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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
Old 10-05-12 | 02:24 PM
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24 is the easiest answer for me.
Old 10-05-12 | 02:27 PM
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24. Outside of season 6 that show was like crack.
Old 10-05-12 | 02:29 PM
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24 or The Wire for me.
Old 10-05-12 | 02:45 PM
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24
Twin Peaks
Lost
The Sopranos
Old 10-05-12 | 02:54 PM
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Lost, 24 S1, Breaking Bad, Homeland, and Terriers were all crack for me.
Old 10-05-12 | 02:59 PM
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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.
Old 10-05-12 | 03:06 PM
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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.
Old 10-05-12 | 03:37 PM
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Gotta agree with everybody about 24. My list also includes Person of Interest, Prison Break, Dexter and Game of Thrones.
Old 10-05-12 | 05:15 PM
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If the desire to watch them over and over again decades after they aired.

Miami Vice and the Twilight Zone
Old 10-05-12 | 07:08 PM
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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.
Old 10-05-12 | 10:02 PM
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OZ
Breaking Bad
Luther
Stargate
Homeland
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Doctor Who
Old 10-05-12 | 10:15 PM
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The Shield.
Old 10-05-12 | 10:16 PM
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Power Rangers
Highlander
Carnivale
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (sometimes)
Old 10-05-12 | 10:22 PM
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My addiction is Shameless.
Old 10-05-12 | 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Sonny
My addiction is Shameless.
UK or US?
Old 10-05-12 | 10:32 PM
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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.
Old 10-05-12 | 11:09 PM
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Arrested Development
Battlestar Galactica
Parks and Recreation
Community
Damages
Alias
Revenge
Party Down
Melrose Place (original flavor)
Game of Thrones
Farscape
Luther
Homeland
Old 10-05-12 | 11:34 PM
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Definitely Breaking Bad where I ran through 3 seasons in 3 nights.
Old 10-06-12 | 12:01 AM
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24
Person of Interest
CSI Miami
Old 10-06-12 | 12:37 AM
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Prison Break and Game of Thrones are both good ones I forgot.
Old 10-06-12 | 01:04 AM
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Re: Most addictive TV shows.

Seinfeld
The Wire
Breaking Bad


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