Babylon 5

I like "Justified".

Personally I really liked "Breaking Bad". It was a no brainer, but fun, and had some incidents that made you jump out of your chair once in a while. But then again, I have a sick mind. Also liked "Hell on Wheels", seemed like a bit of history with a twist. I especially liked it until Dominique left the show, but then again, I'm just a dirty old man who has but memories to keep me going.

You can't go wrong with the original Twilight Zone episodes. I keep watching them over and over again. And Seinfeild keeps me laughing as well - perhaps the best comedy series - ever - and so politically incorrect.

Have you checked out "Arrested Development," yet? That show is hilarious!

Friends & I decided with you --- we created a "history" night. We began just after the dinosaurs, skipped Egypt & Rome --- because we had already been there --- moved right into the middle ages and are now entering early Renaissance art. It has taken a few years but it has been a great trip. Documentaries are the way to go & we have dinner while we watch. The one that took the longest to watch was the philosophers which required a lot of pauses while we discussed what we were learning.

The Walking Dead. lol

Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, Robin Hood, Luther, Death In Paradise, Jericho, Orange is the New Black, and O's who are into romanticism like House of Cards. I did not

Can you access When a City Falls ?
It is exactly my city's story of 2010/11. It starts just as a doco of the first event. As the story just keeps happening, including the death of one of the team. At the start its a story, in part, of trying to repair the catholic cathedral. But yeah by june 2011 forget it.
I posted in new year 2013 of my reflections from my Rand-based perspective - as the city fell but i didnt. This doco gets the experience of those 2 years and 11,000 events spot on. According to me.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned 24.

No real order here ...
Babylon 5 - Deeply philosophical and one of the first series that killed off major characters way before George RR
Breaking Bad - Like B5 above, a masterpiece partly because of the planned story arc. Beginning, middle and end.
Game of Thrones - as long as we're talking George RR
The Prisoner (1960's series) - A psychological battle with lots of Objectivist content.
Justified - The best written show currently on TV.
Sons of Anarchy - Outlaws as capitalists.
Person of Interest
Ray Donovan
Halt and Catch Fire

Not sure which are available on Netflix.
I also want to put a plug in for my favorite TV tracking site tvmuse.com Set up a free acount and it allows you to save and track all the shows you follow, including various ways to notify you when new episodes are out. For each episode, people post thoughts as well as streaming links. The site itself does not host or promote the links, more like friends sharing content, but that's a whole nuther topic.

My wife and I liked the series, Mr. Selfridge. It is about a mostly rational individualist business man with a family that starts and maintains a business collaborating with many other individuals. He never takes the immorally seductive “by any means necessary” route to achieve his ends (in business.) The one time he did sacrifice his time for a "societal duty” away from his business, his enemies caused his reputation to go to hell. “Society” didn't much care.

We rather like "Murdock" - it's a detective series set in Canada around 1890 time frame

I Don't see JUSTIFIED

Burn Notice.
Not only does it tell an exciting story with interesting characters, it actually explains how and why the spy techniques are used.
Spartacus
The first season only which is all about gladiators and how they train, the politics of the gladiator slave owners and lots of tradition and verbal structure are presented. Very authentic and well researched. Lots of graphic sex, however, if that bothers you.
Fringe
A S.F. series utilizing much recent quantum theory. A little politics but nothing blatantly progressive. Some good special effects and better than average acting and writing.

Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, Orange is the New Black (1st season only), Firefly. Also, Avatar: the Last Airbender is probably the highest-quality TV show i've ever watched in terms of plot, themes, and character development. It's animated, so good if you want to watch with kids too.

Merlin (BBC production) is good. Also liked BBC Sherlock a LOT.

Second mention for Babylon 5, Jericho. And Firefly (skip the movie).

Sure-24, Boardwalk Empire and Downton Abbey. Hope you and your wife enjoy these as much as we do .

I'm almost thru season 1 of Miami Vice. After I'm finished with the series, Magnum PI will be next.

