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The Walking Dead: Season 1
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn a world devastated by a zombie apocalypse, a motley band of survivors pulls together to fight back and make a final stand for humanity. But the only hope they have to cling to is finding safety -- and answers -- at the Center for Disease Control.
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The Walking Dead: Season 2
2011 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn the second season of this grim and gripping zombie drama, Grimes and his cohorts continue to search for sanctuary in a ruined and dangerous landscape, hoping that in time science will halt the epidemic.
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The Walking Dead: Season 3
2012 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn the third season of the zombie drama, sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes and his band of survivors take shelter in an abandoned prison, then discover Woodbury, a settlement of survivors headed by a powerful man known as the Governor.
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The Walking Dead
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn the wake of a zombie apocalypse that desolates the world as we know it, a group of survivors led by police officer Rick Grimes holds on to the hope of humanity by banding together to wage a never-ending fight for their own survival.
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Doctor Who: Season 5
2010 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsMatt Smith stars as the regenerated 11th Doctor in this hit sci-fi show's fifth season. As the good Doctor journeys through space and time, he's joined by new companion Amy Pond in a battle of wits with a fresh batch of villains.
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Doctor Who: Season 7
2012 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsThe Doctor's spacey adventures in the TARDIS hit a crescendo as he bids farewell to Amy and Rory and reluctantly accepts an impossible new companion. The time-travelers experience an unexpected turn when the Doctor's darkest secrets are revealed.
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Doctor Who: Season 4
2008 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsIn the fourth season of this hit sci-fi series, former runaway bride Donna Noble joins the good Doctor on his intergalactic adventures, fighting for justice and solving mysteries throughout space and time.
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Doctor Who
2005 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsAfter more than a decade off the air, this epic sci-fi series returns with an all-new look -- and the ninth (and beyond) incarnation of everybody's favorite time-traveling Doctor, who promptly sets about fighting nefarious aliens and other foes.
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Hell on Wheels
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsFormer Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon seeks his wife's killer as post-Civil War America struggles to rebuild its identity. His quest traverses the history of Reconstruction, peopled with railroad bosses, emancipated slaves and immigrants.
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Firefly
2002 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsSet almost 500 years in the future, this short-lived but much-loved sci-fi series follows the adventures of the ragtag crew of the transport spaceship Serenity, who view no job as too small, too dirty or too close to the line of illegality.
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Hell on Wheels: Season 2
2012 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsCullen Bohannon continues to seek vengeance for his wife and son's deaths during the Civil War. Meanwhile, he lives and works in Hell on Wheels, a gritty, lawless moving settlement that houses workers constructing the transcontinental railroad.
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Doctor Who: Season 1
2005 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsMore than 15 years after Doctor Who went off the airwaves, this venerable sci-fi series gets a well-received 21st-century makeover, complete with younger actors, modern editing and vibrant CGI animation.
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Doctor Who: Season 3
2007 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsThis hit sci-fi series returns with David Tennant as the time-traveling Doctor and introduces Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones, a medical student who joins him as they traverse the centuries, solving mysteries and righting wrongs.
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Firefly: The Complete Series
2002 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsSet almost 500 years in the future, this short-lived but much-loved TV series follows the adventures of the ragtag crew of the transport spaceship &NFi;Serenity&NFi_;, who view no job as too small, too dirty or too close to the line of illegality.
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Doctor Who: Season 6
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsThe Doctor returns, alongside newlyweds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries all across time and space. Together they find themselves in 1960s America, aboard a 17th-century pirate ship, and in a bubble universe at the edge of reality.
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Doctor Who: Season 2
2006 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsIn Season 2 of this popular series, the Doctor and Rose bounce back in time to battle a force that threatens 18th-century Versailles, defend Queen Victoria from a creature in the Scottish Highlands and discover a bizarre hospital run by cat people.
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Hell on Wheels: Season 1
2011 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsAfter the Civil War, Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon seeks revenge on the Union soldiers who murdered his wife. His bloody quest takes him West, where he joins the tumultuous, nation-building effort to construct the Transcontinental Railroad.
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Prison Break: Season 2
2006 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsIn Season 2 of this hit drama series, a daring jailbreak has prompted a nationwide manhunt, as Michael, Lincoln and the rest of the fugitives run for their lives, hitting the back roads and small towns of America in an effort to elude officials.
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Prison Break
2005 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsWhen his brother, Lincoln, is wrongly convicted of murdering the brother of a powerful politician, engineer Michael Scofield resolves to bust his innocent sibling out of the notorious Fox River Penitentiary in this intense action-drama series.
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Chuck: Season 1
2007 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsChuck was just a computer nerd working at an electronics store until he opened the wrong email and downloaded subliminal government information into his mind. Now, he's running from assassins, spies and terrorists out to pick his brain.
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Archer: Season 1
2009 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsSet amid the world of international espionage, this irreverent animated comedy revolves around smart-mouthed superspy Sterling Archer. For Archer, top-secret missions around the world are a breeze compared to dealing with his fellow agents.
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Prison Break: Season 3
2007 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsAfter a season on the run, Michael finds himself back behind bars, in a nightmarish Panamanian penitentiary that authorities have deserted in the wake of a prison riot. With brutal inmates running the show, just staying alive will be a challenge.
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Justified: Season 2
2011 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsAs the season kicks off, Raylan's investigation of a paroled sex offender brings the lawman face to face with a longtime enemy of the Givens clan. Later, Raylan has to save a pregnant inmate abducted by human traffickers.
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Chuck
2007 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsComputer genius Chuck Bartowski excels at underachieving at the electronics store where he works with his slacker pals, but his life is altered forever when he accidentally downloads top-secret data into his brain and becomes a government asset.
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Merlin: Season 3
2010 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsThe third season of this Syfy series inspired by the legend of King Arthur and his mentor, the sorcerer Merlin, picks up with Morgana a year after she fled Camelot and joined forces with the sorceress Morgause.
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