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[schmerica]

My top five TV shows of the last ten years:

1) Farscape
2) Deadwood
3) Arrested Development
4) Freaks and Geeks
5) Slings & Arrows

Runner-up: Buffy, for its amazing first few seasons -- but with points reduced because it couldn't keep up that level of awesome its whole run.

What about you guys? What are your top shows, the ones that make you go "Holy SHIT" and "WOW" and "LOVE" and squeak incoherently and just make you amazed for what the genre of television programs can do?

(Ones I didn't include: I'm assuming The West Wing and the Sopranos will make appearances, but I never watched either of them. I'm three quarters of the way through the first season of Battlestar Galactica and can't quite get into *that*, either. Firefly was good and fun, but it was more potential than achievement. Veronica Mars swings between awesome and rage-inducing a little too much for my taste. Etc, etc.)

Comments

[tharaist.livejournal.com]

Twin Peaks
Northern Exposure
Farscape
Babylon 5
Slings and Arrows

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Man, we overlap a little, and then the other ones I am totally unfamiliar with. (Are they the last decade? I thought maybe a little older than that.)

[tharaist.livejournal.com]

Well yes, Northern Exposure (1990-1995) and Twin Peaks (1990) are little older, but I wanted to mention them, because I certainly have been obsessed about them during the last 10 years. Excessively! Dvds on repeat! I kind of need time to form real attachment and we're talking about real gems here *g*

Babylon 5 is my sekrit passion. Sci-fi geek at heart, you know!

Also, I liked the first four seasons of West Wing, but then I lost my fate. Same with X-files, bad seasons kind of ruin my opinion about the shows in general.