lapal_fan Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 16 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: Hancock's Half Hour. Still funny and relevant to today's world. The London 2012 Opening Ceremony. I fully expected our Olympics to be an embarrassing shambles. I was wrong. The show blew me away and is one of those shows that will always be in my memory. Villa European Cup win. I was only 11 but I remember every kick. Sitting on the floor in front of a TV that was tiny by today's standards. House. Not everyone's cup other tea. But it's unusual for an American comedy to use sarcasm athe it's core. Fawlty Towers. You started it. Operation Good Guys. A lesser known improvised Police comedy. The Clangers. It still reminds me of childhood. The World At War. This should be on the curriculum for every schoolchild. Lawrence Olivier's commentary is just stunning. Deep Space 9 - the dominion wars. I hate 90% of Star Trek but these episodes were fabulous. Morecombe & Wise Christmas Shows. So many classic moments and so many memories. Like for Operation Good Guys. Particularly series 1 and 2 before they put a laughter track on it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 think it should be split in the same way that the GG does it, TV series and mini series, seen a lot this week about Chernobyl's ratings compared to the sopranos, it should be being compared to say band of brothers, so mine would then be - sopranos and the wire way out in front followed by game of thrones, the x files, friends, the simpsons band of brothers not sure where you put fargo, do you judge each series as a mini series of the 3 entirely different series as 1 run? either way that would be in there too, same with planet earth / BBC + SDA stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) My top five are... Twin Peaks (way out in front because of 'The Return') Mad Men Fanny and Alexander Addams Family (original sixties version) Dekalog Edited June 3, 2019 by useless 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 3, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) Heimat. Still Heimat. Watch it all the way through every 3 or 4 years. EDIT: So, this list was bumped, and I read through it again. And I realised how many of these shows I watched one episode of and decided not to proceed: South Park The Office Only Fools and Horses The Wire Deadwood Game of Thrones There are probably others. I did love Twin Peaks and Breaking Bad, though. Edited June 3, 2019 by mjmooney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 2 hours ago, useless said: My top five are... Twin Peaks (way out in front because of 'The Return') Mad Men Fanny and Alexander Addams Family (original sixties version) Dekalog Agreed on the top one. There is Twin Peaks and then everything else. Modern day TV exists because of TP. It’s untouchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 On 23/03/2015 at 19:23, leviramsey said: Homicide: Life on the Street. Without it, no Wire, no Oz, no Shield... There's no Homicide LOTS without ... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumerican Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 On 20/03/2015 at 14:46, donnie said: The Wire - Season 4... the GREATEST season of any show ever made. Nothing has or will ever come close to matching it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 If there is anything I should take away from this thread, I should watch The Wire. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Season 4 is great but it's not better than season 1 and I'd argue season 2 is also better than 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, AJ said: If there is anything I should take away from this thread, I should watch The Wire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Justified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 7 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: Yep. That's what I thought. Another cop drama? A lot of people seem to like it and highly rate it, so there might be something special there. With the over saturation of cop dramas throughout the history of television, it would have to offer something really special to deserve this much love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 Band of Brothers Breaking Bad The Sopranos The original C4 Black Mirrors Funny things live in a different category in my brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 The Wire for me. Seasons 3 and 4 are sublime 24 is great - although very similar after a few series. Wildcard would be Banshee - fantastic fun. Comedy would be Seinfled (utter brilliance), Curb and The Office (UK version of course) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 2 minutes ago, AJ said: Yep. That's what I thought. Another cop drama? A lot of people seem to like it and highly rate it, so there might be something special there. With the over saturation of cop dramas throughout the history of television, it would have to offer something really special to deserve this much love. I just never took to it. Stopped watching a couple of episodes into series 3 IIRC. There are some brilliant characters. (Stringer Bell and Marlow especially) but I think Dominic West is some sort of parody of an actor - an inside joke from Equity or something. I get why people like it but it baffles me that people rated/rate it so highly. The politics and the crime/destitution etc make the show, I found the 'cop' bits rather laughable at times. I have a friend who works as a professional cameraman and he assures me it's the best TV of all time. But then he thought Breaking Bad was drivel. Beauty in the eyes of the beholder and all that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AJ Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 4 minutes ago, VILLAMARV said: I just never took to it. Stopped watching a couple of episodes into series 3 IIRC. There are some brilliant characters. (Stringer Bell and Marlow especially) but I think Dominic West is some sort of parody of an actor - an inside joke from Equity or something. I get why people like it but it baffles me that people rated/rate it so highly. The politics and the crime/destitution etc make the show, I found the 'cop' bits rather laughable at times. I have a friend who works as a professional cameraman and he assures me it's the best TV of all time. But then he thought Breaking Bad was drivel. Beauty in the eyes of the beholder and all that. Oh yes, definitely. With people's tastes and experiences, there is going to be countless opinions to the question of the greatest TV show of all time, and nobody is wrong. It would be wrong to criticise anyone's opinion here, as what might be the greatest to you may be considered the very definition of sensory crap to many others. I among many others, love South Park. Yet Tom Cruise and many others hate it. The animation is the crappiest, but the jokes and points about the ridiculousness of society are great. As with any opinion, it depends what overwhelms a person more about a show, the positive or the negative. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 I liked Breaking Bad, but not as much as most. That's why I left Better Call Saul til after it had finished...I thought it was better than BB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 1 hour ago, VILLAMARV said: I have a friend who works as a professional cameraman and he assures me it's the best TV of all time. But then he thought Breaking Bad was drivel. Beauty in the eyes of the beholder and all that. Apart from being a professional cameraman I'm the same, breaking bad was garbage, tried and failed to get in to it 3 times now the wire hooked me big time, so many great characters (mcnulty not being one of them) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted June 3, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) 8 minutes ago, villa4europe said: breaking bad was garbage I can get how people may not like a programme but I just can't understand how it can be described as 'garbage'. It wasn't **** Crossroads. Edited June 3, 2019 by snowychap 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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