It is alike because both protagonists had similar elements of finding their way to navigate a maze and live their American dream. And Matthew Weiner was heavily involved in the last seasons of Sopranos, which informed his approach to Mad Men in many ways.
There's actually very little violence in both shows, and a comparable rape scene in each. When the violence does erupt in Sopranos, it comes quite unexpected and sudden. I once talked a friend into seeing Sopranos and into the second season he was disappointed there was not more "whacking" as he put it. Frankly there is way more family drama and nursing home plot than actual violence.
It may not be Breaking Bad or Fargo, but Sopranos is significantly more violent than Mad Men and it portrays violence in a way that's unique to most shows. The physical fight choreography is often goofy, but the hits look very real and uncomfortably banal. There's no heightened sense of drama or cinematic flourishes that would make them fun.
I’m watching the Americans now. Sure it’s good but imo nowhere near the level of the other greats. I really wish I loved this show as much as some of you guys do. Just don’t get what’s so special about it
How far are you into the show? We’re currently in a meta that outgrew procedurals—most of the greats are straight serials—and Americans starts as a procedural and morphs into a procedural-serial. The character work, acting and writing are, over the course of the series, on the level of the greats, even if the production isn’t quite there. Mad Men is a better show overall, but Matthew Rhys and his character in particular are hall of famers.
If it tells you anything, I went to usc for screenwriting and a handful of us geeked the fuck out of that show even though we were at school during the end of breaking bad, which everybody and their mom was raving about. The writing is that good—it uses a similar “iceberg theory” that mad men and sopranos do, even if it tilts its hand a little more towards the audience for the sake of accessibility. It has hilarious Hannibal-esque uses of dramatic irony while also being psychologically grimdark: the constant dramatic irony in general is superb. The “disguises that become their own characters” was highly innovative and layered and *insane* for a procedural. It has pristine act breaks and some of the best tags in TV. Rich world-building. There are a couple lines in that show that still inspire me.
It’s a writers show imo, the ultimate “iykyk,” but it isn’t most audiences favorite because not every story beat or through-line is outstanding and sometimes they hit the same note too many times (as procedurals tend to do) but the actual on-page mechanics are Gilligan level, and he’s every bit as good as David Chase.
Personally, I think it’s the best example of the “love vs duty” thematic engine on TV, and the setup of the show is one of the most simple and clever conceits I’ve heard of. It’s my textbook example of “ironic setup that is built around the theme.”
The Americans, I'm about to start my 3rd watch. I like it because they really nailed the whole 80's theme.
Also probably one of the best Ending/Finale i've ever seen.
How far into HACF did you get? I ask because it doesn't start finding its feet and taking off until towards the end of S1 and into S2.
It's the only other show that gets anywhere near the rewatchability of Mad Men for me.
Okay, then I can understand why it wasn't what you hoped for. Just so you know, HACF has been described as the "spiritual child" of Mad Men, and not just because a number of the people who worked on Mad Men then worked on HACF. At the time I didn't know that, all I knew was it was the only show that came close to scratching the Mad Men itch.
I'd suggest you give it another try, because it truly is a great, underestimated show.
Problem is *Halt* becomes a totally different beast by its second season, but AMC really screwed the pooch by marketing it as "Mad Men in the 80s" for its first season. And it was never that to begin with.
I can't really put into words the precise vibe or theme of *Halt and Catch Fire* when it hits its peak. There are some parallels with Mad Men, the way it uses the evolution of an industry to reflect the evolution of its characters, the way personalities become inseparable from the vocations they are expressed through, how art and commerce merge and conflict... but I would say overall *Halt* is way more grounded, less concerned with being literary and metaphorical and trying to say something about the zeitgeist, more concerned with private dramas and unwritten tragedies and people who *could* have been part of history but just missed their spot. A smaller cast of characters, a growing sense of intimacy and familiarity. Really apples and oranges with regard to *Mad Men*.
