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"  Photo: 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection This holiday season, no matter what your background is, there is almost certainly bound to be some mandatory family bonding in your very near future. So how are you coping? According to a new study released by Netflix, you&amp;#039;re watching a LOT of TV--about 58% of the audience surveyed said sitting there watching television would be the highlight of their Christmas Day. So if you need an extra escape route from the sibling drama and constant needling over &amp;quot;when are you getting married&amp;quot;/&amp;quot;why aren&amp;#039;t you an [insert desired profession here]&amp;quot;/&amp;quot;why is your hair like that,&amp;quot; etc., rest assured you&amp;#039;re in good company. Here, we&amp;#039;ve rounded up our top 10 suggestions for your ultimate holiday binge.  Photo: Kent Eanes/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images 30 Rock: Catch all seven seasons of this shamelessly under-watched satirical comedy cleverly written by and starring the inimitable Tina Fey as the always put-upon Liz Lemon (or &amp;quot;Lesbian Yellow Sour Fruit,&amp;quot; Oh, just watch it). The show is especially hilarious if you live in New York and work in some sort of media. Plus, who can resist the famously liberal Alec Baldwin playing an ultra conservative, elitist Ivy League executive?  Photo: Scott Garfield/ABC via Getty Images Alias: Badass double agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) not only possessed serious enemy butt-kicking skills and absurdly cool spy-girl toys, she also went through some of the best costume changes on millennial TV. Plus, check out a pre-hunk-era Bradley Cooper, who plays the bookish reporter best friend. Arrested Development: Banana stands, a brilliantly (and perpetually) exasperated Jason Bateman, a character named George Michael Bluth (Michael Cera) and Tobias F\u00FCnke&amp;#039;s (David Cross) &amp;quot;never nude&amp;quot; outfit consisting of too-short-jorts\u2014it&amp;#039;s a guaranteed 68 episodes (including this last Netflix-only season) filled with clever, snarky, inside-joke-worthy laughter. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: So much more than a vampire series, Buffy is hands down the best girl-power show of the &amp;#039;90s (and a pre-cursor to Veronica Mars), but with demons, bloodsuckers and a hellmouth as allegories for teen angst. It&amp;#039;s so smart and filled with laugh-out-loud pop culture references. Plus, the Salvatore brothers and Eric Northman will be but a distant memory after you experience the OG vampire heartthrob, Angel (David Boreanaz).  Photo: Bill Records/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Friday Night Lights: Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can&amp;#039;t Lose, guys. FNL is so much more than a show about football in a small Texas town full of ridiculously good-looking young people. There&amp;#039;s love, drama, suspense, tragic accidents, tears, (lots of tears), stellar acting (a post-The Wire and pre-Fruitvale Station Michael B. Jordan) and, three words: shirtless. Tim. Riggins (Taylor Kitsch). Lost: While the ending may have antagonized the Internet and die-hard Losties, the lead-up six seasons of this J.J. Abrams-helmed series will have you on the edge of your couch and give you much to discuss at those long family meals. Polar bears! The Hatch! Smokey! Sawyer&amp;#039;s abs! Prime Suspect: British procedurals are seriously the best\u2014amazing writing, twisty suspenseful mysteries and zero BS\u2014but they&amp;#039;re even better when the supreme Helen Mirren stars as one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors (that&amp;#039;s what they call it over there) at Scotland Yard, Jane Tennison. Forget the Stateside (and canceled) version and go with the original, groundbreaking Prime Suspect. All seven seasons of it. Skins (UK): While the short-lived American remake of Skins on MTV is just fine, the original series set in the southwest English town of Bristol is so much more compelling. It follows three generations and seven seasons of &amp;quot;sixth form&amp;quot;-ers (like our juniors and seniors) through pretty much any and every trial and tribulation a teenager can go through. (Plus, you get to see how Slumdog Millionaire Dev Patel got his start.) The West Wing: Forget The Newsroom (sorry Newsroom fans!): this is Aaron Sorkin at his finest. At the time, it gave viewers hope during bleak political times. Today, the rapid fire dialogue, the unabashed romaticism about politics, and the potential of our country still hold up. And don&amp;#039;t get us started on the characters. Martin Sheen as President Bartlet, the late John Spencer as Leo, Bradley Whitford as Josh, a dreamy Rob Lowe as Sam Seaborn, Dul\u00E9 Hill as Charlie, and, we saved the best for last, Allison Janney as C.J. Cregg. They&amp;#039;ll all feel like your friends by the end, and you&amp;#039;ll be sad to see them go.   Photo: 20th Century Fox/Courtesy Everett Collection The X-Files: Yes, this addictive series has aliens, the paranormal, monsters and the CREEPIEST of inbred backwoods mutant families ever (seriously, that episode terrifies us to this day), but ultimately The X-Files is the most rewarding for the chemistry between the two lead FBI agents awesomely played by Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny. Before Bones and Booth and Castle and Beckett, there was the believing Mulder and the skeptical Scully, so please, please can there be another The X-Files movie? Honorable mentions:  Photo: Chris Haston/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank Freaks and Geeks: This Judd Apatow-produced show set in a Michigan high school was a bit before its time, getting the axe 12 episodes into its first and only season. But all 18 episodes are here in their Apatovian glory starring early aughts-era James Franco, Seth Rogan, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini, and John Francis &amp;quot;Dr. Sweets from Bones&amp;quot; Daley. Top of the Lake: Technically a mini-series, this creepy mystery set in misty New Zealand stars Elisabeth Moss (aka Peggy from Mad Men and Zoey from The West Wing) rockin&amp;#039; a pretty decent Kiwi accent and will keep you intrigued all the way through to the very twisty ending. So happy holidays and binge-watching to all! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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