Best HBO Programme?

ChumpStain

I think most people on Boards will agree that HBO have been consitently producing the best TV shows around. But what does everyone think is the best?I have three;

- Band of Brothers
- Sopranos
- Oz

Maybe its because I just watched the whole series but I think BoB is the best and really is one of the best TV shows I've seen in a long time

Although I'm sure people will be saying Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Sex in the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm or Deadwood(been hearing alot of good things about) etc.

KdjaCL

BoB is imo the best tv series ever made.
Even as single eps nothing is as good.


kdjac

Nuttzz

it has to be Oz for me

ixoy

Nearly everyone will be saying Oz or Sopranos on this. Both good (particularly Oz) but I'm going to root for the one not mentioned but that I keep urging people to watch - The Wire. Incredibly well plotted and written show - can't wait for Season 3!

Giblet

It was Spawn

ChipZilla

Deadwood, definitely the best.


Followed by Six Feet Under and The Wire.

The Sopranos has gone to sh*t lately and is scaping by on past glories IMHO...

Stephen

Band of Brothers, definately. Followed by The Sopranos.

Sex and the City doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same post.

Although not a HBO show, I'd rate The Shield up there with the Sopranos, real high quality TV.

RicardoSmith

Band of Brothers.

While shows like OZ and Sopranos are great, they don't come close to BoB

SprostonGreen

The Soprano's and Six Feet Under for me.

Six Feet Under. It's just better tahn anything else on television at the moment.

Although I hate watching the last few seasons of Sex and The City, it has to be said that the first two or three seasons at a stretch were very good.

Big Ears

Originally posted by KdjaC
BoB is imo the best tv series ever made.
Even as single eps nothing is as good.


kdjac

have to agree .

Doublezero8

Early Sopranoes and OZ

Mossy Monk

Oz

end of debate

DapperGent

I reckon Oz is the best series I've ever seen, with the possible exception of Family Guy.

T.G Catter

has to be six feet under.

DerekD Goldfish

Oz

smuckers

CYE kicks ass!.

Standard Toaster

Deffo Band of Brothers.

Raoul Duke

Deadwood would get my vote. Close behind is Curb Your Enthusiasm then followed by Carnivale. Most of the others became boring for me.

aine

Originally posted by KdjaC
BoB is imo the best tv series ever made.
Even as single eps nothing is as good.


kdjac

I loved Oz and seriously think that it is one of the best series on tv in a very long time....if not ever, however Oz works only as a series and waht kdjac says is true...indiviual episodes of BoB work as well in that sense as in the series...a truly amazing series and by far the greatest created for tv either by HBO or anybody else!

Nemici

a close one beween BOB and sopranos, bought BOB the other day, outstanding special features as well. another few hours of enthralling stuff

Raoul Duke

Anyone catch the new show on HBO - "Entourage" - it started last week.

ChipZilla

I've been meaning to get my hands on it, but I've run out of disk space Any good?

Raoul Duke

Originally posted by ChipZilla
I've been meaning to get my hands on it, but I've run out of disk space Any good?

Don't know that's why I was asking. If you are looking for something to download check out Lost.....just watched it...very good.

Wacker

Another Bad of Brothers vote here.

ChipZilla

Originally posted by Raoul Duke
Don't know that's why I was asking. If you are looking for something to download check out Lost.....just watched it...very good.

Cheers, I'll try that out. I'll let you know about Entourage when I get some space.

Jim

BoB.

Nov 11th is BoB day btw. The day it was released on DvD 2 years ago. And I can't even remember my mothers birthday.

ChipZilla

Raoul Duke wrote:

Anyone catch the new show on HBO - "Entourage" - it started last week.

Raoul, it's crap. I watched the first two episodes tonight - a waste of 600Mb :rolleyes:

Raoul Duke

ChipZilla wrote:

Raoul, it's crap. I watched the first two episodes tonight - a waste of 600Mb :rolleyes:

Thanks for the warning

quad_red

No doubt about it. I'm afraid to say that the worship of BoB completely mystifies me!!

doh.ie

My favourite HBO show of all time is Carnivále, shown on TG4 last year, and to be shown on BBC TWO later this year. (Satellite viewers can also check it out on FX from September.)

Seriously, anyone who hasn't seen this show has to check it out when it's next on TV, and for any downloaders, the second series should be on in the US from December/January '05.

Blisterman

I liked the tenacious d show, but it got cancelled after something like 4 episodes.

jor el

Just started watching the Band of Brothers DVD last night, seen two episodes now. Pretty good so far, but I think I'll have to stick with The Sopranos as best, even if the last season was a bit of a let down. Oz is pretty good too but I don't see it very often.

cosgrove80

doh.ie wrote:

My favourite HBO show of all time is Carnivále, shown on TG4 last year, and to be shown on BBC TWO later this year. (Satellite viewers can also check it out on FX from September.)

