We should appreciate shows like The Wire and Breaking Bad while they existed/exist

[DLeap]

A part of my soul dies whenever someone says The Walking Dead is as good as Breaking Bad or The Wire.

 

[yseJ]

24 was probably the best action based TV show to come so far but it did get kinda repetitive. I remember watching either DVD commentary or a making of around season 5 or 6 and the writers were joking about "oh no Jack's gone rouge again and no-one trusts him, Cloe will have to help him from inside, oh no CTU has a mole", which is why they moved the setting in the last two series. With 24 at some point you just had to throw realism out the window and enjoy it for the melodrama.

As far as respecting our time, the last season of Game Of Thrones had almost nothing happen until the last episode. I mean its a good show but season 2 had no protagonist at all, and I know thats true to the book but it makes it less engaging.

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Not to mention chick gave birth to them dragon's at the end of Season 1 and came out of that fire like it was about to be on, but then it wasn't

And The Wire season 2 was one of the worst most dragged out TV seasons I ever seen. Season 1 was already slow but season 2 was unbearable. They saved it with season 3 but they dont get daps for "respecting our time" when they gave us that horrible waste of time with season 2.

Also, gotta disgree with puttin The Shield in with Prison Break. The Shield was a good show pretty much all the way through. Not great (aside from the season with Forrest Whitaker) but good. Somewhere between SOA and 24

there isnt such thing as "respecting our time"

some of the best movies, shows, and books dont have much going on with them in terms of plot.

breaking bad is prolly a snoozefest to people with short attention span

 

[Ronald]

why do people bring up wack ass Game Of Thrones its not touching The Wire or Breaking Bad

 

[Tom]

when the fluk we gonna get real fully grown dragons in Game of Thrones?

 

[hex]

A few things.

"Sopranos" kick started the modern idea of "novelistic" TV.

"The Shield" deserves a ton of credit because it pushed the limit of basic cable.

Having said that, they threw the kitchen sink at it in terms of being "edgy" and sometimes it comes off as

"The Wire" never being popular is a myth. At the height of it's popularity it averaged 4 million viewers. That's "Game of Throne" numbers. That's 1+ mill more than "Breaking Bad" ever did.

The difference is, "The Wire" couldn't maintain it's audience. "Breaking Bad" has gotten a little bigger each year. Key word a little bigger. It's never even hit 3 million viewers.

Neither show is easily accessible though. I won't go into details because of spoilers but there is elements of "Breaking Bad" that definitely aren't for everyone.

"The Walking Dead" is easily accessible. It averages 10-12 million viewers.

As far as the thread, I think the floodgates are open now. Right now we have "Mad Men", "Breaking Bad", "Game of Thrones", "Boardwalk Empire", "House of Cards", etc.

Fred.

 

[STAN JONES]

when the fluk we gonna get real fully grown dragons in Game of Thrones?

season 8