#317

Dunno - never seen any of them

#318

nah, last series was a bit silly but still better than 99% of anything on television

probably, can’t actually remember

#319

I feel like the Wire had a much bigger cultural moment than the Sopranos ever did - remember the Guardian released a book about it? Which maybe convinced more people they had to watch it. Worked for me at least, I haven’t seen Sopranos.

#320

I don’t know, just how I feel when I think “maybe I should watch The Wire again”. Not sure if it would feel dated. Not sure I could cope with Dom West’s accent.

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#321

The Full List!

Score Nominations
100 The Story of Film: An Odyssey 24 2
99 Broad City 24 3
98 Show Me a Hero 25 4
97 Please Like Me 26 2
96 Tremé 26 3
95 Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe 26 4
94 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 26 5
92 Killing Eve 27 2
== The Vietnam War 27 2
90 GLOW 27 3
== State of Play 27 3
89 The Shield 27 4
88 University Challenge 29 2
87 Green wing 30 3
86 Mindhunter 30 5
85 Atlanta 30 6
84 Archer 32 2
83 OJ Simpson: Made In America 32 3
81 Derry Girls 32 4
== True Detective 32 4
78 The Detectorists 33 3
== Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! 33 3
== Flowers 33 3
77 Car Share 34 2
76 Limmy’s Show 34 6
75 Veronica Mars 35 3
74 Black Mirror 35 7
73 Borgen 36 3
72 The Virtues 37 3
70 Doctor Who 39 3
== Fringe 39 3
69 Freaks and Geeks 41 3
67 Spiral 42 3
== Red Riding Trilogy 42 3
65 The expanse 42 4
== Bob’s Burgers 42 4
63 Review 43 4
== 24 43 4
62 Halt and Catch Fire 45 4
61 Gilmore Girls 46 4
60 Lost 48 4
59 Taskmaster 48 5
58 Utopia 49 5
57 Community 50 7
56 Catastrophe 53 9
55 Rick and Morty 53 9
54 Detectorists 59 7
53 Planet Earth 60 6
52 The Americans 62 7
51 Black Books 63 7
50 Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle 64 8
48 The Killing (Danish) 65 6
== Spaced 65 6
47 Stranger Things 65 9
46 Angel 67 6
45 COMBINED DISQUALIFIED SHOWS 71 6
44 the west wing 71 7
43 30 Rock 72 6
42 RuPaul’s Drag Race 74 7
41 Inside No. 9 76 7
40 Happy Valley 78 6
39 Nathan Barley 80 10
38 Monkey Dust 81 6
37 Justified 83 5
36 Flight Of The Conchords 85 9
35 The Leftovers 89 8
34 VEEP 90 11
33 Firefly 95 9
32 The Bridge 106 10
31 Battlestar Galactica 107 10
30 Six Feet Under 109 11
29 Fleabag 113 13
28 Fargo 116 13
27 Nathan for You 117 9
26 The Office (US) 122 10
25 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 131 7
24 Band of Brothers 131 12
23 Futurama 154 17
22 The Trip 159 18
21 This Is England 163 15
20 Parks and Recreation 167 16
19 Friday Night Lights 177 16
18 Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace 181 20
17 Deadwood 183 11
16 I’m Alan Partridge 185 12
15 It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia 198 19
14 The Office (UK) 202 17
13 Arrested Development 206 22
12 Twin Peaks II 207 13
11 Better Caul Saul 209 20
10 Chernobyl 213 22
9 Curb Your Enthusiasm 218 17
8 Game of Thrones 224 21
7 Breaking Bad 272 25
6 BoJack Horseman 284 23
5 Mad Men 377 25
4 Peep Show 384 33
3 The Thick of it 456 38
2 The Sopranos 460 26
1 The Wire 769 45
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TV/Netflix/Amazon Prime etc series thread for 2021
#322

IDK I hear a lot more about Sopranos from more casual TV fans than I do The Wire, and multiple Sopranos books have come out lately. Also it had a lot more impact on shows that followed it - which I suppose could either lift it higher since it was more referenced or make The Wire seem even more unique and like a true one-off.

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#323

I rewatched it for the first time in about 10 years fairly recently, and it was still incredible. Was really worried it wouldn’t be as good as I remember it being, but it was.

And whilst the last series doesn’t stand up to the rest of it, it was actually quite a bit better the second time around. Might have been a case of diminished expectations due to knowing it wasn’t as good as the rest, but I now think it’s more of a case of 1-4 being so good that it feels like a big drop in quality when it would still be a very good season of most other telly programmes.

#324

Thank you, as always, Colin! These threads are dead good IMO

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#325

think it was balonz who referred to this as ‘mad mandem’ and i can’t help thinking about that everytime i see its name now

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#326

“We’re going straight to the mad, mad men” is how I imagine the theme song to go

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#327

Hahahahahaha just thought of something.

So basically I’d been watching Breaking Bad at the world’s slowest pace (because it’s so difficult to binge watch by being a massive bummer all the time). Went to visit my friend in Amsterdam BECAUSE WE WERE MEANT TO BE BANGING and we ended up watching a few episodes of series 4 late at night in his flat INSTEAD OF BANGING and after the episode we watched on the last night I instigated a conversation to find out what was going on and basically his attraction to me massively fluctuated and so we DID NOT BANG and I was in a very bad place at the time so it sort of broke me a bit and there were lots of tears :frowning: so I have not watched an episode of Breaking Bad since because it reminded me of a very painful evening.

however WE RECENTLY FINALLY BANGED and so the bad memory has been consigned to the dustbin of past sadnesses and I can finally finish watching Breaking Bad!

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#328

I don’t think that this is true. I think it had a different kind of cultural discussion around it.

The Wire wasn’t shown on terrestrial TV until the final series, which meant that it was much more of a web-driven word of mouth phenomenon. The Sopranos has a much bigger and wider cultural impact, but it also had less of a kind of secret club enthusiasm within its fandom. The likes of Charlie Brooker were the first to champion the series over here. It seems hard to believe, but it was possible for HBO to put out a David Simon series in the US and for it to pass relatively unnoticed in the UK for a couple of years.

#329

Voted for 5 in the top 10, and then nothing until #30. Interesting …

#330

i actually like AJ most of the time but he is definitely one of the most complained about things in the show

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#331

Inside No. 9 should be higher

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#332

Looks like it’s currently … outside no. 9

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#333

breaking banged

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#334

Breaking Beds

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#335

He is fucking hilarious.

In the middle of a rewatch at the minute and I had completely overlooked how funny his interactions with Tony are the first time round.

This specific bit absolutely killed me

“What are you fuckin’ stupid, huh?”

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#336

Good to see Corrie at number 45