top ten?.... lord... i only like 1 .... emmerdale. (current).

top ten?.... lord... i only like 1 .... emmerdale. (current).

 

You're not normally up this late are you Rob? Wassup? Nothin' on telly? :lol:

 

Norma

 

Hmmm

 

1. Supernatural

2. NCIS

3. ER

4. Family Guy

5. The Simpsons

6. True Blood

7. Stargate SG-1

8. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

9. The Vampire Diaries

10. White Collar

I love you :wub: so glad you liked it, it is the greatest TV show to grace our screens by miles. That and BSG will most likely never be beaten for me.

 

01) Six Feet Under!

 

 

02) Battlestar Galactica

 

 

03) True Blood

04) Lost

05) Buffy the Vampire Slayer

06) South Park

07) 24

08) Damages

09) Angel

10) Caprica

 

Just started watching the West Wing, and it is pretty darn impressive.

 

during the season finale of six feet under i was uncontrollably crying / shaking, i've never been so emotional during any event in my life before. thank you so much for recommending it so highly. <3

 

that show had so many parallels to my life it was insane. i AM claire; it's disgustingly amazing.

01. Veronica Mars

02. Doctor Who

03. Lost

04. The OC

05. Torchwood

06. Prison Break

07. Chuck

08. Bones

09. Charmed

10. Alias

 

 

Could only manage to watch 2 seasons of House, don't see the fuss at all :/

 

Commiserations to Psych, Queer As Folk (USA), Futurama and Lie To Me :cry:

Edited July 4, 201015 yr by Ljósið

You're not normally up this late are you Rob? Wassup? Nothin' on telly? :lol:

 

Norma

 

lol.yeah plus the fact that clares on the other side of the world!

Coronation Street

The Bill

Waterloo Road

Criminal Minds

 

 

That's all really at the moment and The Bill ends soon. :(

Edited July 4, 201015 yr by Common Sense

during the season finale of six feet under i was uncontrollably crying / shaking, i've never been so emotional during any event in my life before. thank you so much for recommending it so highly. <3

 

that show had so many parallels to my life it was insane. i AM claire; it's disgustingly amazing.

No problem, I am obsessed with that show (Alan Ball is a genius). And I was exactly the same as you during the finale, it's just so real, especially when the family parted and the realistic commentary by Nate, I especially love the line that Nate says to Claire "You can't take a photograph of this, it's already gone." and the way she watches him disappear in the mirror as she drives away :wub: not to mention the flashes of them all dying made me cry like a bitch. No show had the impact on me that SFU had, and snap, Claire is me. With a bit of David thrown in. I would say give Battlestar Galactica a go (it has one of my favourite characters of all time in President Laura Roslin), even if your not into sci-fi, it draws paralles to many real world problems, such as government, policing, military, religion, racisim, and war, and the characterisation, writing and acting was only beaten for me by SFU. It's ranked alongside The Wire, West Wing and Sopranos as one of the best TV shows of all time and won a peabody award so it's def worth your time.

Edited July 4, 201015 yr by Daniel Gleek

01. SIX FEET UNDER

02. Dexter

03. True Blood

04. The Wire

05. Parks and Recreation

 

dunrlycurr about tv

Fond of Michael C Hall and Showtime much? :o

 

:wub:

 

No problem, I am obsessed with that show (Alan Ball is a genius). And I was exactly the same as you during the finale, it's just so real, especially when the family parted and the realistic commentary by Nate, I especially love the line that Nate says to Claire "You can't take a photograph of this, it's already gone." and the way she watches him disappear in the mirror as she drives away :wub: not to mention the flashes of them all dying made me cry like a bitch. No show had the impact on me that SFU had, and snap, Claire is me. With a bit of David thrown in. I would say give Battlestar Galactica a go (it has one of my favourite characters of all time in President Laura Roslin), even if your not into sci-fi, it draws paralles to many real world problems, such as government, policing, military, religion, racisim, and war, and the characterisation, writing and acting was only beaten for me by SFU. It's ranked alongside The Wire, West Wing and Sopranos as one of the best TV shows of all time and won a peabody award so it's def worth your time.

 

my friend's a huge battlestar galactica fan so i've been considering for a while; unfortunately i want to finish dexter / the wire first. but if you recommend it highly it should be good. <3

 

and omg that quote (the photograph one) was my fb status last night LOL. it's incredible. the shot of claire lying on her deathbed with all of the photographs around her and then switching to the shot of her in the car just killed me. life is beautiful, etc. etc. and what i especially loved about the ending is that it put nate's death into perspective. had it ended differently (such as with nate's funeral or something) it would have been all about nate. but in the end, everyone dies. you weren't thinking just about nate when it ended. incredible.

 

LOL, but yeah claire is...me. it's ridiculous. my dad died around the same age / my mom is overprotective and anxious all the time / i go to an art college / i'm a photo minor / i love weed / and more lawlz. it's insane. probably why the show moved me so much; though even without that it is still unquestionably beautiful.

