I mean best as in well-done, not necessarily your favorite. My favorite TV show is Buffy, but I have to say that the BEST is Northern Exposure.
I mean best as in well-done, not necessarily your favorite. My favorite TV show is Buffy, but I have to say that the BEST is Northern Exposure.
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I basically only watch two things: Doctor Who and Have I Got News For You. Both are fantastic, and should be watched because of their consistent quality and originality - pretty much everything else is dross...
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
Sesame Street
When I argue that Buffy is the smartest show ever made, people often tell me to give Doctor Who a shot. I probably should one of these days.Originally Posted by Lokasenna
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"Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal."
-Pi
I watch LOST and House. James Earl Jones gave a powerful performance on House in an episode called The Tyrant, in the current season. I think it's one of the best TV episodes I've ever seen.
That episode was crazy. This season has been thrilling but I wouldn't consider it a consistently good show worthy of being the best.
Dead Like Me is the only show that I ever thought good enough to buy. Original premise with a decent soundtrack. I didn't think they did too well on CGI but they wrote interesting scenarios. My favourite aspect of the show were the characters. I doubt it would ever be considered the best though since it only ran for two seasons. I think longevity is important.
Star Trek (the original series) is by far the best TV show. Here’s a groovy snippet from one of my favorite episodes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hszX-8-gt1I
After Star Trek, it is a toss up between “The Real McCoy’s”, “Hogan’s Hero’s”, “Leave it to Beaver” and “Gunsmoke”
Gilliatt
I'm not really into Buffy, I must admit. Whenever I've watched it, my mind just keeps wandering what Anthony Head is doing there... he just seems so out of place.
Doctor Who is tremendously intelligent, for the most part. It doesn't insult the viewer's intelligence, and it is always well written, well plotted, and well acted. Do give it a try!
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
uhhhh...
X-Files
Star Trek - TNG
Eureka
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Lost
The floundered a little bit in season 3ish, but after they had an end date it has been awesome. Consistently the best writing of a show I have ever seen. The episode called "The Constant" was the single best episode of TV of any show I had ever seen. With as complex as the show is there are so many pit falls for the writers do do some deus ex machina or otherwise make it lame, but they have threaded the needle.
The first season of the new Battlestar Galactica was probably the best single-season of anything I have seen, too bad the writing on that show went to crap.
House MD.
love it! and South Park
there are a lot of good shows, I really liked Friends, and I kinda like Two and a Half Men
Touched by Genius. Cursed by Madness. Blinded by Love.
Not into TV at all, but I think Monty Python is the only time in the history of television in which genius was allowed onto the screen. The first season of Twin Peaks was masterful as well. Of sitcoms, Seinfeld was the one with by far the best writing, but even then it had some downsides.
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The Moments of Dominion
That happen on the Soul
And leave it with a Discontent
Too exquisite — to tell —
-Emily Dickinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVW8GCnr9-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGIvr6WVw4
JuniperWoolf, your genius shows through once again. Northern Exposure is the BEST tv show by a mile. It's so much better than anything else, that I don't think there should even be a second place.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
I only watch shows that are in the canon.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Sports Night
Fraiser
Torchwood
Very intelligent and emotionally engaging shows.
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