Currently 3 episodes into Dark Matter at the moment. Earlier this week, i binged Killjoys season 1.

Just finished 24 Season two, straight after watching Season one! This show has everything, classic TV.

Felt as fresh as the first time.

So is The Wire as good as Breaking Bad? Or at least up to its level in terms of grittiness and tension?

Which is better The Wire or The Shield? Are they similar?

Well, BB & The Wire are so different, but although I loved BB so much, The Wire is IMHO, the superior show. But I did have to persevere at first as I had trouble understanding the Baltimore accent (sounds daft I know).

The Shield is great, but again totally different to the Wire, it's more of a cop show. The anti-hero Vic Mackie, you either love or hate him - and you have to get past the fact he looks like an American cop version of Grant Mitchell

Got the Buffy complete boxset a few weeks ago. Currently nearly halfway through Season 2, and it's starting to pick up steam with a run of consistent and enjoyable episodes. Yesterday I watched the first episode of Buffy I ever saw, when it was being shown on BBC2, where everyone turns into what they dress as on Halloween.

Early 60's spy-fi with S1 of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Will you be seeing the new movie?

I love the early seasons when they are at Sunnydale High, there's something very nostalgic about them for me. That was a great episode, one of the things I loved about the show was that being a supernatural show it allowed them to do crazy things you can't do in 'real world' dramas, it's so much fun. Yet everything in it was a metaphor for real life issues such good writing, clever and funny.

I remember watching it for the first time on BBC Two on a Thursday night at 6:45 pm, this show is just so special to me, it was the first show I really connected with.

Iv'e watched ...

24
Lost
The wire
Dexter
American office
Battlestar galactica


Currently watching for the first time and up to

Sopranos: half way through season 1
prison break: half way through season 2
The shield: on the final season


Is there anything else anyone would recommend?

Big Bang Theory: series 4.

Trying my hardest to get in to The Wire. After loving shows such as The Shield, Sopranos, Breaking Bad ect. It seem natural to go and watch this after all I have read about it.

So far though, I don't know, just is not grabbing me at all. Unlike Narcos which grabbed me in within 30 minutes and I had finish all 10 shows in 3 days.

Currently watching Rebus (The Ken Stott Collection). I'm a bit of a fan of Ken and thoroughly enjoy seeing him in this type of role.

I did watch the five double episode movies that TCM flung out last month before buying the boxset, but I kept putting off whether or not to go and see the movie, it finished it's run at the local fleapit. So i'll probably rent it when it comes out online or on shiny disc.

Satellite is right, they are both very different types of show, but both brilliant.

I would say that Breaking Bad is more like Fargo in terms of it being a bit less gritty and realistic than The Wire. It's a tad quirky, too, unlike The Wire.

Breaking Bad, The Wire and Fargo are three of the very best shows I have ever had the pleasure of watching.

Breaking Bad hooked me before the end of episode one. As did Fargo.

I just had the pleasure of watching Luther and The Walking Deal all the way through! Go see them!

Finished Season 2 of 24, just started Season One of Veep on episode 2 currently.

Just about to start watching series seven of Seinfeld.

Just started The Wire today.

Love Ken, he's my guilty pleasure

Babylon 5 - Ultimate Collection

I got into the Wire about halfway through season 1 and I watched the whole series using subtitles because I couldn't understandf the Baltimore accent/dialect. I think it's very good, but not as entertaining or suspense filled as Breaking Bad or The Sopranos. If I hadn't bought the box set, I might have given up.

It's more like a commentary on a city from the street level up to city hall. It's like a modern day Dickens novel showing good and bad and corruption at all levels. It is good, but not for the faint hearted I'd say and definitely not for the light hearted. Several people I know gave up on it.

I'm currently watching Homeland which is great. Have seen seasons 1 & 2 and if you haven't seen it yet, I'd recommend it. Great acting and lots of cliff hanger endings.

I've just started watching The Wire and it wasn't until ep 5 or 6 that it started to grab me more. I can see it's probably not going to have the entertainment factor BB had but it feels like it's going to be a good show.

I'm still working my way slowly through "Touched By An Angel" and "Charlies' Angels" (memories of my youth )

But I recently started watching Outlander on Amazon Prime.

"Chance In A Million" Series 2.

Thing with The Wire is each series is told by a different perspective. I think it may have been S2 I had to persevere with the most, but S4 that's told from the 'school kids' perspective is really excellent TV. I really started seeing the other side of the coin to the police view and to how kids get to end up on 'the corners'.

I've started watching the Soprano's, I'm hoping it lives up to expectations