NeoGAF TV Show of the Year! Cast your votes!
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1) Boardwalk Empire
2) Game of Thrones
3) Homeland
4) Downton Abbey
5) Archer
6) Enlightened
7) Fringe
8) Modern Family
9) Regular Show
10) Shame
Honorable mentions: Castle, Eastbound and Down, Person of Interest
HBO is firing on all cylinders.
2) Game of Thrones
3) Homeland
4) Downton Abbey
5) Archer
6) Enlightened
7) Fringe
8) Modern Family
9) Regular Show
10) Shame
Honorable mentions: Castle, Eastbound and Down, Person of Interest
HBO is firing on all cylinders.
Best TV show of the year. Every year, the major publications (Time, LA Times) do it this way. Otherwise, you have the second half of Modern Family season 2 competing with the first half of season 3, etc.
Try not to take it too seriously. This is just for fun.
Didn't Time have FNL on their list? I'd like to have it on mine... haha.
Based on seasons that premiered this year...
1. Enlightened
2. Breaking Bad
3. Parks and Recreation
4. Game of Thrones
5. American Horror Story
6. Shameless
7. Fringe
8. Big Love
9. True Blood
10. Dexter
Honorable mention: Archer, Community, Happy Endings, Louie, Modern Family, New Girl, The League (these usually brighten my day, but I generally prefer drama/dramedy)
Enlightened's writing and characters made it a pleasant surprise. The first episode made an okay first impression, but it was much better after that. American Horror Story, True Blood and Dexter have problems but I always have a good time watching them and seeing the crazy stuff that happens. The characters are generally entertaining, though sometimes for the wrong reasons. If this were 2010, Fringe would be higher. Parks & Recreation's 4th season is good and sometimes great, but so far I think the 3rd's quality was more consistent (fortunately, it also premiered this year). It's still my favorite sitcom. Big Love's final season was really disappointing, but had its moments. Looking forward to more Archer next month. I think Justified would be up there, but I haven't seen it yet.
1. Enlightened
2. Breaking Bad
3. Parks and Recreation
4. Game of Thrones
5. American Horror Story
6. Shameless
7. Fringe
8. Big Love
9. True Blood
10. Dexter
Honorable mention: Archer, Community, Happy Endings, Louie, Modern Family, New Girl, The League (these usually brighten my day, but I generally prefer drama/dramedy)
Enlightened's writing and characters made it a pleasant surprise. The first episode made an okay first impression, but it was much better after that. American Horror Story, True Blood and Dexter have problems but I always have a good time watching them and seeing the crazy stuff that happens. The characters are generally entertaining, though sometimes for the wrong reasons. If this were 2010, Fringe would be higher. Parks & Recreation's 4th season is good and sometimes great, but so far I think the 3rd's quality was more consistent (fortunately, it also premiered this year). It's still my favorite sitcom. Big Love's final season was really disappointing, but had its moments. Looking forward to more Archer next month. I think Justified would be up there, but I haven't seen it yet.
ZephyrFate
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1) Happy Endings
2) Game of Thrones
3) Revenge
4) Louie
5) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
6) Parks and Recreation
7) Archer
8) Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
I think the fact that it took until season 4 for me to like Breaking Bad was what made me take it off the list.
2) Game of Thrones
3) Revenge
4) Louie
5) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
6) Parks and Recreation
7) Archer
8) Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
I think the fact that it took until season 4 for me to like Breaking Bad was what made me take it off the list.
ElectricBlue187
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1. Game of Thrones
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Breaking Bad
4. Louie
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Breaking Bad
4. Louie
Escape Goat
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I was thoroughly unimpressed with TV this year. I can't even name 10 shows. And the ones I do watch really don't deserve special recognition.
Bauer Action Hour
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1) Breaking Bad
2) Homeland
3) Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
4) Game of Thrones
5) Boardwalk Empire
6) Archer
7) Justified
8) Sons of Anarchy
9) The Borgias
10) Curb Your Enthusiasm
The top 2 are my best shows of the year, w/ the edge going to Breaking Bad. This is the God-tier. The next 4 are also A-level shows for me. Spartacus satisfies your basic impulses unlike anything else yet it also manages to weave an intricate and satisfying plot. I consider the rest B-tier shows, lacking in certain areas but still quite good.
Honorable Mentions: Treme, Shameless, Modern Family, Fringe (back-half of last season only; this season has only been decent). I also consider these to be B-tier shows, but just missing the cut of the top 10.
The rest (that I also watch): Survivor, Revenge, True Blood, Weeds, Californication, The Walking Dead, Raising Hope, Bones, House, Supernatural, South Park and Dexter.
Survivor is still entertaining after all this time on, but I started to treat a lot of the past couple of seasons as background noise. The next four shows are fun guilty pleasures if you turn off your brain, but not worthy of mention on any 'best of' list for me. The rest, except for Dexter, are decent/OK and typically treated as background noise. Dexter, on the other hand was pretty retched.
2) Homeland
3) Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
4) Game of Thrones
5) Boardwalk Empire
6) Archer
7) Justified
8) Sons of Anarchy
9) The Borgias
10) Curb Your Enthusiasm
The top 2 are my best shows of the year, w/ the edge going to Breaking Bad. This is the God-tier. The next 4 are also A-level shows for me. Spartacus satisfies your basic impulses unlike anything else yet it also manages to weave an intricate and satisfying plot. I consider the rest B-tier shows, lacking in certain areas but still quite good.
