Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas

[digster]

I'm not a big sitcom watcher, so that's going to be far more difficult for me.

Dramas
- The Americans
- The X-Files
- Friday Night Lights
- The Wire
- Twin Peaks

Comedies
- Parks and Recreation
- The Office
- Bojack Horseman (this may be stretching it)
- Better off Ted
- The Simpsons (I can't remember the last time I watched an episode, but it's just so foundational for me that I can't imagine it not being here)

[epilogue]

It was really difficult omitting The X-Files and Friday Night Lights from my list. I'm glad to see them popping frequently.

[VinylGuy]

Im actually thinking of re watching it.

[digster]

Is there a thread on best single seasons of television? I'm thinking of something like The Leftovers; while it didn't make my top 5, I'd probably put the show's third season into the top 2-3 seasons of television I'd ever seen. I'd be curious how people's views of single seasons of shows align with their favorite shows, period.

[bada]

I think the first season of Scrubs is a perfect comedy. It was still pretty great after that for a few seasons but started to become uneven once the absurd fantasies in JD's brain started happening in reality. Also as the series went on Zach Braff started going full Braff in more and more episodes and you should never go full Braff.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[bada]

Wait till I start talking about my love for Chuck!

[Mickey]

There’s no quicker path to get me to question your taste then to declare your love of Scrubs. My sister and I are still trying to sort it all out.

I haven't spoken to my brother since he walked out of my wedding but Scrubs is a good thing to fight about too.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

There’s no quicker path to get me to question your taste then to declare your love of Scrubs. My sister and I are still trying to sort it all out.

I haven't spoken to my brother since he walked out of my wedding but Scrubs is a good thing to fight about too.

go on...

[epilogue]

Is there a thread on best single seasons of television? I'm thinking of something like The Leftovers; while it didn't make my top 5, I'd probably put the show's third season into the top 2-3 seasons of television I'd ever seen. I'd be curious how people's views of single seasons of shows align with their favorite shows, period.

Not sure if we have a thread. But I wouldn't be opposed to having one.

Grey's Anatomy S2 is perfect soup-drama TV. It's one of the best single seasons of any TV show I can think of. But there's no way I'd put that show anywhere near my top shows of any category.

Obviously, Watchmen is only one season. I don't know if that counts here (?) but I would absolutely include that at the top of a "best single seasons" list.

I think a lot of the shows I put on my list are there because of consistency and cumulative storytelling. For example, I can't think of which season of Mad Men is best (maybe 5?) but it's the best show I've ever seen because every season has great episodes and the cumulative effect/payoff was masterful. More importantly, the show doesn't have a clear "worst season" whereas most shows do.

The one exception for me would be Parks and Recreation. S3 of that show is one of the best seasons of TV I've ever seen and that show is on my comedies list.

S3 of The Leftovers is also a worthy contender. That's a good call, digster.

[The Argonaut]

That's a very good idea for a thread

[Mickey]

My main problem with folks putting "True Detective S1" in here is that they must not have watched the final episode.

[epilogue]

My main problem with folks putting "True Detective S1" in here is that they must not have watched the final episode.

There are aspects (art direction, cinematography, the lead actors, etc) of TD S1 that are worthy of "best of" discussions. But if I'm honest, I think S3 is the best overall season of the series, so far. I only wish Cary Fukunaga had directed it.

[Mickey]

My main problem with folks putting "True Detective S1" in here is that they must not have watched the final episode.

There are aspects (art direction, cinematography, the lead actors, etc) of TD S1 that are worthy of "best of" discussions. But if I'm honest, I think S3 is the best overall season of the series, so far. I only wish Cary Fukunaga had directed it.

Woof, Joseph. The correct answer here was the bizarre overstuffed noir of S2. S3 was Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson level dogshit.

[epilogue]

My main problem with folks putting "True Detective S1" in here is that they must not have watched the final episode.

There are aspects (art direction, cinematography, the lead actors, etc) of TD S1 that are worthy of "best of" discussions. But if I'm honest, I think S3 is the best overall season of the series, so far. I only wish Cary Fukunaga had directed it.

Woof, Joseph. The correct answer here was the bizarre overstuffed noir of S2. S3 was Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson level dogshit.

S2 is better than most give it credit for. I didn't hate it. But I'd still call it the least of True Detective.

[Mickey]

My main problem with folks putting "True Detective S1" in here is that they must not have watched the final episode.

There are aspects (art direction, cinematography, the lead actors, etc) of TD S1 that are worthy of "best of" discussions. But if I'm honest, I think S3 is the best overall season of the series, so far. I only wish Cary Fukunaga had directed it.

Woof, Joseph. The correct answer here was the bizarre overstuffed noir of S2. S3 was Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson level dogshit.

S2 is better than most give it credit for. I didn't hate it. But I'd still call it the least of True Detective.

The false detective.

[epilogue]

My main problem with folks putting "True Detective S1" in here is that they must not have watched the final episode.

There are aspects (art direction, cinematography, the lead actors, etc) of TD S1 that are worthy of "best of" discussions. But if I'm honest, I think S3 is the best overall season of the series, so far. I only wish Cary Fukunaga had directed it.

Woof, Joseph. The correct answer here was the bizarre overstuffed noir of S2. S3 was Morgan Freeman/Jack Nicholson level dogshit.

S2 is better than most give it credit for. I didn't hate it. But I'd still call it the least of True Detective.

The false detective.

*falsest

[Bammer]

Wait till I start talking about my love for Cock!

Please calm down

[bada]

Wait till I start talking about my love for Cock!

Please calm down

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.