We’re half-way through the year; time to stop and take stock of the TV year thus far. Here is my mid-year Top 10, selected from shows airing during the period between January and July 2010. I’ve also added a few notes at the end about some other notable TV events. Happy holiday weekend to you.
1. Breaking Bad (AMC) No TV series this year has mixed knuckle-cracking tension with funny-bone-breaking humor the way Bad has. Both Bryan Cranston’s Walt and Aaron Paul’s Jesse were pushed to extremes of thought and action that challenge the fundamental sympathy we’re supposed to have for the protagonists of a weekly drama. This show can find the menace and malice in a fast-food franchise owner and an ordinary housefly. And when it comes to really dangerous items, such as crystal meth and murderous Mexican cousins, Bad is chilling, thrilling.
2. Fringe (Fox) For me, Fringe paid off on every level, especially in the latter half of its second season. No other sci-fi show this half-year has been as interested in detailing the internal lives of its characters, and no drama about the intricacies of family — both blood-related and (really) extended — has been as wigged-out experimental. Plus, along with Breaking Bad, Fringe offered the season’s best cliffhanger.
3. Modern Family (ABC) Humor does not lie: More belly-laughs per episode than any other hit sitcom of the past six months. This is what mass-entertainment, broadcast television should be.
4. Friday Night Lights (DirecTV 101/NBC) Only the greatest sports drama series on TV ever, with one of television’s finest portraits of a marriage, week in and week out. This side of The Wire, I can’t think of a show that has been robbed of more Emmys.
5. Justified (FX) The thing about Elmore Leonard characters in books is that they never evolve — the malicious joke is that they’re doomed to act out their DNA destinies. The thing about Leonard characters in a good TV show is that they evolve in small, surprising ways. The first season of Justified hard-boils down to this: Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens goes from hatted to hat-less, from helpful to helpless. With loud gunfire and quietly hilarious jokes.
6. The Good Wife (CBS) What could have been the year’s most obvious nighttime soap turned out to be a twisty, turny new kind of network hour: The political/romantic/courtroom/investigative drama.
7. Parks and Recreation (NBC) In its second season, P&R settled in as Thursday night’s least sarcastic or cynical sitcom. Taking Amy Poehler’s sunny comic persona and radiating it throughout the entire show, P&R suggested that there is both vulnerability (I’m looking at you, Aziz Ansari’s Tom Haverford) and zaniness (I’m looking at you and your moustache, Nick Offerman’s Ron Swanson) within every character. And by extension, us.
8. Better Off Ted (ABC) The wittiest, most absurdist and risk-taking new sitcom since Arrested Development never attracted the audience it deserved. And as I write, there are still two unaired episodes to be seen. Where are they, ABC?
9. Lost (ABC) Now that the fan and media furor has died down, I’d say that this was a very good season, occasionally uneven as is inevitable with a show of such vast storytelling complexity, with a series finale that, overall, succeeded less as dense mythology clarification than as resonating emotionalism. Which I mean as a compliment.
10. Glee (Fox) A borderline case, this one. Creator Ryan Murphy knows how to reinvent genres brilliantly (see also Nip/Tuck and Popular), only to festoon the reinventions with self-consciousness when they become successful (see Glee and Nip/Tuck). Thus, roughly, the marvelous first half-season of Glee and, roughly, the self-congratulatory second half-season.
Additionally, I would add:
• The best made-for-TV movie of the year thus far is HBO’s Temple Grandin.
• Most Improved As Its Season Went On: Community
• Show I surprised myself by liking so much: I’d never watched any season of Doctor Who (BBC America) closely, and so was happily, utterly beguiled by the charms of the new Who, Matt Smith, and writing that was alternately goofball-funny and intricately witty.
So, what do you think of the list? Any shows you’d drop, and ones you’d add?
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I agree–especially about Justified and Timothy Olyphant. Let’s see an Emmy nomination for him, too.
And Goggins! The two of them are fantastic! That season finale was the best hour of tv I’ve seen all year.
YES! love these two guys IMO best new show of the year
Justified was pretty good but if anyone has missed Deadwood i highly recommend. A Good number of the cast is also from that show.
Agreed. That was probably the best season finale this season, and one of the best ever.
Smallville had an EXCELLENT final 8 episodes or so. I couldn’t watch them when they were on so I watched them all on the plane to and from barcelona a few weeks ago and was blown away.
dude. nothing on smallville is excellent. noth. ing.
