I have never watched much television, in fact, unless you count Neighbours and Home and Away in my school years I have never even watched a soap. I mean I do watch some stuff – there is sometimes a decent 3 part drama on and I do love a good dose of Downton Abbey for pure escapism.

My husband sometimes highlights certain programmes that have received particularly glowing reviews so we’ll watch those together but generally if I have any spare relaxation time (!) then I’ll be reading a magazine or a book, catching up with friends or having a mooch for things to buy, see and do on my iPad.

Every so often however we’ll become totally absorbed in a box set, even more so now we have Mabel – I seem to need that “sit on the sofa and completely lose yourself in fiction” mentality to actually switch off from work 100%.

Whilst I was expecting we became obsessed with Breaking Bad – along with the rest of the world. And then a friend recommended The Good Wife….Oh my goodness. I LOVED IT. I now officially have a huge crush on Julianna Margulies who plays the leading lady Alicia Florrick (pictured above). For those of you that have seen it I can’t believe what happened happened in the last series?! I might have actually cried real tears… and now we’re stuck. Because I don’t really know what box set to watch next, nothing really appeals.

When I say “box set” I realise that’s pretty old skool these days, although I do miss the tangible DVDs purely from a nostalgia perspective. We’ve got Netflix and we’ve had a bash at “Orange Is The New Black”, it’s ok. I’m not sure I like any of the characters enough to really care what happens to them. Except maybe the strange French lady who seems to have been in unrequited love with some bloke called Bernard since she was twelve. James likes it even less than me.

We are both very much enjoying Ray Donovan at the moment, it’s not like anything I’ve ever seen before which makes it particularly addictive. Plus there is something shady/naughty/peculiar happening in every single episode, you literally never quite know what’s going to happen next. For those of you that have no clue what I’m on about, it’s an American crime drama set in L.A, Liev Schreiber plays “Ray” and Jon Voight plays his father. Both are excellent. Apparently the pilot broke records for viewership, I’d recommend you give it a go but there is quite a lot of violence so avoid if you are not a fan of guns and bloodshed. Unfortunately we’ve caught up with the first series and have to wait for a Tuesday evening for an episode of the second. Hence this post. I could really do with your box set/series/Netflix recommendations.

What has been your favourite ever series?

Is there anything you think we would enjoy? We’re not fussed on genre particularly.

We’ve seen the first ever episode of the West Wing recently but I’m not sure I can deal with the fact it’s so very…90’s. How very shallow of me. I’m tempted to watch another just to see if I can see past the bizarrely outdated fashions and technology.

Oh and my guilty pleasure? Got To Dance. Brilliant. My long-term bikini waxing ladies’ son was part of the duo that won the whole thing.

Ahem. Random fact of the day for you there folks!

*Added at 11.43 am, a reader has just reminded me – Top Of The Lake. You HAVE to see it. The acting, plot line and scenery/cinematography are out of this world. One of the best things I’ve seen in years. It’s a drama series set in New Zealand, I was hooked from the first five minutes. Elizabeth Moss (she plays Peggy Olsen in mad men) is bloody amazing.