Watching movies during deployment is great, but there’s something about sitting down in front of the TV, turning your brain off and binge-watching a series that you love. It’s therapeutic– especially at the end of a long day. In no particular order and with no particular method, here’s a list of awesome shows to binge-watch. I can’t wait to hear what you’ll add to the list!
Newbies
- Gotham
- Black-ish
- Penny Dreadful
- How to Get Away with Murder
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Classics/Not that New
- The X Files
- Gilligan’s Island
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- I Love Lucy
- Happy Days
- Supernatural
- The Dick Van Dyke Show
- The Twilight Zone
- Bewitched
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Lost
- The O.C.
- My So-Called Life
- Freaks and Geeks
- Pushing Daisies
Trashy but Awesome
- Kitchen Nightmares
- Dance Moms
- Top Chef
- Survivor
- America’s Next Top Model
- The Real World
- The Biggest Loser
- Jersey Shore
- Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
- Love & Hip Hop
- Teen Mom
- Pawn Stars
- Project Runway
- Catfish
- Shark Tank
- The Hills
Laugh Until You Hurt
- 30 Rock
- Modern Family
- Key & Peale
- Saturday Night Live
- New Girl
- The Mindy Project
- Parks and Rec
- The Office
- Scrubs
- Arrested Development
- Friends
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Community
Get Sucked In
- Firefly
- The West Wing
- Downton Abbey
- Boardwalk Empire
- Big Love
- House of Cards
- Sherlock
- Upstairs Downstairs
- Heroes
- The Wire
- American Horror Story
- Breaking Bad
- Dr. Who
- Dexter
- Mr. Selfridge
- John Adams
- Deadwood
- The Paradise
- Call the Midwife
- The Newsroom
- Cosmos
- True Detective
Suggestions from milsos and milspouses…
- “Can anyone say Law and Order SVU marathons?! Roseanne, Criminal Minds, Golden Girls!” -Erin from Many Kind Regards
- “I watch Friends over and over!” -Courtney
- “Gossip girl, parks and recreation, scandal, psychic (lol) mmm those are the ones I’m currently watching on Netflix.” -Esetegeo
- “Definitely Gilmore girls!” -Becca
- “Sex and the City, Friends, Army Wives!” -Edith
- “White Collar, Friends, and 24 are shows I watched during the last deployment.” -Jessica
- “I watched all of Army Wives, rewatched all of Pretty Little Liars, watched all of The Walking Dead. Now while hubs goes on TDY I’m rewatching Gilmore Girls from the start.” -Tracy
- “Any and all Housewives on Bravo, Jane the Virgin, my favorite reality shows, Grimm, The Amazing Race, Survivor, Once Upon a Time…” -Candy from Candypalooza
- “Law & Order, Castle, Korean dramas (my secret addiction thanks to my sister).” -Aracely from Faith, Hope & Love Life
- “Mob wives… Smh so trashy but I can’t pull away.” -Jennifer
- “I became a Whovian during deployment, and also I binge-watched LOST, and The IT Crowd.” -Jaci from Me and My Soldierman
- “Bones.” -Heather
- “During deployment, it was NCIS for me.” -Melissa from Milli G Funk
- “Real Housewives of Anywhere!”- Jodi from Back on Land
- “The West Wing, Criminal Minds, Pretty Little Liars. “-Julie from Soldiers Wife Crazy Life
- “The Blacklist. Scandal. Grey’s Anatomy. Trashy reality shows. Parenthood.” Amber from Airing My Laundry
- ” NCIS, Bones, State of Affairs, Castle, Grimm, Forever.” -Elizabeth from The Reluctant Landlord
- “I love Nashville, Orange is the New Black, Game of Thrones, The Voice, The Biggest Loser, Parenthood, Real Housewives of NJ, True Tori, House Hunters, anything HGTV.” -Cameron from Military Town Advisor
- “Top Gear UK. Though that’s my binge watch all the time so it’s not too different lol. And Army Wives.” -Kara from Green Mtn Girl
So… what do you turn on when you want to watch episode after episode?
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9 Responses
The last time hubs was away I binge watched seasons 1-5 of Sons of Anarchy. Then when he got back I had to wait for him to not be home to watch the next 2 seasons as they came out since he hadn’t seen any of the previous episodes. Thankfully he worked nights so I always had some SOA time.
Oh yes, I watch tons of shows when my husband is deployed. For instance, right now I’m watching The Mindy Project. It’s awesome.
Love. Definitely can’t get enough tv during deployment. I recently watched the Americans from FX and it was amazing. Pinning of course!
Thanks, Lauren!
Love this article – and the Americans is my guilty pleasure. I started watching Season 1 with my boyfriend pre-deployment, and now I have to finish up so I can send it to him. Can’t wait to discuss the episodes with him. And yes, yes, Army Wives is also a great binge-watch.
Really liked this post! I wrote my own little list on my blog if you would like to see
Awesome! Checking it out now!
You need Broadchurch on there!