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TV show recommendations for each MBTI type

baccheion

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TV shows they selected as a favorite (on OkCupid) more frequently than other types. These aren't necessarily the shows liked by the highest percentage of a given type (which, for each type/gender combination, are consistently Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, House of Cards, and Arrested Development).

ENFJ

Females: Friday Night Lights, Happy Endings, Nurse Jackie, The Mindy Project, Scandal
Males: Penny Dreadful, The Colbert Report, Under the Dome, Entourage, Happy Endings

ENFP

Females: Sex and the City, Broad City, The Tudors, Freaks and Geeks, Lost Girl
Males: The Replacements, Trailer Park Boys, Samurai Champloo, Community

ENTJ

Females: Shark Tank, The West Wing, Silicon Valley, House of Cards, True Detective
Males: Entourage, House of Cards, The Wire, Suits, The Sopranos

ENTP

Females: NOVA, Merlin, Star Trek: TNG, Deadwood, Mad Men
Males: Real Time With Bill Maher, Planet Earth, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Californication, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

ESFJ

Females: The Voice, Project Runway, How I Met Your Mother, Friday Night Lights, Downton Abbey
Males: Naruto, The Blacklist, Regular Show, Glee, Boardwalk Empire

ESFP

Females: Arrested Development, Revenge, Saturday Night Live, Vampire Diaries, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Males: American Dad!, Arrow, Burn Notice, Workaholics, Family Guy

ESTJ

Females: The Following, West Wing, Mad Men, Glee, House of Cards
Males: Person of Interest, White Collar, Family Guy, The League, Boardwalk Empire

ESTP

Females: Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order: SVU, House of Cards, Archer, How I Met Your Mother
Males: Eastbound & Down, The League, Californication, The Walking Dead, Dexter

INFJ

Females: Lost Girl, The X-Files, Roseanne, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse
Males: FLCL, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, Frasier, The Colbert Report

INFP

Females: The Twilight Zone, The Black Adder, Twin Peaks, The Mighty Boosh, Broad City
Males: Battlestar Galactica, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Deadwood, Under the Dome, Monty Python's Flying Circus

INTJ

Females: Hannibal, Elementary, The Black Adder, Orphan Black, The Twilight Zone
Males: Farscape, Stargate, MythBusters, Death Note, Battlestar Galactica

INTP

Females: The X-Files, Sherlock, Star Trek, Death Note, The Borgias, Hannibal
Males: Babylon 5, FLCL, Farscape, Cowboy Bebop, Beyond The Wormhole

ISFJ

Females: I Love Lucy, NCIS, Pushing Daisies, Hemlock Grove, The Office
Males: Pawn Stars, The Wonder Years, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Robot Chicken, Metalocalypse

ISFP

Females: RuPaul's Drag Race, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Mighty Boosh, Misfits, Portlandia
Males: Heroes, The Simpsons, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Regular Show, Seinfeld

ISTJ

Females: Law & Order, Scandal, Parenthood, NCIS, Once Upon a Time
Males: 24, The Simpsons, Top Gear, Continuum, The Dresden Files

ISTP

Females: Supernatural, Hannibal, Sherlock, Bones, Orphan Black
Males: Archer, Key and Peele, The Boondocks, Cowboy Bebop, The Dresden Files
 

Coriolis

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Why should females and males of the various types prefer different TV entertainment?
 

BadOctopus

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Why should females and males of the various types prefer different TV entertainment?
Because obviously females are sensitive flowers who shouldn't be exposed to grittier subject matter, for fear of fainting or getting the vapors.
 

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I haven't even heard of half of these but of those listed I like Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, Sex in the City, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, the Office, the Daily Show, Farscape, Sherlock, House of Cards, and Twin Peaks
 

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I must be an ENTP male! :holy:


why has everyone been keeping this a secret from me for so long? :boohoo:
 

Doctor Cringelord

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You really don't hold ISFJ males in high intellectual esteem

These sort of lists are stupid. Anecdotal, but I know or have known people of many types who defy many stereotypes implied by this thread. My ESFJ father watches Ted Talks on netflix.
 

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A much more interesting idea could have been "shows that only this type will like". If you have Judge Judy on your planner, then 100.000% STJ
 

baccheion

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I didn't select the shows I thought they would like, this list is based entirely on what people who stated their type (10s of thousands of them) wrote in as their favorite TV shows. The only adjustment was to select shows that are selected an unusually high amount by a certain type, rather than the shows selected by the highest percentage of a certain type. That is, for example, Death Note was selected by a higher percentage of INTP females than people of other types, so it's on the list.
 

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So Elementary over Sherlock, huh? :thelook:

I do watch the Twilight Zone but I like the shows listed under ISFP males, ISTP males, and ESFJ males the most.
 

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I had a bad feeling about Under the Dome since day one, and not surprisingly it coincides with my nemesis type, the ENFJ. I always felt that show is almost entirely about how people feel about their place in society and nothing else.
 

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Since I adore talking about myself! From those, I like:
Scandal, Penny Dreadful, Broad City, House of Cards, How I Met Your Mother, Regular Show, Dexter, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, Hannibal, Sherlock, The Office, Portlandia, Seinfeld.

Where's Parks and Rec? Bob's Burgers?
 

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This is so stupid and sexist, I'm appalled.
 

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Because obviously females are sensitive flowers who shouldn't be exposed to grittier subject matter, for fear of fainting or getting the vapors.

According to this list I'm male. Whether I'm ENFJ, ENTP or ESFP has yet to be determined.
 

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For other ISTJs:

1) The Goldbergs (I think ESFJs will also enjoy this.)
2) In Treatment
 

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Why should females and males of the various types prefer different TV entertainment?

I legit was going to ask the same thing.

How come INFJ's get The X-Files? I LOVE The X-Files!

I don't watch anything that's under INFP... for female or male.

Wow. This is sad.
 
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