Most Underrated Shows on TV?

JP Liz V1

Since we have a thread for overrated lets try underrated shows

For me in comedies it would be Community, Party Down, Cougar Town and Parks and Recreation (all got better as seasons with on) and for dramas I would say Justified, The Good Wife, Friday Night Lights (seemed to finally get recognised once it ended), Hawaii 5-0 remake, Brotherhood and Sons of Anarchy

crank_1975

+1 for Sons of Anarchy and the Good Wife

I would add The League (even though its not shown on TV over here) and Happy Endings which is fast becoming my favourite comedy.

Conor108

Community.

+1 for FNL, I only discovered it recently but it's become one of my favorite ever shows, just got the final season to watch now.

H8GHOTI

The Wire

JustAddWater

Arrested Development and also Lie to Me

Oh_Noes

Curb You Enthusiasm.

Jax Teller

Friday night lights and Sons of anarchy are well underated .

Entourage is underated by rte showing it at stupid times .

phasers

community

Seren_

Is this underrated by the general public or underrated by critics etc?

For the first one, Community, Arrested Development, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and Veronica Mars among others.

And for underrated by critics, I'm going to say The Tudors. It's not that historically correct, but god damnit I love it. And it's quite funny too.

I'm going to have to check out Friday Night Lights.

Tauriel

Chuck
NCIS LA
Leverage
The Unit
Veronica Mars
In Plain Sight
Teen Wolf

SB-08

Damages is an excellent and very intelligent legal show with a superb cast led by Glenn Close but I have yet to speak to anyone offline who has heard of it let alone seen an episode.

ziedth

Cougar Town is a good shout. After a very weak start it became a very watchable show.

Conor108

ziedth wrote: »

Cougar Town is a good shout. After a very weak start it became a very watchable show.

Community kiiinda makes me wanna watch that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifv_Uqjf3d8

ronnie3585

The Shield.

Rjd2

Limmy's show for me, best sketch show since The Fast Show.

Hogzy

Breaking bad.

don ramo

Hogzy wrote: »

Breaking bad.

in no way underated, and certainly not overated, its perfectly rated and lives up to its hype,

H8GHOTI

Hogzy wrote: »

Breaking bad.

don ramo wrote: »

in no way underated, and certainly not overated, its perfectly rated and lives up to its hype,

It's underrated by UK & Irish tv stations that don't show it.
It's a really great show, the best I've ever seen & it doesn't make sense why they won't air it over here.
FX only showed season one. Don't know why they didn't continue showing it after that. Maybe it didn't pull in enough viewers?

ricero

Pete versus life

amacachi

ricero wrote: »

Pete versus life

Caught a bit of that the other night, looked decent I have to admit.

Basq

H8GHOTI wrote: »

The Wire

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Curb You Enthusiasm.

Coletrickle88 wrote: »

Friday night lights

Entourage

ronnie3585 wrote: »

The Shield.

Hogzy wrote: »

Breaking bad.

Since when do shows that run for 5 or 6 seasons, are both acclaimed by critics and audiences and are known the world considered to be "under-rated"?!

Breaking Bad is criminally overlooked over here by TV stations.. but under-rated? No.. don't think so.

Hogzy

Basq wrote: »

Since when do shows that run for 5 or 6 seasons, are both acclaimed by critics and audiences and are known the world considered to be "under-rated"?!

Breaking Bad is criminally overlooked over here by TV stations.. but under-rated? No.. don't think so.

I didnt know we were looking at things from an overall standpoint. I am looking at these shows from an Irish point of view. Breaking bad is not even shown on any Sky Channels. That in itself shows to me that the show is totally under rated in Ireland/UK if its not given any air time. Most people i know dont even know about the show.

up them Schteps

Parks and Recreation

H8GHOTI

Basq wrote: »

Since when do shows that run for 5 or 6 seasons, are both acclaimed by critics and audiences and are known the world considered to be "under-rated"?!

I've considered The Wire to be underrated since 16:41 on 04-Nov-2011

paddyismaddy

love/hate

2nd series is deadly

McSpud

30 Rock - well rated by critics but not audiences. That said it has been going downhill in recent seasons.

Odaise Gaelach

Twenty Twelve.

