Best TV Shows

[HiAndTight]

The Sopranos is one of my top 10 favorite shows of all time...

 

Sons of Anarchy (Sopranos on motorcycles) is also in my top 10.

 

I have not seen the Wire, but have been told it is great! I did enjoy The Shield, but often felt dirty after viewing it.

 

Love Justified, also a great series.

 

Sorry for the random comments.

 

Isn't this the point?

 

I loved SOA, and Justified. The Soprano's might be my favorite series ever....pretty far up there. Never saw the shield. I'll have to try it out.

 

I watch so much stuff, mainly probably 90 pct of the shows I watch I'm doing something else. Maybe not the best for nuance, but for these shows, I felt like I got most of it. I mean...none were really all that deep.

[HiAndTight]

 

I have literally never seen a second of The Sopranos or The Wire.

 

 

I guarantee you've "literally" seen at least 1 second of the Sopranos in some format. And probably the Wire.

 

I actually never watched the Wire though. I just tried to think of the most popular shows and figured you'd instinctively dislike them so as to be a contrarian! I was wrong....instead of not liking them, you just refused to watch them!

[HiAndTight]

GoT never pulled me in. I watched the first two seasons and found it to be good, a worthy time killer, but I never saw it as this unbelievable masterpiece I had to stop time for.

 

Breaking Bad was a much better all-around show in my opinion. Just more creative and better written.

 

 

If you watched for 2 seasons and you didn't get on board, you were never going to be a big fan.

 

Again, some of these shows are just much better when you binge watch them. Not like....quit your job and watch 6 straight days of TV so you look like a crack head-binge watch, but like 3-4 shows in a row.

 

I tired GoT and Breaking Bad a couple times and couldn't get more than 2-3 episodes in before I finally ended up watching both series.

 

 

Hector Salamanchia ringing his bell...one of the best scenes in TV history!

[HiAndTight]

Breaking Bad was a much better all-around show in my opinion. Just more creative and better written.

 

Guessing you had equal disdain for the Wire

 

 

Family Guy trying to make this joke is pretty funny and not in the way they wanted it to be

 

 

 

You're gonna need to spell it out for me a little bit more. I get the joke...I don't get the joke in the way they didn't mean for it to be a joke.

 

My only thought would be when Brian says "we're slowing down" and that'd be funny because Family Guy has gotten pretty bad the last few years. Is that what you meant?

 

 

On, and on the topic of Seth McFareland, the Orville is a surprisingly NOT terrible show. I was never a Star Trek fan and the Orville is kinda the show I watch like...the week before Christmas or whenver all the other shows are off the air and I need something to catch up, but it manages to somehow actually be funny, but also be a more realistic sci-fi show than I'd have thought when I first heard about it.

[TURBO]

 

 

Hector Salamanchia ringing his bell...one of the best scenes in TV history!

 

I am assuming you also watch Better Call Saul?

 

Another great show!

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I was just pointing out that Family Guy is about mindless as it gets. It's a show that requires minimal creativity and is just a nonstop random joke gag. "Remember the time I did that crazy thing," insert random thing Peter did. "Oh, you mean like that one time when..." insert current event gag. You can sit down and watch any random episode and still get it.

 

I don't even dislike the show and think it has been incredibly funny, but that's what it is. The episode of South Park where they mocked it was making that point and was pretty spot on. If I were comparing to South Park, there's really no comparison in terms of ingenuity. That's fine, because you don't have to be ingenious to be funny.

 

This is also why it's remained relevant so long. Because its formula is timeless and it never tries to be more than it is.

[homer]

 

This is also why it's remained relevant so long. Because its formula is timeless and it never tries to be more than it is.

 

Also because people are easily amused.

[OnTheBlack]

I was just pointing out that Family Guy is about mindless as it gets. It's a show that requires minimal creativity and is just a nonstop random joke gag. "Remember the time I did that crazy thing," insert random thing Peter did. "Oh, you mean like that one time when..." insert current event gag. You can sit down and watch any random episode and still get it.

 

I don't even dislike the show and think it has been incredibly funny, but that's what it is. The episode of South Park where they mocked it was making that point and was pretty spot on. If I were comparing to South Park, there's really no comparison in terms of ingenuity. That's fine, because you don't have to be ingenious to be funny.

 

This is also why it's remained relevant so long. Because its formula is timeless and it never tries to be more than it is.

 

 

Yeah, I wouldn't describe the show as being real witty. The Simson's however have been around forever and have pretty much been the Nostradamus of our era! Trump as President and...lots of other things that I can't think of. But there are lists.

 

Family guy is definitely stupid comedy and it was funny because it was not politically correct and went at big stars.

