Posted on 07/10/2016 9:48:22 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
ER
I have the entire series on DVD. I also have Star Trek, and Star Trek The Next Gen.
I have The Sopranos. I have Outer Limits and Twilight Zone. I have Thirtysomething. I have Six Feet Under. I have way more than just these!
But of all of them, I have watched ER more than any other.
They are eternally timeless - just as funny EVERY time you watch them!
“What was that show? I see a few policemen so it looks like a police drama.”
Hill St. Blues
It's an excellent combination of drama and dark humor. Dexter is a serial killer who works as a police CSI blood splatter expert for the Miami Police Department who only kills other serial killers because he was trained to do so by his adopted police officer father who recognized who and what he was at an early age, before he started killing.
Breaking Bad
Sanford and Son
Columbo
Twilight Zone
The Carol Burnett Show
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
All in the Family
Seinfeld
Have Gun Will Travel
The Invaders
Not only funny, but endearing, too.
“An another one goes right over my head! Zoom!”
Elecktra Woman and Dyna Girl- The favorite of every pre teen boy in America in 1976
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqB36FsglEE
Dexter was awesome for many seasons. The season with Trinity (Lythgoe) was probably the best.
But then the blonde killer girlfriends started. The first one couldn’t act at all, and then the show unraveled. I know they stuck to the book with the sister finding out, but on tv that ruined the show. Her morality played an important part in allowing the audience to sit and enjoy the show. The ghost dad started losing it. And of course the series ending. THE ONLY THING WORSE WOULD HAVE BEEN TO HAVE THE LAST EPISODE TO BE AN IMAGE OF STATIC OR POSSIBLY THE FILM REEL CATCHING FIRE ON SCREEN. Worst series ending ever.
At the beginning, when he was a cool, wise cracking character, it was ok. Later seasons it was just a treacly liberal sob fest like the guys accidentally scalpeled their own b*lls off in the surgical tent.
The comedies I go to almost daily when I have nothing to watch are Seinfeld, Frasier, and Friends. Especially the first two. Frasier was written by English major types like I was once. So funny, some episodes are little Molière pieces.
And Seinfeld can be watched 100 times and still make me laugh. Saw the episode the other day where Elaine is set up with Jerry’s friend and “He. Took. It. Out.” That scene is perfect comedic timing and Elaine’s facial expressions take it to comedy heaven.
Gunsmoke.
Mad Men is very good. I started watching and I am somewhere midway now. Need to get back into it.
No, You are wrong about her acting ability. The actress playing Dexter's wife was perfect in her role as a damaged, beaten wife. I've met many of them in the Food Bank i founded. She was nominated for a couple of Emmy awards. She earned them for her portrayal.
Deb's emotional unraveling is also exactly spot on with the moral dilemma she was forced into.
As for what you refer to as the "ghost Dad." There was no "Ghost." That was Dexter's own constructed memory of Harry guiding him through his life of killing the "right" victims, his artificial conscience, reminding him to keep to the "Code of Harry." It is important to the story arch and Harry's fewer and fewer appearances over the story are evocative of his dissociating with that guidance and code Harry instilled in him as he lets go of Harry's rules as circumstances box him in.
As for the ending? Do really think that psychopaths kill themselves out of remorse? Not on your life. Dexter's life, the entire essence of his being, was ALWAYS about re-direction. It was a perfect ending, demonstrating that he AGAIN re-directed everyone and pulled off the ultimate magic trick, his own disappearance, faking his own death.
Colombo.
I don’t know, but the most memorable line from a TV show was:
“Hi, I’m Larry, this is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl.
Whichever show it is, it came from cable. Like the wire (first season), Sparticus, game of thrones, Dexter, Sopranos, Battlestar Galactica et al.
But my favorite is the Stargate sg-1 and Stargate Atlantis franchise.
MASH, never missed it for years but you can only say war is hell so many ways.
Disney on Sunday evenings, never missed it for years.
Funny, I agree with you but still hated the ending.
His wife was PERFECT. Played by Julie whoever, she was great. I totally agree. The moon faced actress (the one the actor was sleeping with) was the one who seemed like she was reading off a cue card. Not the plant poison one, but the one before that.
And I agree with your assessment of Harry as a construct and something for Dex to cling to. But toward the end I think they reduced him too far morally. I think they should have kept him as a moral, good man trying to help a very damaged child.
I wish Deb had not found out because it all worked better with her the way she was. Of course she would be irreparably destroyed by the knowledge she had once she knew. I thought they could leave the novel behind at that point for the sake of the show as its own story.
No, I did not think he needed to kill himself, but if the show had ended before the last scene, it would have been preferable. If I had time I think I could come up with a better ending befitting both his psychopathy and us, the audience. The way it ended was wholly unsatisfying to the point of feeling “stupid.”
Tim Conway was just a naturally hilarious guy. Which is why I love his son so much on the radio: he inherited his dad’s natural funniness. I have nearly driven off the road laughing so hard. Some of the little quiet things he does or says are so dang funny.
Gunsmoke. Growing up, Dad was pretty tolerant letting us kids decide on the night’s TV viewing - like most everyone else, we only had one TV. The one exception was Gunsmoke - Dad insisted on it and tolerated no dissension on the issue. Watching nostalgia TV channels, I realize that Dad was right.
I'll second those. There was a Barney Miller marathon on one of those cable channels a couple Saturdays ago. Pure gold!
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