The notion of a television show that practically demands you keep watching it is here to stay. TV series are made to suck you in, and not just for advertiser dollars — buying the dvd boxsets means you can smash through those shows in a marathon of viewing. Check out these 5 crazily addictive ones.

#5 “Gossip Girl”

It’s like Melrose Place or the O.C., just a bunch of rich kinda crazy people doing awful things to each other. But there’s no question that these spoiled private-school manhattanites make for a compelling viewing experience that keeps people watching.

#4 “True Blood”

Sure, this TV series is about trendy vampires, but takes it all in a completely different direction from Twilight and its ilk. Once you start following the whole Sookie Stackhouse story closely, you’ll realize you’ve been completely hooked, and the only way to wean yourself is by finishing all the seasons.

#3 Jersey Shore.

It’s rare to find a reality show this compulsively watchable, but these semi-crazy people and their antics in a shorehouse for the summer make people absolutely keep watching. This is a TV series about crazy extroverts, a bunch of lions in a den all together, repeatedly exploding. You can’t stop.

#2 The Office

Sure, it’s an ironic show that mocks the modern office environment, but they’ve managed to write in an absolutely wonderful romance story that has got practically the entire country hooked on this show and the ups and downs of its characters, and when you watch this tv series on dvd, you realize how well they’ve planned this all along.

#1 Lost.

Undoubtedly done to be one of the most addictive series ever made, Lost keeps a global viewing population riveted to their screens with the oldest trick in the book — cliffhangers and the ’serial’ model that reveals, bit-by-bit, a little piece of the whole. There’s really nothing like it.

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