This. I avoided it until the series was complete and then watched it all.
TV Shows You Started Way After They Premiered
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I think Succession was the only series I have ever watched where every character was completely loathsome. I loved it. 😍
What are some shows that you started watching well after they first aired? I'm talking years after the series premiere. The last 2 months or so the wife no pics and I have been watching a ton of Portlandia. Somehow I had never even heard of it up until a couple months ago. I'm a huge fan of sketch comedy, so I was kinda caught off guard by how ****ing funny it was and how many actors were in it that I was familiar with. I can't get enough of it now.
Another one would be It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I had heard about it, but never watched it until the covid shutdown. Got all caught up during that, and now it's one of my favorite shows. Parks and Rec also fits the bill. I didn't start watching that until just a few years ago.
I've never heard of Portlandia. I just started Ted Lasso on Tuesday, pretty funny.
Curb is one show that I started watching 20 years after it began, get fully caught up on it, then was able to watch the series finale live. Very few shows exist today that will give you that ability. Simpsons, South Park, and Family guy are all animated ones and then the procedurals like Law & Order or NCIS.
It's gotten to the point that I wait until they end to even think about watching. Nothing worse than committing to a show only to have it cancelled after three seasons with all kinds of unresolved issues. The other reason is, the way they work now, it might be more than a year between seasons for successful shows.
I take back my answer as I just remembered that I watched Leave It To Beaver & The Munsters on TBS in the 80s.
Very true. This is me currently waiting for the Stranger Things fifth and final season (damn thing debuted in 2016):
I came to Wire/Deadwood late. Loved em. Still have't watched the Sopranos.
Was definitely late to Firefly. And late to all the Walked Dead spin offs, just fizzled on TWD at season 10. Late to Dexter.
Now that I think about it, Im late to basically all the shows once DVRs became a thing. Just prefer to watch tv on my schedule.
Football has been over for about 7 weeks....
Firefly is a good one. Saw that finally this summer
Hannibal (NBC) originally aired from 2013 to 2015.
I binge watched the entire series during my quarantine week in 2021.
Excellent thriller. Dark at times.
One of the best TV series I've ever watched, and definitely the best TV series I've ever watched that originally aired on network television.
I binge watched the entire series during my quarantine week in 2021.
Excellent thriller. Dark at times.
One of the best TV series I've ever watched, and definitely the best TV series I've ever watched that originally aired on network television.
Breaking Bad, Dexter, Yellowstone, the West Wing.
I like to bingwatch my shows
I like to bingwatch my shows
I've definitely got some kind of bias going on, as I am making my fourth trip through the Sopranos, but it is the greatest show ever created imo. Brilliant writing, acting, and creativity in almost every episode. James Gandolfini knocked that role so far out of the park it's not even funny. You'll both love and hate many of the main characters. Just so well done. Fair warning though, the ending may give you feelings (no spoiler warning).
I found it after it had been canceled that it existed. The movie was okay, but the show was def better.
24 is endlessly rewatchable to me. I like the way that the seasons are pretty much self contained with just a little overflow from previous seasons. You can pick a season and have at it.
Yeah, if you didn’t like GoT after 2 seasons, you weren’t going to like it ever. I liked it from the jump, but was probably fully hooked halfway through Season 1.Holy fook, two seasons wasn't enough huh?
I’ve started shows a little late, but not too late for the most part….but one exception was Community. It never drew any interest from me at all, then my oldest suggested it and we really liked it.
Hacks is another show I only started this fall, so I was able to binge all 3 seasons currently out.
It’s a solid show - probably ran 2-3 seasons too long. Lead actress left the show with two seasons left and it wasn’t the same.
Really enjoyed it for the most part until then.
Breaking BadWhat are some shows that you started watching well after they first aired? I'm talking years after the series premiere. The last 2 months or so the wife no pics and I have been watching a ton of Portlandia. Somehow I had never even heard of it up until a couple months ago. I'm a huge fan of sketch comedy, so I was kinda caught off guard by how ****ing funny it was and how many actors were in it that I was familiar with. I can't get enough of it now.
Another one would be It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I had heard about it, but never watched it until the covid shutdown. Got all caught up during that, and now it's one of my favorite shows. Parks and Rec also fits the bill. I didn't start watching that until just a few years ago.
X-Files
Ozark
Fraser
Arrested Development
Better Call Saul (Just started season 4 last night)
Monk
Friends
Scrubs
Arrested Development
Better Call Saul (Just started season 4 last night)
Monk
Friends
Scrubs
I must admit TBW and I both enjoyed Poldark quite a bit.
Watched through the PBS app
I liked the old week to week TWD chat thread we had going on the site that shall not be named. One of the few shows I actually was watching week to week.
Minus Lost, that is most of my list. BBT we started watching when it was in syndication, but still putting out new shows. Downton Abbey I didn't start watching until Season 5 and was racing to catch up when I found out how good it was. GoT I had co-workers talking about it all the time, and one of them had 1-3 on DVD, and I watched it prior to the start of season 4.
Anymore I don't watch a show as it's rolled out week to week. The exception was the first few seasons of Yellowstone, but it's go so far downhill and I'll catch up on the rest eventually.
Tried to watch some shows while they were still happening and eventually caught up to see the finale as it happened:
Better Call Saul
Game of Thrones
How I Met Your Mother
Bones
Big Bang Theory
Tried to watch some shows while they were still happening and eventually caught up to see the finale as it happened:
Better Call Saul
Game of Thrones
How I Met Your Mother
Bones
Big Bang Theory
