Have you ever finished a TV series and wondered what you were going to do with you spare time after it? Maybe start a new series? If so, what fictional characters are you going to get emotionally attached to next?

There are hundreds of choices on Netflix, but I recommend five.

“One Tree Hill”

This series follows the eventful lives of high school kids in Tree Hill, a small town in North Carolina, where the greatest source of pride is the high school basketball team.

Two half brothers who have a fervent passion for the game of basketball also share a passion for the same girl.

Coming from different families, Nathan is a son of privilege and the All-Star player for his local high school team.

Whereas Lucas is the son of a single working mother — Karen — who also plays basketball but is not on an All-Star team.

When an unexpected event takes place, it forces Nathan and Lucas on the same team, finding themselves not only competing on the court but off the court to score the heart of the one they both love.

Their father, Dan, has a few secrets of the past that are revealed throughout the season.

This suspenseful TV show will leave you emotional during all nine seasons.

“Breaking Bad”

When chemistry teacher Walter White is diagnosed with stage 3 cancer and is only given a few years to live, he takes matters into his own hands.

With this tragic news he decides he has nothing to lose and goes and does what he can with his final years.

Walter lives with his teenage son, who has cerebral palsy — a congenital disorder of movement, muscle tone, or posture, and his wife in New Mexico.

White’s last wish is to ensure that his family will have a secure future without him around.

Walter goes down the road of drugs and crime after deciding this is what needs to happen for his family to have a future without worry.

The series takes you on an adventure with Walter when he began to sell methamphetamine (meth), and you get an insight to how his fatal diagnosis of cancer turns him into a person he does not even recognize.

“Orange is the New Black”

This is the story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her 30s who is sentenced to 15 months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting money to her drug-dealing girlfriend.

Piper leaves this life behind, along with her girlfriend, and meets a man named Larry, whom she falls in love. They then move to New York together.

Eventually, Piper’s drug-dealing past catches up with her, and she is convicted under drug charges.

She pleads guilty in order to avoid a maximum sentence and is sentenced to a federal prison for 15 months in Danbury, Conn.

Along the way, Piper makes several friends and is able to learn about all of their pasts.

Encountering events she never thought she would, and turning into the person she never thought she would, Piper takes you on a journey of what prison is like with her eyes.

“Prison Break”

After Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) is wrongly accused and sent to prison, his brother Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller), an engineer who helped design the jail, sets out on a mission to save Lincoln, who insists that the court wrongfully convicted him.

Michael robs a bank in order to be sent to the prison so he can break out his older brother.

Lincoln was convicted of the murder of Terrence Steadman (Jeff Perry), the brother of the vice president of the United States.

Sentenced to death, Lincoln and his brother form a brilliant plan of escape.

Michael is friendly with the workers of the jail, considering he helped design it. His friend Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), the doctor at the jail, has an important part in the show.

When Micheal claims he is suffering from diabetes, it draws Tancredi’s attention. This allows Micheal to get all the ins and outs of the jail, leading him and his brother one step closer to escape.

“Pretty Little Liars”

The title of this dramatic series is exactly what the show is about — beautiful girls who compulsively lie to hide their secrets.

Throughout the show, four teen girls (Aria, Hanna, Spencer, and Emily) have their worlds turned upside down when their friend Alison goes missing.

Alison’s body is discovered shortly after one of the girls returns home from vacation.

The four girls start receiving anonymous and threatening text messages from a number they have never seen and is untraceable. The texts are signed “A.”

The hunt is on when it comes to finding out who “A” truly is.

The girls each have a deep, dark secret they do not want exposed, but when “A” knows everything, their secrets are bound to get out.

The liars were involved in a freak accident that left one of their friends blind. No one knows their dirty little secret, so they are trying to find “A” before she finds them, or worse … lets their secrets out.

Starting one of these series is bound to keep you on the edge of your seat.

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