House of Cards*>Game of Thrones>True Detective>Boardwalk Empire**>Mad Men***>Hannibal=The Americans
Doctor Who fittingly exists outside the continuum as it's so wildly inconsistent.
*I'm only half a season in and straight in at the top. Absolute class.
**Would've been lower a couple of seasons ago.
***Would've been higher a couple of seasons ago.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 20 March 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
As of their most recent/ongoing seasons; no concluded series/minis
Rectify > The Americans > The Good Wife > Justified > GoT > Mad Men > Hannibal > The Fall > Orphan Black > True Detective > Broadchurch > Boardwalk Empire
watched s1 of HoC and the s2 premiere; stopped there, for good.
― Simon H., Thursday, 20 March 2014 20:13 (ten years ago) link
From the Sundance roster I think Rectify is easily their best show, I would go as far as saying it is the best new American drama type series since Six Feet Deep, it is THAT good imo.
Warning: I do watch a lot of television and do not always discriminate against the trash stuff, so this ain't a pretty list!
The Americans > Hannibal > The Walking Dead > Black Sails > The Plantagenets > Justified :( > Vikings > Helix > Banshee > Cosmos > Revolution > Continuum > The Originals > The 100
― xelab, Thursday, 20 March 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
Edit: Forgot about S.H.I.E.L.D, that would be between Justified and Vikings.
― xelab, Thursday, 20 March 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
i don't really feel like i'm following any frou-frou short-season prestige cable shows, even though i will get around to watching them eventually. (including basic cable ones if i've ever been into them.) they're just too intermittent and sparse. hannibal is the only exception to that, it still feels kind of networky (maybe just b/c of omg this is on tv).
proper followable shows last like half the year and have > 20 episodes per season and tuck their miniscule character and plot developments into 10-second stretches of episodic narratives (or are NONSTOP PLOT like scandal)
so
hannibal > the good wife > elementary > person of interest > the mentalist* > scandal
*not as interesting to watch for about the last three seasons, since he shot josh lyman maybe, but it used to be my favorite and it's hard to screw up a procedural, so i remain attached to it even tho scandal is obviously more something than it. they've been trying out some interesting adjustments since they let him find and kill red john, but apparently cbs isn't bringing it back so there won't be any time to settle in with them. too bad, i like it when shows completely rejigger their setups partway through.
i wouldn't mind following some more, but tv seems kind of in a lull.
― j., Thursday, 20 March 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
The Good Wife is having their best season yet, I think.
― Simon H., Thursday, 20 March 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
tv seems kind of in a lull.
― j., Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Really? I feel totally spoiled for choice!
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 21 March 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
House of Cards has slipped down a few notches thanks to its vastly inferior second season, and The Americans has overtaken the increasingly ludicrous Hannibal.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
After the new Game of Thrones and Mad Men eps on monday I am going to watch Fargo tonight, The Americans tomorrow. What an age of television （￣ー￣） I really love this shit and don't care how degenerate it makes me look being completely fucking addicted to it.
― xelab, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:12 (ten years ago) link
i just wanna watch 50 more seasons of law & order, fuck this boutique middlebrow bullshit
― j., Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
thrones > rectify > the americans > hannibal > true detective > masters of sex >>>> justified > mad men > boardwalk empire*
* (have not watched most recent season)
really enjoyed the fargo pilot and would put it towards the top if it keeps on at that level.
― it's a trilby (Clay), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:22 (ten years ago) link
Watched the first two episodes of Masters of Sex and enjoyed them, but kind of forgot to watch any more. Might try and catch up, I do like Sheen.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 17 April 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
that's got some good *drama*, arcs over the whole season tho
― j., Thursday, 17 April 2014 01:10 (ten years ago) link
I think this is right at the moment:
Hannibal > Happy Valley > The Americans > Game of Thrones > The Returned (Original) > Black Sails > True Detective > Justified > Better Call Saul > Fargo > The Knick > The Affair > How To Get Away with Murder > 12 Monkeys > The Strain > Masters of Sex > Homeland > Mad Men > Outlander > Orphan Black > Blacklist > Gotham > SHIELD
whole buncha other stuff i need to watch to slot in there tho.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 March 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
True Detective > Better Call Saul > Agent Carter > SHIELD > Justified > Orphan Black > Doctor Who > Arrow (just started working through season 1) >>> Fargo
Nothing I'm totally head over heels about at the moment. Don't think I'll be returning to Fargo but I guess it remains to be seen since it'll basically be a whole new show. I saw the first few episodes of Hannibal and dug it but I'm going to plow through the whole thing in earnest one of these days.
― Wet Pet (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 March 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
do we have an Empire thread?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 March 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link