50 TV Shows Set in the 50 Nifty United States

Bates Motel - White Pine Bay, Oregon. Norman Bates and his mother make for one creepy duo in this prequel to the ever popular Psycho film.

Pretty Little Liars - Rosewood, Pennsylvania. The Liars' small little town could pass for Anywhere, USA, which is part of its charm.

Family Guy - Quahog, Rhode Island. Poliitical satire and dirty jokes find common ground in the fictional town of Quahog.

American Gothic - Trinity, South Carolina. If you're looking for a tragically dark show, this is the one, with a corrups sheriff, superantural powers, and cold blooded murder.

Deadwood - Deadwood, South Dakota. We love our Westerns and cowboys here in the U.S, especially when they feature the struggle of small town to acclimate to the Western Expansion!

Nashville - Nashville, Tennessee. The hometown of country music is also the hometown of one of the greatest musical shows on television. Rayna and all her fellow singers sure know how to keep a town interesting!

Friday Night Lights - Dillon, Texas. Clear eyes, full hearts, CAN'T LOSE! Unless you're a natural born Texan, you might never understand how deeply football runs in the blood down there.

Big Love - Sandy, Utah. Mormons and Utah go together like peanut butter and jelly, so of course this family drama about practicing polygamists takes place right outside of Salt Lake City!

Newhart - Norwich, Vermont. The owners and employees of the Stratford inn gave us an hour of wacky entertainment for eight seasons back in the 80s.

The Vampire Diaries - Mystic Falls, Virginia. Vampires run amuck in this fictional town in Virginia. At this point, you can't throw a stone in Mystic Falls without hitting some sort of supernatural creature.

Grey's Anatomy - Seattle, Washington. Everyone's favorite team of surgeons call the Seattle bay home, so much so that the city has really become a character itself in the show. Oh the ferryboats...

Buckwild - Charleston, West Virginia. Another of MTV's slew of reality television series, Buckwild gave us a look at how wild living life in rural West Virginia really was.

That 70's Show - Point Place, Wisconsin. A group of teenagers deals with the daily struggles of living in the 70s, creating a sitcom that will go down in the history books.

Longmire - Absaroka County, Wyoming. A country sheriff returns to work after his wife's death, but he's got to fight one of his ambitious deputies in a campagin to keep his job.