Top 10 TV Shows - Lists and Recommendations Discussion

[–] godewey (16472) 8 years ago

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 8 years ago

A good list, but you do realize that's more than 10, right?

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[–] godewey (16472) 8 years ago

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 8 years ago

Thanks. And I guess if you include my honorable mentions I have more than 10 also. I'm busted.

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[–] Iain (32) 8 years ago

Dexter (2006)
Hannibal (2013)
The Fall (2013)

... last 2 programmes are well done, despite the severe miscasting problem common to both.

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[–] Turb (158) 8 years ago

Buffy
Chuck
Supernatural
Twin Peaks
Community
Battlestar Galactica
Dexter
Firefly
The office
Breaking bad

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[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

1. The X-Files
2. Lost
3. The Simpsons
4. Seinfeld
5. How I Met Your Mother
6. Breaking Bad
7. Fringe
8. South Park
9. Sex and the City
10. Community

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

An excellent list, Shiny. The only one I don't care for is Seinfeld. I know I'm in the minority here, but I just never found it funny.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Moonlighting
Ally McBeal
The Practice
The West Wing
Boston Legal
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Picket Fences
Sports Night
The Newsroom
Breaking Bad

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Hmmm....I've watched Ally McBeal and Sportsnight.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Well, if you liked them, you might like some others on the list. Ally McBeal was created/written by David E. Kelley, who also wrote The Practice, Boston Legal and Picket Fences. Ally and the Practice even had a couple crossover episodes.

SportsNight was created/written by Aaron Sorkin, who also created The West Wing, Studio 60 and The Newsroom.

These are my two favorite television writers. Kelley has written a number of other shows, and they both have numerous Emmy Awards. They have also both written movies, though Sorkin has had much greater success in this area.

Anyway, I recommend both, highly. But I gotta give Moonlighting the top spot. So creative, so fun, so witty. It took so many chances. Not all of them paid off, but when they did...:) :) :)

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Nope. Just liked Ally McBeal and Sportsnight.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

I know. I'm saying you might want to check those other shows out since they were written by the same person.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Yes, I know what you're saying, but not interested. Sorry.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Well, your loss.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

I'll survive somehow, Hoss.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

No, you won't.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Sure I will, Skeeter.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Skeeter?

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Are you watching Big Sky? Pretty good.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Just messin' with ya, Billy Bob.

As to Big Sky, I think it's pretty bad. It's woke nonsense with hokey caricatures, poor writing, poor direction and poor acting.

Other than that.....

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

I wasn't too impressed by the episode tonight, but the others I liked, though, yeah, certainly not subtle.

This is a different type of show, though. Although Kelley "created" it, it is based on a novel, and tonight's episode had two different writers, so I'm not sure what his involvement is, exactly, Joe Buck.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Mercifully the winter finale is next Tuesday, Bubba.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Ya know, you're kind of a douche, hip hop.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

And you're kind of an asshole with no sense of humor, snowflake.

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

I have a sense of humor, but you're just rude. You call me names, you ignore my suggestions, you criticize a show I like. I get the feeling you're kind of laughing at me, not with me. There's a difference.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

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[–] juviejay (456) 4 years ago

Any of you touch my stuff, and I'll kill ya.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

LOL!

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[–] TheGutterMonkey (298) 3 years ago

Nah, man. I was just browsing through here and I support this fella's observation: You come off like a douche. Sorry.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 3 years ago

He's kind of a douche imho.

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[–] juviejay (456) 2 years ago

Who comes to a thread about recommendations, gets them, then says, "No thanks, I'm good." That's a douche. I tried to be helpful and was ridiculed. I guess you didn't recognize my humor, either.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 2 years ago

A blast from the past. Odd.

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[–] TimMC (9143) 4 years ago

Six Million Dollar Man
WINGS
A-Team
Batman
Firefly
Farscape
LEXX
Battlestar Galactica
Wonderfalls
Dexter

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Hmmm....never watched any of those, except for Batman back in the day.

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[–] TimMC (9143) 4 years ago

If you want to try a modern show try Firefly or Dexter. Firefly is getting a little old now. 2003.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

I did hear that Dexter was good, but there are like eight years of shows. WAY too many to start watching!

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[–] NickNack (4) 4 years ago

The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Game Of Thrones
I Claudius
Rome
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Elizabeth R
League Of Gentlemen
Inside No. 9

"I have learned to tread very carefully in a burning building." Pallas

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Of those, I've only seen The Sopranos (one year), Better Call Saul, and I Claudius (don't eat the figs).

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[–] Adam60z (3766) 4 years ago

I like some on your list, but really have a cut off: nothing past '82 would ever make my list. So:
1. Addams Family
2. Star Trek
3. Batman
4. I Dream of Jeannie
5. Lou Grant
6. The White Shadow
7. Dark Shadows
8. To Tell the Truth
9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Hour
10. Twilight Zone
But. the one I watch every night: Jeopardy.

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 4 years ago

Okay then.

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[–] HarryKlein (3) 3 years ago

1. Blackadder
2. House of Cards (UK, 1990)
3. Borgen
4. Bron (The Bridge)
5. Secret Army
6. Derrick (Germany, 1974)
7. Homeland
8. The Good Wife
9. Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10. Columbo

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 3 years ago

Wow! A blast from the past!

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[–] bohemianroxie (2478) 3 years ago

1 Six Feet Under
2 Breaking Bad
3 Battlestar Galactica
4 BTVS
5 Farscape
6 24
7 Justified
8 The Americans
9 Dexter
10 LOST

Honorable Mentions: Fargo, Fringe, Band of Brothers, Downtown Abbey, Mad Men, Friday Night Lights

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 3 years ago

Wow! Yet another blast from the past!

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[–] bohemianroxie (2478) 3 years ago

It's really difficult to find anything currently that I find exceptional. Maybe something exists somewhere that I'm not streaming but I have enough for now ..
If it does exist I'll get around to it

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[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 3 years ago

I agree.

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