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Last updated October 14, 2024
Downton Abbey: Series 2
2011 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsAs the second season of this richly conceived manor drama unfolds, World War I rages in Europe and change is afoot in class-bound British society. Several men from the estate leave to fight, but Lord Grantham's age keeps him from the service.
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House of Cards: Season 1
2013 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsBetrayed by the White House, Congressman Francis Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power by manipulating a young reporter and a miscreant colleague. His wife Claire is a willing accomplice until their uncommon marriage shows strain.
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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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Orange Is the New Black
2013 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsFrom the creator of "Weeds" comes a heartbreaking and hilarious new series set in a women's prison. Piper trades her comfortable life for an orange jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
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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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Breaking Bad: Season 5
2012 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn this fifth season of the popular series, high school chemistry teacher turned meth dealer Walter White and his partner, Jesse Pinkman, continue to play a risky game as they try to evade the danger that surrounds them.
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House of Cards
2013 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsA ruthless Congressman, Francis Underwood, and his ambitious wife Claire, will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama slithers through the back halls of greed, sex, love and corruption in modern D.C.
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Sherlock
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn this updated take on Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved mystery tales, the eccentric sleuth prowls the streets of modern-day London in search of clues. At his side -- though hobbling -- is flatmate Dr. John Watson, fresh from the Afghan War.
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Breaking Bad: Season 4
2011 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsResurfacing after a searing third season that put them at odds with their ruthless boss, Gus -- whom they're now desperate to outwit -- Walt and Jesse regroup in the meth lab to face the consequences of their collective actions.
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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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Downton Abbey: Series 1
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsExposing the snobbery of an old class system, this series follows the upper-crust Crawley family and their assorted servants. The Crawleys delight in their aristocratic life -- until the sinking of the Titanic muddles their line of inheritance.
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Breaking Bad: Season 1
2008 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsDiagnosed with cancer and given only two years to live, high school chemistry teacher Walter White attempts to secure his family's financial future by teaming with his former student, Jesse Pinkman, to produce and distribute crystal meth.
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Orange Is the New Black: Season 1
2013 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsFrom the creator of "Weeds" comes a heartbreaking and hilarious new series set in a women's prison. Piper trades her comfortable life for an orange jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
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Sherlock: Series 1
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsThis modern-day reboot of Sherlock Holmes has Arthur Conan Doyle's deductive genius moving through London as a Web-adept consultant to Inspector Lestrade and Dr. John Watson as an Afghan War vet who shares his Baker Street digs.
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Breaking Bad: Season 2
2009 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsChemistry teacher turned meth dealer Walter White and his partner, Jesse Pinkman, climb higher in the drug game, which draws dangerous attention from competing cartels and imperils Walter's DEA brother-in-law, Hank Schrader.
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Breaking Bad
2008 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsEmmy winner Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, a high school science teacher who learns that he has terminal lung cancer and teams with a former student to manufacture and sell high-quality crystal meth to secure his family's future.
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Downton Abbey
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsExposing the snobbery, backbiting and machinations of a disappearing class system, this series chronicles the comings and goings of the upper-crust Crawley family and their assorted servants.
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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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Breaking Bad: Season 3
2010 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsThe previous season of this award-winning drama left high school chemistry teacher Walter White with even less stability than he's used to. But for the sake of his family, or what's left of it, he continues cooking crystal meth on the down-low.
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Sherlock: Series 2
2012 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsBecoming embroiled in the complex plans of the dangerous Irene Adler, Sherlock needs every one of his remarkable skills to survive, and an invitation to the wilds of Dartmoor brings our terrified heroes face to face with the supernatural.
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Lilyhammer: Season 2 (Trailer)
2013 | NR | 4.5 out of 5 StarsIn Season 2, gangster Frank Tagliano discovers that not everyone is thrilled about his rise to power as Norway's newest crime kingpin, and that fatherhood to newborn twins is more challenging than running an illegal empire.
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Freaks and Geeks: The Complete Series
1999 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsThis cult classic dramedy follows the social struggles of a group of Michigan high school students in 1980, centering on Lindsay Weir, a studious senior who befriends a group of burnouts, and her brother, Sam, a freshman who's quickly branded a geek.
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Homeland
2011 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsWhen Sgt. Nicholas Brody, an American prisoner of war, returns home after eight years of captivity, frantic CIA agent Carrie Anderson suspects the Marine of having been turned into an Al Qaeda terrorist in this espionage drama from Showtime.
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Suits: Season 1
2011 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsManhattan attorney Harvey Specter finds the perfect new associate in streetwise legal prodigy Mike Ross. The trouble is, Mike's a college dropout, not a lawyer. There's no reason the partnership can't work -- as long as no one figures out the truth.
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Call the Midwife: Series 1
2012 | NR | 4.4 out of 5 StarsYoung midwife Jenny Lee is given a trial by fire as she's immersed in situations both disturbing and comical in Series 1 of this drama series set in a nursing convent in gritty 1950s East London.
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