Your one top TV series recommendation and why

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So i have been watching a lot of tv series recently, and it seems like they have been changing. I think TV was often not considered as artistic or as important as film. I am currently watching the tv series True Detective, and i think that really shows the artistic potential of TV. A series also has the potential, in some ways like a novel, to explore to greater length, subtitles in character, and changes over time, helped by the amount of hours available in a TV series. I would love to hear some recommendations from fellow aspies, and hear why they matter to you. My recommendation is going to a the series called, Utopia. I love the look of the series, visually its really pretty, i like the graphic novel theme, the characters are so well cast, and there are strong and often kick ass females! I think the people who worked on making it really cared about what they were doing. So that's my recommendation, a British TV series called Utopia.

Breaking Bad.

I consider this to be the greatest TV show of all time. Essentially, the lead character, Walter White/Heisenberg, is also the villain (or anti-hero) of the story. Essentially, we watch the gradual evolution of timid high school chemistry teacher to criminal mastermind and kingpin, Heisenberg. White's motivation for getting into the meth business - or so he tells himself - is that he wants to leave money for his family after he is diagnosed with cancer. The truth is, Walter has always had this darkness inside him that he had kept suppressed, and now he has the pretext to let it out. Talk about character development! But there are also other incredibly complex characters on the show, such as Walter's wife Skyler, who compromises everything she knows is right to join him in the drug trade. His brother-in-law and DEA agent, Hank Schrader, who starts out as intellectually shallow, but ends up the obsessive moral compass of the show. Jesse Pinkman, Walt's former student (a poor one at that, and a slacker), who Walt blackmails into bringing him into the drug trade, is originally Walt's dumb monkey, but becomes not only his partner, but very much his son (about as much as his own son, Walt Jr.) - which is why Walt becomes so murderously vindictive when Jesse betrays him. Gus Fring, the Mephistophelean drug lord who brings Walter into his empire as a meth cook, but ultimately is locked in a life and death struggle with Heisenberg. Mike Ehrmantraut, Gus Fring's fixer and hitman, who is also a man of unshakable ethics. Todd Norquist, the socially awkward, self deprecating burglar turned Heisenberg's lab assistant, who proves to be an emotionless sociopath with ties to the Aryan Brotherhood. And these are just some of the amazing characters.

I've been watching "Doc Martin", for YEARS----and, I'm STILL quite obsessed with it.

I would call it a Dramedy, I guess, because the cases the doctor has, are a bit serious (and, REAL----they have a real medical doctor consultant, named "Doc Martin", and they have received TONS of letters, that have congratulated the show, on their ability to show things, realistically / accurately)----but, then there's the eccentric townsfolk. It's a British show, on PBS. The main character Dr. Martin Ellingham is CLEARLY an Aspie (there was even one show where a psychologist told him, he thought he was an Aspie)----has special interests, is socially inept, is brilliant----all the stereotypical stuff. It's set in Cornwall, England----the scenery, ITSELF, is a character in the show----absolutely gorgeous!!

A major thread that runs-through the show, is that the doctor was a surgeon in London, and, all-of-a-sudden, he became hemophobic----now, when he sees a bleeding patient, he has to stop to puke (he carry barf-bags with him), and then he just goes right-back to what he was doing, like nothing happened!! LOL

Another bit, that's sort-of drama-like, is his falling in-love with the local headmistress.

Also, he's a doctor that makes house-calls----so, that can add to the comedy, often.

It's just a wonderful show----the characters are great / have been well-cast; the scenery is to die-for; the running story, with the doctor, and other townsfolk, is great; there's something new each week (so, it's NOT like a drama, in the sense that, if you miss one week, you don't know WHAT the heck is going-on).....

If you want to catch-up, say, on Hulu, or something, I would recommend starting with the pilot, and then jumping straight to season (series) TWO, as many find season ONE'S receptionist in the doctor's office, to be a bit abrasive, and I wouldn't want that to turn you off of, a WONDERFUL show (he gets a different receptionist, in season 2, who is FABULOUS).

I live in the UK, doc martin has been running for quite a while, its nice know it has a following, with the beautiful landscape included, a long way from where it is set and produced.

Game of Thrones, it's the most powerful show I've ever seen. It's the definition of gray. Especially when you get into the later seasons. There's a reason there is so much hype over it.

House-Hugh Laurie enough said

Blackish

It's not a racist show and doesn't use stereotypes for humor.

The Big Bang Theory

Jim Parsons-enough said.

Call The Midwife

I watch PBS whenever I can and when I began watching this a few years ago, it was clearly a great show with a great cast and even though it's set now in the 1960s, it's still a powerfully emotional show.

M*A*S*H--Need I say more (although, toward the end of it's run, It got a bit too preachy).

CSI: New York--To me, the best of the CSI franchise. Gary Sinise was definitely at his best, considering his work on the stage when he was with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater.

I agree with you on M*A*S*H.

Breaking Bad is of those series that have managed to get their train rolling throughout from beginning to end. The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones are just as strong.

I have quite a few series of the past that I have immensely enjoyed (Barney Miller, The Bob Newhart Show, M Squad, et al.), but if I had to choose one, it would very likely be M Squad; the reason why I recommend this 1957-60 NBC police series is because Lee Marvin carried his role of Lt. Frank Ballinger of the titular squad (in the character's words, M Squad was "a special detail of the Chicago Police") across in such a manner that it never got boring, and as such, each episode was a fast-paced half-hour crime drama (24-25 min. w/o commercials, albeit one was only just over 20 min.). The picture quality on the full-series release isn't that great, but that's secondary as compared to how enjoyable it was for me to see Lee Marvin in what was, IMO, one of the best series I've ever seen (not to leave out that the version I have has a bonus audio CD with selections from the 1959 RCA Victor LP soundtrack).

Only just joining this site, I realize I watch way more TV than the average person. It's kind of scary, actually. If I had to create of list of shows you absolutely have to watch, though, here you go:

-24
-30 Rock
-The Americans
-Arrested Development
-Battlestar Galactica (New version)
-Boardwalk Empire
-Breaking Bad
-Community
-Deadwood
-Dexter
-Doctor Who
-Fargo
-Game of Thrones
-Hannibal
-Homeland
-House of Cards
-It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
-Justified
-The Leftovers
-Lost
-Louie
-Mad Men
-Masters of Sex
-Orange Is the New Black
-Orphan Black
-Parks and Recreation
-Penny Dreadful
-Sherlock
-Silicon Valley
-The Simpsons (Seasons 1-10 only)
-Six Feet Under
-Sons of Anarchy
-The Sopranos
-True Detective
-Veep
-The Walking Dead
-The Wire

Like I said, I watch too much TV. Every Aspie has their obsession. TV's mine.