Poll of the Day > Your top 5 TV shows of all time?

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Buffy
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Pushing Daisies
Death Note
Silicon Valley

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Simpsons (seasons 2-14)
South Park (seasons 1-18)
X-Files
Twilight Zone (original and 80s)

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Oh gods, this might take some serious thinking.

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Justice League (up to and including Unlimited).
Cowboy Bebop
Leverage

For my fifth, it's between either Doctor Who (classic serials included) pre-Series 6 or Daria.

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1. Always Sunny
2. Dark
3. Better Call Saul
4. Breaking Bad
5. Community

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1. Lost
2. Blue Bloods
3. Modern Family
4. Breaking Bad
5. Master chef USA lol

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School Rumble
My Name is Earl
Corner Gas
Scrubs
We Without Wings

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(All in no particular order)

Fictional TV Shows:
Warehouse 13
Better Call Saul
Westworld
Mr. Robot
Ozark

Partial-Fiction TV Shows:
Deadwood
Hell on Wheels
The Last Kingdom
Vikings
Rome

Non-Fiction TV Shows:
Jeopardy!
Planet Earth
The Joy of Painting
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations
Diners, Drive-ins and Dives

1. Dark Angel
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Firefly
4. Fringe
5. The Mandalorian

Honorable mentions:

Breaking Bad.
Dollhouse.
Married With Children.


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1) Night Court
2) Married With Children
3) That 70s Show
4) Remington Steele
5) Twilight Zone

Those that got left out:
Star Trek OS and TNG
Smallville
Wild Wild West

I should probably qualify a few of my prior entries...

The second half of s2 of Dark Angel is ugly, they'd set up for at least 5 seasons and found out they were getting cancelled and tried to do 3 seasons in like 6 episodes.

Kinda the same story with Fringe after the timeskip.

I do also love most of next gen Trek era, and DS9 was probably me favorite out of the 3. TNG was good, Voyager only makes sense if you watch it thru the lens of Janeway being bipolar and Tuvok and the EMH covering her condition...Sisko was by far the best Captain out of the 3. He was the only Captain that had a sensible reaction to Q's presence on his watch. He went and punched him in the face. You don't reason with Q.

We don't even need to get into how Firefly was done dirty.

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Also, the remake of V was great until it got the can. Same with Flash Forward and Quantico.

I have a habit of falling in love with a lot of series' that get the axe early on.

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LuciferSage posted...

We don't even need to get into how Firefly was done dirty.

Not at this point, no. The list is too long of everything stacked against it.

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LuciferSage posted...

Fringe

<3

very few people ever talk about fringe. I remember it came out just after lost (JJ Abrams was involved IIRC?).

kept me and my mum entertained for years and years. Such a great show

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I should mention that I nearly put Stargates SG-1 and Atlantis on my top five. Both were good shows, though SG-1 clearly suffered in its final two seasons and Atlantis was hit with the cancelation hammer before its time.

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1. The Wire
2. Breaking Bad
3. Rectify
4. The Twilight Zone
5. Black Mirror

Honorable mentions:
Better Call Saul
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
The Good Place
Hannibal

FatalAccident posted...

<3

very few people ever talk about fringe. I remember it came out just after lost (JJ Abrams was involved IIRC?).

kept me and my mum entertained for years and years. Such a great show

Jar Jar Abrams is currently on my naughty list, but he was still golden in my books with what he was trying to do with Fringe.

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I answer this shit so often and wind up deliberating that I should just write the damn thing down.

Off the top of my head:

Simpsons (although the new season has been pretty terrible, and I enjoyed some of the recent seasons)

JL/U

...and that's usually where I freeze every time. Simpsons is fucking easy. JL/U is fucking easy. Everything else? Kinda hard. If I know a show well enough to quote large chunks of it and STILL can enjoy re-watching it, that's pretty much the gold standard and there isn't a lot that rises to that level. There a a lot of shows I enjoyed once, but couldn't even watch a second time.

Granted, "top" has multiple interpretations and it's going into quality then that's another whole can of worms right there, I tell you what.

I'd say Daredevil, but that's really off the strength of season 1 and season 2 was nowhere near as good and season 3 started rough.

I loved s1 of Iron Fist, but s2 was more of a mixed bag.