[OnTheBlack]

 

 

Hector Salamanchia ringing his bell...one of the best scenes in TV history!

 

I am assuming you also watch Better Call Saul?

 

Another great show!

 

 

I do. But after the season on Netflix. Again, just another show that's better when you can watch 2 or 3 at a time.

 

 

Now Game of Thrones tonight was awesome. Arya is the scariest little chick I've ever seen on TV.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I haven't watched the Simpsons for about a decade, but I did love the show and still occasionally look up my favorite scenes. I think it's probably burned out, but if some people still enjoy it, that's cool. One thing I never appreciated when I did watch it but have researched since, is how often they made references to classic films and pop culture. There's a website out there that tracks it and it's literally hundreds if not thousands of times. A lot of them are subtle and probably not caught by most people.

[tmwiese55]

Agree with the Shield watchers. PRobably the most underrated show out there. never gets its name thrown in with the all time greats when it might be #1 of this TV Boom era. Last time I looked it up out of curiosity it wasn't on Netflix or Hulu though, I don't know why, but that's probably killing it's popularity.

[trwi7]

I guarantee you've "literally" seen at least 1 second of the Sopranos in some format. And probably the Wire.

 

You really underestimate how little I care about shows like this. I've probably seen the ending of The Sopranos because it was the fade to black thing that pissed everyone off but I can guarantee that I've never seen a second of The Wire.

[TURBO]

How does the Wire compare to The Shield? Being a Sheild fan, I was told by several people I would also like the Wire...

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I've never seen a second of The Wire. I've probably seen a second of Soprano's when I happened to walk through a room and Entertainment Tonight was on or something and they had a clip. But if I've seen The Wire I don't remember it. Didn't watch either show. Don't really watch most big shows, though I've gotten a bit more into them the last couple years. Handmaid's Tale is excellent.

 

Most HBO/Showtime stuff I've never seen.

[homer]

The Wire is arguably the best TV show ever. It's on most critics top five lists of best all time.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I've always heard it's great but just never got around to it. If it were on Netflix I would have watched it by now. I just have minimal energy for seeking out shows and basically need them dropped off for me.

[sveumrules]

Haven't seen it mentioned yet so, Twin Peaks.

 

First two seasons are on Netflix currently. The first season might be one of the greatest seasons of television ever. Second season gets a little uneven since Lynch kinda checked out for awhile after the network made him reveal the killer, but he came back at the end & closed things out perfectly to set things up for...

 

Twin Peaks: The Return, which I hesitate to even call TV. It's more like an 18 hour film that was split into episodes out of necessity. Even though it's been almost two years since it aired, it still manages to work it's way into my head with regularity.

[TURBO]

Twin Peaks has always been on my to do list, have just never gotten around to checking it out...

[TURBO]

I haven't seen the HBO prison drama, OZ, mentioned anyplace yet. That show was must see for me back in the day...

 

Others that deserve some recognition imo:

 

Deadwood: Oh how I wish they had given this one more time...

Fargo

Entourage : A guy show, but found it entertaining as hell.

The League

Eastbound & Down

Mad Men

NYPD Blue

[SeaBass]

I really thought season 1 of Homeland on Showtime was amazing television. I stuck around and watched the next few seasons, which were good but decreasingly so year by year. They never matched season 1. Season 1 is worth a stand alone viewing IMO, a self-contained story that doesn't require you to keep watching subsequent seasons. Utterly gripping edge of your seat stuff.

 

I'm also a sucker for LOST, that's a pretty polarizing show though. Some people had issues with how it ended. During its regular airing I remember being a little confused by the ending and what it meant, but I rewatched all 6 seasons a year or so ago and binge watching it really cemented it for me as one of the great shows. The twists and turns and reveals were as good as any show. I wish I could watch it again for the first time.

[homer]

I really thought season 1 of Homeland on Showtime was amazing television. I stuck around and watched the next few seasons, which were good but decreasingly so year by year. They never matched season 1. Season 1 is worth a stand alone viewing IMO, a self-contained story that doesn't require you to keep watching subsequent seasons. Utterly gripping edge of your seat stuff.

 

I feel the same about House of Cards. The first season was incredible and they've just gone downhill since then. I didn't even watch last season. I guess you could say the same about True Detective. Season one was an all timer, season two really stink and season three was pretty good.

[SeaBass]

Agree on House of Cards, I only watched two or three seasons but that first season was really good.

[TURBO]

I stuck with House of Cards. First season was definitely the high point.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

House of Cards lost me at the threesome with the body guard. One of the worst *** moments I've ever watched in TV. I kept going, but never finished the last season without Spacey.

[TURBO]

...threesome with the body guard. One of the worst *** moments I've ever watched in TV.

 

for sure... that was just bad tv.