elroy16 Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 never heard of the wire True detective season one was fantastic, totally ruined season two, how did they screw up a good show ?? I can't believe there is not one mention of The Walking Dead. I just couldn't get into the whole zombie thing but it seems popular. If you don't have HBO, do yourself a favor and borrow or steal someone's HBO Go login and go watch The Wire. It might be a tad outdated with the pagers and old flip phones, but it doesn't matter. It's an incredible journey through various aspects of crime/police/politics/school in Baltimore with some of the best characters in television. Tier 1 Seinfeld The Wire It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Unfortunately the consistency starts to drop in later seasons, but there are still fantastic episodes) Tier 2 The Office Parks and Rec 30 Rock Archer Arrested Development Fargo True Detective (Season 1) Game of Thrones The Simpsons (early seasons)
gomper Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 Can't add anything more to this except Crime Story was amazing.
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 of ALL time? There was no show I've loved more than I loved the A-team as a pre-teen kid.
2020 Our Year For Sure Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 Party Down was hilarious, nice shout Deranged
plenzmd1 Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 If you don't have HBO, do yourself a favor and borrow or steal someone's HBO Go login and go watch The Wire. It might be a tad outdated with the pagers and old flip phones, but it doesn't matter. It's an incredible journey through various aspects of crime/police/politics/school in Baltimore with some of the best characters in television. Wire is on Amazon , free with Prime
Deranged Rhino Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 Party Down was hilarious, nice shout Deranged I keep waiting for a reunion season, I know the cast all said they'd do another season.
2020 Our Year For Sure Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 (edited) I keep waiting for a reunion season, I know the cast all said they'd do another season. No ****? I'd love to see it The final episode was soooo goood Edited March 22, 2017 by 2018 Our Year For Sure
EersN'Bills Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 If you don't have HBO, do yourself a favor and borrow or steal someone's HBO Go login and go watch The Wire. It might be a tad outdated with the pagers and old flip phones, but it doesn't matter. It's an incredible journey through various aspects of crime/police/politics/school in Baltimore with some of the best characters in television. Tier 1 Seinfeld The Wire It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Unfortunately the consistency starts to drop in later seasons, but there are still fantastic episodes) Tier 2 The Office Parks and Rec 30 Rock Archer Arrested Development Fargo True Detective (Season 1) Game of Thrones The Simpsons (early seasons) I thought last year's season (I haven't seen the most recent one) was excellent. Charlie invoking Bird Law was side-splitting.
BillsFan4 Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 If you don't have HBO, do yourself a favor and borrow or steal someone's HBO Go login and go watch The Wire. It might be a tad outdated with the pagers and old flip phones, but it doesn't matter. It's an incredible journey through various aspects of crime/police/politics/school in Baltimore with some of the best characters in television. The pagers were outdated even when the show was on air. That was part of the plot - Drug dealers being disciplined enough to still use pagers and pay phones. And as for the flip phones, I actually just upgraded from my flip phone a few monyhs ago, so I resent that flip phone comment! lol j/k I know they're outdated. but I really did just upgrade cause my flip phone finally took a crap on me. It was going to be th same price to get a new flip phone as it was for a smart phone, so I finally got one, but I avoided those smart phones as long as I could... Did you ever watch the HBO mini series "The Corner"? It's set in Baltimore and was written by one of the guys who helped with The Wire. Well worth watching. I think you can find it on YouTube.
Bray Wyatt Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 Some shows I like that are underrated imo, Psych, Monk, Leverage (light hearted cop shows) A-Team (was essentially the original type of that genre), Futurama, Suits, Burn Notice
Buffalo Barbarian Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 of ALL time? There was no show I've loved more than I loved the A-team as a pre-teen kid. The Hulk
Pete Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 Curb Your Enthusiasm South Park Police Squad Always Sunny Modern Marvels PBS-nova, austin city limits, frontline, american masters, nature,
LB3 Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 I thought last year's season (I haven't seen the most recent one) was excellent. Charlie invoking Bird Law was side-splitting. IMO, this past season of Sunny might have been its best.
Miyagi-Do Karate Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 No love for Downton Abbey? I was a huge fan, at least through the first few seasons.
frogger Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 everyone has such good lists Community the Office Cheers breaking bad HIMYM
row_33 Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 Luther I have concluded that many British shows are often not intended to be coherent, even with painstaking closed caption to try and assist.
McBeane Posted March 23, 2017 Posted March 23, 2017 (edited) I have thought about my list too much since posting it and have decided that I need to post my second list. There's too many good shows I didn't mention. I'll consider it a top 10 in no particular order. Master of None Flaked -those two only have one season currently out so things could change there Chef's Table (including the France one) Impractical Jokers South Park On the British show talk, I agree with row_33. I find it hard to understand what is being said a lot of the times. I find the premise of the shows that others have mentioned interesting but cannot understand enough of what is being said to get into the show. I'll keep trying to watch them though. Chappelle's Show and Key and Peele deserve to be on the list too. OK, I'm done now. Maybe. Edited March 23, 2017 by Marcellosaurus
Matt in KC Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 Game of Thrones The Wire The Sopranos M*A*S*H* Battlestar Galactica - the original (just kidding) Honorable mentions: Cheers Fringe Taxi Maybe top 5 if they had fulfilled their mythology/arc: Lost, Firefly, X-Files The Americans Downton Abbey Doesn't qualify as a show really, but it is close, and certainly is high enough quality to warrant an honorable mention: The Night Manager
Rico Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 I don't know if it's in my top 5, but I have been DVR-ing the hell out of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. It's on 2x a day M-F on the Decades channel that Comcast carries. I loved it as a kid, some of the jokes are very dated, but there's still a lot of laughs.
bdutton Posted March 26, 2017 Posted March 26, 2017 I don't know if it's in my top 5, but I have been DVR-ing the hell out of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. It's on 2x a day M-F on the Decades channel that Comcast carries. I loved it as a kid, some of the jokes are very dated, but there's still a lot of laughs. I with they had a channel that replayed all of the Carol Burnett Show.
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