In considering next week's theme of genre (and also because I have been curious about this since we're all TV watchers!), I was wondering what scripted TV shows you have enjoyed over time??
I'll list my tops. I'm heavily serialized.
- Veronica Mars
- Homeland
- The Wire
- Breaking Bad
- Orange is The New Black
- Smallville (Yes I watched every single season)
- Sex and the City
- Entourage
- Girls
- The OC til season 3.
- Lost season 1.
(cringeworthy) Honorable mention: Dawson's Creek.
How about you???
Hi Lauren,
ReplyDeleteI love that Veronica Mars is one of your tops! I think the show is a great example of a kind of serial program that stands as another example of influences of the soap opera found throughout primetime with its love triangles, dramatic flashbacks, and so forth.
I also think that Veronica Mars is a great example that we could apply to our discussion a few weeks back regarding audiences and the productivity of online fans. It is mind boggling that this show has such a devout fan following 8 years later. The 2014 Kickstarter campaign for the Veronica Mars movie had over 91,000 backers that pledged over $5,000,000 and successfully got the film off the ground. All to see- will she end up with Logan or not?! On top of that, we now have the V-Mar’s related project, Play It Again, Dick, playing online. Talk about convergence!
Team Marshmallow!
-Kelsey
These kinds of lists are always so hard, but here goes, in no particular order:
ReplyDelete- 30 Rock
- Broad City
- Parks and Recreation
- Big Love
- Sopranos
- Peep Show
- Mad Men
-Frasier
ReplyDelete-Friends
-The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
-Grey's Anatomy (before Katherine Heigl went nuts/before the writer's strike when NOTHING happened for an entire season...though I admit I still watch every single week...I'm die hard until the end)
-Sex and the City
-Smallville (before they graduated from high school and things got weird)
-Phil of the Future (Don't judge me lol!)
My New Favorites (that I pray and hope will continue to be awesome are:)
-Jane the Virgin
-Hindsight
**Disclaimer: I was not allowed to watch a lot of TV as a child/teenager and I did not get cable until I went to college and so I missed a lot of stuff (and I also watch an insane amount of reality tv [to my shame])
Here are my tops in no particular order.
ReplyDeleteAlly McBeal, The Practice, Felicity (who am I kidding, this is probably my number 1), Scandal (earlier seasons), Grey's Anatomy (earlier seasons), The Office (up to Season 4), Game of Thrones, A Different World, The Golden Girls
Typing this list now, I am amazed at how many of my favorite TV shows are actually non-scripted. Interesting exercise!
I am watching V. Mars now with my soon-to-be tween (actually, I'm re-watching.) I think it's even better this time around. Some fave TV off the top of my head: Buffy, V. Mars, Murphy Brown, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development, X-Files....
ReplyDeleteHi Lauren:
ReplyDeleteI am most interested in television content that uplifts people and engages any form of arts. Also, animation appeals to my preferences.
1. Dancing with the Stars
2. Empire
3. Family Guy
4. American Dad
5. The Simpsons
Skins
ReplyDeleteMisfits (Seasons 1 and 2)
Sons of Anarchy
Frasier
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
The Wire
The Boondocks
Freaks and Geeks
The Thick of It
In the Flesh
Keeping Up Appearances
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ReplyDeleteBreaking Bad
ReplyDeleteThe Wire
Black Mirror
Twin Peaks
Battlestar Galactica
The X-Files
Mad Men
The Comeback
Oz
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ReplyDeleteLooks like a long list, but this is the shortened version:
ReplyDeleteBreaking Bad
Justified
Freaks and Geeks
The Office (BBC)
Band of Brothers
The Americans
Parks and Recreation
Key and Peele
Friday Night Lights
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Death Note
NewsRadio
Peep Show
Party Down
Flight of the Conchords
Venture Bros.
Doctor Who (Russell T Davies era only)
Community
30 Rock
Futurama
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to keep this short. This will probably be the longest list and I'm still leaving shows I like out:
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Twin Peaks
Oz
Columbo
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Misfits
Game of Thrones
Veep
Sopranos
Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Home Movies
South Park
Peep Show
QI (+ any panel show with David Mitchell on it)
Also, I gotta throw some anime in here or else I'm not staying true to my adolescence:
Cowboy Bebop
Trigun
Yu Yu Hakusho
Lupin III
Samurai Champloo
Dragonball (Z) - as much as it pains me to admit, I was once obsessed
Buffy
ReplyDeleteThe Wire
Game of Thrones
Community (s1-3)
Breaking Bad
Cheers
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979, miniseries)
Friday Night Lights (s1)
My So-Called Life (with FNL, my favorite TV families)
Arrested Development (ok, maybe add the Bluths to that list)
Veronica Mars
Party Down
Ugh, so hard.
ReplyDelete-Cosby Show
-I Love Lucy
-Friends
-Girlfriends
-Entourage
-The Sopranos
-A Different World
-Sex and the City
-24
-Homeland
-The OC, til season 3
I left out Veep, Arrested Development, and Friday Night Lights. (too many shows to count)
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