Shows with replayability value
I recently asked myself what show I’d be willing to watch for a second time. I watch a decent amount of series, and there are quite a few good ones, but I realized that very few have replayability value.
After a quick survey of these past years, I came up with Buffy, Voyager, Babylon 5 and Angel. Going a little bit further back, I thought I might be interested in watching Twin Peaks again.
How about you?
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Lost.
boy, we have different tastes in shows... Me: The Sheild, Dexter, Entourage, Curb your Entusiasm, Firefly, Seinfeld, Magnum.p.i... I do consider myself a Sci-fi geek - but I prefer Sci-fi "movies" where the stories are just better and the special-effects are there to match.
I'd watch "The Sopranos", "Entourage", "Sportsnight", and maybe "Homicide."
Twin Peaks and Seinfeld
xsonymathew: Interesting, I have always been of the opinion that series were a better fit to tell stories with complex and arcing plots. Movies win on the visual effect side, but the story very often needs to be dumbed down.
Profit & Twin Peaks !
McGyver!
Moonlighting :)
Maybe you should use that metric to decide which shows to keep watching?
"Firefly" - I watch this probably once every other month. The movie "Serenity" is good, but the show is so much better. "Band of Brothers", "Carnivale", "The Wire" The list of potentials - "Heroes", "Chuck", "Prison Break" (I still like it).
Of course Firefly. I think I've seen the whole series about 2 1/2 times now. I'd also re-watch Arrested Development and Veronica Mars.
Dick Van Dyke Show
Dexter (third season coming soon) and Seinfeld. Kind Regards
The West Wing.
Star Trek TNG, Mission Impossible
Buffy, ST:TNG, ST:DS9, Babylon 5 (seasons 1-4), and the first few seasons of SG-1 For current shows, I've already started re-watching Monk, and How I met your mother.
Northern Exposure, Star Trek (original)
- Doctor Who (Preferably Tom Baker, new ones not bad) - Torchwood - The Office (UK/BBC version, not NBC) - Seinfeld - Friends (yes, I find it funny) - TechTV (The ScreenSavers) - Before G4 destroyed it
Seinfeld The West Wing The Simpsons The Wire NewsRadio The 2006 Rose Bowl :-)
Yes! News Radio, how could I forget (Phil Hartman episodes only though). The episode where Phil Hartmans character gets a cane is classic.
Absolutely, News Radio is a classic, and definitely stick to the episodes with Hartman (what a loss :-(). It's by far the best played, funniest and smartest comedy I've seen on TV. Seinfeld/Curb are also very funny but the actors suck :-)
Cedric, u are right. For a complex story-line a series would be better. The Sheild, Dexter, Wire are examples of complex story-lines that sometimes stretch over several seasons. i was merely stating how things are now (in my opinion). I was excited about Battlestar Gallactica for a while but that faded fast. When you have a season to kill with bad writers the story-lines soon get stretched thin.
Sopranos. To the guy who said MacGyver, it's not as easy as it looks. I'm re-watching the shows via Netflix, having watched them last when I was about ten years old, thinking it would bring back the memories. Oh it brings back the memories - about how many shows that I liked when I was ten were incredibly formulaic and repetitive. (How many times can MacGyver "clever" his way out of a situation involving personality-less goons, a mildly attractive woman who always falls for him, and a precarious situation with just enough odd materials at hand to solve? It is the EXACT SAME THING every show. I'm having a hard time not pushing the discs off in the queue. MacGyver (like the A-Team) is a great memory, but leave it there - story-wise, it has nothing on some of the stuff we take for granted on television today.
hey, how comes nobody already mentioned M.A.S.H ?!?
I'd add firefly, the wire and Farscape, but then most comedies are rewatchable. If you enjoyed The Office, Seinfeld or Friends, you'd more likely than not re-watch them. If you didn't, obviously you wouldn't (Just a pre-emptive strike at all the eew-friends posts). I'll probably re-watch Lexx some day too. If you actually watch it through, it's a pretty good mix of 50's sci-fi and steampunk with a decent storyline.
Red Dwarf.
I'd watch The west Wing, Soprano, and most of all Seinfeld and the Monthy Python. The West Wing says everything about what happened and will happen in the US on political matters, it's incredible.
Hi Cedric, How funny - I never knew you were behind testng! I'm just now getting the eclipse plugin and am being subject to working with Workshop and Beehive. Grrr.... :) As far as shows go, you can't go wrong with the UK comedy "Peep Show". Got to be the funniest thing to come out of England, which pretty much makes it the funniest thing out of anywhere...