Topic: Top 10 Favourite TV Shows?

[dave 5516]

No idea why I've never given this a go. Stellar cast like. On episode two now, excellent stuff so far!

You lucky cocksucka.

It's brilliant...if I was to do a list it'd be at 3 behind the obvious 2.

I've recently finished re-watching it and I thought..think the dialogue is the best of any of the recent more lauded shows.

Also,I thought the ending was good.I know everyone bitched when it finished but I think it's a brilliant low key ending...

[rob1408]

No idea why I've never given this a go. Stellar cast like. On episode two now, excellent stuff so far!

Its stunning, probably the best made show of all time.  I placed it third behind The Wire and Twin Peaks, on another day I'd put it first, there really isn't much between the three.

The dialogue is beautifully coarse.  Great stuff.

[rob1408]

You lucky cocksucka.

It's brilliant...if I was to do a list it'd be at 3 behind the obvious 2.

I've recently finished re-watching it and I thought..think the dialogue is the best of any of the recent more lauded shows.

Also,I thought the ending was good.I know everyone bitched when it finished but I think it's a brilliant low key ending...

The final line uttered by Swearengen ties everything up wonderfully, its actually a really fitting conclusion.  I didn't think that at the time though, I was as angry as everyone else.

[Yiannis]

I remember thinking when I finished watching, how awesome it was just for the change of opinion I had towards Swearengen in the beginning and in the end of the series.

It's an excellent series all around. Up there at the top with the other well known ones.

[Card Cheat]

I know a fourth season will never happen, but I'd kill for some kind of tenuous spin-off. Farnum and Richardson in a dark room (no need to rebuild the set) sneering at eachother like a nineteenth century Steptoe and Son would do. Or just one more Swearengen blow-job monologue, five minutes for Sport Relief or the ice bucket or something.

[dave 5516]

The final line uttered by Swearengen ties everything up wonderfully, its actually a really fitting conclusion.  I didn't think that at the time though, I was as angry as everyone else.

It took a re-watch for me to realise how brilliant that final line was.

[rob1408]

It took a re-watch for me to realise how brilliant that final line was.

Yeah, it's a brilliant line, especially given what he's doing at the time.  I'm going to finish the first four seasons of Justified and then give it another watch.

[SamAteTheRedAcid]

OK I'm hitching myself to the Deadwood bandwagon as soon as I get time...sounds like a major oversight on my part...

[red mongoose]

OK I'm hitching myself to the Deadwood bandwagon as soon as I get time...sounds like a major oversight on my part...

Think Shakespeare set in the West with the HBO series treatment and liberal use of the word "cocksucker" and a veritable hurricane of "fucks" and the single greatest portrayal of constant, pointless anger EVER It's fucking greatness in every way. Get on this Samie, you cocksucker! You don't want to be a cocksucker like that cocksucker Titi 

[Titi Camara]

Think Shakespeare set in the West with the HBO series treatment and liberal use of the word "cocksucker" and a veritable hurricane of "fucks" and the single greatest portrayal of constant, pointless anger EVER It's fucking greatness in every way. Get on this Samie, you cocksucker! You don't want to be a cocksucker like that cocksucker Titi 

Get a hair cut (hippy) it looks like your mother fucked a monkey!

[red mongoose]

Get a hair cut (hippy) it looks like your mother fucked a monkey!

 

[dave 5516]

Get a hair cut (hippy) it looks like your mother fucked a monkey!

[dave 5516]

[Another Red]

1. The Wire
2. Mad Men
3. The Sopranos
4. Twin Peaks
5. Six Feet Under
6. The Office (UK)
7. Deadwood
8. Game of Thrones
9. The Walking Dead
10. Review with Myles Barlow

Shame on me for forgetting Mad Men. 

[Sir Harvest Fields]

No Rentaghost?

[Twelfth Man]

We doing this again? Ok here's mine:


1. The Wire
2. Game of Thrones
3. Breaking Bad
4. Sopranos (still need to finish it)
5. House
6. Twin Peaks
7. Six Feet Under
8. Utopia
9. Boss
10. HoC 1st season


[re-edit]Red Riding (based on David Peace's novels) would get a mention if it was one-off shows.

[dave 5516]

We doing this again? Ok here's mine:


1. The Wire
2. Game of Thrones
3. Breaking Bad
4. Sopranos (still need to finish it)
5. Twin Peaks
6. Six Feet Under
7. Utopia
8. Boss
9. HoC 1st season
10. Trailer Park Boys!


Tried to stick with dram rather than comedy part from the last choice.

No Deadwood?

You're aware of what that makes you...

