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Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 5:41 pm
by 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)
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 7:37 pm
by epilogue
It was really difficult omitting The X-Files and Friday Night Lights from my list. I'm glad to see them popping frequently.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 7:40 pm
by VinylGuy
Im actually thinking of re watching it.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 7:46 pm
by 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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 8:40 pm
by 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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 8:41 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 8:59 pm
by bada
Wait till I start talking about my love for Chuck!
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 9:00 pm
by Mickey
tragabigzanda wrote: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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 9:33 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
Mickey wrote:tragabigzanda wrote: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...
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 9:52 pm
by epilogue
digster wrote: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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 9:53 pm
by The Argonaut
That's a very good idea for a thread
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 9:54 pm
by Mickey
My main problem with folks putting "True Detective S1" in here is that they must not have watched the final episode.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 9:56 pm
by epilogue
Mickey wrote: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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 9:58 pm
by Mickey
durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote: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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 10:05 pm
by epilogue
Mickey wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote: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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 10:06 pm
by Mickey
durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote: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.
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 10:11 pm
by epilogue
Mickey wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:Mickey wrote: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
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 10:27 pm
by Bammer
bada wrote:Wait till I start talking about my love for Cock!
Please calm down
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 10:56 pm
by bada
Bammer wrote:bada wrote:Wait till I start talking about my love for Cock!
Please calm down
Re: Your top five sitcoms and top five dramas
Posted: Mon August 24, 2020 11:32 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote: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.