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TV: The Golden Era Reborn

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Dr. Mrs. and I were trying to quantify the Golden Age last night. I'm sure I'm forgetting some but here's my first pass at the genuinely brilliant TV shows and series that we've had just over the last decade. These are the unforgettable, genius ones, not the near misses. For example, The Night Of was for me a near miss: an A, not an A+. I am counting shows as A+ if they spent a non-trivial amount of time at the very top of their game -- for example, the last 5+ seasons of MASH were dog poo, but the show would definitely qualify. This will be known as the "Simpsons Rule."

The cutoff is shows that were running on 1/1/07 or later.

(A+) Eternal

WestWorld (16-)
Mr. Robot (15-)
The Jinx (15)
House of Cards (13-)
Game of Thrones (11-18)
Community (09-15)
Mad Men (07-15)
The Office (05-13)
The Colbert Report (05-14)
House (04-12)
Battlestar Galactica (04-09)
TDS with John Stewart (99-15)
South Park (97-)
The Simpsons (89-)


(A) Near Misses

The Night Of (16)
Humans (15-)
The Leftovers (14-)
Cosmos (14)
Veep (12-)
AHS (11-)
Archer (09-)
HIMYM (05-14)
The Soup with Joel McHale (04-15)


(?) Shows I Haven't Seen Enough Of Which I Have Heard Mentioned

Orphan Black (13-)
Black Mirror (11-)
Parks and Rec (09-15)
Breaking Bad (08-13)
Always Sunny (05-)
The Wire (02-08)
Futurama (99-13)
The Sopranos (99-07)


(!) Too Early to Tell / Incomplete for Some Other Reason

The President Show (17-)
Legion (17-)
Atlanta (16-)
Stranger Things (16-)
Preacher (16-)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (15-)
Fargo (14-)
 
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Futurama is an A+ for sure. Smart and funny.

"I did do the nasty in the pasty."
"Verily."
 
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Just started The Newsroom. Amazon has the whole series available on Prime. I do love me some Aaron Sorkin dialogue.
 
geezer said:
I'm still sad that Studio 60 only got one year. It was great.
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30 Rock and it's more absurdist comedy easily won viewers over "yet *another* Sorkin dra-medy."

I never really got into 30 Rock. Yet I enjoy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. *shrug*

For the record, I too lamented the breivety of Studio 60.
 
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aparch said:
30 Rock and it's more absurdist comedy easily won viewers over "yet *another* Sorkin dra-medy."

I never really got into 30 Rock. Yet I enjoy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. *shrug*

For the record, I too lamented the breivety of Studio 60.
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I can't stand 30 Rock. It was not good. YMMV
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I loved The Newsroom.
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So did I. It said things that needed to be said. It didn't say them well and it wasn't subtle, and Sorkin is a monotonous one-note tool. But I still loved the show.

Every plot arc that was not the political center of the show, however, was horrible, and it probably set woman on television back thirty years. It was insanely sexist and it failed the Bechdel test spectacularly.
 
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Kepler said:
Dr. Mrs. and I were trying to quantify the Golden Age last night. I'm sure I'm forgetting some but here's my first pass at the genuinely brilliant TV shows and series that we've had just over the last decade. These are the unforgettable, genius ones, not the near misses. For example, The Night Of was for me a near miss: an A, not an A+. I am counting shows as A+ if they spent a non-trivial amount of time at the very top of their game -- for example, the last 5+ seasons of MASH were dog poo, but the show would definitely qualify. This will be known as the "Simpsons Rule."

The cutoff is shows that were running on 1/1/07 or later.

(A+) Eternal

WestWorld (16-)
Mr. Robot (15-)
The Jinx (15)
Game of Thrones (11-18)
Community (09-15)
Mad Men (07-15)
The Office (05-13)
The Colbert Report (05-14)
Battlestar Galactica (04-09)
TDS with John Stewart (99-15)
South Park (97-)
The Simpsons (89-)


(A) Near Misses

The Night Of (16)
Humans (15-)
The Leftovers (14-)
Cosmos (14)
AHS (11-)
Archer (09-)
HIMYM (05-14)
The Soup with Joel McHale (04-15)


(?) Shows I Haven't Seen Enough Of Which I Have Heard Mentioned

Orphan Black (13-)
Black Mirror (11-)
Parks and Rec (09-15)
Breaking Bad (08-13)
Always Sunny (05-)
The Wire (02-08)
Futurama (99-13)
The Sopranos (99-07)


(!) Too Early to Tell / Incomplete for Some Other Reason

The President Show (17-)
Legion (17-)
Atlanta (16-)
Stranger Things (16-)
Preacher (16-)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (15-)
Fargo (14-)
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I'm surprised House didn't make your list.
 
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Season 2 of The Newsroom is good when binge watched but otherwise yeah it isnt great. Season 3 though totally redeems it!
 
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Everyone is going to have their own list, but, personally, mine wouldn't have any news/satire/comedy type shows on it. When I think of "the golden age of tv" I think of great scripted dramas, and a few excellent comedies, but not many. I would also separate out documentary series type shows, because I can't compare them to a scripted drama.

The Best:
Breaking Bad (going to lump Saul in with this at this point)
The Wire
Game of Thrones
Westworld (assuming no drop-off)
Mad Men
Fargo

The Next (Including shows that were very good, to excellent at some point, but didn't keep it up through the whole run):
Dexter (all but the last few seasons)
Homeland (first season)
The Leftovers
Sons of Anarchy (first few seasons)
Justified
House of Cards
Orange is the New Black
Bloodline
True Detective (season 1 only)
Deadwood
Stranger Things

Comedies:
Veep
Californication
Its Always Sunny
Parks and Rec
Brockmire
Curb
The League
Shameless
 
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