FTA-TV Tv Shows you found late and loved

[magpie_marty]

Good Night Sweet Heart was brilliant.
Alas can't find it anymore.
Brit Box only had one series.

 

[nobbyiscool]

I have this awful habit of engaging with mini-series that have these really interesting, complex characters... but then just choose a lazy ending that kind of belies everything we've learned throughout the rest of the series.

I should've known that the NZ series "Friends like her" would shit me when I recognise 2 of its actors from insurance ads.

 

[crafty_bernardo]

Twin Peaks, started the amazing David Lynch journey in like 2014.


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[Gasometer]

I have this awful habit of engaging with mini-series that have these really interesting, complex characters... but then just choose a lazy ending that kind of belies everything we've learned throughout the rest of the series.

I should've known that the NZ series "Friends like her" would shit me when I recognise 2 of its actors from insurance ads.

Yeh the last episode was weak af

 

[Plugger35]

The Newsreader

I caught up on the first two series last year, now I can't wait for the third series starting in February, it's an outstanding tv show.

 

[Shell]

The Sopranos, The Office (UK), Love My Way

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

I’d always been planning to catch with Curb but never got there. Then a few years back I watched the current series at the time as I was channel hopping. It was the Larry Longballs ep and I laughed and thought ok have to watch all of this now. One of the great comedies

Bingeing the Wire was great as was Americans and Leftovers

 

[Couch Coach]

 

[rocker_oz33]

Good Night Sweet Heart was brilliant.
Alas can't find it anymore.
Brit Box only had one series.

There's heaps of good UK crime shows Marty .

 

[rocker_oz33]

HBO series OZ got into it and loved it straight away.
The Take UK crime drama.
Love/Hate this and OZ both brutal shows.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Twin Peaks, started the amazing David Lynch journey in like 2014.


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I just started Twin Peaks, what a ride.

 

[GROTTO]

Mr Inbetween
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Kingdom
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Killing
Southland

 

[HirdyLannister]

Southland

 

[GROTTO]

Southland

Southland (TV Series 2009–2013) ⭐ 8.5 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

42m | TV-MA

www.imdb.com

If you enjoy cop shops, this is fairly decent. It does feel dated watching in 2025, but still good.

Its a shame it got cancelled. There is a lot of decent B grade actors in here that many in here would have come across from various TV shows over the years.

Far superior and more gritty than Chicago PD and The Rookie.

 

[emuboy]

Good Night Sweet Heart was brilliant.
Alas can't find it anymore.
Brit Box only had one series.

Goodnight Sweetheart was a brilliant show, I loved it. I have seen Goodnight Sweetheart for sale as a box set at JB Hi-Fi, so you might want to enquire there. I thought it would be one of those shows that would be hard to release on home media due to music issues, but evidently this has been worked through.

Lead actor Nicholas Lyndhurst - like Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn - is really good at portraying fear in his roles. It was evident years earlier in 'Only Fools and Horses' when he played Rodney, in episodes such as the one where he, Dell-Boy and Granddad destroyed the chandelier, and it was definitely the case here playing Gary.

Some of the scenes I remember was one where the time portal malfunctioned after a bomb exploded nearby, allowing Phoebe to cross through into the 1990s, with she and Gary's wife Yvonne having a brief meeting. There was another where Gary discovered his photograph - and name - were in a book about the 1940s Yvonne was reading. And another saw Gary make some minor mistake in the 1940s which he brushes off as 'How much harm could it do?' and then travel forward to the 1990s to find a very strange and dystopian England, where his friend Ron is a priest and his wife Yvonne is married to another man and they have lots of kids. Nicholas Lyndhurst's look of abject horror in all of these scenes is really done well.

 

[VainGlorious]

HBO series OZ got into it and loved it straight away.
The Take UK crime drama.
Love/Hate this and OZ both brutal shows.

I still need to watch OZ. It’s not in widescreen though so it looks kinda shit on a big tv.

 

[VainGlorious]

Mr Inbetween
Breaking Bad
The Walking Dead
Kingdom
The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Killing
Southland

I got rid of Foxtel just after I’d finished watching Mr Inbetween S2 as I’d just had enough of paying for shite.

Subscribed to Binge recently and realised there was a season 3 that I was not aware of.

Watched it all over again and can comfortably say that it’s one of my favourite Aussie shows of all time.

I also really enjoyed the first 3ish seasons of Rake with Richard Roxburgh.

 

[rocker_oz33]

I still need to watch OZ. It’s not in widescreen though so it looks kinda shit on a big tv.

Yep true that.
Unsure if the colour will look any better.

Maybe watch it on a smaller telly.

Get into Love/Hate aswell..

 

[rocker_oz33]

The bonus of getting into shows abit later on.
You don't have to wait for EPs and you and binge away .

 

[rocker_oz33]

I got rid of Foxtel just after I’d finished watching Mr Inbetween S2 as I’d just had enough of paying for shite.

Subscribed to Binge recently and realised there was a season 3 that I was not aware of.

Watched it all over again and can comfortably say that it’s one of my favourite Aussie shows of all time.

I also really enjoyed the first 3ish seasons of Rake with Richard Roxburgh.

Get into blue murder ...

 

[rocker_oz33]

Can't remember all the shows I got into late.

I used to watch the shield was on late at night.
Pretty sure the EPs were not in order.
So watched that from start to end X 2....later on great show.

The wire totally loved it once I got used to it.

The sopranos.

Found a few UK ones like the take , the shadow of the line, River etc

Blue murder under belly before under belly .

 

[GROTTO]

The bonus of getting into shows abit later on.
You don't have to wait for EPs and you and binge away .

I think this is an important reason why I may have given a show a decent chance, by watching the first few episodes in a row.

Whereas if you watch it week by week, I think you are more likely to skip it, if the pilot episode doesnt hit right.

 

[GROTTO]

Can't remember all the shows I got into late.

I used to watch the shield was on late at night.
Pretty sure the EPs were not in order.
So watched that from start to end X 2....later on great show.

The wire totally loved it once I got used to it.

The sopranos.

Found a few UK ones like the take , the shadow of the line, River etc

Blue murder under belly before under belly .

I vaguely remember The Shield being shown out of order, which is diabolical given its not a procedural and the order matters.

I mean even shows like Law and Order Chicago PD etc etc, while you definitely for the most part can watch them out of order, there is background story going on and its better to watch in order, but definitely not compulsory.

 

[rocker_oz33]

I vaguely remember The Shield being shown out of order, which is diabolical given its not a procedural and the order matters.

I mean even shows like Law and Order Chicago PD etc etc, while you definitely for the most part can watch them out of order, there is background story going on and its better to watch in order, but definitely not compulsory.

Maybe the Aussie network only had enough spaces so the showed the impact Eps.
Don't really know .

But as I said in my other post .
If you get into shows abit later and can binge and watch in order.

Did you watch that other show with Vic in it ..can't remember what it was called now..

 

[GROTTO]

Maybe the Aussie network only had enough spaces so the showed the impact Eps.
Don't really know .

But as I said in my other post .
If you get into shows abit later and can binge and watch in order.

Did you watch that other show with Vic in it ..can't remember what it was called now..

Yes IIRC that was the reason why they showed episodes out of order, the impact episodes to get ratings and maybe attract viewers.

Vic Mackey was in The Shield.