TV Shows Loved: Past and Future

DH and I watch TV shows in serial order together as our main shared activity. We usually download an entire series and work our way through them. When we finish a series, we grieve briefly and move on to the next on our list. It’s fun to plan out which series comes next.

The hardest part is waiting for a new series to get its groove on - usually shows don’t start out great.  Buffy, Angel, Xena, X-Files, Torchwood, DS9, B5 and Farscape all had rather rough starts. Every iteration of Star Trek took a few seasons to find its way. I expect most shows take a while to get good.

Only Firefly and BSG were great right out of the gate. And maybe Heroes, even though it is now unwatchable.

I am merely documenting what we’ve seen here and what we are looking forward to next:

Currently Viewing

• Torchwood
• House
• Burn Notice

What We’ve Seen Together (in no especial order)

• Xena
• Firefly
• Buffy
• Angel
• Veronica Mars
• Deep Space 9
• Farscape
• Battlestar Galactica
• X-Files
• The Lone Gunmen
• Northern Exposure
• Enterprise
• Dollhouse
• Sara Conner Chronicles
• Bionic Woman (but gave up on it before it was cancelled due to boringness - current iteration)
• Reaper
• 30 Rock
• New Amsterdam
• Robotech (Macross)
• Heroes until it began to utterly suck
• V Miniseries (1980s)
• Cleopatra 2525
• Jack of all Trades
• Dune Miniseries

What is on the List to See Next (also in no especial order)

• Babylon 5 (we started it and stopped after a few eps since it was so boring. But we hear it gets excellent so we intend to try again)
• Alias
• Castle
• Stargate
• Fringe
• Caprica
• V (current iteration)
• How I Met your Mother
• Voyager
• Sanctuary
• Special Unit 2
• Dresden Files
• True Blood (I am a little nervous about the violence though)
• Pushing Daisies
• Eureka
• Bones
• Profiler
• CSI
• Dark Angel
• Big Bang Theory (maybe)
• Jericho
• Dexter
• Doctor Who (current iteration and maybe past)
• Knight Rider (current iteration)
• The Lost World
• The Vampire Diaries (maybe)
• Chuck
• Andromeda (maybe)
• Hercules (maybe)
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

What might we be missing? You can gather we enjoy Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Supernatural, Medical and Forensic, and also shows with a slightly Gothic or Steampunk bent. Should youth-based shows like Roswell, Supernatural and Smallville be on our list?

We prefer a show to have clever dialogue and long tern story arcs that don’t become too ridiculous (which is why we gave up on Heroes and why we are afraid to watch Lost). We are also on the fence about Flashforward, The Office, Mad Men, Boston Legal, Parks and Recreation, Ugly Betty, Arrested Development, Monk and Mentalist. Shows about mafia gangsters are NOT on any list I am interested in. I’ve heard good things about Glee.

So - what are we missing? And Is there anything on our “to watch’ list that is unbearably lame?

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