YOU AMERiCANS....

[bailey_187]

make good TV shows

i watched Oz, The Wire, How to Make it in America (ok that wasnt that good), Lie To Me, The Corner

Prison Break was good too but i watched that long ago, and CSI

i have to say you man make some good TV

what else is similar to the above mentioned shows?

[this is an invasion]

Law and Order SVU. SO FUCKING GOOD

[Adi Shankara]

make good TV shows

i watched Oz, The Wire, How to Make it in America (ok that wasnt that good), Lie To Me, The Corner

Prison Break was good too but i watched that long ago, and CSI

i have to say you man make some good TV

what else is similar to the above mentioned shows?

Prison Break is shit, and you have to remember that we rip off foreign shows heavy these days (Ugly Betty, The Office, Coupling)

speaking of which, Coupling is an amazing show.

but yeah, Oz is pretty awesome, and so is Dexter, and Seinfeld.

[Widerstand]

The Wire? Lol Hipster!!11

The best US TV shows are stolen from Israelis. :(

[Manifesto]

Hmmm Burn Notice I suppose.

[Adi Shankara]

The Wire? Lol Hipster!!11

The best US TV shows are stolen from Israelis. :(


that's bullshit. Israeli tv is horrible, and they seem to rely mostly on stupid game shows and perverted "news entertainment sho--...oh, wait...

[Widerstand]

that's bullshit. Israeli tv is horrible, and they seem to rely mostly on stupid game shows and perverted "news entertainment sho--...oh, wait...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Treatment

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

i don't watch much television, but Arrested Development was the shit.

[Panda Tse Tung]

My name is earl.

[Obs]

All the shows mentioned in this thread suck.

Except Coupling.

[HEAD ICE]

Oz

bourgeois


The Wire

bourgeois


How to Make it in America

bourgeois


Lie To Me

bourgeois


The Corner

bourgeois


Prison Break

bourgeois


Law and Order SVU.

bourgeois


Burn Notice

bourgeois


Arrested Development

bourgeois


My name is earl.

real working class entertainment

[Blackscare]

It's always sunny in Philidelphia.

Holy shit what a good show.

[Nuvem]

I don't enjoy "deep" television. I watch movies for good storylines, dramatic tension, morals and ideas. I just can't sit through hour long episode after hour long episode of any TV show, whether comedic or serious. I watch TV for bright, colorful, idiotic 11 to 23 minute long romps through stupidity. If you have a deep, compelling storyline and can't fit it in a 2-4 hour long movie, there's too much filler. Hour long comedy shows just wear thin on me. Give me a good old fashioned dose of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Robot Chicken and Archer. Short, stupid, tasteless and to the point.

[Adi Shankara]

How could I possibly forget the Venture Brothers!?!?!

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

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real working class entertainment
my name is earl is a load of scientologist bullshit.

or so I heard anyway. Its actually just boring; the same formula over and over again got old pretty fast

[Tablo]

i don't watch much television, but Arrested Development was the shit.
qft

I don't like that many American shows, but I do like House and Dexter.

Most shows I watch are complete shit from China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

[Animal Farm Pig]

You Brits "hit above your weight" with TV shows-- The Office, Spooks, Little Britain, Coupling, Black Adder...

Burn Notice, Firefly, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are my favorite USian shows.

[anticap]

Smash your telescreen, Winston!

[John "Eh" MacDonald]

The Shield and Sons Of Anarchy.

Both have a great story line and bring you on an emotional roller coaster ride (especially Sons Of Anarchy) I cried 4 times. The fight scenes are choreographed perfectly also if drama isn't your thing.

[Vendetta]

It's always sunny in Philidelphia.

Holy shit what a good show.

Speaks the truth.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I like Scrubs, although the last series is a little weak.

[Tablo]

I like Scrubs, although the last series is a little weak.
My sister is obsessed with Scrubs. She's bought herself all the dvds and has seen every episode.

[Mindtoaster]

Adventure Time

[Rusty Shackleford]

My name is earl.
:thumbup1:

spent 2 weekends of watching that show on netflix non-stop.

[Il Medico]

I prefer British television actually.

But some shows like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, House, Scrubs,Law and Order, ect, are great.

[bailey_187]

You Brits "hit above your weight" with TV shows-- The Office, Spooks, Little Britain, Coupling, Black Adder...

Burn Notice, Firefly, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are my favorite USian shows.

Office is good, Spooks is shit, Little Britain was good for the first series, i dont know what Coupling is and Black Adder is shit

[Obs]

Office is good, Spooks is shit, Little Britain was good for the first series, i dont know what Coupling is and Black Adder is shit
I literally cannot stress enough the need for you to go watch Coupling.

[Il Medico]

Office is good, Spooks is shit, Little Britain was good for the first series, i dont know what Coupling is and Black Adder is shit
I literally can't believe that you think Blackadder is shit.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

Mad Men, that show is epic.

[Os Cangaceiros]

I've been watching Justified lately. FX puts out some good shows every once and a while (like that and Nip/Tuck, Sons of Anarchy etc.)

I think the worst show mentioned on this thread so far that I've actually seen is Lie To Me. I hate that show.

[danyboy27]

Dexter is pretty good.

[ContrarianLemming]

star trek

[praxis1966]

Bah All the best shows get canceled prematurely here: Pushing Daisies, Freaks and Geeks, Carnivale, Rome, Arrested Development, Better Off Ted, Six Feet Under, This American Life... Lately I've been hooked on True Blood and Louie which are too good not to get canceled and Rescue Me, which is a dead man walking as it's already been announced that the next season will be the last.

