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Big Love

Big Love

He has three wives (played to perfection by Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin) who willingly share him between their three adjoining houses, but Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) is about to find out just how challenging life as a fundamentalist Mormon and modern-day polygamist can be for one man. more »


6%
Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad

Following the huge critical success of its first foray into the world of scripted series ("Mad Men"), AMC follows up with "Breaking Bad," about a high school chemistry teacher (played by Bryan Cranston) who finds out he has terminal cancer and decides to run a crystal meth lab on the side in order to provide for his family's financial well-being once he's gone.The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade. more »


5%
Damages

Damages

This legal thriller follows the turbulent lives of Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), the nation's most revered and reviled high-stakes litigator, and her bright, ambitious protégé Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) as they become embroiled in a class-action lawsuit targeting Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson), one of the country's wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles with Frobisher and his attorney Ray Fiske (Zeljko Ivanek), Ellen will be front and center witnessing just what it takes to win at all costs, as it quickly becomes clear that lives, as well as fortunes, may be at stake. more »


3%
Dexter

Dexter

A polite, handsome, well-respected lab technician for the Miami Dade police department who also happens to be sociopathic serial killer has learned to rein in his homicidal impulses with the help of his foster father and murders only those who truly deserve it. more »


12%
House

House

Dr. Gregory House, a surly, vicodin-addicted, and very brilliant infectious disease specialist, leads a team of young medical experts at a New Jersey teaching hospital as they investigate seemingly impossible medical mysteries no other doctors can manage to crack. House may not have much of a bedside manner, but he still manages to find himself entangled in messy romances and love triangles with his colleagues more often than his patients might imagine. more »


45%
Lost

Lost

After their airplane crashes in the Pacific, 48 disparate survivors are forced to adapt to life on a deserted island. As they get to know each other, some become friends, others enemies, and some stories remain to be told. Each survivor seems to harbor his or her own secret and dark past, and all of them must confront their own personal demons on the island. The main group consists of Jack, the doctor and de facto leader; Kate, the beautiful escaped convict; Hurley, a big man with a warm heart; Charlie, the has-been rock star dealing with a heroin habit; Sayid, a one-time Iraqi Republican Guard communications expert; Jin and Sun, a Korean couple with cultural boundaries; Sawyer, a red-neck loose cannon, Michael and his son Walt, who never really knew each other until the crash; Locke, who's suddenly and mysteriously healed of his need for a wheelchair and seems to understand some of the island's secrets; Shannon, the spoiled brat; Shannon's more giving brother, Boone; and Claire, a young woman who was pregnant during the crash and who struggles with bringing her child into the world as a castaway. The longer they spend on the island, the more hidden mysteries they discover. more »


19%
Mad Men

Mad Men

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Set in 1960's New York, this series follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising, an ego-driven world where key players make an art of the sell while their private world gets sold. Story revolves around the conflicted world of Don Draper, the biggest ad man (and ladies man) in the business, and his colleagues at the Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency. As Don makes the plays in the boardroom and the bedroom, he struggles to stay a step ahead of the rapidly changing times and the young executives nipping at his heels. more »


10%
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