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Recently I have enjoyed streams of The Hour, Spooks, The State Within and now, the first series of Homeland.

Any recommendations based on this?

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Season 1 and 2 of The Killing.
Havent seen the original Danish version, but the US version has been very good IMO.

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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat (Post 10109296)

Game of Thrones.

I can't watch that without thinking of the SNL skit about it. If you haven't seen it, you really should :thumbup:

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Dexter! The lovable serial killer ;)

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Originally Posted by Dave n Ailsa (Post 10109620)

Dexter! The lovable serial killer ;)

I love Dexter too; brilliant!

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Thanks for the suggestions.

I should have posted when sober. I'd have made a better job of the title.

Themes running through Spooks, The State Within and Homeland are MI5/MI6 and US equivalents, computer wizardry aided surveillance/decoding, Political shenanigans (Party and with a small p), undercover work often of a scary nature, the portrayal of real or close to real events (albeit with a bit of embellishing) conspiracy, cover ups, innocents caught up in things, ruthless baddies, etc etc

The Hour also contains many of these aspects just not the technical wizardry unavailable at that time.

That's the sort of stuff I'm looking for at the moment. These series all seem to have passed me by while I'm usually aware of other things.

The Killing, The Wire, Wallander are on my list so I'm not just interested in "spy" TV, Although Page Eight was brilliant.:)

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Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 10109636)

Thanks for the suggestions.

I should have posted when sober. I'd have made a better job of the title.

Themes running through Spooks, The State Within and Homeland are MI5/MI6 and US equivalents, computer wizardry aided surveillance/decoding, Political shenanigans (Party and with a small p), undercover work often of a scary nature, the portrayal of real or close to real events (albeit with a bit of embellishing) conspiracy, cover ups, innocents caught up in things, ruthless baddies, etc etc

The Hour also contains many of these aspects just not the technical wizardry unavailable at that time.

That's the sort of stuff I'm looking for at the moment. These series all seem to

have passed me by while I'm usually aware of other things.

The Killing, The Wire, Wallander are on my list so I'm not just interested in "spy" TV, Although Page Eight was brilliant.:)

The Wallander series with Krister Henriksson is, IMO, by far the best Wallander programmes made.

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The BBC series called SILK. Series 2 is now in production and showing on the iPlayer.

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Originally Posted by Oink (Post 10109688)

A Touch of Frost.

NB, NS, ONT, AB get that all year round. Brrrrrr

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Originally Posted by el_richo (Post 10109562)

I can't watch that without thinking of the SNL skit about it. If you haven't seen it, you really should :thumbup:

I haven't seen the skit but My OH watches Game of Thrones and from what I've seen, it looks like a soft porn version of Lord of the Rings. Filth!! Haha

Wallander and Silk both great shows.

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Love Game of Thrones. Got fingers crossed for a new series of Boardwalk Empire but I have never seen anything to match The Wire.