Says the guy names Bruno, LoL.
Smallville was fantastic this year. It definitely deserves honorable mention.
oh, you’re right “silent rage”. my opinion is nulled due to my name horrible moniker…my bad…
If Smallville were a more consistent show it might not have such dreadful ratings. The Superman story should have a ready-made audience of many millions, but the frequent plot holes, lightswitches, apalling character development and angst have seems to have turned off many people over the years. In my opinion Season 9 has definitely been the best of the series by far, but there were still a few episodes that were absolute stinkers – Roulette, Checkmate, Sacrifice and Warrior – ugh!
Smallville is awesome…and so is Vampire Diaries and Supernatural !!!
Smallville… dreadful ratings? It got over 2 million on a Friday night in its 9th season on the CW. It also does very well in DVR recordings, and EXTREMELY well with iTunes and DVD sales. Not dreadful at ALL for a CW show.
Smallville isn’t perfect (and really, no show is), but it IS excellent.
I would give Smallville Season 9 an honorable mention as well. It’s not a perfect show by any means. But the 9th season was really really great. The finale entitled “Salvation” was probably the best finale the show has had in about 6-7 years. The cast which includes Tom Welling, Erica Durance, Allison Mack, Justin Hartley and Cassidy Freeman as regulars continue to be so damn charming and enjoyable that you just can’t help but enjoy the show. IT’s such a fun cast. I am really looking forward to Smallville Season 10 when we finally see Clark become Superman.
The problem with articles presenting critically savvy top-10-TV-show lists that permit comments is that then persons reading the article will feel free to give their own idea of a “top ten” show, apparently not excluding “Smallville.” So we have to hear about how wonderful “Smallville” is. This is traumatic.
Thanks for mentioning Parks and Recreation. It’s much better than it was in season one. I’m sad that NBC is making us wait until mid-season to see it again.
Thanks also for mentioning “Community” at the end. Danny Pudi (Abed) deserves a Best Supporting Emmy nod.
For what it’s worth… the only reason NBC is holding it off until midseason is because Amy Pohler is pregnant and they don’t want to worry about hiding it or writing it into the show. I think it’s still coming back for a full 22-episode season, just not until January.
Amy’s pregnancy had nothing to do with pushing P & R back. They were in the middle of filming episodes for S3, so that there *would* be fresh ones in the early fall (when she was on leave), when NBC cut back their sked to put that stupid Outsourced on.
And yes, one reason I love P & R is that is less cynical and a more inviting place to spend time than any other NBC Thurs. show.
MELROSE PLACE, 90210, THE CITY, GOSSIP GIRL were all guilty pleasures!!!
i agree about parks and rec. it is by far the best thurs night comedy. and THANK YOU about better off ted!! why are the best comedies always cancelled?
@ Jimmy:
I can only hope you’re nominating shows that would fit in a ‘guilty pleasure’ category and not suggesting any of these approached the 10 best shows of 2010…
I agree wholeheartedly! If he and Walton Goggins don’t get nominations, I will be disappointed. I’d love to see the show get one for Best Drama, but I think there’s too much competition there.
can’t agree more..two great actors who actually bring out the best in each other. I am a die hard Justified watcher and that finale was just so very good because Timothy and Walton share the screen with such great chemistry and magic. C’mom emmy voters, please justfy their performances with an Emmy for each.
Definitely one of the best season finales I’ve seen in a long time. Now watching Deadwood on DVD because of this show.
I am rewatching the entire series of Deadwood because I am missing Timothy Olyphant,… and Justified. He was born to be play a lawman.
MELROSE PLACE, 90210, THE CITY, GOSSIP GIRL, The Hills were all guilty pleasures!!!
If you watch that many guilty pleasures that regularly then it is not a guilty pleasure, just bad taste.
Shut up Jimmy. No amount of guily pleasure could let me watch that crap.
yes! both goggins and olyphant are the best things on tv this year – i can only disagree with your rating justified as #5 on the list – justified brings television programming back from the dead!
Definitely my new favorite show.
I also agree, but would have put Justified as #1 drama. Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins should be seriously considered for Emmys.
Timothy knocks my socks off! and Walton plays the best highly intelligent lunatic I’ve ever seen. No one is perfect on this show, but all seem to have at least 1 or 2 redeeming qualities. Oh, and I totally agree about the “quiet hilarious jokes.” I thought it was just me!
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30 Rock still rules. Ken is an anal cancer.
