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IMDB has a 'Top 250 TV Shows' list
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checkmate.
Norwegian Rudo
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Ignore anything from after 2010. A few years reflection is needed to fairly judge any show/movie, and anything that hasn't finished airing shouldn't be allowed on the list anyway.
lol duh. show is amaze
On the internet? Get outta town.
ChubbyHuggs
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I don't think Sherlock should be that high up.
Hari Seldon
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#1 is correct haha.
What is this though?
32. I, Claudius (1976) 8.9
Anyone ever see this? I read the book and never knew they made a TV Show.
What is this though?
32. I, Claudius (1976) 8.9
Anyone ever see this? I read the book and never knew they made a TV Show.
Naturally. This sort of thing is always more useful for gauging a website's demographic than it is for anything else.
Freewheelin'
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Game of Thrones fourth renders everything null and void
truth.
Hari Seldon
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Mr Robot at #30 and it is in its first season? I need to see this but come on now, you can't judge based on 1 season lol.
Violence Jack
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That's how True Detective got rated as high as it did.
TheSecondSpitter
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I saw this a long time ago. I remember thinking the performances were very good and it was highly rated by critics at the time, but I don't remember much else. I think I'll rewatch this soon.
Frustrated_Grunt
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Like the IMDb top 250 movies, placement doesn't matter as much. It should be taken just as a general snapshot of what people find popular.
bobawesome
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Seinfeld at a paltry 36 while Game of Thrones is 4? Yeah...sure.
Night Hunter
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Broad City. That's pretty much the only one though, I think.
Subpar Spatula
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No. That's dumb logic. It's similar to when The Wire is praised as the best but when the crappy parts of the show are brought up people go, "the other stuff is amazing and it is great commentary on society". Who cares? You have a bunch of crappy content.
TarpitCarnivore
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Firefly is ranked way to high. Actually, that show shouldn't even be on the list.
Hell no BoB is way better.
Pacific was also good of course.
game of thrones at 4 and 9.4 ? thats way too high
Hibiki Kurosawa
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Yeah, saw tgis earlier today and I'm glad they finally put it together to view easily. Of course Twin Peaks being at 34th is absurd when it's clearly the greatest TV show ever made, but what can ya do.
Hari Seldon
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I'm happy about House and Generation Kill making the list.
I'd put Deadwood top 10 of all time and Rome top 20 though.
I'd put Deadwood top 10 of all time and Rome top 20 though.
I don't know why, I just never consider them. I filter them out whenever I'm talking about TV.
I should have clarified, I meant stuff like DBZ and Avatar. I don't consider those the same as other animated show like The Simpsons, King of the Hill, etc. - which I then also always exclude from discussions like "best show on TV" and such. It's just how my brain does it.
Plinko
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I'm not arguing it being on the list.
I'm arguing it having a score that high. I consider Arrested Development one of the greatest shows of all time. I just find it's score of 9.0 ludicrous when an entire quarter of the show (if not more) is terrible.
I guess I don't see what's so hard to understand.
It's all dudes rating things on IMDB, that's why.
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SaganIsGOAT
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Didn't realize people had such terrible taste. Seinfeld at #1 pls
WrenchNinja
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15. Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005) 9.1
123. The Legend of Korra (2012) 8.6
Eat shit Korra
123. The Legend of Korra (2012) 8.6
Eat shit Korra
A bunch of crappy content? Where? Season 2? Because season 2 is great. The last season? It's still better then 98% of any other season ever made.
There is not a single multi-season show in existence that is perfect from start to finish. Not one. TV is the sum of its parts and should also be taken in context and measured in terms of "compared to what" when ranking.
For instance The Simpsons was one of the greatest comedy shows of all time. Why? Because it's original group of talent delivered a period of TV that was unrivaled. The show has since gone on to be a corpse of itself using the same name and a mostly very different group of writers that have since mostly ruined the show but the show itself, in context, is one of the greatest pieces of comedy ever on TV.
Based on the logic you are using a show like The Simpsosn should be thrown in the trash heap based on how many poor seasons it had.
Ape Gone Insane
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People probably like the feeling that their opinion is somehow worth more than everyone else's. I wouldn't take the list at face value personally as a way to seriously rank the quality of shows but it's a good starting point for finding new/popular shows - as a few people have said, it's a good snapshot of the current TV landscape.
Because the fact it is one of the greatest shows of all time overshadows the fact it had a poor epilogue season years after the fact when no one could properly commit to the show as it needed to be.
Same with The Simpsons. Where context explains that when the core of the shows backbone left it never recovered.
first 4 seasons. though season 3 was meh. 1,2 and 4 were fantastic
strongly disagree but to each their own
Subpar Spatula
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Not saying it should be thrown in the trash heap, you're being hyperbolic, there. If you can't keep quality consistent then you lose favor when you put out poor episodes or seasons like the last season of The Wire. The Shield gets flak for having one of the poorer first seasons (especially the child pornography episode). You also get characters staying relatively the same throughout (Vic). I would put Breaking Bad over The Shield and The Wire because it's more consistent with its quality and the quality tends to be top notch. You can still hold The Wire in high regard but you still have to be honest about the overall quality--it did wane.
It's continuation of the show. It's part of Arrested Development. That season may not lower the quality of the other seasons but it does bring down the overall quality of the show down. You see this argument used to ignore Scrubs med school season. It does exist. It did poorly. It's still part of the overall show whether you want to use some weird logic to ignore the criticisms.
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Agreed.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Just by the looks of it, the list is as much of a populist- and fanboy-pandering joke as their film list. "Breaking Bad" and "Game of Thrones" in the Top 5, "The Prisoner" all the way down at 105? Laughable.
You are yet to explain where this huge quality dip in The Wire is? And BB is not even on the same level as The Wire. It has one great character, another decent one in Jessie toward the end, good plot writing, above average dialogue and a poor supporting cast and poor characters and character development most of the series(outside Walt). Mad Men and The Wire both wipe the floor with BB in terms of writing, character development, plot, acting, dialogue and overall consistency. BB is a consistently overall good show with constant flaws from start to finish but that doesn't make it an overall better show then true greats like The Wire, Mad Men, The Sopranos, Band of Brothers or Deadwood.
Love the show and it was a fun ride but you are going to have to do better then unsubstantiated assertions to make an argument stick. And I have yet to read one that effectively makes the case that BB is superior to The Wire. Take away Bryan Cranston's performance and the show would have a hard time standing on its own in thee elite category. Take away any one performance in The Wire and you still have arguably the best show in TV history.
It's just like video game ratings on that website. Governed by ardent fanboys.
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