Twilight Zone was generally great. I've seen a lot of it many times and, if an episode is on, I'll still watch through.

Modern Family could be a contender, but I haven't watched the later part of its run.

I guess 30 Rock could be an option, but I haven't rewatched that many episodes. Same for ATLA, which I haven't done a full second run of.

idk, I've watched tons of shows over the years. Kinda hard to pick.

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LuciferSage posted...

Jar Jar Abrams is currently on my naughty list

lol why

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FatalAccident posted...

lol why

did you miss the entire Rey Trilogy?

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1. Unhappily Ever After
2. Ronin Warriors / Yoroiden Samurai Troopers
3. Burn Notice
4. Great Queen Seondeok
5. Garo: Yami o Terasu Mono (The One Who Shines in the Darkness)

Honorable mentions:
Code Geass
Outsourced
Human Weapon
Chuck
Gundam Wing
Off Centre
Relic Hunter
Mortal Kombat Conquest

So many great series, sadly unknown to most people...

Supernatural
Bleach
DBZ
Law & Order
Power

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1.Star Trek TNG and OS
2.X-Files
3.My Name is Earl
4.Community
5.The Office

Those are the ones I could think of right off the top of my head this early before coffee. #1&2 for sure.

The best mini-series to me was Lonesome Dove and I usually don't like westerns but that kind of went beyond that. Now for coffee and waking up. Good morning PotD.

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Buffy
The Wire
Breaking Bad
South Park
Scrubs

Probably something typical like,

Deadwood
The Sopranos
Game of Thrones
Peaky Blinders
Vikings

Could probably swap out some of them with other shows like Yellowstone, Outlander, Breaking Bad, Ray Donovan, Rome, The Last Kingdom, Penny Dreadful, Carnivale. All great shows IMO.

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In no order:
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Coronation Street
The Chase
Only Fools and Horses


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Better Call Saul
Robotech
Firefly
Gravity Falls
MASH

Honorable mentions:
Scrubs
South Park
Breaking Bad
Adventure Time
Married with Children

If I include anime/cartoons it will be too difficult so I'll pick only one.

Pretty Little Liars (minus the last season)
Vampire Diaries
Star Trek
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Doctor Who (up to Matt Smith)

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Buffy
DBZ
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Charmed

LuciferSage posted...

did you miss the entire Rey Trilogy?

Yes. As standalone sci-fi films they were fine yeah, but then again I wouldnt consider myself a huge Star Wars fan so maybe Abrams mistakes went over my head.

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wwinterj25 posted...

EastEnders
Emmerdale
Coronation Street

lol are u joking or

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Avatar: The Last Airbender
Law & Order
Futurama
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Parks and Recreation
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FatalAccident posted...

lol are u joking or

I've been watching these since young and haven't stopped so enjoy them for the most part. I guess you could call them a guilty pleasure of mine.

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I watched eastenders religiously from when I was 12 and stopped when I got to 18/19. I just couldnt keep up. And catching the odd episode now and then at my mums house I barely recognise anybody except like Phil. Always had a big crush on Ronnie Mitchell tho

i wonder if itll ever end, or if its just gonna run forever

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WWE Raw
Boy Meets World
South Park
Dragon Ball Z
The Simpsons

It's so hard for me to do this because what I enjoyed most, what left the strongest impression on my life, and what I'm most impressed with are all different and it's hard to know how much to weight each of those things.

Especially with comedy vs drama. Drama is more "impressive" to me generally if it's done well such that a theoretically perfect drama should be rated higher than a perfect comedy but I have for sure gotten much more enjoyment out of long running comedies. Then most of the shows that really changed my life were more of a right place right time sort of deal rather than actually being profound or even well made.

1. Monogatari Series
2. Code Geass
3. Futurama
4. Legend of the Galactic Heroes
5. The Shield

That's my best attempt I guess. There's truly nothing like monogatari for me. A few anime have a similar style but they are cheap imitations without the writing behind it. A rare case of a perfect combination of writer, director, and funding that honestly just hasn't been topped IMO. It's one of life's great mysteries that a show with so much subtlety and complexity and weirdness and talking manages to have mainstream popularity in anime but I'm not complaining.

