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Friday Faves: TV Edition

Lauren D. Stevens

Welcome to Friday Faves: TV Edition!

This list was harder than I anticipated to put together—hence the 10,000 categories below.

  1. There are SO many shows out there—especially in the last 5-10 years as Prime, Netflix, Hulu and others have exploded into their own production companies.

  2. Yesterday was the 4th of July, today is Friday, and my brain is moving s l o w l y.

  3. Some shows started out crappy and got better in successive seasons. Others started out amazing and took a nose dive. It’s tough to classify them.

  4. Get your comments on on the blog site. ! I know we ALL have strong feelings about our fave TV shows, so if I’m wrong, convince me otherwise. I’ll give most things a shot. =)

  5. Did I mention HOW many shows are out there?? Holy crap…

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Top 3

  1. Parks & Recreation

  2. Newsroom

  3. Downton Abbey

Comedy Faves

  • Fawlty Towers

  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

  • The Good Place

  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart


Weird-Ass Humor Faves

  • After Life

  • Barry

  • Patriot

Sci-Fi (Lite) Faves

  • Stranger Things

  • Colony 

  • Star Trek Discovery

  • Man in the High Castle (seasons: 1 & 2)

Political / Drama Faves

  • The Americans

Shows I Enjoyed

  • Friday Night Lights

  • Victoria

  • Peaky Blinders

  • Prime Suspect

  • Veep

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events

  • The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

  • Travelers

  • Lost in Space

  • Pine Gap

  • Bones

  • The Good Doctor

  • Modern Family

  • Fresh off the Boat

  • Pretty Little Liars

  • Call the Midwife

Obvious (to me) Classics

  • Seinfeld

  • The Office

  • Star Trek Next Generation

  • The Wonder Years

  • I Love Lucy

  • Whose Line is it Anyway

  • Cheers

  • The Carol Burnett Show

Shows in the Queue (Want to watch)

  • This Is Us

  • Big Little Lies

  • West Wing

  • Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Shows on the Radar (Want to get to someday…)

  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine

  • The Crown

  • Twin Peaks & X Files

  • Fleabag

Shows Not in the Queue that People May/Will Freak Out About

  • Game of Thrones

  • The Handmaid’s Tale

  • Orange Is the New Black

  • The Good Wife

Shows (I’ve Watched) that Are Not on the List (that People Will Freak out about)

  • Friends

  • Battlestar Galactica (sorry, Nick)

  • Arrested Development 

  • 24

  • Outlander (sorry, Mom)

  • Breaking Bad

  • House of Cards

  • 30 Rock

  • Frasier

  • Sex in the City

  • Community

  • Mad Men

  • Sopranos

  • The Simpsons

  • Gossip Girl (sorry, Al)

  • Psych

Currently Watching

  • Colony (S3)

  • Suits (S2)

  • This Week Tonight with John Oliver

  • Veep (S7)

Shows I Remember Liking, but It’s Been a Loooong Time

  • Alias

  • The Wire

  • Rome

  • Mad About You

  • Dr. Katz

  • Grey’s Anatomy

  • Desperate Housewives

  • Mary Tyler Moore Show

  • Gidget

  • All in the Family