You should definitely check out more Who, especially the Last Doctor, David Tennant, who some call the greatest one year(quite a compliment considering!). Plus you get Billie Piper as Rose Tyler and though I love Amy, Rose is fantastic. And of course there is also Donna Nobl(Catherine Tate). Check those out for sure!
Certainly check out some Tennant. He’s my Doctor….but Smith has done an amazing job this season, and has the potential to be the best ever.
I think if your falling hard for Smith/Moffat you are going to have a real hard time going back to Tennant/Davies. Moffat is just a much more structured writer and one worthy to be up there with the Vince Gillians and the Darltons. Davies has his fans but does things incredibly differently – and in a way, I personally, hated.
This is the first time I’ve gotten into Dr. Who. I’ve tried in the past, but this is the first time it hooked me. Really enjoyed this season a lot. Have tried going back and watching some of the other season and still don’t care for them. Definitely something to be said for the change in Mgmt… Is this also the first season that featured a Big Bad (“overall” story arc, a.k.a. The Crack)?
Agreed on Who and Tennant’s brilliance. And Ken, you haven’t watched Who until now? (hyperventilates) PLEASE get thee to iTunes or Netflix (or more likely) dig through your office to find your review copies of seasons 1-5. Doctor Who is easily one of the best and most beautifully written and acted shows on TV, and to watch casually means you miss the gorgeous plotting season by season. Each Companion was uniquely wonderful and the stories were by turns poignant, suspenseful, hilarious, and terrifying. Also, while I adored Eccleston and like Smith so far, Tennant was brilliant–Ten will always be my Doctor.
Being a Doctor Who fan since the Pertwee era you get used to the regenerations. Tenant was excellent. Smith is pretty darn amazing.
I do wish that BBCAmerica would start running some of the Classic Doctor Who in the off hours just to give the new fans a taste of the old classic.
Yes yes yes more Doctor Who love
It’s amaaaazing. This season has been my favourite since it came back, and I agree with whoever said it’ll be hard to jump back to Eccleston(who also was pretty darn good)/Tennant/RTD era. Smith/Moffat just feels so different, and personally I think better.
To whoever asked about the arcs, no, there’s been arcs woven in before. Eccleston/Bad Wolf, Tennant/Torchwood (the weakest I think), Tennant/Saxon (The Master), and Tennant/Disappearing planets. This is the first time it’s properly extended into the next season as well. I can’t wait
‘P&R’ should be at the top of the list. I agree that ‘Community’ hit its stride later on, but come on, please do not compare ‘Better Off Ted’ to ‘Arrested Development’. ‘BOT’ was never that good, while ‘AD’ was never anything but great.
BOT was phenomenal. Don’t knock it. Gone waaay too soon.
Ted has NOTHING on Arrested Development. It was okay but it wasn’t as ingenious as Arrested.
I love AD, but I also really enjoyed BOT. I agree with his comment that it was the wittiest, etc. sitcom SINCE AD, and especially with awesome Portia De Rossi involved, I think the comparison is justified. I’m so sad it’s cancelled!!
Agreed! And well said. Quit whining the rest of you, we CAN love them both, in our own ways and in our own order. Don’t take offense. Let’s just enjoy what we got of the two of them and quit competing. RIP BOT & AD.
I agree I don’t think his point was to compare BOT (which I love) with AD directly but to make a point with regards to the brilliance of its writing and originality in concept which they both definitely have(had).
I’ve never seen a show as vastly overrated as Arrested Development. For my money, Better Off Ted was leagues better.
Arrested Development? Overrated? Really? Have you ever watched tv?
LIFE FAIL, CD
You didn’t watch enough of it to get into the humor, I’ll wager. Go back and watch more.
I agree CD–Arrested Development was/is vastly overrated. There is a reason why it didn’t get a big enough audience to last long–it wasn’t that funny.
I agree, to anyone who didn’t like AD I ask…did you watch them in order and did you watch enough of them because it really was quite genious. Of course the humor is odd but it sure was funny….. ” I just blue myself”….that is hysterical!
To quote CDS923 after actually watching an episode… “I’ve made a huge mistake.”
Why does everyone have to get so butthurt every time Better Off Ted is compared to Arrested Development? He didn’t say it’s better or even that it’s as good. He said it’s the closest thing we’ve had to it since it was on. There’s a difference, people. Sheesh.
Exactly. I loved AD but why do people get so pissy when anyone puts another show in even the same sentence? BOT was excellent and Ken was just trying to say so.
