Pick Or Pass On These TV Shows To Get A Binge-Worthy Snack
- by Elimy Xepperoni
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TV has become the most popular pass time around the world. Now with all of the streaming sites, like Netflix and Hulu, we have everything we have ever wanted to watch right at our finger tips, and we do not even have to sit through commercials! Having all of this available to us has created a binge watching phenomenon. Remember back in the days when we had to wait a whole week before getting the next episode? Well, those days are over, because now if we wait long enough we can have entire series ready to go. What best goes along with all of this binge watching? Well, binge eating our favorite snacks of course! After all, what is good television without and equally good snack to enjoy while watching it?
Anyone who fancies themselves a TV connoisseur should definitely take this quiz! We will list some of the most popular shows in recent years, and all everyone has to do is state whether they would pick it or pass it. Once all of that is done, we are going to go ahead and dish out some deliciously binge worthy snacks, everyone should enjoy during their next marathon! Get ready and have fun!
The Office
Let's kick this off with the most binge watched show on Netflix. The office had a 9 season run, and fans are still asking for more even today. The show is shot in a type documentary style, following the work and personal lives of the employees of a mid-range, failing, paper company.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
This cult classic also has all 7 of it's seasons available for streaming on Netflix. The show is about a teenage girl, who just happens to be the only person in the world who can defeat all of the evil's and demons around. With the help of her friends, and Watcher Giles, Buffy takes on one evil at a time.
Outlander
We are taking a trip far back in time for this one. This show is based off of an award winning series of novels. There are 3 seasons available to watch, with the forth set to premiere this year. The story is about a women who travels back in time, and falls in love with a Highlander.
Stranger Things
This Netflix original, blew critics away with it's first season. Now we have 2 seasons available to stream on Netflix, and fans are just waiting for a third. When a young boy goes missing, his friends and family will stop at nothing to get him back, even if it means entering a world they never dreamed of.
Grey's Anatomy
This series is 14 seasons deep, and still going strong! It is a medical drama created by Shonda Rhimes, and it focuses on the lives of a group of surgical interns (later turned residents). Not only does the show focus heavily on the medical aspect, but there is no denying the personal drama that goes on between the doctors (and sometimes patients).
The Mindy project
This show was created by Mindy Kaling, who also happens to be the star of it. She is a doctor at a private practice, and she has a less than excellent track record in her dating life. Maybe her doctor friends can help her find the one? Or maybe one of them is actually her soul mate?
Parks and Recreation
This 7 season series, was originally meant to be a spin off of the show The Office. Once the writers got going though, it was clear that this show was going to be it's own thing entirely. Leslie Knope works for the parks department in a very small town, but she is determined to make a difference!
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
After spending most of her life locked up in a bunker, Kimmy is ready to live her life to the fullest. The only issue is, she has no idea how to survive in the world, let alone in the craziness that is New York City. Hopefully with the help of a few friends she will find her way!
Game of Thrones
This HBO mega hit has been all the rage for the past 7 seasons. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the new and final season 8. The show is based off the award winning novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire. It is set in the world of Westeros, where noble families compete to sit on the iron throne, and rule the kingdom.
Nashville
Country legend Rayna Jaymes is just trying to live a peaceful life while she raises her two young girls. Still, once a star always a star, so Rayna must learn how to balance both career and family, and she also must be watchful of the newest young country star on the rise, who is actively trying to steal her fame.
13 Reasons Why
This is another series that was based off of a novel. The first season follows the lives of a group of students, who attend the same high school as a girl who had recently taken her own life. She left behind 13 tapes explaining why she did it, and the kids left behind may have more to do with it than they thought...
Orange Is the New Black
Good girl Piper Chapman, may not be the angel her friends an family think she is. After a mistake from the past creeps up on her, she is forced to turn herself into the police, and is sentenced to hard jail time. Initially Piper plans to do her time quietly and be done with it, but things in prison are not always so easy...
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Detective Jake Peralta is great at what he does, but he does not enjoy following rules or working harder than he thinks he should. While he holds the record for most arrests in his precinct, and new commanding officer is ready to shake up the way he does things. Pick or pass?
Breaking Bad
5 seasons, a spin off series, and countless awards, this show was unstoppable in its time. The story is about Walter White, a high school teacher, husband, and father. After being diagnosed with cancer, Walter realizes he must make a bunch of money and quick, if he wants to leave his family enough to survive without him.
Bob's Burgers
We are getting animated for this one. Bob's Burgers is an animated comedy series with 8 seasons. It follows the life of Bob and Linda Belcher, along with their three odd ball children. The family owns a burger restaurant, and they are forever trying to fill the seats with new customers.
Scandal
Here is another series which was created by Shonda Rhimes. In this one, we watch Olivia Pope solve problem after problem for those who work in the White House. Her job is basically to quietly deal with the scandals of the White House, so the public never has to know about them.
Friends
Even those who do not care for this show, have at least heard of it. Friends played for 10 years, and fans everywhere cried during the finale episode. The story line focuses on the lives of 6 young adults trying to make their way through life while living in New York City.
New Girl
After getting dumped by her boyfriend, Jess is on the hunt for a new apartment. Lucky for her, she finds a beautiful space to live, that meets all of her requirements. There is just one flaw with the apartment...she has to share it with the three boys already living there.