Code geass is the show I've rewatched the most. I think I've seen it 8 times now. It's not flawless (the first half of the 2nd season is pretty crap and a lot of the battle victories are just environmental dues ex machinas) but god damn does it do so much right and really drag you along for the ride. It helps that it's in a genre that I love but is under-served which is military strategy anime that for some reason is 90% mecha. Whilst it is less grand and intelligent as LotGH lower down on the list, it has a much better presentation and really manages to hit the mark on everything well for me. It's maybe the most well rounded show I've seen with it's drama, action, romance, comedy, and strategy all being stellar.

Futurama is my favorite comedy. The cast is fun to watch do just about anything. I've probably seen every episode of the original run like 5-6 times and seen the newer episodes at least twice each. Probably my favorite show to just casually watch where it's fine if I have to get up and miss a few minutes.

Legend of the Galactic Heroes despite having a terrible name is probably the grandest epic I've ever experienced. Theres over 100 important named characters and every one of em is well written. It tells the story of a conflict on all levels from the government to the generals to the every type of solider to the media. I doubt I'll ever experience a story with larger scale thats even half this well written. It's not quite perfect but it's damn close.

Been a while since I watched the shield so honestly a rewatch might bump this down the list but I feel like it's often overlooked. A fantastic crime/police drama with maybe the most powerful ending I've ever seen. It's really good and I prefer it over the wire despite that also being really good.

Honorable mentions:
Black Sails (honestly probably deserves a spot over the shield. Really amazing and has hot lesbians)
Firefly
Samurai Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (and 2nd gig)
Made In Abyss (maybe when it's finished it'll move up, top 1 OST though)

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Batman TAS
Spectacular Spider-man
Breaking Bad
Eureka (don't judge me! I bet most haven't even heard of this)
Twilight Zone (the black and white ones, color ones started going downhill fast).

Honorable mentions that got cut: Outer Limits (pretty much all these are good), Futurama, Dragon Ball, Married with Children, and Ash Vs Evil Dead.


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South Park
Batman: TAS
Always Sunny
Breaking Bad
Chappelle's Show

Honorable mentions:
Twilight Zone
Futurama
That 70's Show
Who's Line

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You guys are really cheating with this honorable mentions stuff. If I did that stuff like Batman Beyond, Batman TAS, BLEACH, Xena etc would all be there.

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FatalAccident posted...

Always had a big crush on Ronnie Mitchell tho

Roxy for me but both are dead now. Drowned because sister love and drugs.

i wonder if itll ever end, or if its just gonna run forever

Hard to tell. Corri has been going almost 60 years so I'd imagine the other soaps will. Although with that said Brookside didn't last. I'd imagine if I stopped watching these soaps I'd find it hard to get back into them too. Even more so when they give old characters new heads!

fires_trust posted...

WWE Raw

Probably should have listed wrestling rather than Only Fools and Horses but I don't have a favourite wrestling show. I'm more invested in AEW Dynamite at this point but watch both WWE and AEW multiple times a week. Have done sine around 4(much like with soaps) but I did take a break when we didn't have Sky anymore. So I guess I've been watching for 25 years or so.

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wwinterj25 posted...

Probably should have listed wrestling rather than Only Fools and Horses but I don't have a favourite wrestling show. I'm more invested in AEW Dynamite at this point but watch both WWE and AEW multiple times a week. Have done sine around 4(much like with soaps) but I did take a break when we didn't have Sky anymore. So I guess I've been watching for 25 years or so.

I've periodically watched WWE's stuff over the years, but I think I've only ever regarded NXT as anything special because it tended to be very light on filler, it was largely self-contained (unlike Raw and SD which bleed into each other), and it tended to have a better mix of content. However, I'm sure most of that has changed.

That said, Raw was often fun for the spectacle, etc.

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Zeus posted...

However, I'm sure most of that has changed.

Not really. NXT is still better for the most part and most of the current talent now is from there. Who knew a 51 year old son in law knows better about wrestling than a 75 year old, out of touch father in law.

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Star Trek: TNG
Nash Bridges
The Loud House
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
The Simpsons


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KJ StErOiDs posted...

Nash Bridges

I still kinda want to check out the full run, since the few episodes I have seen were pretty good.

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wwinterj25 posted...

but both are dead now

lmao are you serious?

well shit

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