Seriously, anyone who hasn't seen this show has to check it out when it's next on TV, and for any downloaders, the second series should be on in the US from December/January '05.

Yeah I agree. Fantastic show. Watched it by chance the first night and watched the whole series. Great atmosphere to the show. It was strange that in some episodes nothing happened (in my opinion anyway) and it was still compelling. Also loved the way they explain nothing.

Hope the second series can keep up the quality without turning "wacky".

doh.ie

cosgrove80 wrote:

Yeah I agree. Fantastic show. Watched it by chance the first night and watched the whole series. Great atmosphere to the show. It was strange that in some episodes nothing happened (in my opinion anyway) and it was still compelling. Also loved the way they explain nothing.

Hope the second series can keep up the quality without turning "wacky".

Erk, if it turned wacky, I'd really hate that. You're right - there were weeks where very little seemed to happen, but you'd get an odd tease here and there about Ben's past. But I am pleased they left enough of the mystery hanging for more of those interesting threads to spill over into season two.

In real important plot terms, only the double-episode at Babylon in the middle along with the opening and closing episodes contained most of the key storytelling.
Yet I can explain why even the non-key episodes (the storm in ep 5) were so interesting even if not much was going on.

(BTW, another show that does this almost exactly was my other favourite last year - Dead Like Me, from Showtime - hardly anything happens on that from episode to episode either!

Raoul Duke

doh.ie wrote:

But I am pleased they left enough of the mystery hanging for more of those interesting threads to spill over into season two.

You wouldn't be saying that if there wasn't going to be another season. There are too many series that just end too abruptly.

ixoy

Raoul Duke wrote:

You wouldn't be saying that if there wasn't going to be another season. There are too many series that just end too abruptly.

Yup. And if you read some interviews online you'll see that the makers of Carnivalé are doing another Babylon 5, in that they're telling a novel and the story will be spread over many years (I got the impression about five as well). So keep your fingers crossed because we're meant to be in this for the long term.

Agent Orange

I'm really enjoying TG4's repeats of Oz at the moment.
The show moves at a blistering pace. In a typical episode, two guys will have met for the first time, become enemies, raped each other in the showers, crucified each other, made up, become lovers and be killed in a random massacre. Now THAT'S entertainment!

How the hell does Adebisi keep that hat on his head though?

ixoy

Agent Orange wrote:

How the hell does Adebisi keep that hat on his head though?

They're never going to answer that. The actor's been asked but he won't say. It's one of the greatest mysteries of our time....

DapperGent

I bet he uses the same stuff that chicks use to attach a particularily revealing strapless dress to their norks.

Adebisi is a slave to fashion.

I ****ing love Adebisi.

"They are not my people. I am an African."

doh.ie

Agent Orange wrote:

I'm really enjoying TG4's repeats of Oz at the moment.
The show moves at a blistering pace. In a typical episode, two guys will have met for the first time, become enemies, raped each other in the showers, crucified each other, made up, become lovers and be killed in a random massacre. Now THAT'S entertainment!

How the hell does Adebisi keep that hat on his head though?

Funny. Must take a chance to get caught up on Oz. I'm stuck back where

Luke Perry was buried alive behind a brick wall...!

doh.ie

Raoul Duke wrote:

You wouldn't be saying that if there wasn't going to be another season. There are too many series that just end too abruptly.

By and large, those shows which do fail like this are network series (NBC, ABC, Fox, CBS, UPN and The WB) compared to the relative freedom from ratings that Showtime, USA and HBO have.

(Freedom in the sense that with the audience comprised of subscribers who already pay, there is only a need for a certain audience reach for the show to be considered a success. That's not to say a show doesn't need to be successful ratings-wise on a subscription channel, but not to the same extent that many of recent years' many, many one-season-wonders have been. Of course, there are exceptions like Odyssey 5, but cancellation after one season is not the norm.)

Intertesting to see it's got something of a five-year plan. Part of me thinks it could stretch to that, but it's more likely they will answer some of the questions posed sooner rather than later and continue to weave new plots into the tapestry over a longer period. (Audiences like to feel they're getting *something* back year-on-year, even if it's just new hints to the overall picture.)

Agent Orange

doh.ie wrote:

Funny. Must take a chance to get caught up on Oz. I'm stuck back where

Luke Perry was buried alive behind a brick wall...!

Uh, Oz finished up years ago. Perry hasn't even made an appearance in the repeats yet.

But hey, thanks for the COLOSSAL SPOILER.

doh.ie

I know it finished - I meant 'caught up' in that I have 'em on tape from way back when and want to find the time to finish watching it.

Apologies on the colossal spoiler - mustn't have been paying attention. Spoiler-ified it behind a brick wall now.