Vanity- Looking for a TV series on DVD to begin watching. Any suggestions?

I don’t watch TV, but I own a few series on DVD that I watch in order to avoid commercials and to watch on my own time.

I’m looking for something that doesn’t insult my spiritual or political (Christian Conservative) beliefs. And I don’t want comedies that exist on juvenile sexual innuendoes.

I love and own the first five seasons of LOST and THE OFFICE. I have the first two seasons of 24, but quit when I saw that the producers are too cowardly to depict Muslim terrorists not backed by white corporate types as the bad guys. I also have BAND OF BROTHERS and the first 10 seasons of THE SIMPSONS.

I was thinking of getting the first season of SCRUBS except I’m uncomfortable watching with my 16 year old daughter because of the frequent sexual situations.

Well, my husband did just get a raise, LOL. MAYBE I could talk him into Netflix :) Besides, it’s not a series he would be interested in anyway, or the kids for that matter, although my oldest seems pretty intrigued that Henry VIII went through six wives. LOL

Are you satioll open for business. Haven't read the entire thread, but I'd add HBO series Wired, get all of the season. Start at the first year because it builds on past episoade. One of the best things ever on TV. Not much sex, but drugs and violence. However, it is an unusual look at the underbelly of Baltimore.

More Baltimore and quality police series Homocide, Life on the Streets. NBC series from the 90s.

Monty Python. If you get it or just laugh you'll think it's the best thing ever. Watch a couple of episodes and you'll know whether to go on or not.

Southland was/is a very good cop show. It's both the next generation in a series of LA police dramas going back to Dragnet and Adam-12 and sort of cutting edge in its "realism." The show's a bit rough, both in terms of what it puts on screen and in how the stories fit together, but that makes it more interesting. It also wouldn't have started out on NBC if it were as "adult" as what cable shows. Anyway, it's worth watching.

Flash Forward has only been on the air a few months but already the first half-season (10 episodes) is out on DVD. Everyone in the world blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds and has a vision of what they are going to be doing six months in the future. Joseph Fiennes is an FBI agent who investigates. So it's kind of a mashup of Lost and 24, or maybe the grandchild of The X-Files.

I'd say a lot of those late nineties X-Files wannabes, scifi-mystery-fantasy-apocalypse shows like Millenium, Harsh Realm, The Lone Gunmen, Jeremiah, Dark Skies are good viewing. Maybe better than the X-Files because they weren't on long enough to get too murky and self-indulgent or for us to get tired of them. Jericho was also very good. The downside is that such shows didn't really have time to fulfill their potential and complete their arc.

BTW, lots of suggestions, have you figured out what you're going to watch?

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