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lemm.ee

It's one of my personal favorites, but I am still a bit surprised to see House so high on the list.

Imo one notable absence from this list is "The good place", which imo is among the all time greats, managing to stay consistently good from start to finish.

Also I actually haven't seen the other true detective seasons, but heard they aren't even close to as good as the first one. So i assume the rating is heavily carried by it?

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Echreply
lemm.ee

The Good Place is so forking good.

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I think the show is great like generally the characters and the sitcom plot and I love most things Micheal Schur makes.

But man as someone who’se actually studied Moral Philosophy, the show is really tough to watch because it oversimplifies and misinterprets so much and Chidi is just not a believable character if you know what you’re talking about. It feels more like pop-culture buzzfeed philosophy quiz sprinkled with stereoptypes than actual ethics.

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Davel23reply
fedia.io

True Detective S2 was not good. S3 was ok and S4 was meh.

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NOT_RICKreply
lemmy.world

The only good part of season two is Colin Farrell beating up that kid’s dad.

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gollireply

That description certainly doesn't sound right, when talking about putting it up with the greatest series of all time.

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Drusasreply
fedia.io

I enjoyed House, but I would never call it a good show. Enjoyable, sure.

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gollireply

I'd call an enjoyable show good, but that is just semantics. However regardless I would call house a good show, even if I acknowledge that I am a bit biased.

It does have it's flaws, which is why I wouldn't put it up for debate as objectively one of the best shows of all time (just subjectively rank it high).

The one case per episode format of course doesn't quite lend itself to high cinema. And it also doesn't have the realism as something like the pitt, to take a recent example. Plus I guess final seasons weren't quite as strong with a weaker team (that admittedly also didnt have the time for us to get to know them as well) and Lisa Edelstein didn't return for the final season due to failed salary negotiations.

But imo the series has a lot of strong points: Hugh Laurie as House did an outstanding job, and imo some of the others such as Robert Sean Leonard as Wilson as well. Despite the episodic format it had some imo good character arcs. And episodes like "House's head"/"Wilson's heart", "three stories", "three stories" or "one day, one room" are outstanding cinema that certainly put it in the "good show" category.

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How in the fuck is the x files not on it. You're going to look me in the face and say lost is better than the x files.

"Sorry, I just love cliffhangers that have no purpose other than to add commercial breaks and then not actually pay off."

You're going to tell me friends, the show that wrote the book for basic ass misunderstanding sitcoms is better than the x files.

I better just have missed it, or this world really is fucked.

Also what about ER? And SVU? Just the Robin Williams episode alone should be at like #14.

And wasn't MASH the most watched show ever at one point?

At least Chernobyl is right where it belongs.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Here, I fixed it

  1. The X Fucking Files

  2. Breaking Bad

  3. Chernobyl

  4. Hannibal

  5. The X Files Season 3

  6. Hannibal, but the second time you watch it.

  7. Band of Brothers

  8. Maybe Sopranos, I didn't watch it yet

  9. Mindhunter

  10. ER

  11. X files season 7

  12. Most of Game of Thrones

  13. Deadwood

  14. The Robin Williams episode of SVU

  15. The rest of Law & Order

  16. Is The Last Drive-In a show?

  17. Chernobyl when you convince someone squemish to watch it.

  18. Aqua Teen Hunger Force

  19. Are You Afraid Of The Dark

  20. The good adult swim shows

  21. Twin Peaks, but only after restarting it 3 times because you couldn't get into it and didn't know what was going on.

  22. Arrested Development

  23. Home Movies

  24. Better call Saul

  25. I've had Mad Men in my qeue for like 10 years.

  26. Vikings until Ragnar Dies

  27. Flight of the Conchords

  28. Always Sunny

  29. Evangelion if it includes the Movie

(30.) Raised by Wolves if it had fucking gone anywhere

  1. The squirrels trying to get at the bird feeders at your grandmas house.

  2. South Park

  3. The Flying Circus if you watch the first Season in Order

  4. The Last of Us

  5. The X Files in the background of a hangout where everyone riffs on it.

  6. Pete and Pete

  7. I really should watch Mr. Robot

  8. Mindhunter FanFic

  9. Peaky Blinders?

  10. Freaks and Geeks

  11. Cowboy Bebop

  12. Lord of the Rings Extended Editions

  13. Taskmaster

  14. CSI Miami, but as a drinking game

  15. Wildboyz

  16. Jackass

  17. Powerpuff Girls

  18. Ren & Stimpy

  19. Wasn't Fallout pretty good?

  20. Stranger things, I guess.

  21. The X Files high as balls

Edit: fuck phone formatting edit again: it.just keeps getting worse every time I.try to fix it, fuck it.

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Drusasreply
fedia.io

No way that Mindhunter should be on the list at all. I liked it for a while, but it just got worse over time and then was canceled.

And Dark shouldn't be removed from the list; it should be higher on the list.

Your 18 and 20 overlap.

Agreed on Raised by Wolves. Such a strong start.

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Ah shit I forgot about those. Well swap the squirrels at grandmas with Malcolm, and CSI Miami with scrubs.

Also metalocalypse probably should be separated from the good adult swim shows.

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jacksilverreply
lemmy.world

Same with Game of Thrones. For a plot driven show, the inability to stick the landing is a huge negative for me. Same reason why Lost is such a terrible show.

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I don't know there are more similarities than I initially thought:

  • a lot of mystery of the others / whitewalkers
  • a lot of politics around leadership and vying factions
  • some mystical element around saving the world
  • a complete flop on wrapping up the ending in a meaningful way

I mean it's been forever since I watched Lost, so my recollection may be off, but they're not a dissimilar as you'd think.

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lemmy.world

Where is Red Dwarf and Black Adder? Or is these just American series?

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Peep Show is in there so it's not just U.S. based. Though the ratings sites used probably have a high proportion of American voters.

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Most of this is fairly recent, and I think it's all available to stream pretty easily.

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I think Curb your enthusiasm should be somewhere on that list,no other show has had me laughing so hard my stomach hurts.

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Hard agree on Breaking Bad. It fits together like a puzzle. It gets better the longer you watch. The climactic episodes are some of the best TV ever made.

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