There are some other good ones, but they have a tendency to go down the tubes as far as writing is concerned: Scrubs (the last two seasons sucked) and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (the last season sucked in ways you can't imagine; I remember one episode being one long advert for the restaraunt chains Applebee's and Dave and Buster's) are prime examples. Beyond that, there's The Sopranos, which I loved but annoyed me to no end since, like all other HBO original programming, goes forever and a day between seasons and then has very few episodes per season besides.

[bailey_187]

Ok Arrested Development seems to have been mentioned a couple times

whats it about in no more than two sentances?

[praxis1966]

Ok Arrested Development seems to have been mentioned a couple times

whats it about in no more than two sentances?

It's about a bunch of no-good upper bourgeois asshats and all the horrible things they do, done in a hiliarious and delightfully politically incorrect fashion. The arc is that they're all one dysfunctional extended family forced to live in the same house together because their assets have been frozen as a result of the real estate developer patriarch getting tossed in the klink for white collar crimes.

You'll laugh your ass off, but feel all dirty and in need of a shower since so much of the humor is completely, well, inappropriate.

Booyashacka...

[Tavarisch_Mike]

I dont watch to many series, but the best americans are; Family Guy, Simpson and my name is Earl.

Best brittish; The Mitchell and Webb Look, Peep show.

[Pirate Utopian]

Best shows right now do seem to be American.

Fuck people hating on The Wire, greatest show ever.

How To Make It In America was okayish, I only watched it because of Kid Cudi who doesnt even have that big of a role. Really really hipster too.


Ok Arrested Development seems to have been mentioned a couple times

whats it about in no more than two sentances?
After a father of the bourgeois family Bluth gets arrested for fraud his son Michael takes over.
Michael's family are snobby, dumb, and funny as hell. Gob, Michael's magician brother is the best.

Great show.

[Shokaract]

Adventure Time

Mathematical!



I shed a single tear for the lost opportunity that is Freaks and Geeks. It was a damn good show, and fucking NBC didn't even let them finish a season before canceling it..

[Stand Your Ground]

My name is earl.
This.

And also:

Supernatural :thumbup1:
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[the last donut of the night]

watch the boondocks. possibly the most leftist, funniest show i've ever seen

[Invincible Summer]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Firefly. Fuck y'all.

I also love Chuck even though it's totally bourgeois and pro-American.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Yeah American TV has improved over the last decade in a similar proportion to how much American movies went down in quality. The US can't do beer, rock (at least not until the British show us which US rock is worth imitating and we imitate their imitation), stand-up comedy, or cigarettes, but we can sure perfect serial television drama and weed (a fantastic combo by the way - or so I've heard).

Really most TV is procedural cop or medical dramas - reality shows - or wacky private eye with some kind of gimmick shows. I wish there was a show called Dr. Cop M.D. which was about a doctor who became a cop due to his one weakness... fear of needles! Half the show would be the procedural drama and the other half would be a reality show where hopefuls try-out to play the part of Dr. Cop's partner in front of a panel of celebrity judges. It would be the best show ever made!

Ok, here's my list of nerdy viewing habits:

Firefly
Buffy/Angel
Lost (I'll punch you in the grill if you call this one bourgie... it's about working class people - and one doctor and one cop - and their struggle against Polar Bears on a tropical Island!)
Freaks and Geeks
True Blood
The Wire/Homicide - I fucking hate cop shows (not just for political reasons because I also hate medical shows) so the fact that these ones were interesting to me I think says something.

Comedy is mostly shit, but there are some outstanding ones according to me:

Mr. Show
Sarah Silverman
Simpsons
Curb Your Enthusiasm/Seinfeld

and... Spaced:D

Through the power of American Exceptionalism, I am claiming "Spaced" for the yanks.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Law and Order SVU. SO FUCKING GOOD
this.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

I also love Chuck even though it's totally bourgeois and pro-American.

Really? I've seen season 3 and it didn't seem that bad; of course, American security agents are the protagonists, but they are not shown as infallible squeaky-clean good guys as far as I could tell.

Plus they were fighting a mysterious organisation called The Ring, rather than Marxist Islamofascist Terrorists and their commie pinko liberal traitor collaborators.

[Comrade Gwydion]

Is true blood anything worthwhile, or is it Twilight The Series?

Also, haven't seen ANY good series since Fawlty towers - at all.






Wait, Louis Theroux is actually pretty good, does that count as a series?

[Jimmie Higgins]

Is true blood anything worthwhile, or is it Twilight The Series?There's some overlap in the surface plot - but the same could be said of Buffy/Twilight and yet the results are totally different.

I like "True Blood" and only like "Twilight" as far as I can mock it - the book and movie series should have been titled "Buffy the Feminism Slayer".

I've only seen the first 2 seasons because I don't have cable, but it's a short season and the plot moves along pretty good (although there are some slow parts and strange pacing in the first season). Unlike Twilight, characters are interesting, have more than just on dimension, have their own motivations, and react to things like people rather than things to advance a plot.

[Quail]

Soooo uh, hiow do you see alians taking advantage of us.. but srsly lolwut.

[Invincible Summer]

Really? I've seen season 3 and it didn't seem that bad; of course, American security agents are the protagonists, but they are not shown as infallible squeaky-clean good guys as far as I could tell.

Plus they were fighting a mysterious organisation called The Ring, rather than Marxist Islamofascist Terrorists and their commie pinko liberal traitor collaborators.

Well in previous seasons and even many Ring Agents seem to be Russian or other ethnicities "known" for being terrorists or spies against American interests. It's not explicitly anti-Communist (although John Casey is), but there are hints of it now and then. Maybe I'm just paranoid.