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Hotel Roosevelt

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The Wire is quite easily the best drama ever. Best comedy between Seinfeld and The Simpsons. Seinfeld was more consistent (it didn't have 10 seasons of mediocrity), so it probably gets the nod.

Current? Breaking Bad. Also watching Lost, Justified, Modern Family, Community, Parks and Recreation. All good shows. Lost is an all-time great, but it's first season and middle years were its strongest. Breaking Bad is well on its way to being an all-time great. More people should be watching it. The others are in their first or second season, too soon to tell.

Honorable Mention to The Shield. Damn good show that ends as strong as it ever was.
 
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Hotel Roosevelt

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It really is brilliant from the start. I was hooked from the beginning, but talking to others, it is not unusual for it to take at least half a season for new viewers to get a feel for the show. It's very novelistic in structure. It starts slowly, putting the pieces together very methodically, and climaxes before the season finale, leaving a lot of time to explore the aftermath. Push through the first season, at least. If by the end of the first season you still don't think it is worth your time, then I doubt the show will ever work for you.

Just take it seriously. It's not a show that you can kick back and passively follow along with.

ETA: re: The Wire
 
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I have not enjoyed The Pacific at all. Makes it look like the guys who fought in Europe were men and the ones that fought in the Pacific were a bunch of psycho pussies. This one has much more of a left lean and the horrors of war angle. Band of Brothers shows the horror also, but the people persevere and overcome it. The Iwo Jima show does not even have the flag raising? Just the love story of the CMO guy and him dieing there.
 
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It's already tough enough to sell the Pacific Theatre as a viable story.... one island looks just like the next and even then they were giving their lives simply to take a couple of runways on some godforsaken scrap of coral atoll.

But the stories they chose to tell and the way they've told them have me scratching my head. Every week I keep hoping Merriell Shelton (this guy:
is killed by intentional friendly fire. And I keep wanting to like Leckie... but honestly, who chooses to make a war movie about a guy who continually pisses in his pants.

But the thing that has been the the most frustrating is not being able to follow the chain of command. I have no idea who ranks where in military hierarchy. I had really high hopes for The Pacific and it wasn't until around week 6 that I let myself admit that the series sucks.
 
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drunkernhelldawg

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Beverly Hillbillies
Happy Days
Carol Burnett
Lucy

But I'd probably put Archie and the Meathead on top too. Those shows were funny and profound. They made me laugh and cry at the same time. The acting and the writing were top notch.

I'm really enjoying Treme right now. Also liked Curb my Enthusiasm before the divorce.

Edit to give a shout out to Lonesome Dove, one of the best six hours ever shown on television.
 
Hail State

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more of a movies guy myself. But I am a huge Sopranos fan and I never missed an episode, I've probably watched the whole series 5 or 6 times. As for comedy, the best is definitely Sunny in Philadelphia.</p>
 
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It's impossible to discuss this any other way. Comedy has to be Seinfeld. I don't think there is any question about this.

Drama could be a long list.
 
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