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Nominate Your Favorite TV Show (Pick top five!)

Boardwalk Empire
6 (6.4%)
House
4 (4.3%)
Misfits (UK)
2 (2.1%)
The Office
2 (2.1%)
Parks and Recreation
2 (2.1%)
The Mentalist
2 (2.1%)
Breaking Bad
11 (11.7%)
Grand Designs
1 (1.1%)
Mad Men
4 (4.3%)
The Closer
1 (1.1%)
Treme
1 (1.1%)
Game of Thrones
12 (12.8%)
The Big Bang Theory
10 (10.6%)
Castle
3 (3.2%)
Community
7 (7.4%)
Futurama
10 (10.6%)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
4 (4.3%)
Doctor who
5 (5.3%)
QI
4 (4.3%)
Archer
3 (3.2%)

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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #60 on: Dec 05, 2011, 09:28:30 AM »
Quote from: Kwisatz Haderach on Dec 05, 2011, 09:25:22 AM
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I was just thinking of editing my post talking about the missing gap between Howard the Duck and Empire Striked Back...
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #61 on: Dec 05, 2011, 11:18:33 AM »
The back in the day fallacy.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #62 on: Dec 05, 2011, 12:30:08 PM »
Six Feet Under is the best show in television history.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #63 on: Dec 05, 2011, 12:34:43 PM »
Quote from: DeepGlue on Dec 05, 2011, 12:30:08 PM
Six Feet Under is the best show in television history.

I don't disagree flat out, but I think you are forgetting The Wire.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #64 on: Dec 05, 2011, 12:51:16 PM »
According to Stephen Fry, Columbo was the best TV show in history.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #65 on: Dec 05, 2011, 12:51:38 PM »
Quote from: wastrel on Dec 05, 2011, 12:34:43 PM
Quote from: DeepGlue on Dec 05, 2011, 12:30:08 PM
Six Feet Under is the best show in television history.

I don't disagree flat out, but I think you are forgetting The Wire.

Both were good, but "Six Feet" definitely had the best series ending of any show on television.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #66 on: Dec 05, 2011, 12:53:07 PM »
Quote from: MikeHz on Dec 05, 2011, 12:51:38 PM
Quote from: wastrel on Dec 05, 2011, 12:34:43 PM
Quote from: DeepGlue on Dec 05, 2011, 12:30:08 PM
Six Feet Under is the best show in television history.

I don't disagree flat out, but I think you are forgetting The Wire.

Both were good, but "Six Feet" definitely had the best series ending of any show on television.

Agreed 100%.

That damn ending made me realize my mortality at 20 in a way I hadn't before (Claire was born a month after me I think).  I really had a crisis after watching the ending.  I realized that I was going to die in a way I hadn't before, and it scared the piss out of me.  I didn't sleep for two days.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #67 on: Dec 05, 2011, 04:14:27 PM »
I'm still the only one to vote for Treme? Weird.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #68 on: Dec 05, 2011, 04:29:55 PM »
Mythbusters
Dirty Jobs
Psych
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #69 on: Dec 05, 2011, 04:56:45 PM »
Quote from: wastrel on Dec 05, 2011, 12:34:43 PM
Quote from: DeepGlue on Dec 05, 2011, 12:30:08 PM
Six Feet Under is the best show in television history.

I don't disagree flat out, but I think you are forgetting The Wire.

Yeah, I've heard really great things about The Wire. Is it as "real" as Six Feet Under? As in, there really aren't any cliches, random stuff just happens, things that happen don't have to tie in to other things? That was what drew me in to that show. ASoIaF/GoT as well.

Quote from: MikeHz on Dec 05, 2011, 12:51:38 PM
Both were good, but "Six Feet" definitely had the best series ending of any show on television.

Tied with TNG, IMO.

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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #70 on: Dec 05, 2011, 05:19:44 PM »
Quote from: Rai on Dec 05, 2011, 04:14:27 PM
I'm still the only one to vote for Treme? Weird.

I really like Treme, it's just not in my top 5. I don't think there's enough of a point or enough of a distinctive plot arch. Interesting and entertaining things happen to these great characters, but there's no real motivation driving the story forward. I'm probably wrong, and maybe it's too subtle for me, but that's how I see it.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #71 on: Dec 05, 2011, 05:43:55 PM »
Quote from: DeepGlue on Dec 05, 2011, 04:56:45 PM
Yeah, I've heard really great things about The Wire. Is it as "real" as Six Feet Under? As in, there really aren't any cliches, random stuff just happens, things that happen don't have to tie in to other things? That was what drew me in to that show. ASoIaF/GoT as well.

I've never seen the Shield, whichc I have heard was also great, but it is the most real life "cops/robbers" show.  None of the glitz and glamour of CSI, it shows how real cops would work to build a case, and how real robbers work to prevent their arrest.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #72 on: Dec 05, 2011, 06:43:48 PM »
Quote from: wastrel on Dec 05, 2011, 05:43:55 PM
Quote from: DeepGlue on Dec 05, 2011, 04:56:45 PM
Yeah, I've heard really great things about The Wire. Is it as "real" as Six Feet Under? As in, there really aren't any cliches, random stuff just happens, things that happen don't have to tie in to other things? That was what drew me in to that show. ASoIaF/GoT as well.

I've never seen the Shield, whichc I have heard was also great, but it is the most real life "cops/robbers" show.  None of the glitz and glamour of CSI, it shows how real cops would work to build a case, and how real robbers work to prevent their arrest.

The Shield is one of my favorite shows of all time. Probably my favorite in the drama category. Not the most real, but man was that a fantastic show.

Also had a phenomenal ending. Nothing as satisfying as Six Feet Under, but still damned satisfying.

Watch the whole series, there may be a few weak moments in the show, but they are few and far between.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #73 on: Dec 05, 2011, 07:06:40 PM »
I always hear about this supposedly fabulous Six Feet Under ending, but I suspect that's all I'll ever do: hear about it. I watched the first season and about half of the second, until I decided it wasn't brilliant enough for it to be worth getting depressed every time.
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Re: Nominate Your Favorite TV Show
« Reply #74 on: Dec 05, 2011, 07:13:12 PM »
Quote from: Green Ideas on Dec 05, 2011, 07:06:40 PM
I always hear about this supposedly fabulous Six Feet Under ending, but I suspect that's all I'll ever do: hear about it. I watched the first season and about half of the second, until I decided it wasn't brilliant enough for it to be worth getting depressed every time.

I watched the first ep a few months back and never went on. It just seems so dated.
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