Honorable Mentions: Treme, Shameless, Modern Family, Fringe (back-half of last season only; this season has only been decent). I also consider these to be B-tier shows, but just missing the cut of the top 10.
The rest (that I also watch): Survivor, Revenge, True Blood, Weeds, Californication, The Walking Dead, Raising Hope, Bones, House, Supernatural, South Park and Dexter.
Survivor is still entertaining after all this time on, but I started to treat a lot of the past couple of seasons as background noise. The next four shows are fun guilty pleasures if you turn off your brain, but not worthy of mention on any 'best of' list for me. The rest, except for Dexter, are decent/OK and typically treated as background noise. Dexter, on the other hand was pretty retched.
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AngmarsKing701
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1. The Walking Dead
2. Game of Thrones
3. Fringe
4. New Girl
5. Once Upon a Time
2. Game of Thrones
3. Fringe
4. New Girl
5. Once Upon a Time
1. Game of Thrones
2. Homeland
3. Breaking Bad
4. Modern Family
5. Community
6. Spartacus Gods of the Arena
7. Luther
8. Boardwalk Empire
Game of thrones IMO is the best show this season, partly because of it's strong first season, and because it got me to start reading the next few books, and I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT to see how they pull off the upcoming seasons. Lately I've gotten so tired of writers trying to milk out a couple more seasons, story arcs that don't wrap up, and characters that overstay their welcome.
2. Homeland
3. Breaking Bad
4. Modern Family
5. Community
6. Spartacus Gods of the Arena
7. Luther
8. Boardwalk Empire
Game of thrones IMO is the best show this season, partly because of it's strong first season, and because it got me to start reading the next few books, and I CAN'T FUCKING WAIT to see how they pull off the upcoming seasons. Lately I've gotten so tired of writers trying to milk out a couple more seasons, story arcs that don't wrap up, and characters that overstay their welcome.
GodfatherX
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1. Game of Thrones
2. Homeland
3. Boardwalk Empire
4. Community
5. The League
6. Shameless
7. Archer
8. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. Louie
10. Dexter
2. Homeland
3. Boardwalk Empire
4. Community
5. The League
6. Shameless
7. Archer
8. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. Louie
10. Dexter
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Well it shouldn't have that problem :/
1. Breaking Bad
I haven't watched any other shows, cus just earlier in the year I started catching up on all the great TV shows of the past.
I have seen Six Feet Under, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, in the middle of Terriers, and beginning of 4th season of Curb your Enthusiasm.
Will be finishing those last two, then on to The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Deadwood. Can't wait!
I haven't watched any other shows, cus just earlier in the year I started catching up on all the great TV shows of the past.
I have seen Six Feet Under, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, in the middle of Terriers, and beginning of 4th season of Curb your Enthusiasm.
Will be finishing those last two, then on to The Wire, Boardwalk Empire and Deadwood. Can't wait!
The Storyteller
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1. Treme
2. Homeland
3. Community
4. Breaking Bad
5. The Vampire Diaries
6. Archer
7. Parks and Recreation
8. Enlightened
9. Warehouse 13
10. The Good Wife
I really enjoyed Game of Thrones, but it aint on this list, because it doesn't really need extra votes. And if it were eligible Friday Night Lights would obviously be number 1.
Honourable Mentions:
Revenge, Game of Thrones, Shameless US, Nikita, Offspring, Awkward., Futurama, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. And I guess maybe Doctor Who, but it was a pretty underwhelming season.
EDIT 2: Homeland! And some honourable mentions just because.
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2. Homeland
3. Community
4. Breaking Bad
5. The Vampire Diaries
6. Archer
7. Parks and Recreation
8. Enlightened
9. Warehouse 13
10. The Good Wife
I really enjoyed Game of Thrones, but it aint on this list, because it doesn't really need extra votes. And if it were eligible Friday Night Lights would obviously be number 1.
Honourable Mentions:
Revenge, Game of Thrones, Shameless US, Nikita, Offspring, Awkward., Futurama, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. And I guess maybe Doctor Who, but it was a pretty underwhelming season.
EDIT 2: Homeland! And some honourable mentions just because.
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Escape Goat
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Its a list thread. Nobody reads the posts in it.
brianjones
Member
next year should be pretty crazy with all these shows returning plus mad men and luck
and sorkin's new show? or is that 2013
and sorkin's new show? or is that 2013
ChocolatePuddin
Member
1.) East bound and down.
ErasureAcer
Banned
1. Once Upon A Time
2. Survivor (23 was better than 22)
3. Raising Hope
that's all I watch
2. Survivor (23 was better than 22)
3. Raising Hope
that's all I watch
- Game of Thrones
- The Shadow Line
- Breaking Bad
- Luther
- Archer
- The Walking Dead
- South Park
- The Daily Show
- The Colbert Report
- Simpsons (surprisingly good so far this season)
I'm surprised I'm the first one to mention The Shadow Line. It really was a great miniseries.
SentientStone
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1) Breaking Bad
Honestly that's all I watched besides Mad Men, which did not even have a season this year.
Oh wait, we can add any show... hmm. I have no idea how to rank them but I also watched: South Park, American Dad, The Colbert Report, and Conan.
Honestly that's all I watched besides Mad Men, which did not even have a season this year.
Oh wait, we can add any show... hmm. I have no idea how to rank them but I also watched: South Park, American Dad, The Colbert Report, and Conan.
no one watched Terriers
Not really a dog person.
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