Most likely not what you are looking for but my 7 year old and I are making our way thru MacGyver.

If you haven't watched any of Tom Selleck's "Jesse Stone" movies, you have a major treat ahead of you. I think there's eight of them so far, based on Robert Parker's character (which I haven't yet read.) Stone is of the "flawed hero" mold - struggling with alcoholism and a divorce from a woman he still loves - but the stories are good, Selleck's acting is outstanding, and the whole mood, though somber and often sad, is elevated to an almost poetic beauty by Jeff Beal's excellent music. Not to be missed, IMO. But it's advisable to find a series list and watch them in order, because there are references to prior events throughout.

I've been a big fan of the British series "Midsomer Murders" for years and was delighted to discover that my monthly eight bucks gets me the entire production run. John Nettles (since retired from the series,) plays the admirable and reason-dedicated detective Tom Barnaby from Carolyn Graham's books, accompanied by a succession of sidekicks (high turnover in that position for some odd reason.)

The stories are "good-not-great," but always interesting; the cast of characters is always extensive and just as interesting (it's great to see characters who are "characters," as in: people with unique personalities, vs. the cookie-cutter of "cool" that's blandified American drama for decades,) and the setting - the pastoral but upscale villages in eastern England - is like another character in itself. Intellectual "comfort food" I suppose, but good stuff, particularly if you're looking for a modern echo of Agatha Christie.

Oyeah, it's also a veritable who's-who of British acting royalty, with cameos from everyone imaginable, and often unimaginable.

The chief downside is that the producers adopted, early on, a frivolous, tongue-in-cheek attitude toward the series that occasionally manifests itself in the drama itself - the notoriously high per-episode body count for instance, that's led people to speculate that if it were a real place it would soon be uninhabited.

The sheer quantity of characters in any given episode can be daunting to keep track of too - almost to the point where you need to jot down notes (or maybe I'm just pre-Alzheimer's?) But it's a happy addiction and there's no discernible political axe being ground in any of it, unless it's an oblique lampooning of the foibles of the British upper crust.

Another I've just sampled (the first episode,) is "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries," an Australian series about a wealthy '20s flapper who delves into detective work. Implausible and not too deep, but interesting so far.

On the recommendation of a sibling I watched "The Fall" with Gillian Anderson. It's a short police procedural about a serial murderer (five episodes to date, in a single story arc, with more in the can but not yet released.) The acting is phenomenal and the setting (Northern Ireland,) is interesting, but I'm not a big fan of heavy-malevolence serial murder stories, so by the end of episode 5 I was both annoyed that the story is unresolved but glad to be done with it. 'Caveat emptor on that one. I'm happy to report that Gillian Anderson has grown up since the X Files days though, in an excellent way. I could easily see her as Dagny Taggart, though I assume she'd be politically antagonistic to all things objectivist.

I could recommend some movies too, but I assume you're more interested in series, so I'll wrap this up 'cause it's getting lengthy.

Actually, there may be some choices, and that is fun. "Top Gear" (the British version) is always in trouble for not being PC.
"Castle" sneaks in remarks about government overstepping or anti-PC, anti-socialism quite frequently. Nathan Fillion is Canadian, and it is usually his character who does the little remarks.
We always found "NCIS" to be anti-PC, they hug, they snipe, they drive muscle cars, way to go Mark Harmon.
There are always the reruns of the "Waltons", where kids respected parents and went to church, which must drive the PC crowd crazy.
I also loved early "House", what a character, but it went down the tubes when the whiney munchkin doctors with their PC views came on and Cuddy got slutty.

Breaking Bad. We will never be graced with such a brilliant program again. That one can never be topped.

Can you more specifically specify what you are looking for?

Now that I think of it we really enjoyed going through Morse, a detective in Oxford. We got those from Netflix then we got all of the Inspector Lewis series. Just rented The Railway Man from Netflix . Incredible.