Television RedCafe's Favourite TV Shows (Round 4)

hobbers said:
Yeah but now we're talking 10-15 series, 300+ episodes, of putrid slop. 15m avg viewers in 2001 to 1.5m in 2023.
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Yeah but a lot of people's votes have been for like one good season of a show. See True Detective, Prison Break, etc..

At least The Simpsons had about 9 or 10 good seasons before it lost it. It's iconic and people still reference so much from it to this day.
 
altodevil said:
If you didn't watch Lost at the time it was released you just wouldn't get it.
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I'm trying to convince my partner to watch it with me but I'm worried it won't have aged as well as I hope :lol:
 
Solius said:
I'm trying to convince my partner to watch it with me but I'm worried it won't have aged as well as I hope :lol:
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1-2 are still class. 3 too if you ignore the tattoo episode. My other half loved watching it as she wasn't aware of the final seasons' reputation.
 
Group 5
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
The Simpsons

Group 6
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things
Futurama
Prison Break
Expanse
 
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altodevil said:
If you didn't watch Lost at the time it was released you just wouldn't get it.
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I watched it at the time and gave up in season 2. Started watching it again and caught up for the last season but i was treating it as a silly, soap opera, guilty pleasure watch at that point.

hobbers said:
Prison Break is getting annihilated so far. 21 points from 25 votes.
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It made it far enough to be voted on, thats something. Even people who like it seem to agree it was dogshit past the first season.
 
The final 4 groups will be tough. I reckon most of the following remain: Sopranos, Succession, Mr. Robot, Black Mirror, Rome, Game of Thrones, Curb Your Enthusiasm, IASIP, The Office, The Office UK, Scrubs.
 
hobbers said:
Yeah but now we're talking 10-15 series, 300+ episodes, of putrid slop. 15m avg viewers in 2001 to 1.5m in 2023.
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The Simpsons benefits from the type of show it is. It's not like Game of thrones, where the disappointing final seasons detracts from the whole, because the Simpsons is not one long story that needs to be followed from start to finish.

Plus, few shows have had the cultural impact that the Simpsons had.
 
RedSky said:
Couldn't stand Breaking Bad, had it's moments but hated most of the characters.
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I totally gave up on it about season 4 for pretty much that reason. Forced myself to watch the rest years after because of people raving about the end. Which did redeem the show a lot for me.
 
caid said:
I totally gave up on it about season 4 for pretty much that reason. Forced myself to watch the rest years after because of people raving about the end. Which did redeem the show a lot for me.
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I almost gave up on it in season 4 too, about half-way through. I'd watched it from the day it premiered and loved the first couple of seasons but found most of 3 & 4 to be a snooze-fest. For me, the Gus Fring story wasn't interesting enough to take up two whole seasons. It picked up towards the end of season 4, and I enjoyed season 5, but it's overrated I think.

I still can't get over how bad Fring's death scene was though. It was so ridiculous that I laughed out loud :lol:
 
hobbers said:
We should all get a -5 point veto for one of the shows in the two groups.
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Chance would be a fine thing... a fine thing indeed.

Group 5 is an easy one for me as I haven't seen Twin Peaks (I know, I know) or Battlestar Galactica.

Group 5:

1. The Simpsons
2. Peep Show
3. Lost

Group 6:

1. Breaking Bad
2. Prison Break
3. Futurama
 
Group 5:
Twin Peaks
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
The Simpsons
Peep Show

Group 6:
Stranger Things
The Expanse
Breaking Bad
Futurama
Prison Break
 
caid said:
I watched it at the time and gave up in season 2.
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Same.


Watched Ep1 of Band of Brothers yesterday since it scored so well here, must have been one of the worst first episodes of a great show in existence (assuming it really is a great series).
 
Group 5:
1. The Simpsons
2. Lost

Group 6:
1. Breaking Bad
2. Stranger Things
3. Prison Break
4. Futurama
 
Fecking hell Group 5 is a killer (although I haven't watched Battlestar Galactica)

Group 5:
Twin Peaks
Lost
Peep Show
The Simpsons (and I love the Simpsons!)

Group 6:
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things
 
Group 5:
The Simpsons
Twin Peaks
Lost
Peep Show
Battlestar Galactica

Group 6:
Breaking Bad
Prison Break
Futurama
Stranger Things
The Expanse
 
Group 5:

1. Peep show
2. Twin peaks
3. Simpsons
4. Lost


Group 6:

1. BB
2. Stranger things
3. Prison break
4. Futurama
 
Group 5:
1. The Simpsons
2. Lost
3. Twin Peaks
4. Peep Show

Group 6:
1. The Expanse
2. Breaking Bad
3. Futurama

Very tough to separate these shows for me. Love them all. Haven't seen the other three.
 
Group 5:
Battlestar Galactica
Lost
The Simpsons


Group 6:
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things
 
Group 5:
The Simpsons
Lost
Twin Peaks

Group 6:
Breaking Bad
Stranger Things
Prison Break
Futurama
 
Group 5:
Twin Peaks
Peep Show
The Simpsons

Group 6:
The Expanse
Breaking Bad
Futurama
Stranger Things
 
hobbers said:
In the final I assume everyone picks a top 10 from 30, but you should also give everyone 2 veto picks who get -5 points each.

Introduce a little anarchy.
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To be honest, this would be funny and I would be up for it if people want that.
 
hobbers said:
I think it'd be really interesting to see how the final list ends up with and without it.

Could still have the 'official' one without and just see how much the vetoes change it.
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Do you want my wife to divorce me?
 
Group 5:
1. The Simpsons
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Lost

Group 6:
1. Stranger Things
2. Prison Break
3. Breaking Bad
 
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