I agree that comparisons can be made, but I also agree that for me personally, BOT didn’t come close to AD. I wanted to like it so much, and I did like it, I just didn’t love it. It had moments of hilarity (Lem and Phil, anything to do with Veronica), but also some pretty stock sitcom stuff (the continual lame excuses to keep the wooden leads apart, being the most annoying to me). Where I do see the comparison to AD is in some of the biting satirical bits, such as the company commercials. So maybe I don’t agree with the comparison in quality, but I do agree with the comparison regarding kind of humour. OK, getting out of my own ass now.
Disagree. Better off Ted was brilliant.
I can’t really disagree with any of this…especially FNL getting jobbed by the Emmy committee like The Wire did.
In addition to Community, and I can’t believe I’m typing this, I though Cougar Town got much better as it went along…
Don’t be ashamed to like Cougar Town! It’s a genuinely funny show. And I always thought Courtney Cox was the funniest of all the Friends crew.
Funny that along with Ross, Monica has always been (among the fandom) the least liked “Friend”
Her character in CougarTown in likable enough tho.
ITA. I LOVE Cougartown (dumb name, consistently hilarious). Wish Ken Tucker would give it a chance. I think it’s better than Modern Family personally.
I agree. Cougartown was better than Modern Family. I tried to watch MF several times,but it was just not funny. It belongs on NBC Thursday with the rest of the un funny “Angstcoms”.
Yes, Cougar Town that is an obvious omission here. It really is funny and Cox’s delivery is brilliant as are all the supporting actors. And, to nezzo..where did you get that Friends fans don’t love Monica! I am a diehard Friends fan and adore Monica and her crazy OCD issues. She practically held up the final seasons. It’s a crying shame she was never given a nom for an Emmy for Monica Gellar.
Don’t be ashamed. Cougar Town got much better as they decided to focus more on the relationships between the characters.
It’s a lot like Scrubs in tone. Cougar Town is the easiest show to watch. It’s breezy and likeable and funny. I like it better than Community, and I like Community a lot.
1) Lost (ABC)
2) Modern Family (ABC)
3) Chuck (NBC)
4) Treme (HBO)
5) SouthLAnd (TNT)
6) Parenthood (NBC)
7) 90210 (CW)
Can’t take anyone seriously who lists 90210 on any ‘best of’ list.
if you watched it then you would know how great it is.
I watched it. Not great AT ALL. Better than the first season though.
90210 is stellar.
i concur, bfleet.
If you’re going to admit to liking 90210, at least have the decency to be embarrassed about it.
At least 90210 isn’t quite as embarrasing to watch as the other CW stinkers, Melrose Place and Gossip Girl (though by not much!) Let’s face it, a network that heralds Gossip Girl as their flagship show can’t be taken seriously. I predict that when Smallville and Supernatural come off air the CW network will sink into oblivion.
@bfleet..totally agree. As a person who did watch most of 90210 (and do see it as an embarassment to admit) it was ok but it certainly shouldn’t make anyone’s top ten! It’s a guilty pleasure maybe but a top ten?
Why is it that when someone, usually a person doing their job, creates a list, it is generally followed by another person giving their version of the same list?
Vivi no one cares about your list.
Agreed. And Parenthood isn’t even Jason Katims’ best show.
“So, what do you think of the list? Any shows you’d drop, and ones you’d add?”
buzmeg: Why is it that when someone comments on an ew.com article, it is generally followed by another person berating them for said comment?
That’s not nice! Vivi…I card!
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With ya on Chuck. But that’s all.
Definitely “Treme”!! Complex characters (Creighton), great locale (N’Awlins!), and the BEST music EVAH (Trombone Shorty!)!!!!
I’m really surprised that no one has listed IMO, THREE of the best shows: White Collar
Burned Notice
Leverage
Miami Medical had a weak script for its pilot, but from then on, it got great scripts with a very stellar cast.
Ritch – I totally agree with your list. FX, TNT, USA and Fox are to be congratulated for giving us some of the best outstanding original dramas. Also AMC, but we don’t keep up with MM or BB.
Was heartbroken when Miami Medical cancelled. Unique medical show with outstanding cast, especially Jeremy Northam. It would have been a household staple like Bones.
