Favorite TV Shows
Television has evolved quite a bit over the years, but as we've journeyed from a black & white world to a connected HD future, what defines a good show really hasn't changed. This is list dedicated to the programs that produced countless hours of entertainments that made us think, laugh, cry, or otherwise engage with television's greatest. From the old-school antics of Bonanza to new-school dramas like Breaking Bad, any show, from any genre is fair game. So grab your remote and enter your All-Time Favorite TV Shows below!
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494 people shared their Favorite TV Shows.
It's your turn to influence the results with YOUR own picks!
It's your turn to influence the results with YOUR own picks!
Latest Toplists
Sandvich's Favorite TV Shows
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The Wire
+50 pts
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Arrested Development
+49 pts
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Deadwood
+48 pts
Nodley's Favorite TV Shows
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The World at War
+26 pts
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The Great War
+25 pts
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Top Gear (UK)
+24 pts
Husky Wing's Favorite TV Shows
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The Leftovers
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The OA
+24 pts
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Utopia
+23 pts
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Saved!@Husky dawg (how has it taken me this long to call you dawg?) Could I get pages for Bodyguard (2018 series), Unbelievable, Arcane, Invincible, Severance, Andor and Blue Eye Samurai? Thanks dawg.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … okie dokie. Severance is here already cuz I, me, Husky dawg, love it too. For Andor I've been using the old "Rogue One Prequel" page -
Saved!SandvichEditing … Wait, I should have realized that, I literally ranked Severance in my previous update. Never mind, I have a mild case of the donkey brains. -
Saved!Husky WingEditing … You were the frog kid all along
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Saved!I'm very unsure where I should rank shows that reached extreme heights, but later fell off. Game of Thrones S1-5 and Stranger Things S1-2 are unbelievably good, but I greatly dislike the seasons after those. Whenever I rewatch Dexter, I really just want to see the first four or five seasons, and then I stop.
I have the shows ranked pretty highly, but I feel like they'd be ranked a lot higher if they'd just been cancelled, instead of fucking up their run.-
Saved!SandvichEditing … Game of Thrones is an especially rough example because so many setups in the early seasons serve as reminders of the monumentally disappointing payoffs. Like when Ned says "Next time we meet, we'll talk about your mother," I want to gag over how little it mattered in the end. "I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want...." NONE OF US WANTED ANY OF THIS SHIT JON, SHUTUP!!!!
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … This is difficult. A lot of shows are like that. Lost as well had a fantastic first few seasons but later the quality just dropped. I have high hopes for Severance though. season 2 still has not arrived yet but the first season is by far the best writing and world building I have ever seen. It is so meticulously crafted. The writer demanded that he should know how many seasons he had to work with which could help prevent a drop off at the end of the show. That should always be the case. To tell a good story you should know how to space it out. -
Saved!SandvichEditing … Used to be more shows than not had lousy final seasons. Networks would just keep their shows running until the writers ran out of ideas. Lost was originally supposed to be four seasons but ABC just got too horny for those ratings. Happy Days is reason we say "Jumping the shark." It's nice that when we get invested in a show these days there's a high chance of a satisfying conclusion.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Klem, you oughta see From. From is the new Lost. It's not as good as Severance, but it's just like reliving Lost.
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Saved!I love how I Love Lucy isn't in the top 500. Boy that relevance sure is gone. Even Digimon is above it.
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Saved!MrZAPEditing … It's a shame, because from what I have seen of it, it really is a very funny and well-acted show. I need to go and watch it thoroughly someday.
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Saved!This site is clearly representative of a set subculture and little else. It's basically the Internet savvy Playstation 3 owning 20'somethings site. Look at the big things here, and in the other main lists. Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones dominate here, The Last Of Us, Skyrim, and Mass Effect 2 dominate in video games. Nothing else matters, with no musical artist getting over 1000 points to date and only 2 books getting over 500 points. Film is less notable but still telling with Batman, Star Wars, and Lord Of The Rings taking top three spots but none having more than 1500 points, and the next 2 films Fight Club and Pulp Fiction only just breaking 1000 points.