The Handmaid's Tale
With only two seasons so far, this show has dominated at every one of it's award shows. The series is based off a famous novel by Margaret Atwood. After a sudden and drastic drop in the birth rate, religious fundamentalists take over, and hold any fertile women prisoner. Pick or pass?
The Leftovers
What would the world look like is 140 million people just disappeared without a trace? That is exactly the story line of this show. After the sudden disappearance, the people left behind must learn how to cope, and rebuild the life they once knew. Pick or pass?
The Crown
Instead of being based off a novel, this one got the idea off a play called "The Audience". The series depicts the life and trials of Queen Elizabeth II, from 1940's all the way to modern times. After taking the thrown at the young age of 25 Queen Elizabeth now has a lot to learn.
Glee
Glee ran for 6 seasons, and had a considerable fan base throughout its run. The show is about a group of misfit teens who discover their schools glee club. These unlikely friends grow and evolve together as they sing and dance their way through the high school jungle. Pick or pass?
That 70's Show
After 8 seasons fans were sad to see this series end, but since they had lost a few main character by the end of it's run, it was for the best that it ended. The show is about a group of teens growing up in the 70's. Times were different back then, but they still knew how to have a good time!
The Big Bang Theory
There is nothing these guys could not tell us about Science. Best friends and roommates, Sheldon and Leonard, are both super smart physicists. They know too much about almost everything, except how to handle social situations. These two are going to have to learn if they ever hope to have a girl friend...
Girl Boss
Sophia feels as though she knows better than anyone she could ever work for, so keeping a job is a struggle. After she sells a few vintage items of clothing online for some cash, she quickly realizes her passion for vintage clothes. Soon enough she has an empire. Pick or pass?
Dexter
Blood splatter expert, Dexter, knows everything there is to know about a crime scene, not only because his work depends on it, but also because he is criminal himself. Dexter takes the lives of those he knows are guilty, but have not yet been caught by the police. Pick or pass?
Community
This sitcom ran for 6 seasons. it is about the lives of a group of students attending a very low budget Community College. There are some young ones trying to earn a diploma, some older ones just trying to fill their time, and then there is Jeff, a successful lawyer who cheated on his Bar exam, and now must get it for real.
How I Met Your Mother
Ted has decided that his two children should hear the story of how he met their mother (in excruciating detail). So basically each episode is narrated by an older Ted, and focuses on an event that happened between he and his friends that eventually lead him to finding their mother.
Riverdale
Remember Archie, Veronica, Betty, and the whole gang? Well, they are back, and things have taken a dark turn. After a boy goes missing nothing is ever the same again in the small town of Riverdale. Archie and his buddies must now make sense of all the dark things they know.
Big Little Lies
Here is an HBO smash hit that was based off a novel with the same name. Three mothers live in a rich, and beautiful area, where their kids attend the best school around. Sounds like the perfect life? Well, secrets soon reveal that not everything is greener on the other side...
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
This show has official become the longest running sitcom...ever. In the show we see four very aggressive bar owners, and a father like figure, deal with day to day life in the most bizarre ways. Nothing they do is ever simple, or even really makes sense, but one thing is for sure, they know how to party.
Lost
This show as been under debate since it first aired back in 2004. It's fans stand beside it loyal, but people love to pick this one apart. After their plane crashes on a tropical island, the survives soon learn that the island they are on is anything but normal. Once realizing no one is coming for them, they must figure out how to survive.
Master of None
This show is loosely based off of the creators actual life experiences. Dev, is a young man living in New York City, and he struggles daily with what he wants to do with his life. Professionally he is very unsure of his future, and personally he has no idea what is going on.
House of Cards
The kind of work that Francis Underwood and his wife do is never easy. After being betrayed by someone they thought was on their side, the two of them make a pact to destroy their betrayer and all of his allies. Can they do this while also staying in character? Pick or pass?
Gilmore Girls
Lorelai Gilmore is a very unique individual. She lives in small town Connecticut with her young daughter. Both of them are caffeine addicted, and have poorer eating habits than a child at a birthday party, but they are never short on love. Pick or pass for this old CW classic?
Arrested Development
Michael Bluth desperately wants to take his son, and move far away from the rest of his family. However, after his father's sudden and unexpected arrest, Michael now must stay behind and run the family real estate business himself. He will have to do it alone, because no one from his family is helping that is for sure...
Freaks and Geeks
This series was only one season, but that one season was enough to gain it a huge fan base. A smart teenage girl, who has always involved herself with programs such as "mathletes" struggles after the sudden passing of her Grandmother. She decides to leave the friends she had behind, and start hanging with a new crew...
Shameless
William H. Macy plays Frank Gallagher, in this comedy series. Frank, is the town drunk, and possibly the world's worst father. He has 6 kids, and probably couldn't tell us the name of half of them. Luckily for the clan, his eldest daughter Fiona, takes the reins of things at home.
Modern Family
In this award winning sitcom we meet a fun, and very different family. The show follows around three different branches of the same family. Jay is the father of both Claire and Mitchell, who each have their own families now. Jay has remarried a young attractive women, who has a small child, so Jay must now return to being a father.
Family Guy
For one last question, let's talk Family guy. In this long running animated comedy, we meet Peter and his family. Peter is an underachieving man, who is not exactly bright. His wife however, is a little strange but has a good head on her shoulders. Now if only they can get their kids to turn out o.k...
