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The Best Show on the History of Television

What is the best show on the history of television?

  • The Sopranos

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • The Wire

    Votes: 3 8.6%

  • Mad Men

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Breaking Bad

    Votes: 11 31.4%

  • I Love Lucy

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • Seinfeld

    Votes: 6 17.1%

  • MASH

    Votes: 3 8.6%

  • The Simpsons

    Votes: 2 5.7%

  • All in the Family

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 6 17.1%
  • Total voters
    35
King Cy said:
Breaking Bad is just the obvious winner to me.

No bad or sub-par seasons and it lasted the perfect time without being cut short or drawn out.
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Ya, it was basically perfect.
 
Breaking Bad was GREAT and I've got nothing against it whatsoever...



But in terms of re-watchability I'm gonna go with Mad Men. So much class, so many subplots and hidden meanings, ... just great all round.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Breaking Bad was GREAT and I've got nothing against it whatsoever...



But in terms of re-watchability I'm gonna go with Mad Men. So much class, so many subplots and hidden meanings, ... just great all round.
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I watched the 1st season and it did nothing for me.

One of the most overrated shows IMO.
 
King Cy said:
I watched the 1st season and it did nothing for me.

One of the most overrated shows IMO.
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I think you've got to enjoy subtlety to enjoy Mad Men.... it's not gonna hit you in the face the way Breaking Bad does, but with subtlety comes re-watchability IMO. There are hidden meanings/messages everywhere (New Amsterdam or Babylon in Season 1 come to mind, particularly that haunting song at the end of Babylon gets me every time), in each episode there is always a certain theme or idea the director/writer is trying to convey. Sometimes you come away thinking "what the heck was that episode all about" and then you watch it again and you get a different meaning or message from it.


As much as I enjoy Breaking Bad I don't think I can ever go back and watch the whole thing again a 2nd or a 3rd time... with Mad Men because of all the hidden messages and themes, I can happily re-watch an episode 2-3 times and still be able to enjoy all the subtle things it has to say.
 
Mad Men seasons 1-3 where we really see who Don is and how he came to be, at his roots, does it for me the most. I liked it after that but not as much.
 
Sirkickyass said:
Seinfeld is very very overrated. Always shocked that it's held in such high regard.
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That is your opinion.
It's wrong, but you are entitled to it
 
Scat said:
The original only ran for 3 years.
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Right but I think we can call it long running considering ST The Animated Series, ST The Next Generation, ST Deep Space Nine, ST Voyager, ST Enterprise, and that's not even counting the Movies. Maybe that's cheating a bit but I think it counts as long running let alone iconic.
 
The Breaking Bad lovefest is pretty funny.

My favorite TV show ever made is Curb your Enthusiasm. Louie is right in there, too.
 
fishonjazz said:
That is your opinion.
It's wrong, but you are entitled to it
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Look it's a good sitcom, but it doesn't exactly rise above the genre.

Arrested Development lives on a different planet from Seinfeld. The Boondocks has a real point of view that flies on a plane above "the contest." Chapelle was a force of nature. Community engaged in fully committed genre pastiches and had ambition that Seinfeld never dreamed of.

Seinfeld fundamentally is about catchphrases, wacky neighbors, and dating hijinks. It's good at those things, but is it really THAT much better than Frasier? I mean, for ****s sake, Frasier! Could we even really say it was better than The Office?

If Seinfeld was on today it would be just another show.
 
Lol
 
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