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Must See TV
The Onion's AV Club rates the 30 best TV series of the decade here. Looking through it, what struck me is that I've seen almost none of them. Three, to be exact: Lost, The Office (UK version), and Firefly — the latter two solely on DVD.
I blame blogging. Seriously. I've never watched a ton of TV, but ever since I took up blogging I've watched even less. The problem is that blogging requires at least a couple of hours at the computer every evening. I don't multitask well enough to blog and watch TV at the same time, so that means I can't afford to watch more than one show per night at most. The solution, obviously, is a DVR, but I'm still holding out on that front. If Cox allowed multiple DVRs in the house for one low price, I think they would have snagged my business last month when I upgraded our service, but they don't, and they didn't. Maybe someday.
DVR
If you have no time to watch TV, the DVR is not a solution. You just fill it up but still don't have the time to watch what you recorded.
If you find a DVR that puts more hours in the day, be sure and blog about it as that would be in demand.
BTW, I love DVR's. I've had them since 2000.
I watch a lot of television,
I watch a lot of television, mostly as background noise. Still I was surprised that except for Veronica Mars and the two Whedon shows, none of the rest rated in my top 30. Most in this list were what I refer to as boy shows (Law and Order falls into that as well) - heavy on male humor or violence/sex, very low on whimsy, heavy as well on unattractive men and very attractive women. I would take any episode of Star Gate SG-1 over the entire series of Galactica.
agreed
SG-1 was, for the most part, really excellent. Perhaps best Sci-Fi of length (although when I first watched, STNG was).
Blogging? Doubtful.
Blogging? Doubtful. Atrios, Amanda Marcotte, and much of the feministsphere have seen all of these.
Instead of a DVR, try Hulu and netflix. Get a big screen tv, hook it to your pc, and get a treadmill.
"Law and Order" is a boy
"Law and Order" is a boy show!? Law and Order has been hailed for all five decades of its run as the ultimate chick show!
Is the Office (UK) any good?
Is the Office (UK) any good? The Office (US) smells like ass.
U.K. Office very good. U.S.
U.K. Office very good. U.S. Office does indeed smell like ass. I can't think of a single U.K. show that was improved when it was reconfigured in the U.S. I think the Cartoon Network, oddly, shows the U.K. Office on Friday nights.
West Wing
Valiant of you to avoid The West Wing. You should have avoided 24 too. Eventually politics will kill shows like these.
My list would barely overlap with this list. Although not paying for premium cable would explain most of that.
I love my DVR
The DVR is the greatest thing to happen to television since color. And the combo of the DVR and TCM is even a greater thing.
One problem I've had, however, is the upgrade to HDTV. The disk fills up very quickly, as can be expected. The solution would be to upgrade to a higher capacity DVR from my cable provider, but that would cost more money, so I won't.
So instead I've decided that my daughters can only load 5 episodes of Disney's iCarly on it at one time. One must rule with an iron fist at home to maintain order.
I wish you the best of luck
I wish you the best of luck on that, I hope they're not headed for therapy.
My kids get their iCarly the old-fashioned way, by Netflix instant streaming to the HDTV via an HDMI cable.
(I really want to get one of the new glidetv PC remote controls)
http://www.glidetv.com/
can you upgrade a DVR yourself?
Well I recommended it when I meant to hit reply, but that doesn't mean it is any less commendable.
I was wondering if you could upgrade the hard drive in a DVR yourself? Mirror it to a larger capacity disk and stick in the new disk without the company noticing?
Sounds good in theory, but
Sounds good in theory, but doesn't sound like something that I could handle. I'd probably screw everything up and have to pay a penalty to my evil cable company.
I accept recommends anyway that I can get them.
Wow, Kevin, you never saw
Wow, Kevin, you never saw the Sopranos? That's like never having read Moby Dick.
I never watched the Sopranos
I never watched the Sopranos either, the theme just never interested me. I am/was a fan of Dexter, Six Feet Under, Entourage, NCIS, and CSI. Most of the rest of the selections have failed to interest me.
I can haz a la cart programming nao?
You've never seen
You've never seen Futurama?