BEST:
90210
Gossip Girl
Melrose Place
The City
The Hills
Jimmy—you should expand your horizons and watch some brilliant tv too. I am all for the occassional reality show or soap opera guilty pleasure (although would prefer reruns of the original 90210 most days) you need to widen your span! There are some really great shows out there right now…! Try True Blood..or Dexter or Cougar Town or LOST. All great shows! Just a suggestion!
1-supernatural
2-castle
3-bones
4-big bang therory
5-lost
6-two and a half men
7-smallville
8-parks and rec
9-better off ted
10-hot in cleveland
Immediatly disqualified for the inclusion of 2 1/2 Men
How come no one chose Desperate Housewives, 30 Rock, Rescue Me or Drop Dead Diva?
These shows all all classics, or are they?
You decide?
Another one with the “Smallville.”
Amen, Ken, on Breaking Bad as number one. No amount of praise can even begin to be enough for this show. I haven’t seen a movie in years that has had the suspense, moral ambiguity, humour, or brilliant acting that a single episode of BB boasts. Also, I love FNL but I feel like this season has been a little underwhelming. Poor Tim Riggins’ character is trapped, literally and figuratively, in that stupid trailer with no storyline in sight! Also, ABC actually had those last two episodes of Better Off Ted on the TV Guide schedule a few weeks ago only to mysteriously pull them at the last minute to rerun something else. Someone at EW please call an ABC rep and demand an explanation!
I think basketball (game 7?) was aired instead of Better Off Ted. I still want to see the last two episode of this funny show.
Good luck getting anywhere with ABC. They kill quality shows. Look at Pushing Daisies and FlashForward. I’m not suprised at how they’re treating Ted. It’s amazing Lost actually had a finale with a network like that.
Really? ABC killed Pushing Daisies? And I thought it was the 5 or so million viewers who stopped watching it. ABC gave Ted a second season, despite the fact that the ratings for the first were in the toilet. Let’s not point blame unless we have some legit facts.
The break in Flash Forward might not have been a wise decision, but the ratings were tanking long before it went on that hiatus.
@Michael — ABC didn’t promote BOT, it dropped nights, etc. Yes, they are to blame.
We can understand bad programming decisions, but ABC deserves our wrath here because they did, in fact, have the perfect spot for BOT – smack in their Wednesday comedy lineup. It’s quality matched the four shows they had (in fact, it would be second only to Modern Family). BOT would have been renewed just like those other three shows – ABC just chose not to give it that chance. For shame!
@Slovo, @Mark
Exactly! The general Tv watching audience never even heard of Better Off Ted. I’ve introduced many people to it myself (who have since loved it) who had never even known it existed. That’s ABC. Think of all the cr@p on TV you see promos for every day. Think of all the cr@p shows you see between your favorites. People know about obscure reality trash on 3rd rate, 3rd string cable networks because they get better promotion then TED.
Actually what killed Pushing Daisies with the enormous amount of money it took to produce it with all the sets. It was a fabulous show but a very expensive one to make!
No storyline? Uh, how about the chop shop.
You suck Ken Tucker
Um, Parenthood much?
I totally agree! Parenthood deserves some love here. Mae Whitman’s performance alone is reason enough to tune in.
her?….no but seriously I agree 100%
Those Tv shwos are definitely much needed refreshments in the year where well established smash hits of years past failed us.
I have to say Justified really caught me off guard and I’ve come to adore it. Fringe never really caught on for me , nor did Dr Who. I have yet to try watching Breaking Bad. Entirely AMC’s fault, their vibe in TV shows throws me off.
I started thoroughly enjoying Bones this season. I also love Lie to Me & Burn Notice, the latter being somewhat a guilty pleasure
I don’t seem to like Any of the above shows. I enjoyed the ‘wife’ one, at first, but, it turned out to be a soap opera. I love Bones, Lie To Me, Burn Notice, Chopped, Bethany Married, Two and a Half Men(Which we have Never missed), Big Bang Theory, Oh and the Dodgers! Guess you can tell that we are of the older age!!!
The thing about these commentators is that they are paid to report on the shows they want or have to. IMO what should matter is if everyone’s own personal opinion of a show. NOT what they say. You really should expand your television viewing Ken more often. You left off a bunch of excellent shows like Burn Notice, Law and Order SVU and Two and a half men among others.
I guess these shows don’t appeal to him thats why there’s no mention of them on this list.
Picking his top ten favorites doesn’t mean he hates everything else that isn’t on the list. Or do you really think he only likes ten shows out of everything that’s on TV?
