My take on quality television

[meredith44]

So, I follow a lot of television critics on Twitter. (Pretty much I follow mostly critics and people behind the scenes of television shows.) Consequently, I was inundated with lists for the top shows of the year and the decade. I found that I didn't like a lot of the shows that were being listed. It made me feel a little inadequate that I

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[meredith44]

Yeah, I could have mentioned The Wire as another show I am not planning on watching anytime soon, despite the huge critical acclaim. For that one, it is that it seems so dark and depressing. I just don't find constant darkness to be enjoyable.

Thanks for the tip about The Shield being an ensemble. I've never watched it; all I know about it is what I've seen in promotional images and what I've read from the critics. Most of what I've heard is about Vic, and thus I assumed he was the focus. Are the other characters less.... (I'm not really sure how to put this...) irredeemable? I like my share of "bad/evil/villain" characters, but they usually have some quality that manages to hook me and pull me in. I'm just not sure that Vic as a character can do that for me, so if there are more characters that I could focus on, that might work. (For example, I hate Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me but I mostly enjoy the show, as it is such an ensemble.)

I have to say The Shield and The Wire are both on my Netflix DVD queue, but they are not at the top. (I just finished with Torchwood and am next going to True Blood, followed by Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (halcyon_shift guilted me into that last one).) I just don't see them as the casual entertainment television that grabs me at the moment. We'll see. Maybe I'll end up bumping one or the other up my list at some point. (As at the rate I'm going, I'll never make it to number 200.)