Best TV Show Everrrrrr

[Pubey]

The Wire.

Outside shouts = The West Wing, The Sopranos, Friday Night Lights.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Where is this wire you speak of?

 

[MK Shrimper]

Where is this wire you speak of?

Plug socket?


We've done this battle!

For me: Sopranos, Game Of Thrones, Parks & Recreation, Frasier, Father Ted, The Fast Show, The Young Ones, Blackadder.

 

[Pubey]

Plug socket?


We've done this battle!

For me: Sopranos, Game Of Thrones, Parks & Recreation, Frasier, Father Ted, The Fast Show, The Young Ones, Blackadder.

It's not a battle, just a discussion

 

[MK Shrimper]

It's not a battle, just a discussion

Isn't that what Hitler said to Chamberlain :unsure:

 

[Uncle Leo]

The Wire is my personal all-time favourite.

 

[EastStandBlue]

The Wire.

Outside shouts = The West Wing, The Sopranos, Friday Night Lights.

This.

Not having Breaking Bad as one of the all-time greats. It's good, but not of the calibre of the above four mentioned.

Anyone that mentions Game of Thrones in this category needs to GTFO.

 

[MK Shrimper]

This.

Not having Breaking Bad as one of the all-time greats. It's good, but not of the calibre of the above four mentioned.

Anyone that mentions Game of Thrones in this category needs to GTFO.

Apologies for having an opinion. Mine is that The Wire is boring, dull and hugely over-rated.

 

[mattytheshrimper]

I am a huge fan of Game of Thrones, best TV show ever for me!! I also really enjoy walking dead and modern family.

 

[Pubey]

Apologies for having an opinion. Mine is that The Wire is boring, dull and hugely over-rated.

You watched 3 episodes.

Give it a proper go.

 

[wakes123]

Sopranos number 1, I also liked Entourage.

 

[EastStandBlue]

Apologies for having an opinion. Mine is that The Wire is boring, dull and hugely over-rated.

No need to apologise. We're all horribly wrong at some point in our lives.

 

[Uncle Leo]

This.

Not having Breaking Bad as one of the all-time greats. It's good, but not of the calibre of the above four mentioned.

Anyone that mentions Game of Thrones in this category needs to GTFO.

With you on The Wire and FNL as you well know, but am going to have to defend GOT here.

Easy to dismiss (I have a friend who simply won't watch it as it has dragons in it) but there are some great plots, tremendous acting

  Spoiler:  

(Charles Dance will be missed)

and action scenes worthy of any Holywood blockbuster.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

and action scenes worthy of any Holywood blockbuster.

Is that meant to be a selling point?

Although if that's a typo I'd watch a Holyrood blockbuster.


ps Answer is Wire, and MK should watch it properly. The heathen.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Is that meant to be a selling point?

Although if that's a typo I'd watch a Holyrood blockbuster.

Can be. It's up to the viewer isn't it?

Saw episode 1 of that Holyrood blockbuster on Tuesday and didn't think much of it to be honest. Although the pterodactyl fella did quite well.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Seinfeld.
The Sopranos.

 

[EastStandBlue]

With you on The Wire and FNL as you well know, but am going to have to defend GOT here.

Easy to dismiss (I have a friend who simply won't watch it as it has dragons in it) but there are some great plots, tremendous acting

  Spoiler:  

(Charles Dance will be missed)

and action scenes worthy of any Holywood blockbuster.

My dislike of it's got nothing to do with the material, but how it's been developed into TV. I watched two seasons of it and thought it was all over the shop. I understand the difficulties of working from source material, especially that as extensive as the original books, but it was so badly paced that I found it irritating. It's like a child recanting a story about what happened to them at school - "Today this happened, and then this happened, and then she said this which made him say this and then this happened, and then it all happened over there but while that was going in this happened and she said this!". All style and very little substance for me.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Is that meant to be a selling point?

Although if that's a typo I'd watch a Holyrood blockbuster.


ps Answer is Wire, and MK should watch it properly. The heathen.

Tried twice, twice I struggled to stay awake.

 

[Pubey]

My dislike of it's got nothing to do with the material, but how it's been developed into TV. I watched two seasons of it and thought it was all over the shop. I understand the difficulties of working from source material, especially that as extensive as the original books, but it was so badly paced that I found it irritating. It's like a child recanting a story about what happened to them at school - "Today this happened, and then this happened, and then she said this which made him say this and then this happened, and then it all happened over there but while that was going in this happened and she said this!". All style and very little substance for me.

Yeah I tend to agree. I found the seasons to be badly paced, with the storylines and plots jumping randomly but then with a lot of mindless wandering. Supporting characters are built up to be one dimensional, and then killed off for little reason. The main characters (Tyrion, Jon Snow, Cersei, Dany) have a little bit more interest but even they seem to be drifting around. You can tell it's a TV interpretation of a book without an end.

The show boarders on nihilism, but when it does work there have been some fantastic moments. I've watched a lot of dark TV but the Red Wedding remains genuinely shocking, which in some ways is impressive for a big budget and major mainstream TV show.

 

[Pubey]

Tried twice, twice I struggled to stay awake.

Try it a third time and watch the whole of Season 1.