continuum, the one with amanda tapping trying to be british? cant watch it due to that, but love sg1. how about evolution? sci fi where technology has gone, quite good in the absence of a good star trek dvd...
I feel as though I should like 'Continuum' and 'Revolution'. I feel as though I'm a geek.
However, my actual favourite programmes of recent times.
'Orange is the New Black'. There's a thing called The Bechdel Test which asks whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. (Very few films or Tv programmes do, and those that do it's usually just in isolated scene or two. Even Continuum whose main character is female, almost never has a conversation with another woman.
But OitNB is all Bechdel. It's about inmates at a female prison. Written by the writer of 'Weeds', and just as you don't have to be a black drug dealer to appreciate 'The Wire', you don't have to be a woman to appreciate writing and characterisation this good.
'The Returned'. As long as you're prepared to be one of the roughly 50% (including me) who hated the final episode of season 1, this French drama is interesting.
'Under the dome' An adaptation of Stephen King's novel. The novel was an interesting concept with a crap ending, (for many people a common criticism of King) but the TV series has taken the good, ejected the bad, and is excellent. The characters are much more complex, and the story is significantly different, including apparently the reason for the dome.
'The Fall'. Maybe i'm not really a geek, because at heart I like a good police drama. Broadchurch was pretty good, but this drama set in northern Ireland is my pick, and Gillian Anderson is amazing. The actress always comes across as snooty, arrogant and rude with a British accent. Luckily, that's exactly the character she had to play here (most of the series was basically written for her) and she is correspondingly mesmerising.
After writing this, I've read a guardian article
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jul/28/returned-game-thrones-best-tv-2013 which has all these programmes (except dome) and even mentions the Bechdel test. I'm clearly just an archetypal Guardian reader. A bit depressing frankly that I'm incapable of forming an opinion that hasn't already appeared in The Guardian.