Posted on 06/03/2013 2:52:47 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
(Newser) – Still reeling from last night's episode of Game of Thrones? Need to take a break and watch a different, but also well-written, TV show? Then the Writers Guild of America's list of the 101 best-written television series arrives just in the nick of time. Here's the top 10:
1.The Sopranos
2.Seinfeld
3.The Twilight Zone
4.All in the Family
5.M*A*S*H
6.The Mary Tyler Moore Show
7.Mad Men
8.Cheers
9.The Wire
10.The West Wing
Click for the complete list. (Game of Thrones doesn't show up until spot No. 40.)
Okay 100% of all credibility lost.
Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere didn’t make the top 10.
Well you are not the only one!
Frasier, Third Rock, Sunny in Philadelphia, Flight of the Concords, Downton Abbey, War & Peace, Big Bang Theory....
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WWW - DNM.
Aw man, Buffy was #49? Shoulda been higher!
X-Files, Millennium, Firefly, Supernatural.
And some newer series interesting also for showing the current onsession with fascism and a Hitler-like society and police states, like Fringe and Outcasts,
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Seinfeld was political?
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The writers had to work extremely hard to keep all the threads and characters from getting tangled up...and to keep Bauer fresh season in and season out.
The plot on Seinfeld was always the same, who was he having sex with.
I actually couldn't get thru an episode of "The Sopranos" because I have a limit to the amount of times I can stand hearing the "F" word in a single sentence.
"House" should be in the top 10 and "Extras" is worth getting the DVDs. Genius.
What is a DNM?
2.Seinfeld - Some shows were well written and funny. Some were just annoying.
3. Twilight Zone - A lot of these stories were very good. Some of the story lines have become cliches but many stand the test of time.
4. All in the Family - Carroll O'Connor’s performance made the show. The plots were all predictable. Archie would be ignorant and wrong. The Meathead or whoever played against Archie would be right.
5. MASH - Some good acting but the episodes were all predictable. Frank Burns, Hotlips, Klinger, etc were predictable one dimensional characters.
6. Mary Tyler Moore - Good writing and many good characters from Rhoda to Ted Baxter.
7. Mad Men - Complex characters and multi-layered plots. Very well written and well acted.
8. Cheers - Interesting story lines and funny dialog. Good acting and comic interplay. I still smile when I think of some of the lines of Norm and Cliff.
9. The Wire - The first season was very good. Some great scenes, an exciting plot and interesting characters. The first season got weaker towards the end. The second season was terrible. I could only watch a few episodes and never watched it again.
10. The West Wing - A terrible show. One predictable liberal cliche after another. I could not watch more than a few minutes without changing the channel.
Number 16? Give me abreak.
M*A*S*H was a horribly written, anti-American, anti-military series that I couldn’t stand.
I agree 100%.
List succeeds with 30 Rock/Arrested Development in the top 20. The Shield and Louie should’ve been higher in the list .
Never, ever watched The Sopranos.
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