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Old 03-22-2017, 05:25 AM
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Default Good Shows With No Commercials

I'm always looking for good shows without commercials. I typically do not watch network or cable shows with commercials. What are you watching that you find interesting? Here are some I find better than average. Please share.

Billions - Showtime
The Circus Inside The Biggest Show On Earth - Showtime
Big Little Lies - HBO
VEEP - HBO
Real Sports - HBO
Dicte - Netflix
Spotless - Netflix
Victoria - PBS
Poldark - PBS
Grantchester - PBS
The Missing - Amazon
Patriot - Amazon
Hand of God Amazon
Suits - Amazon
Goliath - Amazon
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Commercials don't bother me, my remote has a Fast Forward button.
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Commercials don't bother me, my remote has a Fast Forward button.
Yeah, but I haven't found anything with commercials worth recording & got rid of my recorder. I find shows with commercials are composed to serve the commercial breaks more than the continuity of the plot.
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Yeah, but I haven't found anything with commercials worth recording & got rid of my recorder. I find shows with commercials are composed to serve the commercial breaks more than the continuity of the plot.
Fargo
Hap and Leonard
Ripper Street
Formula 1 racing
Hell on Wheels
Breaking Bad
Vikings
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Fargo
Hap and Leonard
Ripper Street
Formula 1 racing
Hell on Wheels
Breaking Bad
Vikings
Some good ones on the list. Thanks for offering. I enjoy some of these on Netflix and Amazon. Sitting with the remote in my hand and flipping onto FF every 5 minutes is just not how I enjoy watching a show. It's just a personal preference. The good ones eventually stream. Too many choices.
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I watched all of Breaking Bad four times.

I have YET to find a show that comes close to that one. Believe me, I've tried a lot. There was just something about that show that resonated with me.

I've been trying to watch Better Call Saul, but I don't have a way to watch it. I really like that show too, but I only like it because of my slight obsession with Breaking Bad.
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NYPD Blue re-runs. There is a cable channel that shows these great episodes sans commercials. New episode every hour. Filler thrown in between. NYPD Blue was a great series! (IMHO).

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Hulu has a no commercials option. You pay more per month, but I'm fine with that. There's nothing quite like the ability of a commercial break immediately following a well acted dramatic scene to ruin the mood and continuity of a show.
Current favorites on my watch list are Homeland, The Path, and Designated Survivor. I'm waiting for the next seasons of Game of Thrones and Westworld on HBO.
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The Sopranos- Amazon- My wife and I are currently enjoying marathon watching as we are apparently 2 of the 27 people in the U.S. who have never seen the show before.

Bosch- Amazon- I've really enjoyed watching this series. Of course I'm a big fan of author/producer Michael Connelly's Bosch novels so it follows.

Some other shows I've found to be exceptionally good have been Fargo, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Downton Abbey. Also enjoyed Goliath but not as much as those others.
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There's lots of good suggestions in this previous thread.

The final season of Rectify is now on Netflix, so you can get the whole experience sans commercial. That's where you should start. But you won't want to watch anything else after that. It's pretty close to perfection.
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In SoCal I like a couple of PBS shows which probably are not available elsewhere: Huel Houser series called Visiting, Road Trip, California's Gold and Videolog the other is Rick Steve's Europe.
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X-Files. I started watching that series again and I'm at the end of Season 2. You can find it commercial free on NetFlix.
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I watched all of Breaking Bad four times.

I have YET to find a show that comes close to that one. Believe me, I've tried a lot. There was just something about that show that resonated with me
I really consider it a pinnacle of the medium. It was soooo well done.

Recently, I really enjoyed "Stranger Things" on Netflix.
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Dexter - This is way more than a show about a serial killer.
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