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Not a request, but some recommendations ... I've included a totally accurate summary, which gives no spoilers.
Breaking Bad:
"US School teacher called Walter White gets cancer; changes name and career to pay his medical bills. Things get out of hand."
The series, even if you have seen it. If you haven't, what rock have you been hiding under?
Bingeable on: Netflix.
Better Call Saul:
"Walter's lawyer gets started in his career. Things get out of hand. Again."
Prequel to Breaking Bad, it starts pretty slow, but gets better and better. Watch BB first.
Bingeable on: Netflix
The Expanse:
"Crew loses ship, gets a new one. Things get out of hand."
The best SciFi series, bar none. Watch it, then read the books, or read the books and then watch it. Doesn't matter which, but do read the books as well.
Bingeable on: Amazon Prime
Game of Thrones:
"Swords. Dragons. Armies. Things get out of hand."
Some nudity may be glimpsed. Just don't get too fond of any character ...
Bingeable on: NowTV
Those should keep you going ... for a few days ... 
Anything I should have added?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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What about older British series, like Waking The Dead (Amazon Prime) and some other cop shows?
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 Waking the Dead. When it was running, I couldn't wait for all of it to get released in Pond West, so I got a zoneless DVD player and ordered the DVDs from the UK.
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"Pond West?" - I like it! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Dark Matter:
Crew of 6 wakes up on spaceship with no memories. Things get out of hand.
- Netflix
Altered Carbon:
Guy wakes up in a new body after 250 years of not having one. Things get out of hand.
- Netflix
The Umbrella Academy:
Dysfunctional superhero kids, now adults, reunite for dad's funeral and to save the world which is going to end in 8 days. Things get out of hand.
- Netflix
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Oooo, Dark Matter. I forgot about that show. I can vouch for that one. Gave me Firefly vibes
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Quote: Just don't get too fond of any character ...
Except Sean Bean, it's always ok to get too fond of Sean Bean.
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Got to add...
Resident Alien.
Alien crash lands near the rural town of Patience, Colorado, Things get out of hand.
Funny not to dark comedy.
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OriginalGriff wrote: what rock have you been hiding under?
The one whare I don't have Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or NowTV, or ... any of the others.
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To be honest you are missing quite a bit - the "normal TV Channels" have really become pretty cheap and tedious over the last few years - and lockdowns haven't helped - so the "good stuff" is generally not available on them. And fiction well presented give you a chance to both relax and think outside your normal mind-set. Yes, books are good - but they are a solitary exercise, a good piece of TV shared with a partner can give you insights into the story and your partner that you may have otherwise missed.
Don't get me started on movies though: they are just scared to do anything original and different in case it doesn't top the box office ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Maybe, but we are not serious enough telly addicts.
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Quote: the "normal TV Channels" have really become pretty cheap and tedious
Ditto for "normal" TV in the USA. Probably even worse than UK TV. We only use normal TV to watch the news headlines. Now we spend our TV time streaming older shows, especially older British shows via Britbox.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: The one whare I don't have Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or NowTV, or ... any of the others.
I hope you like to read....or, something.
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I was brought up at a time when only the better off had TV in their homes, and even when we did get one, there was only one channel. Since then I have had various periods of my life without one, so i do not see it as the essential item that many people do.
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Game of Thrones: Dumb writers do well as long as they have some source material to stick to. Things get out of hand.
Quote: If you haven't, what rock have you been hiding under on?
FTFY. It's (99942) Apophis, where I'm currently mining the minerals (*).
(*) Elite Dangerous, but I lied. They don't let me into the Sol system yet, probably for good reasons. Not a big deal, because the rest of the playground has 400 billion stars. But they let me do the Alpha Centauri Run in less then 12 parsecs to deliver a message. 0.21 lightyears to be exact, because I actually had to fly all the way to Proxima Centauri without jumping, which they did not tell me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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- True Detective
- The Following
- Code Geass
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OG: Thanks for posting this. The thread is full of good ideas!
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I don't consider any of those to be bingeable.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anything I should have added?
PLENTY!
I only have Netflix so everything here is on there (at least in the Netherlands).
I really enjoyed Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra.
They may be kids shows, but still really good and fun as an adult.
Watched Norsemen last week, a comedy set in a Viking setting
Three seasons so far and more coming (hopefully).
Erased (both the anime and the real-life series) is awesome! About a guy who (uncontrollably) jumps a few seconds back in time whenever something bad is about to happen so he can prevent it. Then his mom gets killed and he jumps something like 20 years back in time. It's only one season so not a long watch, but absolutely worth it.
Dorohedoro, another anime, still only one season, hopefully more underway, but the animation and trippy atmosphere of this one are really awesome.
Loved Your Lie in April, also an anime, even got me to play the piano. Also, I'm not crying, you are!
For something else: The Good Place (comedy); Bojack Horsemen (animated dramedy); Love, Death & Robots (sci-fi shorts); Community (comedy); Peaky Blinders (crime); Stranger Things (horror)...
I could go on all day and some favorites are still missing (especially anime's), but I'll leave it at this as you only got one weekend
Totally agree on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul though, both are pretty awesome.
There's also this movie, El Camino, about Jesse after he escapes in Breaking Bad.
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Sander Rossel wrote: Love, Death & Robots (sci-fi shorts)
I love those! I think my favorites are Shape-Shifters (werewolves in the USMC), Lucky 13 (military fighter/landing craft, sans peur et sans reproche), and Zima Blue (artist). I'm really looking forward to the next release.
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Those were some of my favorites too.
Loved the ones with the farmers and the invasion from another dimension and the ones with the space ship and weird spider aliens as well 
Unfortunately, not all of them were of the same high standard.
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If you add animes to the list, Re:Zero, Sword Art Online (in spite of the dumb title, it is awesome), Wakfu (the first two seasons were great), Overlord, and a few others are worth adding. +100 for The Last Airbender anime series. There is no M. Night Shyamalan version.
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In that they are small things.
Imagine if you would, that people often get chicks and rabbits for pets around this time of year. Further, imagine if you will, that we were instead celebrating symbolically with the Easter Elephant, instead.
And imagine, then, if said pachyderm decided to hope around your living room. Or dying the elephant eggs - in what size cup?
Chris: I realize this is a bit personal, but does Bob lay eggs?
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