Below are a list of shows that I am catching up on via Netflix or plan to catch up on sooner or later. I do in fact want to own the entire series of many of these shows just based on what I have seen so far. I’ve already started my Party of Five collection! So what shows did you start watching but never finished watching and want to? Any of the below shows?
Beverly Hills 90210 1990 – 2000
Seen: Seasons 1 – 3 and various seasons thereafter
Starring: Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Brian Austin Green, Tori Spelling, Gabrielle Carteris, Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry, Jason Priestley, Tiffani Thiessen, Lindsay Price, Douglas Emerson, Carol Potter, James Eckhouse, Vincent Young, Daniel Cosgrove, Vanessa Marcil, and Joe E. Tata
One of the definitive, landmark shows of the 1990s, “90210” quickly became an important fixture on the FOX and in the popular discourse of adolescents and young adults. The first season’s main characters, Dylan, Kelly, Donna, Steve, David, Andrea and twins Brandon and Brenda all attended West Beverly Hills High School. Brandon and Brenda Walsh and their parents, transplants from Minneapolis, were the stable nuclear family with strong values; their home was a safe haven for the whole gang and the center of much of the drama. The show dealt with a steady stream of love triangles and other romantic entanglements and occasionally touched on more serious issues as well.
Party of Five 1994 – 2000
Seen: Seasons 1 – 3
Starring: Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell, Matthew Fox, Neve Campbell, Lacey Chabert, Paula Devicq, Scott Grimes, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Jeremy London
After the tragic loss of their parents, the Salinger siblings must take on new roles to keep their family together.
Friends 1994 – 2004
Seen: Various Episodes from Various Seasons
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and James Michael Tyler
One of television’s top-ranked series and the recipient of numerous Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, “Friends” is a smart, sophisticated comedy that looks into the hearts and minds of a group of friends living in New York.
Alias 2001 – 2006
Seen : Seasons 1 – 2
Starring: Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly, Kevin Weisman, Victor Garber, Michael Vartan, Greg Grunberg, David Anders, Merrin Dungey, and Bradley Cooper
Golden Globe Award-winning actress Jennifer Garner (Best Actress In A Television Series, 2002) is Sydney Bristow. Syd’s not exactly your average grad student. Her life might appear normal, but she’s hiding a secret life working as a spy for the CIA. Sydney’s world is turned upside down when she learns she may work for the very enemy she thought she was fighting. Now she’s entangled in a covert lifestyle where she is forced to question the allegiances of everyone, including those closest to her. Entertainment Weekly says ALIAS is “a spy-fi roller coaster of killer gadgets, double roundkicks, triple crosses, poignant confessionals, cliff-hangers, sliced-off fingers, conspiracies, outrageous outfits, exotic locales, flirtations, mythologies — and that’s just before the first commercial break.” See the show everyone has been talking about that has redefined series television.
24 2001 – 2010
Seen: Seasons 1 – 4
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, James Morrison, Elisha Cuthbert, Annie Wersching, Cherry Jones, Dennis Haysbert, Reiko Aylesworth, Kim Raver, Penny Johnson, Sarah Clarke, etc…
Premiering November 6, 2001, 24 employed a pioneering split-screen, fast-paced format with complex interweaving storylines as viewers followed anti-terrorism agent Jack Bauer through 24 pulse-pounding episodes, each covering one hour and presented in real time. Subsequent seasons combined the show’s unique and trend-setting format while delivering compelling new elements and attracting talented actors and guest stars, including the Emmy Award-winning Cherry Jones (President Allison Taylor). The series also currently stars Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe O’Brian), Anil Kapoor (Omar Hassan), Annie Wersching (Renee Walker), Katee Sackhoff (Dana Walsh), Mykelti Williamson (Brian Hastings), Freddie Prinze Jr. (Cole Ortiz), Chris Diamantopoulos (Rob Weiss) and John Boyd (Arlo Glass).
The first six seasons were set in Los Angeles, and following the strike-induced delay of Season Seven, “24: Redemption,” a two-hour film bridging Seasons Six and Seven, was set in Africa. Washington, D.C. was the setting for Season Seven, and the final season of 24 finds Jack Bauer thwarting a terrorist attack in New York.
Summerland 2004 – 2005
Seen: Season 1
Starring: Lori Loughlin, Merrin Dungey, Ryan Kwanten, Jesse McCartney, Shawn Christian, Kay Panabaker, Nick Benson, Taylor Cole, Zac Efron, and Jonathan Slavin
SUMMERLAND is the story of Ava Gregory (Loughlin), who plays a woman in her 30s who has an idyllic life. She lives at the beach with a close-knit circle of friends and is a rising star in the fashion industry. That all changes the day that Ava’s sister and brother-in-law are killed in an accident, leaving her to raise their three children.
Supernatural 2005 – Present
Seen: Season 1
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, and Misha Collins
In just the first season…bound by tragedy and blood to a dangerous, otherworldly mission, two brothers travel in mysterious back roads of the country in their ’67 Chevy Impala, searching for their missing father–and hunting down every evil supernatural force they encounter along the way. Supernatural is a completely new kind of thrill ride that takes viewers on a journey into the dark world of the unexplained.
Friday Night Lights 2006 – Present
Seen: First Half of Season 1
Starring: Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton, Taylor Kitsch, Jesse Plemons, Aimee Teegarden, Zach Gilford, Derek Phillips, Minka Kelly, Adrianne Palicki, Stacey Oristano, etc…
Expanding on the hit feature film and best-selling book “Friday Night Lights,” this award-winning series centers on life in Dillon, Texas, where high school football brings the community together — and the drama of small town life threatens to tear it apart.
The head coach, Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), constantly feels the pressure of the town’s expectations as he leads this troubled and conflicted team throughout the season. While offering unique insight into an outsized, bigger-than-life Texas culture, Friday Night Lights really tells a story universal for all audiences–that there is more to life than victory, and that there is more to being a man than being a winner.
True Blood 2008 – Present
Seen: Seasons 1 – 2
Starring: Anna Paquin, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Chris Bauer, Nelsan Ellis, Carrie Preston, William Sanderson, Chris Bauer, Todd Lowe, Michelle Forbes, Alexander Skarsgård, Deborah Ann Woll, Mehcad Brooks, Michael McMillian, Mariana Kloveno, Anna Camp, Jim Parrack
TRUE BLOOD chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps… where vampires have emerged from the coffin, and no longer need humans for their fix. Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin, Golden Globe(R)-winner for “True Blood”, Academy Award winner for “The Piano”) works as a waitress at the rural bar Merlotte’s. Though outwardly a typical young woman, she keeps a dangerous secret: she has the ability to hear the thoughts of others. Her situation is further complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron – 173-year old Bill Compton (Steven Moyer, “Quills”) – and the two outsiders are immediately drawn to each other. Delivering the best of what audiences have come to expect from Creator and Executive Producer Alan Ball (writer of Oscar®-winning Best Picture “American Beauty”, creator of the Emmy® Award-winning HBO series “Six Feet Under”), TRUE BLOOD is a dark and sexy tale that boldly delves into the heart – and the neck – of the Deep South.
Breaking Bad 2008 – Present
Seen: Season 1 and first half of Season 2
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, and RJ Mitte
Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family’s financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White’s releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.