Upon reflection, Homicide is still my # 1 recommendation. But if you want to branch out, HBO's shows are mostly excellent.
Sex and the City is a very funny series about four rich single white women in New York City; it ran for six seasons, and got better and deeper as it went along. It's very much a snapshot of a particular social class at a particular point in time.
Six Feet Under had a brilliant first and second season, then went in weird directions. It's about a family of morticians and is very funny and well-acted.
The Sopranos is about a family of mobsters in New Jersey. Extremely dark and, in the first few seasons, full of black humor and operatic intensity. Tony Soprano's mother Livia is an instant archetype, a manipulative witch who, in her best moment, responds to her teenage grandson's confession of loneliness and existensial fear by snarling, "We all die in our own arms!" Very dark, graphically violent, and the last few seasons have been unwatchably depressing, but I recommend the first two or three.
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Date: 2005-12-09 01:38 am (UTC)Sex and the City is a very funny series about four rich single white women in New York City; it ran for six seasons, and got better and deeper as it went along. It's very much a snapshot of a particular social class at a particular point in time.
Six Feet Under had a brilliant first and second season, then went in weird directions. It's about a family of morticians and is very funny and well-acted.
The Sopranos is about a family of mobsters in New Jersey. Extremely dark and, in the first few seasons, full of black humor and operatic intensity. Tony Soprano's mother Livia is an instant archetype, a manipulative witch who, in her best moment, responds to her teenage grandson's confession of loneliness and existensial fear by snarling, "We all die in our own arms!" Very dark, graphically violent, and the last few seasons have been unwatchably depressing, but I recommend the first two or three.