What are your Top 5 TV shows of all time? (EDITed AGAIN)
imlad Send a noteboard - 09/11/2011 06:41:59 PM
For me:
1) The Wire
2) TIE: Battlestar Galactica (RDM) and Babylon 5
3) ------
4) Spooks (aka MI-5)
5) Stargate Universe
Honorable Mentions: The Sopranos, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Game of Thrones, Weeds, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate: SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Misfits. ETA: The West Wing as an honorable mention. EDITed AGAIN: Frasier as an Honorable Mention. And GORRAM! I can't believe I left off Firefly. Gonna just "cheat" and slot it in as a tie with Spooks.
The Wire is simply the best show EVER on television. PERIOD.
I put BSG (RDM) and Bab5 together at number two, since I couldn't decide between them. BSG had many more single episodes that were incredible, but Bab5 had the better overall storyline.
Spooks 10 series/season run was outstanding, and to me unlike anything else on television. In some ways, I enjoyed it better than even The Wire, but as art, it just doesn't compare to David Simon's masterpiece.
Stargate Universe is what the entire SG franchise should have tried to be; a realistic (as far as SF can go) portrayal of the way humans would react to such a situation. I loved the other 2 SG shows, but the level of tongue in cheek camp kept them from making the cut.
1) The Wire
2) TIE: Battlestar Galactica (RDM) and Babylon 5
3) ------
4) Spooks (aka MI-5)
5) Stargate Universe
Honorable Mentions: The Sopranos, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Game of Thrones, Weeds, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate: SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Misfits. ETA: The West Wing as an honorable mention. EDITed AGAIN: Frasier as an Honorable Mention. And GORRAM! I can't believe I left off Firefly. Gonna just "cheat" and slot it in as a tie with Spooks.
The Wire is simply the best show EVER on television. PERIOD.
I put BSG (RDM) and Bab5 together at number two, since I couldn't decide between them. BSG had many more single episodes that were incredible, but Bab5 had the better overall storyline.
Spooks 10 series/season run was outstanding, and to me unlike anything else on television. In some ways, I enjoyed it better than even The Wire, but as art, it just doesn't compare to David Simon's masterpiece.
Stargate Universe is what the entire SG franchise should have tried to be; a realistic (as far as SF can go) portrayal of the way humans would react to such a situation. I loved the other 2 SG shows, but the level of tongue in cheek camp kept them from making the cut.
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This message last edited by imlad on 15/11/2011 at 05:23:54 AM
What are your Top 5 TV shows of all time? (EDITed AGAIN)
- 09/11/2011 06:41:59 PM
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Now there's a tricky question.
- 09/11/2011 08:28:51 PM
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Go watch the west wing...do it now 
- 10/11/2011 12:28:08 AM
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- 10/11/2011 12:28:08 AM
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OMG stop ever other show or book you are involved in and start watching The Wire ASAP!!
- 15/11/2011 05:00:15 AM
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Obviously...you must be watching Treme too...
- 17/11/2011 03:48:08 PM
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Alas, I have not yet watched Treme. Will be soon tho... has Wendell Pierce, so I kinda have to! *NM*
- 20/11/2011 04:24:42 PM
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I might actually put Ab Fab in there too...
- 10/11/2011 01:57:24 AM
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I enjoyed 24 until the final episode of season one, and haven't bothered with it since. (spoilers)
- 10/11/2011 07:32:20 PM
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Me neither, well... mostly
- 11/11/2011 06:41:21 PM
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Been a while since I read a forum post anywhere that I agreed so comepletely with!
- 15/11/2011 05:10:45 AM
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Buffy is my life, death, and resurrection.
- 09/11/2011 09:02:09 PM
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Friends & Frasier, but no Seinfeld? *NM*
- 09/11/2011 09:03:41 PM
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There's only so much room in my top 10 list. 'sides, I put it in the "mentions" below.
- 09/11/2011 09:24:48 PM
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Buffy is only barely in the top three for its own creator. Angel & Firefly kicked its ass. *NM*
- 11/11/2011 06:09:37 AM
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Oz, Supernatural, Frasier, Dexter, Salatut Elämät (because I wanted something non-American)
- 09/11/2011 09:14:34 PM
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That's a very difficult question.
- 10/11/2011 12:15:47 AM
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Oh, I'd totally forgotten about Wonderfalls. Lovely show. *NM*
- 10/11/2011 07:37:11 PM
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Surprisingly high-quality show for one that almost no one has ever heard of. *NM*
- 10/11/2011 11:55:21 PM
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The episodes where things started culminating were some of the most interesting tv I've watched. *NM*
- 10/11/2011 11:57:54 PM
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I'm gonna have to split this up a bit....
- 11/11/2011 10:06:48 PM
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that makes two shows you list I have to watch
- 15/11/2011 06:08:16 AM
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Oz has some pretty intense themes and is *very* graphic....just so you know. *NM*
- 15/11/2011 05:35:09 PM
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Well now...
- 14/11/2011 04:46:12 PM
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I also loved Magnum, when I was a kid
- 15/11/2011 11:37:00 AM
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Saw a rerun not long ago... DAMN those shorts were short. Good theme song too. 
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- 15/11/2011 01:12:21 PM
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- 15/11/2011 01:12:21 PM
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not sure which ones I would pick but Mash would have to make the list *NM*
- 28/11/2011 05:53:19 PM
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