Television indecision

More dithering over what I should watch next. (the title should also include movies, but I liked the way it sounded as it is) 

Speaking of actor -gårds (remember that Slate thing?), I thought that maybe it would be interesting to watch things with other -gårds in them, like Alexander Skarsgård, a Swedish actor, son of Stellan Skarsgård, also a Swedish actor. -gaard is an alternative spelling of -gård; in the Scandinavian languages, å can be written aa if absolutely necessary. In German they do not have a letter å. They do however have ß and vowels with umlauts. 

As far as things with Alexander Skarsgård to watch, there's an HBO series he was in just about 10 years ago called Generation Kill. It is based off of an eponymous book about what it was like for American soldiers in the beginning of the Iraq War. Apparently I keep getting drawn to things about war, which today I developed a theory on. Having no personal experience or familiarity with war/the military, one of the ways I can attempt to understand it/familiarize myself with it is via movies and tv. Obviously there are limitations to this because movies and tv aren't necessarily 100% realistic, but the point still stands. 

 HBO has done a number of things that I think could be interesting to watch - Oz (starring a pre-SVU Chris Meloni as a prisoner), The Wire (which I've heard is very good), The Night Of (based on a British show that I watched a few years ago because it had Ben Whishaw in it). Unfortunately I do not have an HBO subscription :( Apparently HBO costs $15 a month, which seems like kind of a lot. Maybe I could have a subscription for only one month, watch all the stuff I want to in that period, and then cancel the subscription. I wonder if that'd be practical and if other people do that. 

I ideally wanted to watch a good drama type (not as in soap opera, as in normal levels of non soap opera drama) show, which maybe The West Wing would've worked for if I'd liked the first episode better. I thought that the show The Mindy Project, a comedy, might be interesting, but it's not on Netflix. So the dithering continues... 

As far as Sarsgaard movies go, I'm going to make a rough list of the ones I'm interested in seeing, somewhat in order (and none of which are on Netflx... :( .
An Education
Boys Don't Cry
Flightplan
Jackie
Robot and Frank
Kinsey
The Skeleton Key
Pawn Sacrifice
Garden State
Orphan
The Salton Sea (also has Vincent in it, as a noseless drug dealer [I think])