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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

What?
Four underachieving losers hatch doomed money-making schemes while running a bar called Paddy’s. Into the ground.

Why?
Once it finds its feet in season two, ‘IASIP’ becomes a classic laugh-at-and-laugh-with underdog story. Danny DeVito recalls his ‘Taxi’ heyday as the Paddy’s patriarch, every character is utterly, gloriously reprehensible and the crude humour busts taboos with gleeful, subversive abandon.

Where and when?
Seasons one to eight on Netflix.

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