecure, Getting On, Bloodline, Episodes, Flowers, Killing Eve, Law & Order: SVU, Billions, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Deutschland 83, American Crime Story: OJ Simpson, Big Fat Quiz Of The Year, Last Train To Halifax, CHI, Man in the High Castle, Moving On, Magic City, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, The Magicians, The Night Manager, The Night Of, Only Connect, OITNB, One Mississippi, Pawn Stars, The Path, Ray Donovan, The Riches, The Returned, Rita, Sherlock, Storage Wars, Six Ft Under, Sons of Anarchy, The Terror, Turn, This is Us, Taskmaster, University Challenge, Victoria, The Voice, Vikings, Wentworth, Will & Grace, Young Justice, The Young Pope, Downtown Abbey, The Killing, The Baskets, Ride Upon the Storm, No Offense, Happy Valley, Raised by Wolves, Hard Knocks, Big Little Lies, The Real Housewives of New York, Bates Motel, Dynasty 2017, Le bureau des légendes (The Bureau), Professor T, Der Tatortreiniger (Crime Scene Cleaner)

Breaking Bad The Americans Homeland

Wentworth

Bates Motel

Fleabag

Honourable mentions: It's always sunny in Philadelphia, and the first and maybe the second season of The Affair, and I've enjoyed the Good Fight too.

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[or use commas to separate each entry]

That said, great thread, and thanks for all entries.

R129 Yay Fleabag! Amazing. Fantastic show. Really funny. But also really dark. And went to many surprising places. Fantastic.

I also loved Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and the whole cast, on the sexy brit series CRASHING. It's on netflix. A lot of people weren't hot on it. And it wasn't renewed in London. But I thought it was great. Wonderful actors. Very outrageous, very funny and very true. And I found the whole show as sexy as can be.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is major. Funny, smart and gorgeous.

1- sharp objects (HBO) it's over! Now I'll rewards big little lies 2- High Maintenance (HB0) sooooo underrated - I feel it has a small cult following tho 3- Big Mouth(Netflix). I like Nick Krolls type of humor, perfect stoned on my vape pen. Gets puberty so right

The Detour

Getting On

The Tower

I'm genuinely shocked that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend wasn't mentioned once on this thread. It's a goddamn classic.

Game of Thrones, Walking Dead and Looking.

Jimmy Kimmel (rising in quality recently), John Oliver (quickly falling off now), and Pose (heroically marginal)

R135 I quite like crazy ex girlfriend, but I may put it at my 10th, if that. It is peak tv after all.

[quote]This is Us

That was AWFUL.

some of these are just terrible. a kiddies' show?

Breaking Bad Justified The Walking Dead

Ballers, Atlanta, Insecure

The Americans

Animal Kingdom

Sherlock

(Honorable mention: Homeland)

Those of you doing the bizarre numbering thing that makes no sense: what the fuck is your deal?

Babylon Berlin

MInd-Hunter

The Americans

Honorable Mention: Sherlock

Big Mouth

BoJack Horseman

The Detour

The Handmaiden's Tale

Fargo

Orphan Black

Westworld

Black Mirror

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

American Gods

Legion

Jessica Jones

-Better Call Saul -How to Get Away with Murder -Downton Abbey

Gomorrah

Oooh - editing to say insecure!