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

[Kap Kapperson]

Sopranos
Wire
Homeland
Breaking bad
Mad men
Freaks and geeks
Game of thrones
Alias
Shield
Community

 

[Ribbs]

How do you make the rules and then just break them within the first few shows

1] The show must be completed or have been off the air for 3 years at least

The Americans ended last year and The Leftovers two years before

But I'm nitpicking so don't mind me.

Mad Men
Breaking Bad
The West Wing
Justified
Seinfeld
Arrested Development
Community
The Sopranos
The Wire
My So-Called Life

 

[Apex]

never seen the wire, sopranos, breaking bad (past s1), mr robot, and seinfeld

 

[Nero Christ]

How do you make the rules and then just break them within the first few shows


The Americans ended last year and The Leftovers two years before

But I'm nitpicking so don't mind me.

The Americans and The Leftovers ended breh (series finale aired), they're not coming back on TV which means they fit the criteria

Other shows that haven't been on TV since 2016 fit the thread too

that make things clearer

 

[DosCadenaz]

No order except for Wire being #1

The Wire
Chappelle's Show
Community
Rick & Morty
Breaking Bad
Seinfeld
The Good Place (show genuinely surprises me which I didn't think was possible in TV anymore)
Atlanta
Sopranos
That 70's Show


My bad I broke the rules

Mad Men
Magnum P.I.
Curb your Enthusiasm
That 70's Show

 

[nieman]

Sopranos
Wire
Homeland
Breaking bad
Mad men
Freaks and geeks
Game of thrones
Alias
Shield
Community

ALIAS is one of my favorite shows of all-time, and definitely ahead of its time. I rewatch it all of the time. My only problem is S4, which completely ignored everything in the previous 3 seasons, because ABC felt the need to dumb it down. Thats why I didn't list it in mine

 

[MidniteJay]

Rome

Spartacus

Deadwood

The Wire

The Sopranos

Boardwalk Empire

Justified

The Shield

Breaking Bad

Angel

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[ECA]

1. Arrested Development
Seinfeld/Curb
. Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul
. The Americans
. The Wire
. Mad Men
Deadwood
Twin Peaks

 

[Legal]

Scrubs gettin love in here

It's one of those shows that really sneaks up on you with the quality.

The episodes where they have to get rid of the shytty intern and he accidentally gives the old lady a terminal disease, and the one where Dr. Cox is in denial over his brother in law passing get me every time.

 

[Shadow]

Columbo
Sopranos
Six Feet Under
The Wire
Strangers with Candy
Garth Marrenghi's Dark Place
Derek
The Muppet Show
Comedy Bang Bang
(place holder for when I think of something else)
No anthologies and cartoons. That's my stuff though.

 

[bangbreh]

It's one of those shows that really sneaks up on you with the quality.

The episodes where they have to get rid of the shytty intern and he accidentally gives the old lady a terminal disease, and the one where Dr. Cox is in denial over his brother in law passing get me every time.

Dr. Cox losing those patients.
JD and his brother. JD and his dad. Those 2 ring home the hardest for me
In general it covers all the bases I wasn't expecting to see covered in what I thought was a goofy ass show.
They could do drama when they wanted. I absolutely loved that show.

 

[ThaBoyBam]

Agree with most in here, I'll add Assistant Principal with McBride. Mad that show ended.

 

[DaylitoJames]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Shield
Breaking Bad
The Wire
The Sopranos
Justified
24
Arrested Development
Mr. Show
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Mr. Robot (but this can't be nominated due to the rules)
My So-Called Life (but this can't be nominated due to the rules)

 

[FeloniousMonk]

I dont think cable tv and standard tv shows should be jumbled together.

Those are two separate platforms of tv imo.

 

[obarth]

1. Mad Men
2. The Sopranos
3. The Wire
4. The Leftovers
5. Deadwood
6. The Americans
7. Boardwalk Empire
8. Seinfeld
9. Downton Abbey
10. Hannibal