OT: the best show on television...
William Macy's acting is just awesome in this series!
Also Emmy Rossum's boobs
LOL - just talking about The Americans with my mom. Told her she needs to watch the series. I grew up in suburban Northern VA during the timeframe of the show, and our subdivision was littered with fed types at different agencies. My mom was a nurse at the CIA, and I had a summer job there after freshman year at U-M. Dude on my old street was a psychiatrist who worked for the agency - possibly the funniest and nicest guy I've ever met. The place was crawling with FBI, DEA, Secret Service and CIA folks. Well, "State Department" or "DOD" civilians, I should say.
....also crawling with Russki spies?
Jeopardy
It's a lifestyle. Finally got that crazy index finger clicker guy out of there.
I'm glad to see he bothered someone besides me. That was some unnatural clicking.
I consider must-see.
Only problem with it is that I'm at work when it airs locally.
When I want an ego boost I watch the Dan Patrick-hosted Sport Jeopardy variant on NBC Sports, since many of us can get the vast majority of the questions. If Alton is any good on the clicker he would win until they kicked him off.
...with a reference to the greatness that is Walton Goggins. The Shield is a great example.
best TV shows of all time changes the question quite a bit from the best TV shows currently airing.
Changed my life.
I know this sounds like I don't understand complex shows, but mannnnn, I didn't know WTF was going on half of the time in season 2. Still a very good show, though. The best show on USA next to Suits, imo
Burn Notice was better than both of those shows, and I like Mr Robot.
Black Sails
Versailles
TWD
Turn
I have a really hard time setting aside X o'clock on X night to regularly watch anything other than sports. Props to those of you that keep up on your show the old fashioned way rather than binge watching like some of us.
I'm also always super late to the proverbial party. Right now I'm on season 4 of Parks and Rec and it is LITERALLY very enjoyable to watch, other than Rashida Jones.
Sir....Sir....We need to talk. There is almost nothing wrong with Rashida Jones. Her character is kind of a dork sometimes but she is fine as hell.
I love Parks and Rec, it's a great show, but sharing some of thesame producers as The Office (Greg Daniels and Howard Klein) and some obvious styling comparisons, it could never escape how great The Office was, in my opinion. Not to degrade PnR, I would give it a 9.5/10, but The Office is perfect. If you never watched The Office from beginning to end, I highly recommend it. I think it is only rivaled by Seinfeld in the discussion of greatest comedy of all time.
Curb Your Enthusiasm not been mentioned? So many uncomfortable situations on that show.
Current shows that are spectacular as many have stated - The Americans, Better Call Saul, Turn, Ray Donovan and GoT.
As for older shows, curb, the wire, shield and 24 are all excellent.
I believe her character is designed to be annoying as fuck. Amy Poehler can be funny, the viewer is just supposed to think Leslie Knope is a psycho half the time. I've watched Broad City a couple times in the past and liked it, never stuck with it though.
Parks and Rec for me was far superior to the Office. The Office had 3 great great seasons, but it fell the fuck off towards the end. Parks had a shitty 1st season, but to me that was the only season that was even remotely bad. The Office had no Ron Swanson, nuff said.
Really? Did you watch the final season of Parks and Rec? It was worse than the first season, which was indeed bad. I think the worst seasons of the Office (and there were not 6 bad seasons, I would say there were 2 that were clearly lower quality) are much better than the 2 bad seasons of Parks and Rec.
As far as characters go, I do give Ron Swanson a slight edge over Dwight. Other than that, The Office's characters were better.
The comedy of The Office is much smarter. That's not a diss on Parks and Rec, there's just different degrees of humor. I love Parks and Rec and I love Brooklyn 99, but The Office is just a cut above in the intelligence and intricacy of the humor. Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak were brilliant writers, and clearly the difference in the quality of shows, since Daniels and Schur wrote for both. I watch the series front to back at least once every year and still find new things to laugh at that I had never noticed before.
I will have to disagree with you on that. Season 7 was not bad at all on P&R. The last 3 season of Office were almost unwatchably bad for me. Dwight was so annoying, I found him totally unfunny, and the only character I liked towards the end of the show was Craig robinson's. Even Steve Carrell's character grated on me in his last season. The Jim and Pam storyline also killed a lot of that show for me. I really liked the season 2-6 of the office. Season 1 was a direct rip off of the british version, and i wasn't huge on 7-9. We will just have to agree to disagree on this one.
I thought the world of Pawnee and the quirkiness of the gallery of memorable side characters is what made P&R standout for me. The Office had no Jean Ralphio's, no Joan Calamezzo's, no Dennis Feinstein's, I could LITERALLY go on and on with the awesome side characters. Amy Poehler was a tad grating, but the rest of the cast managed to make up for any issues she had. Everyone raves about Veep, but to me, that show is like a poor man's P&R. They even have a Gerry Gergich character on that show.
Things to love about GOT: boobs, violence, boobs, Peter Dinklage, boobs, great enemies that are easy to hate, boobs, multiple interlocking story arcs, boobs, Hodor, and more boobs.
...the boobs.
May release is really killing me this year
My wife got me turned onto the half season of Designated Survivor, and it helped pass the time while I wait for House of Cards. It's a political drama. Pretty entertaining.
I don't get the love for House of Cards. Most overrated show I have ever seen. I can't even watch Designated Survivor. Keifer has been typecasted as Jack Bauer for me, I can't take him seriously in this role.
The second and third seasons were amazing. I love how all the characters are consistant and smart. There have been no dumb out of character crazy actions or events that have been necesarry to move the plot forward. All the actors have been great and the deaths have been all surprising and meaningful. Again, no shock value. I am really glad they decided on 4 seasons. so the writers can know exactly where they need to go. Great writing, great acting, action scenes are fun and well dispersed. I wish there were more people who watched it so I could discuss it.
Can't wait to watch season 4.
I honestly think they are getting better, too. There was a season (maybe 9) that I thought dipped and I was worried that they were about to go down, but this season has been as strong as any, and Charlie Day mentioned on Jimmy Fallon that they were signed on for another 2. That would tie them with Ozzie and Harriet for the longest running comedy of all time. Danny Devito is incredible.
The episode where they had to revert to plan B at the reunion was amazing. I honestly have no idea how the show got greenlit, but am so happy that it did. A completely unique show.