Heh, I consider myself a big TV watcher, and I only regularly watched three of those on the list.
My own list would include:
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family)
Person of Interest (CBS)
The Originals (CW)
The Vampire Diaries (CW)
Whose Line is It Anyway? (CW)
The 100 (CW)
Elementary (CBS)
Game of Thrones (HBO)
Nashville (ABC)
Dominion (Syfy)
I’ve watched and enjoyed many of them, but my only comment is about* OitNB*- I really tried to get into it, but so much of the time in S1 it seemed as if they used the first take of an improv session- timing is off, pacing is slow, some (not all) of the performances are from Acting 101… I guess I must be missing something because so many people love it, but I can’t understand what everyone enjoys about that show.
*Hannibal *- yes, it’s a bit over-the-top, but it’s really well done
*Continuum *- Canadian sci-fi show, I’ve enjoyed it more than Orphan Black this season.
*Arrow *- best comic book-to-TV show ever? Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD - steadily improved throughout the season
01. Game of Thrones (HBO) Good, but not quite great this season
*02. Mad Men (AMC) * Never cared for it 03. Broad City (Comedy Central) Haven’t seen it or heard of it. 04. True Detective (HBO) Tried two epis, may try more
*05. Orange is the New Black (Netflix) meh
*06. The Americans (FX) *Haven’t seen it 07. Veep (HBO) meh
*08. Orphan Black (BBC America) * Haven’t seen it, may try it.
*14. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (FOX) slow.
*15. Girls (HBO) bad. 16. Fargo (FX) Fabulous. Great TV.
19. The Musketeers (BBC America) Haven’t seen it or heard of it. may try it.
I know that Orange is the New Black is generally considered to be an excellent show and most people here really seem to like it.
But I just don’t get the enthusiasm for it. I watched a few episodes and it all just seemed so dark and bleak and not at all very enjoyable. But that is just my opinion and I recognize that many other people can find a way to enjoy this show very much.
I don’t know if it’s just that it doesn’t appeal to me.
I watched OZ (another prison drama) and quite enjoyed that. But one of the Orange episodes I watched had a rather ugly woman sitting on the toilet several times in the episode and Piper later complains that she doesn’t like sharing a cell with a woman who sits on the toilet 8 times a day (or something like that).
I realize that this show is classed as “dark humor” or “black humor” but I just can’t find the humor in it.
I watched one episode that dealt with the inmates conducting a “job fair” and many of the women just seemed to babble insane crap. One of them said she hoped to get a job where she could spend her time dealing with round objects because there is just something about round objects that pleases her.
Many other of the job fair participants made similar crazy remarks and under diff circumstances, there might be something to laugh at in their remarks. But they were just so crazy that I couldn’t find any humor and I couldn’t enjoy the episodes at all.
Changing gears however, I didn’t see “Halt and Catch Fire” on your list. For any PC afficienados, it is a very interesting show about the early days of the IBM PC and the struggle for other companies to develop clones. I can’t say it is a great show. But I’m sure that anyone who is interested in PCs would enjoy it and I’d like to recommend you take a look at it. It has just started its first season and has produced 5 episodes so far.
I watch very little tv. I am very fond of “Father Brown” with Mark Williams as G.K. Chesterton’s crime-solving priest. A friend of mine has been taping them, and I went on a binge and watched eight episodes this weekend. That’s remarkably good stuff!
I saw two episodes of “Crossbones” and have to confess, I’m pretty impressed!
Broad City looked horrible in commercials so we skipped it, but we kept catching five minutes of it at the end of recordings of whatever came before it and always left us wanting more. It really is a hilarious show.
I would think* The Good Wife* deserves to be on the list, but given the dearth of broadcast network shows on the list (2 NBC, one Fox), maybe I shouldn’t be surprised.
I’d like to see Grimm on the list. This last season was much improved and well-paced.
Mad Men? In it till the bitter end, and then I will weep it is no more.
Other than those three, I guess I really don’t seem to watch much TV. Of the list above, I’ve seen bits of Game of Thrones, and that’s it. I’d rather watch old movies on TCM, and doze off to reruns on TV Land.
