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Old 10-05-12, 02:23 PM
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Most addictive TV shows.

What are your most addictive TV shows? Show's that you watch but can't stop once you've watched a few eps.

Mine are:
Dexter
Breaking Bad
Homeland
Lost
Californication
Peep Show
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24 is the easiest answer for me.
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24. Outside of season 6 that show was like crack.
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24 or The Wire for me.
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

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Twin Peaks
Lost
The Sopranos
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

Lost, 24 S1, Breaking Bad, Homeland, and Terriers were all crack for me.
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There are shows I like, but then there are those shows that I NEED to see what happens next. That doesn't mean these are my favorite shows, but they're designed to leave you on cliffhangers and such.

Breaking Bad and the first seasons of Heroes and 24 (the first season) are the best examples of this I can think of. Babylon 5 at points was this way as well.
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

Not exactly what you're asking but Lost Girl. I save the show and then never really have a desire to watch them. Then I watch one and I end up watching them all in a row.
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Gotta agree with everybody about 24. My list also includes Person of Interest, Prison Break, Dexter and Game of Thrones.
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If the desire to watch them over and over again decades after they aired.

Miami Vice and the Twilight Zone
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

MST3K
Batman The Animated Series
Power Rangers
Murder She Wrote (for me, anyways)
Mythbusters
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Walking Dead. It's one of those shows where big stuff rarely happens. I enjoy it a lot. But I'm never satisfied when the episode is over.

The opposite would be American Horror Story. Stuff moves along and rarely lingers. They rush the story along and give us plenty of details.
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
24
Twin Peaks
Lost
The Sopranos
That's a good list, but I'd add Game of Thrones to it.
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

OZ
Breaking Bad
Luther
Stargate
Homeland
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Doctor Who
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The Shield.
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Power Rangers
Highlander
Carnivale
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (sometimes)
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My addiction is Shameless.
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Originally Posted by Sonny
My addiction is Shameless.
UK or US?
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Red Dwarf (seasons 1 through 5)--It was *my* Harry Potter during my adolescence in the early 90s. It was hilarious escapist fare with its fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun. Those PBS marathons were some of the most fun in my life.
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

Arrested Development
Battlestar Galactica
Parks and Recreation
Community
Damages
Alias
Revenge
Party Down
Melrose Place (original flavor)
Game of Thrones
Farscape
Luther
Homeland
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

Definitely Breaking Bad where I ran through 3 seasons in 3 nights.
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

24
Person of Interest
CSI Miami
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Prison Break and Game of Thrones are both good ones I forgot.
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

Seinfeld
The Wire
Breaking Bad


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