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Sherlock was excellent! Revived my interest in the lore.

Mr Robot. So many twists and turns, and had me absolutely fascinated from start to finish

Chernobyl. Easy

A few off the top of my head that I would/have watched multiple times and would highly recommend.
The wire.
Ted Lasso.
The Pit.
The Bear.
Firefly.
Andor.
True detective season 1.

Fawlty Towers

I don't see Pantheon mentioned a lot, its a series about uploading human brains to computers. It starts off very good, but the last few episodes turn the show into one of my favourites.

The first three seasons of Arrested Development are still amongst the smartest, dumbest and painfully funniest hours of (comedy) television I have ever seen.

A very different kind of sci-fi show: Red Dwarf. Specifically Season 3 and up when Kryten becomes a regular character that ties everything together. Although the first 2 seasons are still worth a watch, just not as good.

I would absolutely think twice or thrice about recommending GoT. In fact, I've already recommended some friends to not watch it. Some amazing episodes, perhaps some of the best scenes ever seen on TV, and by far the most upsetting, spit-in-the-face, negligent final season from any show I've ever seen. Umbrella Academy wishes it had as bad an ending as GoT, if only for the infamy.

Anyway 3 Body Problem looks really promising and I'm sure the creators, whoever they are, will absolutely nail it.............

For All Mankind

What a show. The first marine seige on the lunar mining camp is as cool as it gets. Tracy Stevens is a badass.

The IT Crowd

Recent ones:

Severance

Pluribus

Older one I didn't see anyone mention yet:

Peep Show (amazing British comedy, truly uncomfortable levels of cringe)

The Mentalist, Person of Interest and IT Crowd.

If you want to go old school, I highly recommend the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. It's a comedy steampunk cowboy romp featuring Bruce Campbell from the 90s, filmed on the lot where they used to film all of the old spaghetti westerns before they destroyed it.

I haven't seen the west wing mentioned. It's great drama with character arcs thatead to growth, which was unusual for episodic tv at the time. It chronicles the fictional presidents white house team dealing with politics and running the country, with ideals, pragmatism when ideals can't work and holds politicians to a standard that we'd all benefit from.

The IT crowd has already been mentioned. It is laugh out loud funny, but being British, the absurdist humour can take a bit of getting used to. It's not meant to depict realism, but charicatures. Don't be afraid to pirate it as the lead writer is a massive dickhead.

Chernobyl is amazing, as others have said. Really tender exploration for the people that would have been involved at all levels. It's harrowing at parts, inspiring at others. It makes us all seem human rather than a world of countries.

Buffy is peak for me with the knster of the week, overarching main baddie for a season and the funny quips mixed in. Others prefer angel or xfiles or fringe. However if any of the above tickle your fancy, you should try the others. Then try firefly and the movie.

I haven't seen much reality TV here. You should check out the UK version of the traitors. It's amazing TV. Like other reality TV, as the seasons go on, the participants have more of an idea of the course of the show and how they'll be perceived. In ye first, they are a blank slate and you can see that the stress of deception is getting to them in a real way and the paranoia affects all.

The wire is a great cops and robbers show that bluts the lines between good guys and bad guys. All are just people doing what they can to make their way. Some that's with crime, some that's with stopping crime. All have dark sides and a human side.

Firefly

Found-family space western with excellent music and characters

Yes, it has Joss Whedon's name on it, but either because it was made much earlier in his career or because Tim Minear was showrunner, it doesn't have the modern bathos issue commonly associated with him these days

Futurama.

Fargo is IMHO one of the best if not the best TV series. Every season has its own story and therefore has an end and no cliffhangers until the next season.

Storywise it's just that the Coen brothers have this great feeling for pain and suffering and the twisted humor that lies within. There are no real happy ends and everything comes at a price. But their characters are fighters, they don't give up that easily.
I also love that the bad guys really get under my skin. They have their own logic and methods, they're brutal and the worst of all: they feel real. Like Jon Hamm in the latest season, great (as in I'd never want to meet him) character, great cast!

here's a few i haven't seen mentioned yet:

oz - uncompromising US prison drama

garth merenghi's darkplace - deadpan british tele-horror parody

the mighty boosh - absurdist musical stage-theatre from the UK

dirk gently's holistic detective agency - fast-paced comedy with an interesting premise that plays out like a douglas adams novel

happy - netflix series which combines a gritty procedural crime-drama with a cartoon mascot. Very violent and dark humour

What We Do In The Shadows - I still need to watch the last season

Wellingon Paranormal - A spin-off of the What We Do In The Shadows movie.

Letterkenny

Corner Gas. - Kinda old school, but very charming and hilarious.

15 Stories High - Peak Sean Locke - It's on YouTube

Garth Marengi's Dark Place - Also on YouTube

Burn notice, Psych, House, How i met your mother, Money heist,

Fringe

Station 11 on HBO. One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Still cry at the end, after several rewatches.

The Newsroom , with Jeff Daniel's. Done by 2012, but it outlined the blueprint of the enshittification of media and the Republican party, but even then, the writers gave US voters far too much credit and would never have predicted Trump elected. Twice.

On the lower brow, Titans was among the best DCU.

ODDTAXI (with subtitles) is some of the best dialog I've experienced in a long time. With a fun story about a walrus who lives and drives a taxi around Tokyo. It's anime, so I know it isn't everyone's thing, but it's very different from what most people think anime is.

Star Trek: Lower Decks

Loki (Each season has a different vibe, but they're both good)

Infinity Train

12 Monkeys and DARK. Both shows deal with time travel in a very cool way.

Severance and The Boys are also fantastic.

Legion is one that I don't see get mentioned very often. Very trippy and a unique spin on the superhero genre. Also Aubre Plaza is fantastic. Loved her in parks and rec, but this is when I realized she had serious acting chops beyond April.

Andor

Fallout

Psych

Frasier

MASH

Stargate Universe

Battlestar Galactica

The Body Problem

Foundation

You didn't specify how old

Were you really waiting for me to name Silicon Valley? The most educational TV series ever made in this day and age, fun like very few others and quotable to hell and back.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Orphan Black

Legends of Tomorrow

The Magicians

Tales From The Loop. It's a slow, vibey, and kind of whimsical show that perfectly matches the paintings its based on (Simon Stalenhag's). There is no main plot, each episode is a story that takes place in a town above a particle accelerator with a loose thread between them

If you like the mood of the trailer, you'll like the show.

Slow Horses.

Lost up until Season 6.

Walking Dead up until Negan.

Firefly, all of it.

Babylon 5, start with Season 2-3-4 then go back to 1.

Really enjoying "From". But there's a drinking game:

Every time someone asks "Hey, are you OK?" the answer is "Naw, man, I'm pretty fuckin' FAR from OK." abd take a drink.

Scrubs. But skip the last season. They found a good end and then the execs wanted more money.

I introduced my wife to Chuck, one of my favorite shows, and it's the only show so far that we've both liked.

Babylon 5

Halt and Catch Fire - love shows about technology and innovation and liked Silicon valley, but this show just took it to the next level for me. Both inspiring and at times horribly sad to watch, all done beautifully.

Brooklyn 99 is definitely one of my all time favorites

Happy to see Dark there.