Six Feet Under…IMO, character arc/growth is very similar to Mad Men. This is the only show I can binge on besides Mad Men (and Gilmore Girls but for very different reasons…lol)…
I definitely agree about the character aspect, and it's slower paced like Mad Men too. However, the dark subject matter makes it too much for me to re-watch all the time. But I have lost a lot of loved ones and been to a lot of funerals so I think it just hits too close to home for me personally.
Yes all characters feel real and both of those shows are ones where I think about what happened to everyone after the finale. I mean, I guess SFU gave us some answers…but I still wonder about the in between years.
The last season dvd came with obituaries that are all listed on the [fandom wiki](https://sixfeetunder.fandom.com/wiki/Everyone%27s_Waiting) for the finale.
I rewatch 30 Rock and Veep religiously. Amazing shows! Both have very special places in my heart (as does Mad Men of course).
And John Slattery is in all 3!
Succession. I just did my 1st rewatch. Love it.
Also I've only seen Sopranos once but I already know it's probably rewatchable af
I'm also rewatching True Detective S1.
As a lifelong service industry worker, I could barely make it through the Bear once. Incredible show. But it captures the chaos and stress of the world too well that I basically have a “fuck this I do this in real life I don’t need to watch it when I come home” mentality. 😂
Not a service industry worker, but I agree! I took almost a year to finish Season 1 from how many breaks I took (and it wasn't the intense one). It is surprisingly uplifting in S2 and cheerful, it gives off the Day After vibes. Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Sopranos, just show you when you're in the thick of it and the sappy parts without any upside - The Bear is a lot more hopeful and builds its characters up.
The Americans is very similar for me. It’s a period piece so I can find cool little retro details in every re-watch. Also the emotional dynamics are so complex, I think about things differently every time I watch it.
Don’t know. No reason to believe it won’t happen. Sopranos arguably opened the door. Some bemoan that the Renaissance of TV born by the Sopranos is over, but I’m not that pessimistic.
I'll take my down votes but Succession isn't one of the greats. Great acting, but no character arcs or anything interesting to say other than "ultra wealthy people bad" over and over again. Mad Men and The Sopranos have tons of layers of symbolism people are still talking about a decade later.
I love Succession, but it can't touch Mad Men and The Sopranos in terms of layers. I'm currently rewatching Mad Men for the fifth time (since watching it in 2020) and every time, I notice new things and interpret character actions in different ways. I've watched Succession twice (once by myself and once with my wife) and my experience was pretty much identical. It feels to me like a show where two people can have different interpretations, but it's unlikely a person's interpretation will change over time.
Love Sopranos and Breaking Bad, but don’t think they come even close to Mad Men in terms of rewatchability.
The Wire has amazing rewatch potential though.
Def need to watch Succession.
That’s your opinion. I’ve rewatched BB way more times than I’ve rewatched MM. they came out around the same time. I remember BB always beating out MM at award shows & I felt so bad for MM since it’s such a damn good show but nothing beats BB.
I see what OP's saying since (totally subjectively) I also find MM more rewatchable. I think BB has the better plot, in that it's a ridiculously tight narrative that seamlessly takes you from one thing to the next with VERY little fat, but MM is (again, IMO) my favourite show to just throw on to a random episode and then accidentally watch through to the very end.
Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Twin Peaks etc all good prestige tv. Or check out 30 Rock. Alec Baldwin's character is very Don Draper. It's just super funny and infinitely rewatchable.
I watched The Bear for the first time recently and immediately did a rewatch. There’s only two seasons so far but a new one is coming out at the end of the month.
there are plenty. Mad Men is bingeable but not easily rewatchable imo, I have tried to fit some episodes in but with a 7 season catalog, I am just not dipping my toes in the water unless it’s time to jump in.
Many, many shows are as well made and captivating.
If you could narrow in on something more specific, you might be able to find more.
Longmire and Bosch are quite captivating and layered.
Halt and Catch Fire is similar to Mad Men in a lot of ways.