[Brentieke]

1) The Wire
2) The Sopranos
3) Breaking Bad
4) Oz
5) The Shield
6) Game of Thrones
7) Mad Men
Boardwalk Empire
9) True Detective
10) Rescue Me

[The G in Gerrard]

Where can I watch Deadwood?

Also no Lost? Be ashamed all of you.

[Brentieke]

Really weird, but I could never get into Deadwood. It's exactly the pacing I enjoy (see my top 10 list above), I love the HBO style, I love the swearing etc...

But I watched one season and couldn't contribute. And I hate that Olymphant or whatever he's called.

[Brentieke]

Also no Lost? Be ashamed all of you.

If this was a thread about the biggest waste of time in the history of television, I'd have it number 1 on my list!

[rob1408]

Where can I watch Deadwood?

Also no Lost? Be ashamed all of you.

Well, Lost is shite barring the first two seasons and you can pick up the Deadwood boxset for £25 from Amazon or its over on The Pirate Bay if you're that way inclined, its just over 4gb per season (standard definition).

[dave 5516]

Where can I watch Deadwood?

Also no Lost? Be ashamed all of you.

Can you not dl it?

[Twelfth Man]

No Deadwood?

You're aware of what that makes you...

Might look into that. Never got around to it, so much to see!

[Twelfth Man]

If this was a thread about the biggest waste of time in the history of television, I'd have it number 1 on my list!

[The G in Gerrard]

If this was a thread about the biggest waste of time in the history of television, I'd have it number 1 on my list!

And you'd be wrong. Was superb at it's best.

[dave 5516]

Might look into that. Never got around to it, so much to see!

It's brilliant.probably the best cast in any any tv series.The writing is outstanding and the use of the word cocksucka is immense.

[Twelfth Man]

I missed out True Detective, would deffo be in my top five. Perhpas behind Sopranos, because its only been one series so far. If they can repeat the quality of the 1st, top three for sure.

[Titi Camara]

Fuck I forgot Lost!!!!

[Titi Camara]

1. House
2. Six Feet Under
3. Game Of Thrones
4. Band of Brothers
5. The Sopranos
6. Twin Peaks
7. Lost
8. Boardwalk Empire
9. Hannibal
10. True Detective

Honourable mentions to:
Sherlock
House Of Cards
Luther
Boss
Utopia
Orange is the New Black
Breaking Bad
The X Files
Justified
Death Valley

I'm half way through season 2 of Deadwood, the 1st and 2nd episodes of this season are some of the best television I've ever watched....I'm expected "Swedgin Cocksucker" to turn a lighter shade of black before the series is over....if the quality continues it'll make the top ten, no idea where at his point though, but it may possibly break into the top five!

[Twelfth Man]

Shit I forgot all about HOUSE! Top six, damn I miss that show. Band of Brothers would be in there but I consider it a one-off.

[La Vecchia Magpie]

Any list with Breaking Bad above The Sopranos is wrong.

[Card Cheat]

And you'd be wrong. Was superb at it's best.

I quite liked Lost, the final half dozen episodes of Season 2 and first half dozen of Season 3 are terrific. I stopped watching when it started meandering all over the place. It felt like the writer's didn't know where they were going themselves.

Haven't seen any mentions of the Battlestar Galactica reboot. Thought it was going to be a full-on nerdfest when I started watching, turned out it was basically the West Wing but in space, and brilliant.

[gwalk]

1. The Sopranos
2. Breaking Bad
3. Entourage
4. The Wire
5. The Simpsons
6. One Tree Hill
7. Dream Team
8. Prison Break
9. The OC
10. Southland

[kennedy81]

1. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
3. Mad Men
4. Game of Thrones
5. Boadwalk Empire
6. Six Million Dollar Man
7. X-Files
8. Homocide - Life on the Street
9. A-Team
10. Battle of the Planets

[red mongoose]

10. Battle of the Planets

I've said it before and I will say it again - you, sir, are a class act 

[Yiannis]

8. Homocide

I thought I was the only one who mixes up that word.

[Bird Bird Bird The Bird Is The Word]

*Potential spoilers for Breaking Bad and True Detective*

[Stevie-A]

In order, and based on sheer wonder and resonance for myself (mostly from being awed as a youth).

1. Battlestar Galactica (reboot)
2. Seinfeld
3. The Water Margin
4. X Files
5. Game of Thrones
6. Father Ted
7. Fireball XL5
8. Boys from the Blackstuff
9. One Summer
10. Space 1999

[unknownuser]

1) Lost
2) Seinfeld
3) The Wire
4) Person of Interest
5) Breaking Bad
6) The Sopranos
7) Boardwalk Empire
Mad Men
9) How I Met Your Mother
10) The X-Files