What this tells me is that most of the members here watch Netflix rather than mainstream/broadcast TV, they play mainly Playstation 3 games (with some PC), and are under 25 as they have little connection to a film or music trend which means they likely didn't live through the 70s or 80s, however most members here are over 20 as there's very little "late 90s kid" stuff voted up (Nickelodeon cartoons like Invader Zim for example), and very few FPSs or MMOs voted up. There's no League Of Legends, Call Of Duty, DOTA, Minecraft, or Grand Theft Auto in any top 10 (and often they miss the top 25).
I wonder how close I am...-
Saved!DoubleagentEditing … I'm happy to report that I am a special snowflake that does not meet this description other than age range. -
Saved!Billy McKennaEditing … What will be interesting is if the active members are representative of the voting members, as a majority vote in 3-4 lists then rarely return. I know I don't fit that description too much, (though, I don't deviate too much admittedly).
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Saved!MasterCrashEditing … I don't own a PS3 nor do I have Netflix (simply isn't available here), and regardless of not living through the 70s or 80s I do think I am decently connected to the musical subculture. You have to realize, though, that this website formed from Unikgamer, which is solely dedicated to gamers. There's obviously going to have a strong subculture present here. I do enjoy when I see other subcultures being discussed, even if I'm not part of them, like comics, MLP/cartoons, TV Shows, horror movies, my discussions with Rob about WWE, heck, even Double's recent post about a mattress. It really shows the potential of this website has a house for every single subculture and fandom out there. But it simply isn't there yet. -
Saved!MasterCrashEditing … I do try to advertise Favslist in various places (so far Manga reddit, a couple anime forums I was part of, Lastfm and to a couple wrestling fans) but I really don't know if I was very successful, the only person I know that joined came from Last.fm and he left after a week because he was tired of making his own pages.
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Saved!DoubleagentEditing … I'm with crash, I really like seeing passionate people talk about the things they are passionate about, the actual topic is irrelevant in most cases. I see this place as Facebook with a joint communal activity and people that post about things I actually care about instead of vapid shite. Also, it was a pillow but it's good to know more people read my ramblings :P
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Saved!MasterCrashEditing … My bad, I remember you called by some weird code, I don't think you mentioned what it was xD
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Saved!DoubleagentEditing … Yeah I did not explicitly mention what it was, there is a picture on the linked page but I agree that a 'DHR6000' sounds like it should be a gun or model of car and not a pillow.
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Saved!MasterCrashEditing … I personally call my pillows Pill Clinton and Pill Collins. (Disclaimer: No I don't)
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Saved!Rich .Editing … Well I'm 22, have netflix, have a PS3 but game on the PC sometimes as well and I ranked Mass Effect, Skyrim, The Last of Us, Game of Thrones and The Dark Knight pretty highly so yeah you were pretty close. Then again I don't like Breaking Bad, I'm not into Star Wars, most of my favourite songs are older than I am and I love books and don't get why more people haven't listed their favourites. Guess I'm not quite the epitome of my generation.
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Saved!MasterCrashEditing … Also, late note but League of Legends is on my Top 10, I think... It's definitely on my top 15
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Saved!Honest question: In shows like #House (medicine) and #Suits (law practice), do you consider important that they deal with their specific topic realistically?