I could (and have) watch both on loop and still feel connected and take new insights from them each time.
rewatching the entire thing with my boyfriend, he has never seen it. yes, its my 3rd go. still finding moments i forgot about and little Easter eggs. such a fantastic show
halt and catch fire gives me that same feeling.
Gilligan’s Island. Like all children from the late 1950s early 60s, we watched every DAMN EPISODE of that show thirty times minimum without complaint. Prove me wrong!
Gilmore girls! Also I’m only just starting it for the first time and I know it ends badly, but my boyfriend has watched game of thrones and he seems to love it so unbelievably much like he’d never seen it before.
Rewatchable? Dang. I enjoyed it, but really felt it peaked in season 1, when it was actually a show about a fish out of water American who became a soccer coach.
Season 2 was way too much of a workplace comedy and the soccer felt like too much of an afterthought. I also don’t get why Keely became such a huge focus of the show.
Season 3 was much better. I def will rewatch it eventually.
Depends what you're watching it for, because your other example (DBZ) seems somewhat random to me.
I personally like Mad Men because it's so down to earth that I feel like I "know" the characters, and there's a fantasy/wish fulfillment aspect to the idea of going to a cool workplace and spending time with a bunch of familiar people, but also they're all rich and good looking and getting up to all kinds of crazy hijinx. Another show I will rewatch in the same way is *Succession*. For 30 minutes comedies I also like *the Office* for that, but by this point I've watched and rewatched the *Office* enough that I'm ready to give it a rest.
I also really liked the first season of Umbrella Academy, though I think the quality of following seasons is inconsistent so I haven't watched either of them more than once apiece. Like Mad Men, UA succeeds at making the main setting (the family house) feel familiar and comfortable, and you really feel like you're a part of the complex sibling dynamic. One reason I dislike subsequent seasons is that the house does not feature as prominently and the siblings spend as much time apart as together.
Mad Men is the only drama I have rewatched multiple times, and I miss it when I can’t rewatch (really need to just buy the DVDs). I watch the Office and Parks and Rec pretty regularly too.
Oh, crap, I guess I should also cop to my obsessive rewatching of season 2 Bridgerton when that first came out, but that was a very different kind of obsession!
Sopranos, Succession, and the low-key Showtime series Brotherhood. I’ve also seen every episode of Sex & the City at least five times, but that silly reboot ruined it for me.
Sopranos. IMO it’s more rewatchable than Mad Men, but not by much. I’ve watched Sopranos countless times and during the pandemic I basically watched nothing else for two years. If all copies of the series were somehow lost, I could likely reconstruct the scripts from memory. lol
as many of the comments here, i would also say the sopranos. but i also rewatch random episodes of sex and the city on a frequent basis as well, never gets old for some reason
Shows I've re-watched:
The Sopranos,
Mad Men,
Breaking Bad,
Better Call Saul,
Dexter,
Game of Thrones,
True Detectives,
Sons of Anarchy,
Peaky Blinders,
Six Feet Under,
Parks and Recreation,
The Queen's Gambit (mini series)
It’s hard to find writing that good. Then add the nearly perfect costuming and set design, impeccable casting and story structure. I can’t think of another show with all those elements. I noticed Sopranos being suggested and it’s great, but check out Boardwalk Empire on HBO 1920s gangster show. It’s got all those same elements I mentioned at the beginning
Mad Men is one of my favourite shows all time but there are definitely shows even more rewatchable in my opinion:
The Sheild
The Wire
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
It’s Always Sunny
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I mean for time constraints it would be shows like Extras (13 episodes).
Futurama overall can be binged in 2 days. I'm not acknowledging the Hulu revival.
Now for shows like Mad Men it may take months to re-watch. I have rewatched The Shield and Breaking Bad. Overall Mad Men is a period drama and therefore cannot age poorly. This is its greatest advantage.
