Starting to become a pretty big fan of JAG. The technology is sometimes really bad, but the actual show is good quality and even funny at times.
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Good TV Shows Thread
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Community is a niche comedy which suffers from terminally low ratings like most other NBC comedies. One, because NBC picks up stupid shows in a futile effort to replicate Friends, two, because they all cater to a certain humor crowd.
I am fairly certain Community never shows any notable fluctuation in its ratings when TBBT is new and in repeats this season. Decreases in its season-to-season ratings are accounted to an overall atrophy of NBC's ratings in steeper declines than the other 3 main broadcasters and relatively unsuccessful shows to begin with almost always shed viewers every season until they have their most loyal fanbase left.
In addition, there is likely no correlation between intelligence/cleverness and show viewership. In fact, the likes of Two and a Half Men have more viewers who make over $100,000 than NBC comedies. Thus, 'successful' people flock to CBS (as they have several other shows over $100k as well), and those making so much money are "probably" 'smarter' than someone working at McDonalds for a living.
While it is quite true CBS programs to the lowest common denominator, this in no way ties to intelligent viewership. Not to mention NBC usually loses to cable channels in the ratings races while CBS dukes it out with Fox for the top spot. Niche programming on broadcast channels is a failure if you want to not have mediocre ratings.
As for good TV shows that haven't been said, may I recommend newcomer Person of Interest? As this is its first season, and it recently took an upward swing in the ratings thus making it likely to be renewed, it's easy to get into, and has a rather compelling backstory with many tendrils of plots. The first few episodes are rather slow and unremarkable, however, the show introduces many more relevant plotlines after like episode 9 or so and stops with the "only way to resolve problem is gun violence" nonsense that made it a clone of lowest-common-down-syndrome NCIS: LA and its ridiculous plots. Hawaii Five-0, while equally gun-happy, at least has less moronic characterizations and nicer scenery, as well as somewhat cohesive and realistic storylines.
Now there's just action and sneaky methods of resolving things, as well as the ever-suspenseful questions of just what will happen to the character of the day. PoI's recent uptick in quality makes it a "check it out" show imo, it's a procedural format (for good reason, they're the most popular format in the world [House, CSI, etc]) with plenty of twists and serial storylines woven in, so it's a cut above the day-in-day-out of the CSIs and NCISes, which while successful, quality shows, are pretty by-the-books procedural.
I am fairly certain Community never shows any notable fluctuation in its ratings when TBBT is new and in repeats this season. Decreases in its season-to-season ratings are accounted to an overall atrophy of NBC's ratings in steeper declines than the other 3 main broadcasters and relatively unsuccessful shows to begin with almost always shed viewers every season until they have their most loyal fanbase left.
In addition, there is likely no correlation between intelligence/cleverness and show viewership. In fact, the likes of Two and a Half Men have more viewers who make over $100,000 than NBC comedies. Thus, 'successful' people flock to CBS (as they have several other shows over $100k as well), and those making so much money are "probably" 'smarter' than someone working at McDonalds for a living.
While it is quite true CBS programs to the lowest common denominator, this in no way ties to intelligent viewership. Not to mention NBC usually loses to cable channels in the ratings races while CBS dukes it out with Fox for the top spot. Niche programming on broadcast channels is a failure if you want to not have mediocre ratings.
As for good TV shows that haven't been said, may I recommend newcomer Person of Interest? As this is its first season, and it recently took an upward swing in the ratings thus making it likely to be renewed, it's easy to get into, and has a rather compelling backstory with many tendrils of plots. The first few episodes are rather slow and unremarkable, however, the show introduces many more relevant plotlines after like episode 9 or so and stops with the "only way to resolve problem is gun violence" nonsense that made it a clone of lowest-common-down-syndrome NCIS: LA and its ridiculous plots. Hawaii Five-0, while equally gun-happy, at least has less moronic characterizations and nicer scenery, as well as somewhat cohesive and realistic storylines.
Now there's just action and sneaky methods of resolving things, as well as the ever-suspenseful questions of just what will happen to the character of the day. PoI's recent uptick in quality makes it a "check it out" show imo, it's a procedural format (for good reason, they're the most popular format in the world [House, CSI, etc]) with plenty of twists and serial storylines woven in, so it's a cut above the day-in-day-out of the CSIs and NCISes, which while successful, quality shows, are pretty by-the-books procedural.
I am sure you have seen their documentary on how aliens built the all of the wonders of the world in order to create focal points for energy that they will use to guide their ships and invade the earth in the future then.
Dexter was good seasons 1 through 4 (especially season 4), but it sort of dwindled in quality the past two seasons. Definitely check it out, though, if you can.
Walking Dead season 1 was fresh and breathtaking, but season two so far was rather weak in my opinion. Hopefully it'll improve, but I'm not sure if I have the patience to get back on board with the show if the next episode is as slow as the past few episodes were.
Another Michael C. Hall show that's older but still really good is Six Feet Under. I've seen the first season and really enjoyed it. If you've never seen it before, I'd highly recommend it.
Finally, although it's an anime, Death Note is a dark, highly invigorating show. The first half of the show was, quite literally, a roller coaster ride that kept me on the edge of my seat, and it sucked me in like a black hole. Certainly an enthralling experience.
Walking Dead season 1 was fresh and breathtaking, but season two so far was rather weak in my opinion. Hopefully it'll improve, but I'm not sure if I have the patience to get back on board with the show if the next episode is as slow as the past few episodes were.
Another Michael C. Hall show that's older but still really good is Six Feet Under. I've seen the first season and really enjoyed it. If you've never seen it before, I'd highly recommend it.
Finally, although it's an anime, Death Note is a dark, highly invigorating show. The first half of the show was, quite literally, a roller coaster ride that kept me on the edge of my seat, and it sucked me in like a black hole. Certainly an enthralling experience.
My eyes kinda glaze over whenever I see anything in the TV guide about aliens. Every network has their share of idiots and blowhards, I try to just focus on the good.
Speaking of anime, reading through FullMetal Alchemist and god I forgot how much I loved this series. The original series is on both Canadian and American Netflix so check it out even if you're not a fan of anime. I don't recommend watching Brotherhood until you've seen the original.
The Walking dead is a great show. In fact it is starting back up today. I am really looking forward to it. You can catch up on the old episode because they are running a marathon which I will be watching of course.
Im a huge adventure time fan. Its pretty much all I watch on TV these days aside from news, through the worldhole like shows on science channel, and old scifi reruns. I watch the regular show because it's on around the same time though, just because it's there.