What is your favorite show?

Forgot about the new BBC Sherlock. Fantastic show. It'll likely bump the Young Ones from my list, but I'm not sure how good Sherlock is on repeated viewings. I'll have to think some more.

Vyvyan's Mum: Well, then, aren't you gonna introduce me to your freinds?
Vyvyan: Oh, right. Mum, this is a friend of mine called Mike, this is a friend of mine called Neil, and this is a complete bastard I know called Rick.
Rick: He's just joshing, Mrs. Vyvyan, we're actually terrific freinds.
Vyvyan's Mum: Oh, he is a bastard, isn't he?

Could have sworn that this was a spammer thread, but if you all roll with it...

Just skimmed thorugh the answers, but is it possible that nobody mentioned Band of Brothers yet? What a great, great show, I've seen all episodes many times and it's just such an inspirational, and at the same time horrific and sad story.

Lots of good stuff has come out in recent years: Rome, Deadwood (where's the movie to tie all lose ends?!), Six Feet Under, Mad Men, Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Freaks & Geeks. For the shorter comedies I'd go with Community, Frasier and Futurama.

Also Marcussen, as long as you're here, tell us more about Clash of Cultures!!!

I thought this was a spammer thread as well...

The Wire
Firefly
Green Wing

The Wire

Deadwood

Rome


The latter two, cut down in their prime.

I couldn't make it through the second season of Rome for some reason. Just lost interest. I think I stopped caring after (spoiler alert!) Julius Ceasar got killed. The actor playing him was the best part of the show for me.

Hard to choose but The Office (UK) would probably be at the top of my list.

Honourable mentions:
Scrubs
Seinfeld
The X-Files
Only Fools and Horses
Robin of Sherwood
Firefly

X-Files
Star Trek (TOS)
Gilligan's Island
Addams Family
Robotech
Dungeons & Dragons (cartoon)
Lost in Space
Space 1999
Land of the Lost
Amazing Stories
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Twilight Zone
Dexter (first 2 seasons)
The original Battlestar Galactica
The A-Team



Yeah, that about sums it up for me.

I think I'd go for The Prisoner.
No telling how many times I've watched it, and it never seems to get old.

And I still want a Caterham 7.

Man, The Prisoner was great.

I really should've added "The Avengers" (Peel and Steed, not Supers) and Fawlty Towers...let alone Are You Being Served. Love those British shows from back in the day.

schlupp wrote: Also Marcussen, as long as you're here, tell us more about Clash of Cultures!!!

It's a pretty decent game

There will be lots of info the coming months. New stuff every week I imagine. So all in good time.

FRINGE. I found it pretty good at first, but I got a little lost during 2nd season. It did give me a kind of LOST feeling, where all kinds of stuff (seemingly unrelated) is introduced.

One of the things I do not like about LOST (thought I like it overall) is that it can't decide what it is. Are the mysteries a social experiement, magic, supernatural, gods, mechanical, etc... And rather than picking one, it picks them all.

Dair wrote:

Sagrilarus wrote: The Wire isn't real popular here in Baltimore.

S.

I can see how that would be true. I think that most people outside of Baltimore (myself included) don't see it as a condemnation on the shortcomings of that city. I see it as a portayal of the problems of urban society throughout the US.

I agree. I'm a big fan of The Wire, but I don't take away a message that Baltimore sucks. As I see it, the show addressed some serious problems found in American cities by specifically taking a close look at Baltimore.

My list:

1. The Wire
2. Firefly
3. Jonny Quest
4. Jackie Chan Adventures
5. (space reserved for A Game of Thrones when I finally get around to watching it.)

My favorite show recently has been Parks & Recreation. Not only is it hilarious, but it has some of the best characters I've ever seen in comedies. They are genuinely decent people, and the show has made a very good habit of growing the characters as the series progresses. It's been very rewarding to see it find it's feet after the rough first season. If you watched it early and balked at the wobbly first six episodes, definitely come back it it. It's become something very special.

Oh, and Pawnee is the funniest fictional town since Springfield.

San Il Defanso wrote: My favorite show recently has been Parks & Recreation. [...] If you watched it early and balked at the wobbly first six episodes, definitely come back it it. It's become something very special.

This is the one show the wife & I currently watch. The show has lots of funny but I find it lacks resonance due to most of the cast being one-dimensional props for writers' jokes. My favorite stretch of the show was season one because I liked how Ann & Andy fit into the storyline, and the pit was a character on its own and was central to the plot; the episodes were more about the storyline and less of a framework for jokes. It had a Christopher Guest vibe to it then.

dave wrote:

San Il Defanso wrote: My favorite show recently has been Parks & Recreation. [...] If you watched it early and balked at the wobbly first six episodes, definitely come back it it. It's become something very special.

This is the one show the wife & I currently watch. The show has lots of funny but I find it lacks resonance due to most of the cast being one-dimensional props for writers' jokes. My favorite stretch of the show was season one because I liked how Ann & Andy fit into the storyline, and the pit was a character on its own and was central to the plot; the episodes were more about the storyline and less of a framework for jokes. It had a Christopher Guest vibe to it then.

Boy, I'm not sure I could agree less with what you just said. I think the show has immeasurably more depth now than it ever did in the early going. When it started out, it was just a weak proxy to The Office. Now it's actually a full universe of its own, and I feel like the characters are way more engaging and multi-faceted. As for the pit, well, some storylines are best left abandoned.