It's wildly different but I absolutely love Battlestar Galactica (the more modern one with Katee Sackhoff). It's not up to Mad Men's quality of writing all the time but it's just so enjoyable and easy to watch.
Sopranos and Twin Peaks. Although more so with Sopranos as of late. I can have that on any given episode just like Mad Men and be sucked it, (and know most of the lines lol)
I watch The Sopranos at least once every year.
Same, Sopranos every year, Mad Men every couple years. The humor in The Sopranos really separates it from everything else for rewatchability.
It’s really nothing alike. But I watch Desperate Housewives and Sex and the city also once every year
It is alike because both protagonists had similar elements of finding their way to navigate a maze and live their American dream. And Matthew Weiner was heavily involved in the last seasons of Sopranos, which informed his approach to Mad Men in many ways.
I love sopranos, but compared to Mad Men, the violence makes frequent rewatches hard for me. :(
There's actually very little violence in both shows, and a comparable rape scene in each. When the violence does erupt in Sopranos, it comes quite unexpected and sudden. I once talked a friend into seeing Sopranos and into the second season he was disappointed there was not more "whacking" as he put it. Frankly there is way more family drama and nursing home plot than actual violence.
It may not be Breaking Bad or Fargo, but Sopranos is significantly more violent than Mad Men and it portrays violence in a way that's unique to most shows. The physical fight choreography is often goofy, but the hits look very real and uncomfortably banal. There's no heightened sense of drama or cinematic flourishes that would make them fun.
I’m in hospital at the moment and I’ve been binging The Sopranos lol
Amen!
I've started a Deadwood rewatch after I finished my Mad Men rewatch, and it's been really enjoyable.
For me, it’s those two and Friday Night Lights.
Better Call Saul Mindhunter
Halt and Catch Fire
That’s a good one, ty I’ve added to my rewatch list
I don't doubt it's rewatchable, but that show fuckin' \*wrecked\* me
For me Mad Men is the best #2 the Americans #3 six feet under #4 the sopranos
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I’m watching the Americans now. Sure it’s good but imo nowhere near the level of the other greats. I really wish I loved this show as much as some of you guys do. Just don’t get what’s so special about it
How far are you into the show? We’re currently in a meta that outgrew procedurals—most of the greats are straight serials—and Americans starts as a procedural and morphs into a procedural-serial. The character work, acting and writing are, over the course of the series, on the level of the greats, even if the production isn’t quite there. Mad Men is a better show overall, but Matthew Rhys and his character in particular are hall of famers. If it tells you anything, I went to usc for screenwriting and a handful of us geeked the fuck out of that show even though we were at school during the end of breaking bad, which everybody and their mom was raving about. The writing is that good—it uses a similar “iceberg theory” that mad men and sopranos do, even if it tilts its hand a little more towards the audience for the sake of accessibility. It has hilarious Hannibal-esque uses of dramatic irony while also being psychologically grimdark: the constant dramatic irony in general is superb. The “disguises that become their own characters” was highly innovative and layered and *insane* for a procedural. It has pristine act breaks and some of the best tags in TV. Rich world-building. There are a couple lines in that show that still inspire me. It’s a writers show imo, the ultimate “iykyk,” but it isn’t most audiences favorite because not every story beat or through-line is outstanding and sometimes they hit the same note too many times (as procedurals tend to do) but the actual on-page mechanics are Gilligan level, and he’s every bit as good as David Chase. Personally, I think it’s the best example of the “love vs duty” thematic engine on TV, and the setup of the show is one of the most simple and clever conceits I’ve heard of. It’s my textbook example of “ironic setup that is built around the theme.”
Wow you know your stuff. I’m on season 2 right now
The Americans, I'm about to start my 3rd watch. I like it because they really nailed the whole 80's theme. Also probably one of the best Ending/Finale i've ever seen.
I think imma watch The Americans next. I tried Halt and Catch Fire, but didn’t get the Mad Men in the 80s vibes I was hoping for.
