Best TV show you ever saw?
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What was it?
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Not counting cartoons, I'd say Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies.
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Revenge . Loved that show. So well thought through .
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Penny Dreadful, hands down.
Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and now Haunting of Hill House if Netflix counts. ~R. -
Maybe I have too short an attention span but here are very few shows I'll like all the way through. The ones I recall have episodes or seasons I dislike.
Babylon 5 - last season is a miss.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More with Feeling and Hush were two of the best hours I've ever seen on tv.
Viscious - most of it was great.
Being Human - (british version only) the first season was great.
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Probably The Sopranos. I haven't re-watched it in a while so I'm not sure if it holds up, but I remember being amazed with what they were getting away with, and how complex everything about the show was, especially when compared with every other drama that was airing at that time.
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From the "modern" era, I will also go with Penny Dreadful, still distraught that it ended so abruptly.
From the "classic" era, I will go with The Avengers, which has nothing to do with the current superhero franchise (grumble). This trippy 1960s British detective show was at its best when Patrick Macnee was paired with Honor Blackman and then, the incomparable Dame Diana Rigg, who I will surely be in the next life:
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I even liked Tara King. I wish that most of the episodes of the first series hadn't been destroyed.
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I even liked Tara King. I wish that most of the episodes of the first series hadn't been destroyed.
It was a near-impossible task for Linda Thorson "Tara" to fill the stilettos of Rigg, perhaps a factor as to why Thorson's first season was also the original show's last.
As for Season One, to my knowledge, only 3 complete and one partial episode have been recovered, as the videotape "masters" of that era were reused (feel free to weep). Of the surviving episodes, Tunnel of Fear was, quite unexpectedly, found in 2016, and I'll have to see if a copy has made its way onto the net.
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Of the surviving episodes, Tunnel of Fear was, quite unexpectedly, found in 2016, and I'll have to see if a copy has made its way onto the net.
Pardon my poor dollar conversion skills, but am I to understand that the free market is charging +/- $25US for this single, one-hour, no-longer-lost Avengers episode?!?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avengers-Tunnel-Fear-DVD/dp/B079LDBNYZ
And to keep the thread on-topic…
Favorite Animated TV show (modern): The genial Bob's Burgers (honorables to Bojack, Squidbilllies, Mr. Pickles, Family Guy, American Dad, etc., etc.)
Favorite Animated TV show (classic): Tie – very early Japanimation Prince Planet, and Star Trek: the Animated Series.
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Twin Peaks: The Return is , I think, the greatest achievement i've ever seen on the small screen.
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Veep. I loved it. It had no heart. Rapid fire insults that were downright cruel. I think almost every character hated everyone else. To me even though it was about the vice president's (and later the president) office it was also the perfect work place comedy. It really showed how people who work together truly hate each other.
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BoJack Horseman is top of my list at the moment, incredible story telling.
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My faves:
Veep
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones (I hate the spinoff)
Venture Bros
Bojack Horseman
Ducktales (reboot)
Utopia (UK show)
Star Trek - Deep Space Nine
Lost (until that last season ruined it)Right now I'm hooked on this show called Industry.
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DS9 is my favorite. Voyager is my least favorite.
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Mine is "shamelss"
The American version, of course.
