What TV shows would you binge-watch?

f00l went on a bit of a rant said
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Recently (past two years) I’ve binge-watched a lot of Cheers and Mad Men. I seen to do this once or twice a year.

Now, for some reason I’m binge-watching The West Wing.

I didn’t watch much of it when it was running - it was 'too Sorkin" for me at the time, and I was avoiding TV, but I knew much of the gist, people talked about it.

For some reason, now I’m kinda in the mood. I can handle the “too Sorkin” stuff - the gauzy ideal liberal humanistic West Wing, the unnecessary and cutesie conversations among the staff sometimes, the repetitive phrases that show up in all Sorkin writing, the swelling music that cues you to a “big emotional moment”. I somehow know I’ll see a lot of that and so i just “plan not to be put off by it” when I notice it.

And you get otherwise frequently excellent scripting, dialogue, and consistently astonishing acting. And because this fictional world is set somewhat in the past, it feels like a slight escape.

Perhaps i want this more pleasant fictional political reality as a contrast too … nevermind. Plenty enough going on IRL to make everyone stressed, and I don’t wish to stir that politics up here.

Someday I intend to do binge-watch also with Homicide, GOT, and the Sopranos also. In the more distant past have done that with ST:Various.

And sometimes I hit youtube and binge on Roadrunner and other Looney Toons classics. “Kill the wabbit, Kill the wabbit!”

I’ve done it with Silicon Valley and with some Larry Sanders. and with Entourage, just for the pleasure of watching the Ari Gold character. He makes the show for me.

What other shows would you binge-watch?