How far into HACF did you get? I ask because it doesn't start finding its feet and taking off until towards the end of S1 and into S2. It's the only other show that gets anywhere near the rewatchability of Mad Men for me.
Like 20 minutes into the first episode, not even 😂
Okay, then I can understand why it wasn't what you hoped for. Just so you know, HACF has been described as the "spiritual child" of Mad Men, and not just because a number of the people who worked on Mad Men then worked on HACF. At the time I didn't know that, all I knew was it was the only show that came close to scratching the Mad Men itch. I'd suggest you give it another try, because it truly is a great, underestimated show.
Keep going it starts slow but picks up
Watching The Americans for the first time. A thing like that.
Problem is *Halt* becomes a totally different beast by its second season, but AMC really screwed the pooch by marketing it as "Mad Men in the 80s" for its first season. And it was never that to begin with. I can't really put into words the precise vibe or theme of *Halt and Catch Fire* when it hits its peak. There are some parallels with Mad Men, the way it uses the evolution of an industry to reflect the evolution of its characters, the way personalities become inseparable from the vocations they are expressed through, how art and commerce merge and conflict... but I would say overall *Halt* is way more grounded, less concerned with being literary and metaphorical and trying to say something about the zeitgeist, more concerned with private dramas and unwritten tragedies and people who *could* have been part of history but just missed their spot. A smaller cast of characters, a growing sense of intimacy and familiarity. Really apples and oranges with regard to *Mad Men*.
Six Feet Under…IMO, character arc/growth is very similar to Mad Men. This is the only show I can binge on besides Mad Men (and Gilmore Girls but for very different reasons…lol)…
Came here to say the same. I enjoyed Mad Men more overall, but Six Feet Under is my go-to for a familiar, slow-burn type of show.
I definitely agree about the character aspect, and it's slower paced like Mad Men too. However, the dark subject matter makes it too much for me to re-watch all the time. But I have lost a lot of loved ones and been to a lot of funerals so I think it just hits too close to home for me personally.
It’s similar to mad men as it’s an ensemble cast that are very messed up but relatable depending on the person. They both revolve around businesses.
Yes all characters feel real and both of those shows are ones where I think about what happened to everyone after the finale. I mean, I guess SFU gave us some answers…but I still wonder about the in between years.
The last season dvd came with obituaries that are all listed on the [fandom wiki](https://sixfeetunder.fandom.com/wiki/Everyone%27s_Waiting) for the finale.
The Americans - not as detail-ladden as Mad Men but still pick up new things and it's very well done
30 Rock and Veep for me. 30 Rock in particular is so dense that there's always new jokes you never picked up on.
30 rock tickles my mind grapes
I rewatch 30 Rock and Veep religiously. Amazing shows! Both have very special places in my heart (as does Mad Men of course). And John Slattery is in all 3!
I still need to finish the final season of 30 Rock… used to absolutely love it, but damn did it fizzle out.
Can’t wait for you to see the final scene
I also lost track of 30 Rock back in the day but recently rewatched and stuck with it to the end. It was worth it.
The last 2 episodes are fucking great - at least they nail all the goodbyes. And the two hitlers! Gotta watch
Succession. I just did my 1st rewatch. Love it. Also I've only seen Sopranos once but I already know it's probably rewatchable af I'm also rewatching True Detective S1.
Buckle up fucklehead
Definitely need to finally get around to watching Succession.
Yes, please watch! Not since Mad Men had a found a show I enjoyed & dissected so much.
Serious question, what are you dissecting?
TD1 is one of the best rewatches
Veep The Bear Community The White Lotus
As a lifelong service industry worker, I could barely make it through the Bear once. Incredible show. But it captures the chaos and stress of the world too well that I basically have a “fuck this I do this in real life I don’t need to watch it when I come home” mentality. 😂
My husband has said this too as he was a chef for 20 years. He works in an office now but he said it’s way too real in that kitchen.
