# The new TV season **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season/595311 "2011-09-05T22:14:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season/595311/19 "2011-09-06T00:15:13Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Nope. There’s been plenty of fantastic television over the last couple of decades. If sci-fi, high concept, or camp isn’t your bag, there’s plenty of fantastic series that have great plots and characterization (if not some of the greatest plot and characterization on television ever) on right now. **Breaking Bad** and **Mad Men** come to mind. There’s dozens more. Okay, I took a gander at a"best of" clip of _Mad Men_. Are you kidding me? That’s the best of? The script was such laughably stilted dialog that I couldn’t even sit out the whole four minutes. Plus again, everybody way too pretty. Except the poor nanny help of course. Dumb. Nobody in the world talks the way these people do. _Breaking Bad_ I found less putrid. They had gangsters sitting around a table talking a deal. Suddenly some guy gets killed. Then for no reason the scene gets all artsy and in slow-motion so it quickly becomes detached from any real drama the scene might have otherwise had. Another meh. Sorry, still batting zero here. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-tv-season/595311)._