Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think Season 3 and Season 4 are the best.

Second!: I always liked The Sopranos just fine. But it placed the lowest of the top 10 shows on my own poll. I always felt that it was just an eeeeeeeensy bit overrated. And then the last season started, and it was a magnificent start. And then Chase got his extra half a season and the quality dropped so drastically, so sharply, that I was relatively uncommitted by the time the considerably-improved final bit of the series wrapped up.

Third!!!!: Lost, as far as I'm concerned, isn't character driven at all. There are only a couple of characters I care a whit for and only a few relationships that involve me at all. The show is just a big plot-driven puzzle box, and when it's on I am glued to the screen. It's an event. And, yes, there was a pretty significant drop in quality in season 3, but the show has regained its bearing and has been soaring triumphantly through the cosmus ever since. It's the only current MUST-see (like, I can not wait at all) show on my ballot.

yeah watching just season 1 is equivalent to watching the pilot episode of some other show...not to say that it doesn't reflect the series, but it just goes so much further

2. Arrested Development (41 votes, 5 first place votes, 8170 points.)
http://images.fanpop.com/images/image_uploads/Arrested-Development-Poster-arrested-development-671766_375_500.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oDY5w7P-GY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDjRd0Tjss

it took me 2 months to get thru that 30 Rock thread because i'd slept on it for so long (much like i did AD) so would read it up to when people started quoting the next one i had yet to see. thank fuck for bookmarks. it should've been prime time Friday night on Channel 4 but yes sometimes this country actually is deeply stupid.

xp dammit

Also, Lost is a really weird beast insofar as it's kinda crappy (plot threads that go nowhere, characters that you don't really care about and who do and say the stupidest things just to advance the plot in really contrived ways, etc.) at the same time that it's the most amazing and compelling thing ever. I can't think of much else like it in that regard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-uY7P3pe4

wow 60 point differential

aw that's my #1. so close

i like The Wire but man fuck The Wire, needs more jokes

(but i'm still only just into season 2)

The Wire is incredibly funny and you sir are tripping.

Or maybe Meth just hasn't turned up yet.

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1. Time Life Informercials (179 votes, 21 first place votes, 19445 points)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoXHxSJymPY

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im so fuckin dumb!!!!!!!!!! XD

okay I guess I'm safe to start watching The Wire.

So why no 24? I woulda thought its popularity would've been comparable to that of Lost.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-p_9rC6UQc0/ShXAhVhucpI/AAAAAAAAAVo/MrdWGY6Jxmw/s400/003.JPG

xpost I don't know why I said Lost in particular, I guess I associate those shows somehow.

Like The Sopranos, Arrested Development (I'm bracing myself for SBs here) is kinda overrated, too. Tight, smart, dense, frankly groundbreaking, and often hilarious, but it always felt to me a little like a starter show for Hurwitz. Like he (or someone else intimately involved in the show) would go on to create something even more amazing someday, y'know? Kinda the opposite of The Office, in a way, inasmuch as it was pretty clear that Gervais had blown his load straight out of the gate.

Paul Ross >>> Jonathon Woss.

Didn't Hurwitz do something post-AD? That absolutely no-one gave a toss about and was awful?

xxpost

It had a perfect ending, though, so I'm a little chagrined about the movie.

he had an animated series, the name of which I forget. he also did a pilot for a US version of The Thick of It, which was rejected. xpost

sit down shut up. only saw the first ep of that, not very good

xxxpost

Ha ha. Yes. Sit Down And Shut Up. Which, by all accounts, is Not That Good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit_Down,_Shut_Up_(US_TV_series)

So why no 24? - Sort of a guilty pleasure for a lot of folks, I would imagine (I mean, it is pretty unintentionally laughable in a lot of ways). Also damaged by a couple of really awful seasons.

looks v bad despite Arnett presence. i hear Portia is in some new quite good thing tho.

surprised and disappointed at only 1 fake #1. maybe we blew our load w/ #12 csi:miami funtimes.

be honest tho, how true is this statement: 24 peaked halfway through season 1

Lost is for nerds, 24 isn't.

i dunno but i peaked whenever jack's daughter was on screen.

Yes, Portia is in the very unfortunately titled Better Off Ted. The little bit of it that I've watched was very interesting and showed a lot of potential. Not anything like what the title might suggest.

Still waiting for the Mr. Show reunion on 24, but Tom Kenny must be rolling in Spongebob money.

xxxxp, better off ted? it's not funny.

24 was properly amazing for a while. got friends who enjoy it but i couldn't bear the drip drip process and it really is horrible a couple of episodes when so little of any consequence is happening.

Lost is for nerds, 24 isn't.

Absolutely otm. Don't know where wingnut torture apologists stand on Lost, tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYj7q_by_2E

nerds on the internet??!? WHERE??

Lost is for nerds, 24 isn't.

aka sci-fi

Looks like I need to watch some Freaks & Geeks and 30 Rock, never seen a second of either.

so this was fun guys...

1. The Wire (44 votes, 19 first place votes, 10170 points.)
http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/theremoteisland/2009/04/The%20Wire.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzTM6BiUoqo

be honest tho, how true is this statement: 24 peaked halfway through season 1

i got really excited when they brought lou diamond-phillips in but then they failed to seal the deal with emilio estevez

1. Tim And Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (531 votes, 713 first place votes, 14,013,273 points)
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/teasgj_tour09.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy6-9OmjTnU

so this was fun guys...

it was, t/y

be honest tho, how true is this statement: 24 peaked halfway through season 1 - pretty OTM. There was one season, 4 or 5 maybe, that I preferred. I tend to like that show best when it is at its most ridiculous, tho.

That Omar scene is fucking amazing. Only one of several characters on The Wire that I full-on LOVED.

Jack parachuting out of plane about to nuke and then being forced to shoot Chapelle the head of division in the back of the head was also A+

The Wire, obviously, is the greatest thing ever but still, 19 #1 votes is ridiculous. I kept being so tempted during the voting process to type: ok people you can all stop voting for it now, it won like 3 days in, give something else a chance.