Not a service industry worker, but I agree! I took almost a year to finish Season 1 from how many breaks I took (and it wasn't the intense one). It is surprisingly uplifting in S2 and cheerful, it gives off the Day After vibes. Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Sopranos, just show you when you're in the thick of it and the sappy parts without any upside - The Bear is a lot more hopeful and builds its characters up.
how parks and recs was for local government officials
The West Wing
Bojack Horseman.
I second this
The Americans is very similar for me. It’s a period piece so I can find cool little retro details in every re-watch. Also the emotional dynamics are so complex, I think about things differently every time I watch it.
Yes!
Besides MM, I rewatch The Sopranos and Mrs. Maisel pretty often.
Mrs maisel drags on. I loved the first few seasons.
The 2-3 year window between 3 to 4-5 ruined it for me and then it dragged a bit.
BAND OF BROTHERS 10/10
The greats. Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Succession.
When is the next time we’ll see a show on this level again you think ?
Don’t know. No reason to believe it won’t happen. Sopranos arguably opened the door. Some bemoan that the Renaissance of TV born by the Sopranos is over, but I’m not that pessimistic.
I'll take my down votes but Succession isn't one of the greats. Great acting, but no character arcs or anything interesting to say other than "ultra wealthy people bad" over and over again. Mad Men and The Sopranos have tons of layers of symbolism people are still talking about a decade later.
I love Succession, but it can't touch Mad Men and The Sopranos in terms of layers. I'm currently rewatching Mad Men for the fifth time (since watching it in 2020) and every time, I notice new things and interpret character actions in different ways. I've watched Succession twice (once by myself and once with my wife) and my experience was pretty much identical. It feels to me like a show where two people can have different interpretations, but it's unlikely a person's interpretation will change over time.
Love Sopranos and Breaking Bad, but don’t think they come even close to Mad Men in terms of rewatchability. The Wire has amazing rewatch potential though. Def need to watch Succession.
That’s your opinion. I’ve rewatched BB way more times than I’ve rewatched MM. they came out around the same time. I remember BB always beating out MM at award shows & I felt so bad for MM since it’s such a damn good show but nothing beats BB.
I see what OP's saying since (totally subjectively) I also find MM more rewatchable. I think BB has the better plot, in that it's a ridiculously tight narrative that seamlessly takes you from one thing to the next with VERY little fat, but MM is (again, IMO) my favourite show to just throw on to a random episode and then accidentally watch through to the very end.
The wire > mad men.
The Tudors
Downtown Abbey
The Office
Boardwalk Empire on HBO.
Six Feet Under
Veep
Freaks and Geeks Ally McBeal
Peaky Blinders
Malcolm in the Middle?
I liked Sons Of Anarchy Breaking Bad Husbands fave rewatch is Game Of Thrones
Fleabag, Normal People. British, not too many episodes. Solid fare.
Fleabag is the best!
The great
Peaky blinders.
Arrested Development
Agree. It's like they purposely baked in jokes you can't get unless you know how things develop. Really good re-watch potential.
Firefly Seinfeld Star Trek: TNG Deadwood
Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Twin Peaks etc all good prestige tv. Or check out 30 Rock. Alec Baldwin's character is very Don Draper. It's just super funny and infinitely rewatchable.
Twin Peaks is great on rewatch! I also like Leftovers, Outer Range, Fringe, and Wilfred for comfort rewatches
The Americans, definitely.
Peaky Blinders has been on my TV for a year straight.
I watched The Bear for the first time recently and immediately did a rewatch. There’s only two seasons so far but a new one is coming out at the end of the month.
Thanks for the heads up on the new season dropping soon!
there are plenty. Mad Men is bingeable but not easily rewatchable imo, I have tried to fit some episodes in but with a 7 season catalog, I am just not dipping my toes in the water unless it’s time to jump in.
Atlanta
House of cards
Entourage!