I guess I've lost my couch-potato cred as well. I've only seen three, Futurama, The Venture Brothers and The Wire.
how have you not watched the
how have you not watched the West Wing? It's the greatest show of all time, followed not so closely by The Wire. Well maybe it doesn't matter. Mad Men will soon displace both, I think.
This is one of the Onion's
This is one of the Onion's parody stories and is not to be taken seriously as anyone can tell.
*cough* Boston Legal *cough*
Firefly!
Yes! It thrills me that made the list!
I've seen 17 of the 30 all
I've seen 17 of the 30 all the way through, mostly via DVD, and a lot of the rest are in my Netflix queue already. I've tried a few episodes of The Sopranos, and it just didn't live up the hype. I'm struck more by the fact that the majority of these are cable shows, and most of the network shows on the list were not big successes.
I'm surprised by how few
I'm surprised by how few liked the Sopranos. Is it NY-NJ thing? I grew up in a mob neighborhood, so it felt familiar to me.
This list is crap.
Coupling is missing from this list. QED.
Must See TV
I'm delighted Firefly, The Wire, and Mad Men made the list, but where's Weeds?
LinkTV broadcasts Democracy Now daily
Old movies, sports, C-SPAN and LinkTV provide the only watchable programing on television for me. I have not watched a series since the end of Seinfeld. With less quality programming available, the DVR makes all the difference. IFC now only broadcasts old foreign movies in the very early morning hours and TCM's programming can broadcast something watchable at any time of the day or night, so the DVR has become indispensable for capturing films for later viewing. Without the DVR, the 100+ satellite channels would be almost worthless, except for LinkTV, which I had not seen before.
I you have not seen "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On," it is the greatest anti-war film of all time, and one I thought I would never see after reading a blurb about it in a magazine. "Sita Sings the Blues" was also a wonderful surprise. Support LinkTV, which also broadcasts Democracy Now daily.
comedies
Even off peak, The Simpsons is great. Family Guy, and the priceless South Park.
no love here for 'arrested
no love here for 'arrested development'? damn funny show. impressive list of comic actors in small roles, too.
your pal,
blake
Perhaps the solution
is to work in the daytime like everyone else has to.
Try Fancast.com. 10,000+
Try Fancast.com. 10,000+ hours of free TV shows/movies from every major network on your computer. You can do your blogging/online reading, while anything from current hits like Family Guy, Survivor, Desperate Housewives, CSI, Lost, 30 Rock to classics like Mary Tyler Moore, The Twilight Zone, Dick Van Dyke, Star Trek are playing on another browser.
http://www.fancast.com/full_episodes
Jim (for Fancast)
Ummmm . . . by the way . . .
if you're watching things on DVD anyway, you owe it to yourself to watch Deadwood and The Wire. The first episode of the second season of The Wire is the best written hour that has ever been on television.
I actually prefer Episode 6
I actually prefer Episode 6 in Season 2, if only because it has one of the truest and most memorable lines I've heard on TV, but that whole season is amazing, and it's not even the best that the Wire has to offer. Season 4 was probably the best season of a television show ever.
the truest and most memorable lines I've heard on TV
"All we can do now is sit in a darkened room and listen to a little girl cry."
From 1951
From 1951 TV (seen on Nightflight in the late 1980's):
http://www.archive.org/details/TalesOfTomorrow-AChildIsCrying_607
Like most articles posted on
Like most articles posted on the internet, this apparently was written by someone about 12 years old. The retrospective is supposed to cover the last 30 years, yet nothing dates back further than 1999? This just seems like somebody's list of favorites, most of which are or were popular in their time; don't know why you bothered to give it a mention as if it were something worthy of note.
Like most blog comments on
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Like most blog comments on the internet, this comment was apparently written by someone with the reading comprehension skills of a 12-year-old. The title of the article, the title of the web page and the URL of the page all indicate that it is the best TV shows of the '00s.
ZOMG
Kevin, two words: The. Wire.
Must-see tv, especially for a blogger. It's like Shakespeare for the current generation. If you haven't watched it, a critical part of your education is missing.
I know, I know, I'm one of those tireless missionaries for the show. But there's a reason we're so crazy about it.