Not that it was underrated, more so that it flew under the radar. Fair enough, this was in part because it was originally broadcast on BBC Four. But it was one of the funniest programmes (sitcom?) produced by the BBC in a while, and I'm really looking forward to the second series.

Back Prince

it's always sunny in Philadelphia ridiculously funny for seasons on end

bigwormbundoran

Action with Jay Mohr in it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206467/

Havent seen it since it was originally broadcast on TV3 but remember it being deadly altogether and thought it was criminal that it wasnt brought back for a second series. Twas a good solid Hollywood satire basically.

(Just after checking there and it was broadcast by Fox, which could go somewhere towards its cancellation going by there sword swinging nature by which they seem to cancel shows)

Simi

Third Watch

A great show in it's day. Severely underated.

daithimacgroin

30 rock is highly overrated

curry-muff

Friday Night Lights until recently was criminally underrated, but more and more people seem to be watching it now that its finished.

A few shows that should never have been cut were:

The Unit
Drive
Jericho
Flashforward

castletownman

curry-muff wrote: »

Friday Night Lights until recently was criminally underrated, but more and more people seem to be watching it now that its finished.

I have to agree about it being criminally under-rated. I only got into it recently as I never even knew there was a tv series, I only knew there was a book and film. I must say the pilot episode is one of the best pilots of any show I've ever seen, it really sets the series up well. I can really see myself getting immersed in it now.

It pains me to see a show like this not to have drawn the audience figures it deserved, while pure sh*te like Glee, True Blood etc. pollute the airwaves.

leggit

Arrested Development is one of the funniest shows ever and it's coming back!

Dexter is also a really good show but some seasons have been hit and miss (with season 4 being one the best series of any show I've ever seen, ever!)

ceekay74

Trailer Park Boys

&

Ideal

daithimacgroin

glee ain't too bad imo
i've only seen the first season, but it's defo well-made

JP Liz V1

Boomtown (cancelled way too early) and Southland (thank god TNT picked it up)

JM Skipton

Just started to get into a show on BBC4 called "the Slap" very watchable surprised its not on mainstream

Temaz

Brotherhood. Amazing piece of television.

Cheetara

Arrested development - It makes me laugh everytime I watch however I only know of one other person who has actually seen it!!!

amacachi

Cheetara wrote: »

Arrested development - It makes me laugh everytime I watch however I only know of one other person who has actually seen it!!!

You new here?

Cheetara

Have joined boards a while ago but only started reading the Television forum recently.
I admit that I am a bit of lurker however love this site so thought i'd better start posting a bit more.

duiggers

Cheetara wrote: »

Arrested development - It makes me laugh everytime I watch however I only know of one other person who has actually seen it!!!

I know one or two others who watch it but that should change soon with the movie coming out

Cheetara

duiggers wrote: »

I know one or two others who watch it but that should change soon with the movie coming out

I hope the movie does the series justice. I think it has been in the pipe line for years but they never got around to making it until now.

amacachi

Cheetara wrote: »

Have joined boards a while ago but only started reading the Television forum recently.
I admit that I am a bit of lurker however love this site so thought i'd better start posting a bit more.

Nah, just that everyone here loves Arrested Development. You're not great at lurking either. :pac:

Cheetara

amacachi wrote: »

You're not great at lurking either. :pac:

Hahaha am a serious lurker though - I can spend hours just reading threads on this forum but am having a particularly unproductive day in work so thought i'd submit a post or two!

ICE HOUSE

Survivorman - Les Stroud - Legend

du Maurier

Oh_Noes wrote: »

Curb You Enthusiasm.

I always thought that was very well received by the masses.

Richard Dower

Pretty Little Liars....ultimate guilty pleasure tv!

bb1234567

mustang shelly wrote: »

Chuck
NCIS LA
Leverage
The Unit
Veronica Mars
In Plain Sight
Teen Wolf

+1 teen wolf, great show isnt it! thought it looked terrible but gave it a go one night and loved it.story and characters are great. like all the characters! styles is so funny:p

bb1234567

leggit wrote: »

Arrested Development is one of the funniest shows ever and it's coming back!

Dexter is also a really good show but some seasons have been hit and miss (with season 4 being one the best series of any show I've ever seen, ever!)

dexter is highlt rated and so many people watch it well a lot of people i know do anyway.