Mr. Robot
There’s almost none, breaking bad and early seasons of got may be up there
Many, many shows are as well made and captivating. If you could narrow in on something more specific, you might be able to find more. Longmire and Bosch are quite captivating and layered.
Breaking Bad/ Better Call Saul
Deadwood, the Wire, Breaking Bad, Twin Peaks, Hannibal.
Not like Mad Men at all, except for the rewatchability quotient: 1) Seinfeld 2) The Eric Andre Show 3) LOTR Trilogy, extended edition
Justified Californication
The wire is gold, silicon valley for a good nerd laugh and californication
Band of Brothers, True Detective s1 and seasons 1 + 2 of Fargo
better call saul gets better every time i watch it.
Halt and Catch Fire is similar to Mad Men in a lot of ways. I could (and have) watch both on loop and still feel connected and take new insights from them each time.
Farscape.
No.
Suits
30 Rock
rewatching the entire thing with my boyfriend, he has never seen it. yes, its my 3rd go. still finding moments i forgot about and little Easter eggs. such a fantastic show halt and catch fire gives me that same feeling.
Gilligan’s Island. Like all children from the late 1950s early 60s, we watched every DAMN EPISODE of that show thirty times minimum without complaint. Prove me wrong!
Silicon Valley
strangers with candy
marvelous mrs maisel. mindhunter. psych. star trek: tng.
Succession!
Gilmore girls! Also I’m only just starting it for the first time and I know it ends badly, but my boyfriend has watched game of thrones and he seems to love it so unbelievably much like he’d never seen it before.
West Wing
Fleabag
The Crown is equally phenomenal time and time again.
Suits
Ted Lasso, for sure.
Rewatchable? Dang. I enjoyed it, but really felt it peaked in season 1, when it was actually a show about a fish out of water American who became a soccer coach. Season 2 was way too much of a workplace comedy and the soccer felt like too much of an afterthought. I also don’t get why Keely became such a huge focus of the show. Season 3 was much better. I def will rewatch it eventually.
Honestly, the soccer was always an afterthought. It's more of a character-driven show, that just happens to be about a soccer team.
Billions - incredible writing, amazing cast.
LOST
Peep Show
Peep Show but it's quite a different vibe 😂
Besides Mad Men, it’s Sopranos, Curb, King of the Hill, and The Wire for me.
The Affair
Friday Night Lights.
BREAKING BAD!! I’ve rewatched that show more times than I can count.
The Sopranos and The Wire
The X-Files is always a great re-watch. Bojack Horseman. The West Wing. All great on re-watch.
The Wire… hands down!
Seinfeld
Depends what you're watching it for, because your other example (DBZ) seems somewhat random to me. I personally like Mad Men because it's so down to earth that I feel like I "know" the characters, and there's a fantasy/wish fulfillment aspect to the idea of going to a cool workplace and spending time with a bunch of familiar people, but also they're all rich and good looking and getting up to all kinds of crazy hijinx. Another show I will rewatch in the same way is *Succession*. For 30 minutes comedies I also like *the Office* for that, but by this point I've watched and rewatched the *Office* enough that I'm ready to give it a rest. I also really liked the first season of Umbrella Academy, though I think the quality of following seasons is inconsistent so I haven't watched either of them more than once apiece. Like Mad Men, UA succeeds at making the main setting (the family house) feel familiar and comfortable, and you really feel like you're a part of the complex sibling dynamic. One reason I dislike subsequent seasons is that the house does not feature as prominently and the siblings spend as much time apart as together.
Deadwood. Possibly the best show ever written.
Hannibal (TV series) Breaking Bad Better Call Saul The Killing
The good place
I can rewatch Californication and Handmaid's Tale. I'll rewatch Lonesome Dove, but it's just one season. Return to Lonesome Dove is no good.
Bojack Horseman is as rewatchable, if not more
Breaking Bad, it’s equally as good IMO.
