Best series with 4 seasons or less

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  1. racer

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    That has also completed its run/definitively will be done in 4 or less.

    What you got?
     
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  2. Shawn Hunter

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    Does a mini series count?
     
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    The Leftovers
    Mr. Robot
     
  6. War Grundle

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    Great call
     
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    Watchmen
    Turn: Washington's Spies
     
  8. zeberdee

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    I'm going to ignore shows and limited series that were only one season (Watchmen, Mare of Easttown, Freaks & Geeks).

    Party Down
    Happy Endings
    Avatar: The Last Airbender
    Sherlock
    Battlestar Galactica
     
  9. football501

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    Arrested Development*

    *Netflix seasons don't count
     
  10. War Grundle

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    First thing I thought of and then I looked and saw they had done five.
     
  11. Tarpon Nole

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    Dark. and it’s not close
     
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    Yeah if we’re looking at shows that went for more than 1 but less than or equal to 4, I’d echo a lot of what was mentioned already.

    Dark, the good place, the leftovers, party down are all up there for me. Would love to be able to include Ted lasso in there when it’s all done.
     
  13. Shawn Hunter

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    Mr robot was 4. Thought was 5 or 6. I’ll add it
     
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  16. Shawn Hunter

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    Multiple seasons (non-anthology)
    • Ozark
    • Twin Peaks
    • The Punisher
    • Daredevil
    • Making a Murderer
    • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
    • Trial & Error
    • The Good Place
    • VIce Principals
    • Nathan For You
    • Party Down
    • The Man in the High Castle
    • Hapy Endings
    • Better Off Ted
    • Kidding
    • The Leftovers
    • Eastbound & Down
    • Dark
    • One Day at a Time (modern version)
    • Mr. Robot
    • Raising Hope
    • Arrested Development - Netflix-only seasons excluded
    Limited Series (only one season)
    • Under the Banner of Heaven
    • Meltdown: Three Mile Island
    • Station Eleven
    • Midnight Mass
    • John Adams
    • Band of Brothers
    • WandaVision
    • The Plot Against America
    • The Third Day
    • The Haunting of Bly Manor
    • We Are Who We Are
    • Normal People
    • The Outsider
    • Watchmen
    • Haunting of Hill House
    • Unorthodox
    • The Night Of
    • The Keepers
    • The Last Dance
    • Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later and WEt Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp - watch the movie first
    • Chernobyl
    • Sharp Objects
    • Escape at Dannemora
    • 11.22.63
    Anthology Series
    • 1883 - LAst I heard there wasn't a second season ordered yet but the plans for a second season would be an entirely new story
    • The Sinner
    • The White Lotus
    • American Crime Story
    • American Crime
    • True Detective - skip the 2nd season
    • Fargo
    Other
    • Dark Side of the Ring - technically not done, but every episode is about a 45-minute stand-alone documentary
     
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    I liked Halt and Catch Fire quite a bit
     
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  19. TrustyPatches

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    it’s not close
     
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  21. ned's head

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    Couldn't get into dark through 3-4 episodes. Gotta give it another try.
     
  22. ned's head

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  23. War Grundle

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    Never heard of Dark. Will google it.
     
  24. Shawn Hunter

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    Glad we settled this debate and can close the thread and move on.
     
  26. HotMic

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    I wish I could watch it all over again for the first time. :(

     
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  28. Tarpon Nole

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    anyone who hasn’t watched it probably shouldn’t click this as it’s for s3
     
  29. HotMic

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    Changed it. Probably a good point, even though even the people who watched it didn’t know what was going on half the time.
     
  30. I watched s1 of Dark and loved it but had not watched the other seasons, I figure by now I will have forgotten all the convoluted storylines. Not counting miniseries Leftovers is the easy choice for me
     
  31. DirtBall

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    Opened thread. Dark wasn’t the first response. Closed thread in disgust.
     
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  36. Great call, if I remember right it got cancelled so they could make the Walking Dead instead. FUCK
     
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  37. Shinzon

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    The Chestnut Man on Netflix is a pretty good single-season show. Taken from the novel of the same name and made into six episodes.

    Also Love, Death & Robots is a good anthology series of short episodes. Third volume (season) just released on Netflix.
     
  38. bryix

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    I watched HBO's Rome recently. Only two seasons.
     
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    The Office (UK)
     
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    Has anyone mentioned Dark?
     
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    The Wire*
     
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    True detective. Season 1 is so good that it makes the other 2 seasons irrelevant regardless of how much they sucked.
     
  43. TrustyPatches

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    I’ll say this:

    if this next season of Ted Lasso is truly its last and they keep the quality up to its standard then it will pass Dark for me. Ted Lasso is just something everyone needs to watch not only because it’s good, but because it’s good.
     
  44. Daniel Ocean

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    Seasons 1-3 of The Bridge were really really good. I bailed on the 4th and final season, though.
     
  48. Daniel Ocean

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    the American version is good and fits itt
     
  49. Handcuffed

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    I went through my server and put together a list of shows with 2-4 seasons (though i may not have everything updated, admittedly). There are so many good ones that the list below is just a sample.

    I haven't seen Dark yet but there's no way it's better *by far* than shows like Barry, The Crown, Fleabag, Mindhunter, or some of these other ones. I'm trying to get through newer stuff (just finished Severance, now starting Tokyo Vice) but I'll watch Dark this summer.

    Atlanta
    Avatar: The Last Airbender
    Barry
    Batman: The Animated Series
    Big Little Lies
    Black Sails
    The Boys
    Broadchurch
    Call My Agent
    Chappelle Show
    The Chi
    Club de Cuervos
    The Crown
    Da Ali G Show
    Dark
    Deadwood
    The Deuce
    Eastbound & Down
    Elite
    Euphoria
    Fargo
    Fleabag
    For All Mankind
    The Good Place
    Halt & Catch Fire
    How To with John Wilson
    I Think You Should Leave
    The IT Crowd
    The Knick
    Killing Eve
    The Leftovers
    The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
    Master of None
    Mindhunter
    Mozart in the Jungle
    Mr. Inbetween
    Mr. Robot
    Mythic Quest
    Narcos
    Narcos: Mexico
    Nathan for You
    The OC
    The Office (UK)
    Party Down
    Patriot
    The Returned
    Review
    Saved by the Bell
    South Side
    Sports Night
    Stranger Things
    Succession
    Ted Lasso
    Togetherness
    Treme
    True Detective
    Twin Peaks
    What We Do In the Shadows
     
  50. TC

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    I love how Party Down went from obscure to everyone’s top 5 list