JEEZ!!!! Not ANOTHER Top 100 of TV List!!!!
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This list is clearly by somebody who prefers episodic TV to serial and vastly so. And thinks simplistic messaging with pat happy endings is a virtue.
No Twin Peaks, no Breaking Bad, nothing from NBCs big comedy blocks either from the Seinfeld or the Office era. But tons of cheesy one dimensional sitcoms where somebody learns a valuable lesson every week, then the same valuable lesson a month later. Family Guy but no Simpsons or South Park. We’re lucky they even threw in Sopranos and GoT.
No Twin Peaks, no Breaking Bad, nothing from NBCs big comedy blocks either from the Seinfeld or the Office era. But tons of cheesy one dimensional sitcoms where somebody learns a valuable lesson every week, then the same valuable lesson a month later. Family Guy but no Simpsons or South Park. We’re lucky they even threw in Sopranos and GoT.
Oh, sorry, the way you presented it it seemed like you got it from some online publisher, I didn't know it was your personal list.
You said "This is another top 100 TV list", you didn't say "This is my personal favorite 100 TV shows". So I responded to it as such. If I knew it was somebody's list of personal favorites and not the work of some magazine trying to make a definitive list I would have responded very differently.
Yeah, I guess some of those are serials, just the ones that are are predominantly in the category of "Network TV-ish political but still risk averse" except the HBO ones. Shows that have intelligent themes but still leave you with simple digestible takeaways. Omitting most of the great shows that are a little more complexly themed, high concept, dense, cerebral, dark, sarcastic, etc.
Which is not a problem when you're just telling us your personal opinion of course, but would be a problem with a list published by critics.
The sort of shows that I like that you don't like are the sarcastic and/or high concept comedies like Seinfeld, The Office, Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, Community, etc, or the dense, dark, and/or high concept dramas like Lost, Westworld, Breaking Bad, etc.
You said "This is another top 100 TV list", you didn't say "This is my personal favorite 100 TV shows". So I responded to it as such. If I knew it was somebody's list of personal favorites and not the work of some magazine trying to make a definitive list I would have responded very differently.
Yeah, I guess some of those are serials, just the ones that are are predominantly in the category of "Network TV-ish political but still risk averse" except the HBO ones. Shows that have intelligent themes but still leave you with simple digestible takeaways. Omitting most of the great shows that are a little more complexly themed, high concept, dense, cerebral, dark, sarcastic, etc.
Which is not a problem when you're just telling us your personal opinion of course, but would be a problem with a list published by critics.
The sort of shows that I like that you don't like are the sarcastic and/or high concept comedies like Seinfeld, The Office, Parks & Rec, 30 Rock, Community, etc, or the dense, dark, and/or high concept dramas like Lost, Westworld, Breaking Bad, etc.
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Xena and Buffy are on it so I’m content.
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Also, only the five-episode arc of NYPD Blue where Jimmy Smits carks it?
Also, only the five-episode arc of NYPD Blue where Jimmy Smits carks it?
Based on what you said I doubt "Star Trek" is for any of the spinoffs, just TOS...
Happy endings and lessons aren't always a bad thing but TOS had a few instances of where they just went through hell or deaths but in the end there's a big ol' ha-ha laugh out loud joke that felt as much out of place as I would in Studio 54, if it were still running that is... the sole exception to this would be "Day of the Dove" where everyone was faking it so the alien would vamoose...
NYPD Blue is one of my all-time favorite shows (like if I was going to do a list, it would definitely be in the top five), so I was a little taken aback by your inclusion of just those episodes. But now that you've explained their significance for you, I can respect that.
Both Rick Schroder and Mark-Paul Gosselaar turned out to be good additions to the show in its later years; sadly the writers screwed the pooch on Schroder's character, having him go off the rails his final season. I understand he wanted off the show to be with his family (his wife had suffered a miscarriage), but the build-up to his exit, and then how they wrote him off... shit.
No Twight Zone? I did enjoy seeing Homicide getting some love. Jason
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