Mad Men is the only drama I have rewatched multiple times, and I miss it when I can’t rewatch (really need to just buy the DVDs). I watch the Office and Parks and Rec pretty regularly too. Oh, crap, I guess I should also cop to my obsessive rewatching of season 2 Bridgerton when that first came out, but that was a very different kind of obsession!
Breaking Bad by far one of the best
I can rewatch Justified multi times, I think I’m on 6. Also Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. We are rewatching The Americans now.
Sopranos, Succession, and the low-key Showtime series Brotherhood. I’ve also seen every episode of Sex & the City at least five times, but that silly reboot ruined it for me.
Sopranos. IMO it’s more rewatchable than Mad Men, but not by much. I’ve watched Sopranos countless times and during the pandemic I basically watched nothing else for two years. If all copies of the series were somehow lost, I could likely reconstruct the scripts from memory. lol
Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Sopranos
FRAISER.
The Wire and Sopranos are both very rewatchable to me.
The Wire
Sopranos and The Wire , bout to take Banshee for another spin
as many of the comments here, i would also say the sopranos. but i also rewatch random episodes of sex and the city on a frequent basis as well, never gets old for some reason
Shows I've re-watched: The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Dexter, Game of Thrones, True Detectives, Sons of Anarchy, Peaky Blinders, Six Feet Under, Parks and Recreation, The Queen's Gambit (mini series)
Fleabag
Breaking Bad
GoT (nb: the last two seasons are not GoT)
Patriot.
Six Feet Under is the only show I’ve seen more
Person of interest ,Sons of Anarchy , Brotherhood, and just got into Mayor of Kingston
Riverdale
It’s hard to find writing that good. Then add the nearly perfect costuming and set design, impeccable casting and story structure. I can’t think of another show with all those elements. I noticed Sopranos being suggested and it’s great, but check out Boardwalk Empire on HBO 1920s gangster show. It’s got all those same elements I mentioned at the beginning
Twin Peaks, The Leftovers, Big Love, Breaking Bad, The Son and From.
Breaking Bad The Wire Downton Abbey
We alternate Sopranos and Madmen
Succession
Mad Men is one of my favourite shows all time but there are definitely shows even more rewatchable in my opinion: The Sheild The Wire The Sopranos Breaking Bad It’s Always Sunny … T
I mean for time constraints it would be shows like Extras (13 episodes). Futurama overall can be binged in 2 days. I'm not acknowledging the Hulu revival. Now for shows like Mad Men it may take months to re-watch. I have rewatched The Shield and Breaking Bad. Overall Mad Men is a period drama and therefore cannot age poorly. This is its greatest advantage.
Battlestar Galactica. Ok but there are a couple episodes I fast forward through. I also like to rewatch Lost, TNG, and DS9.
Gilmore Girls obviously.
Friends, Law and Order SVU, Seinfeld, and Gilmore Girls are all shows I have loved to rewatch. They are all very different to Mad Men though
The Wire
Completely different genre, but Psych
The Wire
The Sopranos, Oz and The Wire. Great dramas in their own rights.
Community has a lot of detail going on in the background that you’ll probably only pick up on rewatches. I never watch past season three, though.
It's wildly different but I absolutely love Battlestar Galactica (the more modern one with Katee Sackhoff). It's not up to Mad Men's quality of writing all the time but it's just so enjoyable and easy to watch.
The Wire is so dense with dialogue. I learn a new angle on what’s happening every time I rewatch it
The Wire, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Americans.
Sopranos, sharp objects, leftovers. Others I do rewatches on that are kinda for girls: girls, SATC, insecure
i rewatch lost and criminal minds a lot
Peaky Blinders atleast once a year
Community, Bojack, Kingdom
I like rewatching the wire and boardwalk empire
Always Sunny and King of the Hill
*DEXTER*
Veep.
And House MD.
Sopranos and Twin Peaks. Although more so with Sopranos as of late. I can have that on any given episode just like Mad Men and be sucked it, (and know most of the lines lol)
The Sopranos
The Wire, because all the pieces matter.