# Your Top 10 TV Shows for 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2012, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491 "2012-12-29T15:05:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/21 "2012-12-30T23:07:20Z")
No particular order. Breaking Bad Boardwalk Empire NFL Redzone Daily Show Parks & Rec HIMYM Big Bang Theory Simpsons Pawn Stars Bill Maher ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/22 "2012-12-31T01:55:15Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > People still watch television? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/23 "2012-12-31T03:33:46Z")
Justified Archer Elementary Person of Interest The Daily Show Castle The Walking Dead American Horror Story Asylum The Wedding Band ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/24 "2013-01-01T15:57:52Z")
I don’t have ten, but if **Community** is not on your list, you’re a bad person. A bad person! Also, **Parks and Rec** somehow got _better_ over the course of seasons 3 and 4 despite re-tooling the main character from a buffoon to a semi-respectable adult. I’m still scratching my head over how they did that, and still made the show better. Perhaps it was in dialing-up the foolishness of some other characters in order to compensate. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/25 "2013-01-01T16:13:43Z")
These are the shows I _watched_ in 2012. Doesn’t mean they are the 2012 seasons of the show: 1. #1, for 2012, always and forevermore, will be the election night coverage on Fox News, especially the meltdown. Blondie takes on her own math nerds at the behest of Karl Rove! Karl Rove sees his power base disappear over a 30 minutes span! Charles Krautheimer first to throw Romney under the bus! Nothing, really, beat the Fox News coverage a half-hour on each side of the election being called. Others… Friday Night Lights (watched entire show) Sports Night (watched entire show) Storage Wars (my one “reality” show) Community (Season 1) I haven’t followed a “current” show since **Lost**. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/26 "2013-01-01T16:27:44Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > I don’t have ten, but if **Community** is not on your list, you’re a bad person. A bad person! I love Community but felt the best parts of last season aired in 2011. It was easily one of the Also rans as good as the stuff I listed that I mentioned in my post though. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/27 "2013-01-02T11:36:41Z")
The only 2012 shows that I watched and ever intend to watch again are: Justified Elementary I used to watch: Modern Family Homeland earlier in the year but gave up on them. Several others I had given up on years ago. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491/28 "2013-01-02T11:57:06Z")
I have come to realise that many of the shows most people think are so great, I really don’t like at all. There’s a modern dramatic style to shows that I really don’t like, such as _Homeland_, _Walking Dead_, _Girls_, _Justified_, and I’ve never even seen _Breaking Bad_ as the subject matter just doesn’t interest me. My list isn’t really a top ten so much as just a bunch of shows I looked forward to each week in 2012. [ul] [li]Doctor Who[/li][li]Chuck\*[/li][li]Eureka\*[/li][li]Leverage\*[/li][li]Castle[/li][li]Red Dwarf[/li][li]Psych[/li][li]Merlin\*[/li][li]Warehouse 13[/li][li]QI[/li][/ul] And here are some shows I watch, but am not sure if I like them that much, they’re just background noise. [ul] [li]Burn Notice[/li][li]Elementary[/li][li]Perception[/li][li]Fringe[/li][li]Drop Dead Diva[/li][li]Tron Uprising[/li][li]Arrow[/li][li]Alphas[/li][li]How I Met Your Mother[/li][li]White Collar[/li][/ul] \*Cancelled this year [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-tv-shows-for-2012/645491.md?page=1)