5 Binge-Worthy TV Shows Set In New Jersey

NEW JERSEY - As we close out a holiday season like no other, Patch has assembled a list of five television series set in the Garden State to fill up the downtime we all earned in 2020.

Here are our five suggestions in no particular order:

House

• The medical drama ran on the FOX Network from 2004–2012 and was in the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. The show followed the titular doctor, who was brilliant and cantankerous as he battled colleagues, diseases and his own addiction to pain killers. In one of the later seasons, exteriors of the now-demolished Greystone Psychiatric Hospital was used for a story arc that saw the lead character committed.

Nikita

• The CW action series which ran from 2010-2013, focused on an assassin and was set in and around New Jersey. The show focused on a woman who escaped from a secret government-funded organization known as Division and, after a three-year hiding period, is back to bring down the organization.

Ramy

• Ramy, which debuted in 2019, follows "a first-generation American Muslim-Arab who is on a spiritual journey in his politically divided New Jersey neighborhood. It explores the challenges of what it is like being caught between an Egyptian community that thinks life is a moral test, and a generation that thinks life has no consequences."

The Sopranos

• The HBO series that ran from 1999-2007 follows James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano: husband, father and mob boss whose professional and private strains land him in the office of his therapist. The show filmed in various parts of Essex County and other counties in New Jersey.

Boardwalk Empire

• Another HBO series that was broadcast from 2010-2014 and centered on political boss Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson runs Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition. The series is set chiefly in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the 1920s and starred Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson.

So while we here at Patch think any of these shows might help ease some boredom of a pandemic restricted Christmas we know it is by no means a comprehensive list. What are your favorite shows set in the Garden State? Share in the comments below.