Again, anyone suggesting 2 and a half Men is on any kind of top 10 list is smoking something or has poor taste.
Dude, get past your AMC bias. Breaking Bad is too good to be missed. Dark and brilliant.
What Kate said. Breaking Bad is SO brilliant! Bryan Cranston is amazing.
@Koker,Amc got the best shows on tv! If you’ve never seen Breaking Bad,I think it’s high time you watch it. It’s one of tv’s best kept secret!
Perfect list! I adore #s 1,2,3,6,7. I would only add as “The Little Show That Could”: The Middle. (Great, old-fashioned family comedy with some absurd and heartfelt laughs. Patricia Heaton has finally found a show that fits her manic, earnest energy.
I agree–I tuned into the Middle only because it was on before Modern Family, but it’s great! Real kids, real attittude, real money problems, real weird relatives, and very funny!
I agree, I love “The Middle”.
What a suck list! I’d absolutely drop Parks & Rec and replace it with LIE TO ME. It’s a far superior show to any of these!! New episodes began airing in June, so it qualifies for your “period between January and July.”
Why drop Parks & Rec? There’s no reason to put down one show to praise another. I’m sure both shows are great in their own ways.
Although, if you had to drop one show, I’d vote Glee. Way overrated.
Seriously, how did Supernatural not make this list?! It was WAY better this year than Lost was (and I say this as someone who unfortunately devoted six years to watching Lost).
Please seek help
No, I agree with Jackie on this one. Supernatural was insanely good this season, Lost was not awesome this season except in certain episodes.
Yeah really. not saying SPN is as great as it used to be, but Lost was lame.
Agreed. I still don’t know why Supernatural hasn’t caught on. It is really a well crafted show that deserves so much more attention than what it gets.
Supernatural was brilliant this season. Last season was marginally better, but they had way more to squeeze in this year. Given the amount of episodes they had, it was more compelling and all around better than any other show this year. And it’s a shame that neither of it’s lead actors, both of whom deserve it, have any shot at an Emmy nomination.
Not sure I’d drop off Lost, but I’d certainly include Supernatual. It really is one of the most under-rated shows out there.
LOST was SO awesome. You guys must have been those guys who wanted an answer to every mystery spelled out until it lost its interest. It had a great emotional resolution, and enough answers that you could guess the answers to the other questions.
I AGREE!!
Both Lost & Supernatural sucked for me this season. Now I agree that Supernatural is an underrated show & has excellent actors/writers, etc. However, I really hated season 5. It had too much bad filler, the main villain was wasted, the angel character who was added as a regular was wasted & should have just been killed off, no good female characters left breathing & even the season finale left me frustrated.
This. So much this. I’ve watched Supernatural since the beginning, and I can’t bring myself to watch the last 10 episodes from this season just sitting on my Tivo. For me, the kicker was the female character situation, but I had other issues with the show this season as well.
LOL. Must have something against Mark Pellegrino!
Supernatural kicked a&@ although- the finale kinda had me scratching my head. How are they going explain Sam getting out of hell. And who is supposed to trust him? He had Satan in him. Satan,
I think that’s going to make it awesome though. Trust Sam? Pff… that’s going to be a fun arc working out
I think the brother bond between him and Dean might make him trust him and it could just be foolish. As for him getting out of hell I can actually understand that from what I’ve heard of the arc next season. The idea makes sense.
LOST greatest show ever. End of story. No need to watch anymore television trying to find a show as great as LOST was.
I would argue that Temple Grandin is one of the best movies full stop. An autistic woman who finds a more humane way to bring cows to the slaughterhouse doesn’t sound like my kind of film, but my gosh it was brilliant. Just as good and far better than most films out there, any year, any genre.
it still blows my mind that FNL has never ever received an acting nod. what are those people thinking?
I am forever indebted to you for this ionmfration.
“Cougar Town” turned out to be the happiest of surprises — a heart-warming comedy with well-written characters that we identify with and care about.
totally
I agree- it got really strong as the season went on and was always funny and also could make you a little emotional here and there.
agreed! Court is a delight (others too)
Agree as well. Not to be completely cliche, but this show proves you can’t judge a book (or show) by its cover (or title).
It definitely hit its stride in the second half of the season. I started watching it in the beginning and stopped because I didn’t think it was that good. Started again by chance around halfway and found it to be much improved.
Cougar Town has passed 30 Rock as the funniest show on TV. Got better every wk.
Oh man that made me laugh.