I've been watching Suits recently, and after some research I found that actual lawyers pointed out the show isn't even close to resembling real law practice. I found the same for House. My point is I can't imagine how pissed i'd be if I watched any of these shows again after I went to medical school or Harvard :S-
Saved!Leya KathEditing … I think you're right. ^^ . But, in the case of House (I don't know Suits), they took their inspiration for real cases. Of course, they make fiction from it, and I think this is normal: we need romance, hope, love, passion, etc... If I want to get closer to the reality, I'll watch a documentary or a report. -
Saved!UltyEditing … Of course, but that's not the point. We need to be emotionally connected, hence the fictional characters and their hardships, but what about the medicine/law practice? Does it really need to be fake and factually incorrect for the writters to be able to make emotional scenes and fictional characters? Why can't they sucessfully make both an emotional connection with the viewer AND intelectually engage the audience with realistic, cold hard medicine/law practice? It really makes me wonder if they intentionally make it fake for the sake of fiction/entertainment, because if not why can't they just hire someone who is an expert in said field to supervise the screenplay? -
Saved!Rich .Editing … I would guess soldiers have the same "that's not how it happens" reaction to most war films, I've heard spies think films like Bourne and Bond and shows like 24 are ridiculous, as are a lot of sports films for anyone who understands those sports (try to box like Stallone does in Rocky and you wouldn't last 5 minutes, forget going the distance) and I know films like Gladiator, Braveheart and 300 don't come very close to the actual historical events. Storytelling being prioritised over realism's pretty common I'd say. I wouldn't say it's too bad of a thing as long as the film/show isn't passing itself off as realistic and it probably saves the writers a lot of effort that can go into refining the storytelling instead.
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Saved!Billy McKennaEditing … The rise in Forensics in TV has been hilarious. Look at CSI as a prime example; they have crime scene investigators collecting evidence, examining evidence, questioning witnesses, drawing up case notes, interrogating suspects, and giving evidence in court... it just doesn't happen. As a CSI, you collect evidence... THAT'S IT! You never learn what happened, if they're caught, etc. because you will examine 3+ scenes per day. You just label stuff and send it to the analyst. The analyst is even more in the dark, they get given an object, get told to analyse it and THAT'S IT! They don't even know what crime has been committed. It's this way on purpose, to ensure everyone is completely objective and only the facts are submitted in the end... but that would make for terrible TV.
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Saved!UltyEditing … But why couldn't they establish a multitude of characters with different jobs, so that every one of those steps is realistically portrayed and followed? I guess what i'm trying to get here is that it can't be that hard to create a compelling story with good characters, while at the same time respecting its topic in a believable way. Take House for example: the medicine rarely gets in the way of the actual characters, it's mostly used as the "case of the day" formula that's commonly seen on television. Is it really impossible to leave it completely realistic while dealing with the characters at the same time?
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Saved!Billy McKennaEditing … I'm not sure if you could do it realistically and still have character development. The CSI's, forensic analysts, police officers, investigators, criminal psychologists, prosecution officers, etc. would work in different departments (often entirely different companies/services); and often the analysis lab is in a different city all together to the police station etc. So the chances of the characters even meeting is slim and if they did they'd often not be able, legally to discuss the cases. Some do shows do try though... 'Bones' is a great show where they make a point of having FBI and Forensic Analysts working together, and they mention that it's unusual to have "squints" in the field collecting evidence, but hand-wave it by explaining that she's one of the best analysts in the country and make a special exception. They often have other departments involved in the show, but even then it's far from realistic and Brennan is still basically a super-woman who does the jobs of about 5 people... (that said, USA may have different regulations on how they conduct forensic research. I trained in UK, and I'm basing this on my experience. I can't say for sure USA isn't more like that).
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Saved!UltyEditing … Ok they work in different departments/buildings/firms/places/whatever, but i'm sure all of them are working on a schedule. Have scenes with them meeting and talking after work, or hell even talk about the cases. It's illegal but i'm sure this happens in real life. Maybe it's because I am not aware of how each topic is actually handled in real life, but honestly until I do I can't see why it isn't possible. Just pick competent writers, have an expert on the field actually supervising the script instead of being another writer, and go from there. In my head it just seems so simple :P
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Saved!Why is this list called "Favorite All-Time" and not "All-Time Favorite" ? Doesn't really make much sense, even.
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Saved!I've added the Webshow category to this list! We'll still have a "Favorite Websow" list though.
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Saved!Firion HopeEditing … Is favorite webshows an upcoming list or is it already here, if its here I cant find it
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