I've also been a fan of BSG. It's amazing but it has had many horrible episodes during its 4 seasons, that's why it didn't place in my top 10

I've also been a fan of BSG. It's amazing but it has had many horrible episodes during its 4 seasons, that's why it didn't place in my top 10

I disagree with this, I loved pretty much eveything about Season Four (I'm counting both halves as I watched the last season the whole way through). The mutiny arch was one of the shows best and the political aspect of the first half in general I found utterly compelling, that side of the show is what grounds it. The relief the fleet feel after a certain success at the half way point of S4, and then the resulting devastion when it's not what they thought, was one of the best things I've seen on TV, not to mention the revelation of the final five and the fallout from that (there is one episode towards the end, that focused on them, that I remember not liking though) and the last few episodes of the show, was just. Wow. The final episode especially feels like it came straight out of the romanticism era. One thing I also want to add is the relationship between Will and Laura: it builds beautifully throughout the whole show, never before, outside of Six Feet Under, have I seen a relationship between two older characters being such a focus of a show, and given as much attention. It's like a breath of fresh air. :wub:

 

Also another thing I love is the soundtrack by Bear McCreary, I own the soundtracks, and I still listen to them. He is my fourth most played artist on LastFM, tracks like 'Wonder My Friends', 'Reuniting The Fleet', 'Admiral and Commander' and 'So Much Life' are just breathtaking, and really sum up the love that the people on Battlestar Galactica feel for eachother. Easily the best original score for a TV show ever, it's like it belongs to a movie. Also the re-working of All Along The Watchtower is magnificent :wub:

 

Ben, I really hope you do watch it next.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11, 201015 yr by Daniel Gleek

01. 30 Rock

02. American Dad

03. Coach Trip

04. Big Brother

05. Futurama

06. Family Guy

07. Big Bang Theory (used to be #1, this show's gone down hill (n))

08. Waterloo Road (another show that's gone to the dogs, mainly because of a 20 episode series being dragged out over 9/10 months ;p)

09. The Apprentice

10. Doctor Who

 

Honourable mention to:

11. Glee (the only show I can think of that showed a ridiculously sharp quality decline in the space of one series :P)

Edited July 13, 201015 yr by nickthenoodle

No real order:

 

1. How I Met Your Mother

2. Samantha Who? (Why was this cancelled? :snif:)

3. Desperate Housewives

4. American Dad!

5. X-men Animated Series

6. Friends

7. Come Dine With Me

8. Murder, She Wrote

9. Waterloo Road

10. Doctors

 

So many new shows that i adore (2) so updating:

 

1. How I Met Your Mother

2. Samantha Who?

3. Desperate Housewives

4. American Dad!

5. X-men Animated Series

6. Friends

7. Murder, She Wrote

8. Waterloo Road

9. Accidentally On Purpose

10. Southland

Edited July 13, 201015 yr by Regina Phalange

I disagree with this, American TV has gone from strength to strength over the last decade.

Examples?

Examples?

The Sopranos, Angel, The West Wing kicked off the decade - then you got Curb Your Enthusiasm, Alias, Band of Brothers, CSI, 24, Six Feet Under, Firefly, The Wire, The Shield, Arrested Devlopment, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Deadwood, Supernatural, Dexter, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Damages, Sons of Anarchy, True Blood and more I can't think of at the moment. American TV is fantastic, compare their original dramas to ours, and it really shows how our television series are really, just crap. We do well with costume and one-off dramas - but long running TV shows, aside from Doctor Who (which I think is awful) what do really have to show for?

Hmmm I have watched precisely two of those and even those were years ago.

Not that I'm saying UK TV is any better.

 

It's ALL pretty uninteresting to me. Although I think I should watch The Wire sometime.

Hmmm I have watched precisely two of those and even those were years ago.

Not that I'm saying UK TV is any better.

 

It's ALL pretty uninteresting to me. Although I think I should watch The Wire sometime.

Which of the two shows have you watched out of interest? And yeah, you definitely should, The Wire is fantastic, I've only seen the odd episode here and there, but what I've seen has been compelling. I've not a heard a bad thing about it. One show I would say you have to watch before you die, and the best of the last decade by a mile, is Six Feet Under: it's essential viewing. It's created by Alan Ball, the same man who wrote American Beauty, and its theme tune is composed by American Beauty composer Thomas Newman. The soundtrack in general, the acting, the direction: everything about it is perfection.

 

It's a shame really, we do documentaries very well, I don't know why we haven't got much diversity when it comes to drama shows. There was an interesting discussion about this on newsnight a while back.

Edited July 13, 201015 yr by Daniel Gleek

The ones I watched were 24 and CSI. Stopped watching 24 when it went off terrestial and I was getting bored of it anyway. CSI I have totally got bored with.

Six Feet Under never grabbed me at all. Saw a couple of episodes and I could not see what the fuss was about.

Curb Your Enthusiasm I just don't like.

Lost was soooo over-rated. Never got into The Sopranos at all. Not interested in Angel or Buffy or any of that.

 

Supernatural is one I think I might have enjoyed.

Oh I did like Heroes but that also outstayed it's welcome like most TV series on both sides of the Atlantic.

The only UK series I really LOVE at the moment are Skins and Misfits. Well, Skins has gone to $h!t now (the first two series were amazing, and parts of three too) but Misfits is amazing, really good acting and storylines too. The first episode is a bit iffy but it's all very strong from then on.