Anybody can suggest me a tv series with a criminal as main character?

[Who Dares Win]

Im afraid I saw them all:

-Sopranos

-Brotherhood

-Sons of anarchy

If only there would be some tv series or movie like gta I would jizz 24/7

 

[sageproduct]

-Dexter

-Death Note

-Breaking Bad - I fwcking hate Breaking Bad but no one shuts the fwck up about it. How have you not heard of it?

 

[Who Dares Win]

-Dexter

-Death Note

-Breaking Bad - I fwcking hate Breaking Bad but no one shuts the fwck up about it. How have you not heard of it?

Didnt see the first two but watched the first 2 or 3 seasons of breaking bad till the drama passed the critic mass and forced me to quit it.
Its really a pity how many great shows get screwed up to make sure women watch them and drag advertisment money with them.

Not as bad as sons of anarchy but still too heavy.

 

[sageproduct]

Yeah I watched 2 and a half seasons of Breaking Bad and just couldn't stand it anymore because I loathed Walter White to the core of his being.

Dexter is a Showtime original. Season 7 aired this past season, but I think most people agree that only the first four or so seasons are prime quality stuff. Everyone likes Dexter.

Death Note is 37 twenty minute episodes of the most fast-paced, mind-boggling storytelling I have ever seen. The only reason why it's not mainstream is because it happens to be an anime. I think it's the anime for people who don't watch and never will watch anime. It's about a high school student who finds a notebook that has the ability to kill whoever's name is written in it, prompting this student to become a vigilante who slowly becomes deluded with a god-complex. If you give this a chance you will be blown away

 

[Blistex]

I wrote this in an earlier thread but White Collar features a criminal as one of the two main characters.

 

[Bible_Belt]

If you hate the Walter White character, at least you'll get to see him die soon.

I never watched it, but "Weeds" would be a show based on a criminal.

Criminals are much more likely to be in movies than be the main character in a continuing show, because people have a need to see the bad guy get what he deserves. That's what typically happens to a criminal in a movie. The only way to string along a tv show plot about a bad guy is to deny him his punishment for being a bad guy in every episode. It takes an endearing character for viewers to be ok with that - like the soccer mom from Weeds or Walter White the chemistry teacher.

 

[Fatal Jay]

((((((((((((((((((DEXTER)))))))))))))))

if you haven't seen, then you missing out

 

[sageproduct]

If you hate the Walter White character, at least you'll get to see him die soon.

I stopped watching the show. If I hear that Walt FINALLY dies, I will jump to the episode, no the SCENE, that he dies in, watch it, and then be done with Breaking Bad forever.

The only way to string along a tv show plot about a bad guy is to deny him his punishment for being a bad guy in every episode.

Nuh-uh. Watch Dexter. In our society it doesn't get much worse than serial killer, and that's what Dexter is. I'd bet you that for a strong majority of Dexter viewers, it's not about "being ok" with him not getting punished, it's about hoping that the eponymous protagonist does not get caught.

 

[Down Low]

I'm watching reruns of The Rockford Files on Hulu.

Jim Rockford (James Garner), a low-maintenance private eye, spent five years in prison before being pardoned by the Governor. His father (Noah Beery Jr.), lawyer Beth Davenport (Gretchen Corbett), former prison mate Angel Martin (Stuart Margolin), and can-I-get-this-plate-run friend of convenience LAPD Sergeant Dennis Becker (Joe Santos) are dragged along on Jim's detective adventures on "closed cases, only... my fee is $200 a day plus expenses."

Bonus: Garner does his own stunt driving in a cool 1970s Pontiac.

The decades dragged by with no TV drama even running close to the quality of this one. In 2007, Burn Notice emerged with a similar flavor of hero. While the lead character, Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) is not an ex-con, he is afoul of the law in an extreme way.

 

[Scars]

-Dexter

-Death Note

-Breaking Bad - I fwcking hate Breaking Bad but no one shuts the fwck up about it. How have you not heard of it?

All good suggestions here. I got pissed when they got rid of Dexter on Netflix, so I'm way behind.

Death Note, is by far the best anime I've ever seen. I realize not everyone is into that kind of stuff, but it really makes you think. Good stuff.

Breaking Bad is good, but overrated IMO.

I think what you're looking for mostly is shows/movies that follow sociopaths. That seems to be what nearly all of these shows have in common.

-Scars

 

[Purefilth]

Shield. Or maybe its 'the shield' ?

7 seasons anyway. Corrupt police- proper bad ones.

 

[Who Dares Win]

Shield. Or maybe its 'the shield' ?

7 seasons anyway. Corrupt police- proper bad ones.

I liked that one really great series, pity that they had to inject some poisonous drama, as if we needed a divorce and a autistic kid in an action series about corrupt cops, same sh1t as the sick kid and the drug-addict mother of the sons of anarchy main character.

 

[Purefilth]

I liked that one really great series, pity that they had to inject some poisonous drama, as if we needed a divorce and a autistic kid in an action series about corrupt cops, same sh1t as the sick kid and the drug-addict mother of the sons of anarchy main character.

I know, right?
Totally wound me up havin all that crap - show was good enough.

I did appreciate the ending though.

 

[sageproduct]

All good suggestions here. I got pissed when they got rid of Dexter on Netflix, so I'm way behind.

Dexter was on Netflix?!?!

Death Note, is by far the best anime I've ever seen. I realize not everyone is into that kind of stuff, but it really makes you think. Good stuff.

I actually like Code Geass even better. The theme of power corrupting is just as prevalent, yet there are so many other motifs occuring. It's just as intense, and I found the characters to be much more compelling in Code Geass than in Death Note. However, it is more anime-y

 

[Scars]

Yes, Dexter was on Netflix for awhile, then I guess their contract ended or something. It seems to happen to all my favorite shows/movies.

-Scars

 

[twentee]

way back when, there was a TV show "the fugitive". David something or other was the actor. might be available to watch on the net, somehow.