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- 3 days
This is a pretty good list, that I largely agree with. IF it were unordered. Ordered the way it is, it is an abomination.
- 3 days
Insane list. Look at the IMDB Top 250 filtered by “after 2000” and you’ll notice the obvious omissions:
- Avatar: The Last Airbender at number 6
- Attack on Titan at number 16
- Firefly at number 39
- Taskmaster at number 43
These are just a couple examples in different categories. Anime fans immediately noticed that no anime made the list at all, despite 10 being in the IMDB top 100. Western animation fans might have seen that Bojack Horseman made the list, but Avatar didn’t (or if the editor filtered for “adult animation”, Rick and Morty (#22) didn’t). There’s really no excuse for these, there is no consistent rule that would exclude any of these shows. NYT readers must live in the dark timeline where fun is outlawed and Taskmaster was cancelled after one series.
Animation isn’t respected in the snobby “film” crowd. These are the same sorts of people that refuse to take Citizen Kane out of the number 1 movie slot. If movies peaked in 1941, what’s the point?
- 2 days
I started to think their list was implicitly live action-only, but then Bojack Horseman? This list is fully ad-hoc one person’s perspective, no objectivity or consensus attempted.
- 2 days
No Expanse, but Battlestar Galactica is 37? I liked it, but it was nowhere close to The Expanse.
- 3 days
I’m upset because (my favorite show) is not in the top (insert arbitrary number)
A lot these comments are more like
I’m upset because (my favorite 20th century show) is not in the top (insert arbitrary number)
This is certainly a top-quality shitpost. I’ll give you my upvote for that.
- 3 days
The best TV show IN ENGLISH… plenty of better TV show in other languages… just saying.
- 2 days
One show on the list is actually not in English: The Bureau (original title: Le bureau des légendes)
Excellent spy and geo political drama/thriller following agents of the French DGSE.
- 3 days
The Wire is, without a doubt, the best written show in television history. If anyone hasn’t seen it, you have to see it.
- 2 days
Nah it totally jumps the shark when Marlo is introduced. The shield is better. Plus it had a whole universe
- 3 days
I wouldn’t put Breaking Bad over many things. I’m still sore I made myself watch the whole thing.
- 2 days
The first few episodes (first entire season maybe) of Office US is worse, but as an entire series there’s little argument that the U.S. version was more engaging, created more diverse and memorable characters, and had much better storylines. Most of this is purely because it ran longer, but it’s really a very different type of show.
- 2 days
Absolutely agreed it’s McDonald’s against a good restaurant, sure one serves more customers but it’s nowhere near the quality
- 3 days
The office US is broadly considered the better version. It certainly had a way bigger market success.
List compiled by an utter moron. Entirely missing (among others) and vastly superior to most on the list:
- The Expanse
- After Life
- Sex Education
- Firefly
- IT Crowd
Also, despite being controversial, probably worth mentioning:
- South Park
- The Walking Dead
- Z-Nation (imo much better than TWD)
Yeah the fact that The Office UK is on here and not The IT Crowd just shows they included it due to proximity to The Office US and don’t watch British TV.
I just started a rewatch tonight after having mentioned it here :) I loved the show and I think it’s time to give it another go. I am surprised how much of the permanent cast is introduced in episode one.
- 4 days
ridiculous rule for shows that have run longer than everything else on the list, and still popular.
Yeah that thought occurred to me - but since the list is as dumb as it is to begin with, I didn’t bother looking for rules of eligibility.
3 daysdid you cry so hard that your tears turned to blood?
i really need to resume watching that show, damn…
What’s controversial about The Walking Dead? (I only saw the first season).
- 3 days
It just quickly got old and repetitive,completely uninspired rehashing of the same problems and storylines. Season 1 is gold, 2 is decent, don’t bother past that
- 3 days
You can stop there, The first season is gold. After that TWD doesn’t have a clue what to do with his premises and becomes stagnant
The torture porn for Season 7 first episode. The show went from splatter / hack & slash to a breach of the psychological contract between film makers and the audience. Instead of cutting away for the ultra violence, they stayed fully on it, turning this franchise from a zombie splatter movie into sadistic torture porn, with the sadism directed at the unsuspecting viewers.
I was able to skip past one of those sections because it was telegraphed in the previous season’s ending, but the next one was intentionally designed to catch the audience unaware and was ultra explicit. I did not want to see this and I never consented to this kind of sadistic fucked up shit to be broadcast onto my screen.
Fuck the makers of that franchise, fuck AMC and fuck everyone involved in that decision for all eternity.
Edit: Be grateful that you didn’t have to watch that.
- 3 days
I felt like it was an overcorrection of the season 6 finale where they left it on that shitty cliffhanger of who died. So they were like “well you want answers, we’ll give ya answers!!!”
But yeah it was bad.
Luckily it seems they were punished for it in terms of ratings. I honestly felt abused after being exposed to that scene, without a warning to close my eyes or skip ahead.
I’ll quote myself from the other post about this:
Why the fuck would I care what the NYT thinks about TV shows?
- 4 days
It’s really weird that basically nothing made out of the anglosphere is there. Squid game got squeezed in, but not a single anime for example is really weird. There is stuff like AoT and Death Note and neither is on there.
- 3 days
It’s completely US-centered with a couple of British shows sprinkled on top. Even if your focus was just the anglosphere, UK TV punches way above its weight.
It’s funny how many British shows run for 8 episodes and an ending, then gets remade in America with 8 seasons
- 3 days
Fake top 100 for sure. Op made it because he watched this series and wants to brag about it.
Where at IT Crowd, Seinfeld and Person of Interest? But yea, let add only American series!
/J
