50 best TV shows "of all time"
Heh, another amusing "best ever" list that, for the most part, concentrates on the last few years only at Empire Magazine. Aint it Cool smugly observes: Britain’s Empire magazine has chosen the 50 best TV shows ever made. Turns out they think only 39 of them are American shows! which partially reflects the nature of Empire's readership and the
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They've got Heroes on there, and 24, and then the top 5... Buffy? Lost? The Fucking Simpsons?
If this was a list of the top 50 most pointless wastes of celluloid in history, sure, I'll agree with the Simpsons in spot #1. Until then, fuck no. There has *never* been a joke in The Simpsons that wasn't both A) done somewhere else, better, first, and B) clearly identifiable as such.
PS: Three Star Trek Shows make the list, and yet there's no House? Definitely defective.
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I like House, but it's the same joke over and over. It's lasted so long because it's a _great_ joke, but it's not classic TV.
And I'll take Buffy over 24 any day of the week :->
(And Spaced over both, obviously)
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My point is that House is better than Star Trek.
And Heroes.[1]
And 24.
And Buffy.
And Lost.
And The Simpsons, but that's a given. Infomercials are better than The Simpsons.
(I'd take Buffy over 24, too. And I'd stab myself IN THE HEAD rather than watch Buffy.)
My point, in fact, is that a good chunk of that list is complete unwatchable crap.
[1]: It started good. It could have been good. And they the writers all went stupid, and never recovered.
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In the UK, it's broadcast on Five. I believe Five does have viewers. I don't know any, but they may exist. This is probably also why CSI is as badly rated and why no one watches Grey's Anatomy.
In my old town, you couldn't get 5 at all unless you got cable or satellite, and a lot of people don't.
The best show ever won't get any viewers on Five, at least none that count. Plus it's a poll of Empire readers (I did some digging, I thought it was a staff ranking which Future frequently do for features) ergo the sample is biased towards people prepared to buy Empire magazine.
Ergo, in a vote of idiots, a show that a lot can't see isn't going to do well, even if it has got Hugh in it.
And, um, I like the Simpsons, still. Always did, the humour appeals. Oh, and I'm only 6 episodes into Heroes.
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Okay.
You know that feeling you have, right now, that this is a fun show and that it's entertaining and that they know what they're doing and are building towards something cool?
Enjoy that feeling. You'll miss it when it's gone.
(Seriously. Stop *at least* three episodes before the end of season 1. Choose this point and stick to it. The show ends there. They never made any more episodes. This is sad, but it is less sad than the alternative.)
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Oh how I wish I'd listened.
Just watched the last ep. It was just...
Completely went to pieces about 4 episodes before the end and nothing made sense anymore. Ah well. Hiro gets to go play around in feudal Japan for a bit.
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For the love of Bob, trust me on this one.
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