The Film Room's Best Written TV Show Of All Time is The Wire

Best Written Show of All Time is?


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This seems as good a time as any to do this :mjgrin:

Back wit another 1, this time around we will see the Film Room's consensus best written TV show of all time. Now I'm not asking you what is your favorite show or what you think is the GOAT TV show, I'm simply asking you what do you think is the best written show from start to finish. So consider TV shows with interesting characters who had engaging arcs and were examined throughout the shows run leading the audience to better understand why they were the way they were, as well as entertaining plots with logical beginnings and endings with twists and surprises that caught audiences off guard but made sense in the long run. Also consider the symbolism within these shows and if they discussed concepts and themes that spoke to a larger dialogue than the show.

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[1] The show must be completed or have been off the air for 3 years at least
[2] The shows nominated should have critical acclaim
[3] Your posts for nominations must have 10 shows. Post w/o 10 shows won't be counted for the poll
[4] No limited series (The Night Of, etc.), No Anthology Series (The Twilight Zone, True Detective), No Docu-Series (Of Mics and Men, etc.), & No cartoons/anime.

So nominate the 10 TV shows you think are the best written and after 2 weeks, I'll take the 10 most nominated and open the poll for voting on which show TFR thinks is the best written show of all time.

@hex can I get this thread stickied breh

We have our finalists:
The Sopranos
The Wire
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Deadwood
Chappelle's Show
The West Wing
Justified
Seinfeld
The Americans
 
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my nominations

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The Shield
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Scrubs
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The Leftovers
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The Cosby Show
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The Americans
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Breaking Bad
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Hannibal
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Mad Men
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The Wire
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The Sopranos
 

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1. The Sopranos
2. Breaking Bad
3. Chappelle's Show
4. The Wire
5. Lost
6. Game of Thrones
7. Rick And Morty
8. You're The Worst
9. Better Call Saul
10. Atlanta
 

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1 The Wire
2 The Sopranos
then theres a gap
3 Star Trek: The Next Generation
another gap
4 Game of Thrones (Game of Cacs)
5 Peep Show
6 Breaking Bad
7 Curb Your Enthusiasm
8 Twin Peaks
9 Tatami Galaxy
10 Mononoke

a lot of these had high and low moments but i tend to rank on high
The Good Place would easily be on here if it was finished because the writing is ridiculous on that. that would be at least #6
 

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Mad Men is my best written TV show of all time.


But I guess I gotta have add 9.

Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The Americans
The Wire
The Sopranos
Atlanta
X-Files
Homicide: Life on the Street
Seinfeld
Master of None
 
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The Bay Area
Justified
Scrubs
Chappelle Show
How I Met Your Mother
Better Off Ted
Oz
Key and Peele
Reno 911
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
MadTV


This is really hard w/o cartoons because cartoons have been the best written shows in the last 10 years.
Yeah I feel the same plus there was a lot of shows I had to take off (Curb, Mr. Robot, Atlanta,etc) because they were not finished.
 
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