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Inspired by the other thread, if you could unwatch one series in order to watch it again, what would it be?

For me, without doubt, The Killing (the Danish one), series 1.  Absolutely brilliant  

The Leftovers.

Has to be series 2 of blackadder. Absolute classic.

Flowers starring Julian Barrat and Olivia Coleman. It had me crying one minute and howling with laughter the next, just wonderful.

I'd also quite like to un-watch every episode of Breaking Bad but for quite different reasons. 

Game of Thrones... I absolutely love it!

If I could unwatch something and NOT watch it again it would be Lost.

Edge of Darkness.  Terrific script, terrific actors acting terrifically, terrific music.  Top notch drama.

T.

Can I just un watch Red Dwarf 7 and beyond?  No need to rewatch them.

I’d quite like to watch the BBC America Dirk Gently from fresh.  Not because it’s one of the greatest things going but because I think it only really works so well the first time.  Much like the largely unrelated (except in spirit) books.

Absolute gem from scratch - Rick and Morty, but cut down to the about one third of the episodes - the really good ones not the crap filler.

Bojack Horseman. Again, and again and again and again.

The last episode of season 3 has me in tears every time.

Father Ted, Spaced, The Wire

The Office

All great series but I disagree with the Wire in this context.  I loved it first time around but when I rewatched it (I was spending a spell living with my parents and wanted them to experience it), I appreciated it even more.  Fore-knowledge of the plots made me appreciate even more how all the strands fit together "all the pieces matter").  I had watched it closely initially but still missed lots of foreshadowing and parallels (not for nothing was David Simon's credo "F#*k the casual viewer").

yes, it was so layered and dense it definitely rewards repeat viewing-I would just like to recapture that sense on first watching "Is this really this good? Yes!"

The Nightmare Man. BBC horror drama. Wonderful zero budget drama but a brilliant idea. If i could see it without the game of thrones effects expectations i would be as scared as i was when i first saw it in 197?

I thought I was the only one who didn't like The Office! 

I've seen the trailer for the next season of Flowers and I've not yet seen the first...I'm intrigued.  I might give it a whirl.

Ricky and Morty.  Which I only watched on the recommendation of someone on here (was it you)?

Cannot express how much I love it.

Black Books.

This year’s Giro highlights.

We did watch it all over again, this time with our children who were viewing for the first time. Still superb.

Favourite show ever though is the Wire.

Breaking Bad

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but you’d have to un-read the book too. 

Theres another thread there...

True Detective, Series 1. And the wire, obviously. 

800 Words is brilliant.

This has been on daytime tv on BBC1. Its about a guy and his teenage kids who move from Sydney to New Zealand after his wife dies. He writes a column for a newspaper thats always 100 words. I have yet to meet someone else who has seen it as its daytime tv. ( god knows why as its brilliant.)  New series is due.

Shakespeare and Hathaway is another good daytime programme. 

And no I dont sit in watching day tv. The missus found fhem and we record them for later. 

Exactly what I was going to write. It's brilliant. Just brilliant. Requires a bit of brainpower from the viewer to keep up with who's doing what to who and to what end, just like the book.

The Wire would be a close second.