The end of Breaking Bad and Mad Men will lead perfectly into a new era...

[Suicide King]

You actually compare David Simon to Vince. How many characters did Vince develop compared to David Simon. Think about it. Vince juggled 2 or 3 storylines his whole career, most of them was generic. Only season 2 was even close to being cutting edge tv, everything else is typical sell drugs affair. First half of season 5 was laughably bad, and season 4 was 3.5 out of 5 stars.

That's 1 hot season every 5 years average.

 

[Fury616]

Im not going to knock Mad Men, because clearly it has its following. I know thecoli is never wrong, because they blessed me with so many show, but Mad Men mayne I tried, I tried and a I tried and I had to throw it in the bushes. I kept hoping it would pick up by season 2 but

I like to equate Mad Men to Guiness beer. Its great to me but I understand how others couldn't like it.

 

[ECA]

You actually compare David Simon to Vince. How many characters did Vince develop compared to David Simon. Think about it. Vince juggled 2 or 3 storylines his whole career, most of them was generic. Only season 2 was even close to being cutting edge tv, everything else is typical sell drugs affair. First half of season 5 was laughably bad, and season 4 was 3.5 out of 5 stars.

That's 1 hot season every 5 years average.

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/breaking-bad/season-5

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-wire/season-5

 

[Suicide King]

The Wire seasons=
1-Police and Drug Dealers
2-Port
3-Politics
4-Education
5-Newspaper

Still Breaking Bad is #4 or #5 at best.
Of the trinity Mad Men is my favorite show. Its the best show AMC has ever produced, all other shows on AMC are #2.

 

[StraxStrax]

Line of Sight is next

 

[Polofresh4]

You actually compare David Simon to Vince. How many characters did Vince develop compared to David Simon. Think about it. Vince juggled 2 or 3 storylines his whole career, most of them was generic. Only season 2 was even close to being cutting edge tv, everything else is typical sell drugs affair. First half of season 5 was laughably bad, and season 4 was 3.5 out of 5 stars.

That's 1 hot season every 5 years average.

The whole development of Walt over 5 seasons trumps that argument....The entire series depends on making a character completely being something different in the pilot then he is at the end

Not to mention...in what universe is a meth cooking chemistry teacher generic??

 

[Suicide King]

The whole development of Walt over 5 seasons trumps that argument....The entire series depends on making a character completely being something different in the pilot then he is at the end

Not to mention...in what universe is a meth cooking chemistry teacher generic??

You can't be serious.

 

[hex]

at engaging Suicide King in a serious discussion. I'd like to point out he has "Dexter" in his top 5 and thinks it should've went on 2-3 more seasons. He's actually said this. Let that sink in before you respond to him again.

Fred.

 

[ECA]

at engaging Suicide King in a serious discussion. I'd like to point out he has "Dexter" in his top 5 and thinks it should've went on 2-3 more seasons. He's actually said this. Let that sink in before you respond to him again.

Fred.

Dexter is the worst show of all time at this point. Those first four seasons aren't gonna save it

 

[Suicide King]

Dexter is still a personal fave, they fumbled season 8. I've said that and so has many others. So why am I being slandered?

 

[Polofresh4]

You can't be serious.

Elaborate..

 

[Suicide King]

Elaborate..

Lets take the 1st half of season 5. Was that incredible writing?

I haven't watched the 2nd half of season 5 and I most likely won't.

Season 3 of BB was like season 5 of Sopranos, it wasn't bad, but you expect them to capture the magic of season 2.

Season 4 was a continuation of season 3, its probably the 3rd best season after 1 and 2.

that's 3 out of 5, with only season 1 and 2 being cutting edge.

 

[ECA]

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The golden age of TV is dead; long live the golden age of TV

There’s been a gradual, yet growing sense in the last year that the golden age of TV, so named for the recent decade-plus of dark, cable antiheroes and intricate serialization and laugh-a-second comedies, is coming to an end. I’ve seen this crop up in more and more places this summer. Hell, A.V. Club contributor Ryan McGee tried to classify whatever we’re in right now as a “Silver Age“ a few months ago. The primary idea driving this is that Mad Men will be halfway through its final season, and Breaking Bad will be long over by the time I write a fall TV season preview next year, and those two shows are some of the last remaining links to the age The Sopranos kicked off. (Indeed, a former Sopranos writer createdMad Men.) There are still antihero-driven shows out there from the good—Boardwalk Empire—to the bad—Ray Donovan—but the dominant form of the TV drama is slowly moving away from dark men in dark times doing dark things. The mood of television is downright sprightly at times, and that doesn’t fit with what our current idea of good TV is all about.

To which I say, good. The golden age of TV is dead. Long live the golden age of TV.

The Silver Age

 

[ECA]

 

[kash10003]

hopefully its going to lead to an era where writers know what they are doing and stick to executing things the right way