Best TV Show EVER - Boardsies Decide

Necro

Following on from our War Movie Competition, it's time to go back to the battlefield, but this time for a different topic.

One I suspect will be incredibly diverse and divisive.

One that maybe should be categorised and some parameters set for nominations... but where's the fun in that

It's time for Boardsies to decide the Best TV Show EVER made!!!




Here's how this will work:

• PM me your top 5 TV Shows in no particular order
• We'll leave it open for at least a week, depending on the volume of entries.
• I'll collate the shows, sort by popularity, and those with the most votes will automatically go into the first round proper in one on one matches.
• Instead of eliminating shows like I did in the last contest, what I will do instead is match up the unseeded entries in battle royale type matches. They will fight it out in a first to 5 votes scenario.
• Then we'll open up for the first round proper, two shows fight it out. The first to 5 votes. Give reasons for your choice too, just to make it a bit interesting. No time limit, just the first to 5.
• The winner goes to the next round, and repeat with the next two until we've halved the number
• Depending on popularity of the contest (he says hopefully) votes need to progress will increase exponentially each round.
• I'll try to seed the most popular shows (ie those submitted with the most votes) mentioned in the knock-out so we're not starting out with #1 and #2 the top nominated shows from the get go.

Right we are then. Let's get started

It's The Wire.

This thread can be closed.

IAMAMORON

Columbo, that's what I wudda done.

IAMAMORON

Just one more question...

Necro

Deleted User wrote: »

It's The Wire.

This thread can be closed.

Ah but where's the fun in that

B_ecke_r

1. The Sopranos
2. The Sopranos
3. The Sopranos
4. The Sopranos
5. The Sopranos

IAMAMORON

I still fancy Lucy.

Banjo

You have to ask yourself, what is the show's legacy?
I mean, the Wire and The Sopranos were very interesting shows to watch, innovative, they reshaped TV forever. But did they change you the viewer? Did they make such an impression that your very morality was reformed by the experience?

No

And that's why you need to have another think about what true greatness is :

Ostagazuzulum, Motherf***ers!

Necro

Campaigning for shows on this thread is very encouraged and supported

So far I'm thinking

The Simpsons
The Wire
Breaking Bad
Chernobyl

stuck for a fifth

Banjo

Garda Patrol - it wasn't sexy but it was very necessary. Especially if you'd seen a suspicious veh-hickle outside your post office earlier that week.

Electric Nitwit

[Deleted User] wrote: »

...stuck for a fifth

Let me help...



One of those advisors is Young Electric Nitwit!

Banjo

Igneous of legend! He was a prick!

Electric Nitwit

Can we pick specific episodes?
Say, the 21st March 2009 edition of rte's six nations coverage?

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Can we pick specific episodes?
Say, the 21st March 2009 edition of rte's six nations coverage?

Eh... no.:pac:

Electric Nitwit

OK, serious campaigning. Not many saw it the first time round I don't think, but I want to ring a bell for what a genuinely think is the best thing I've ever watched...

UTOPIA

Like nothing else in style. Dark, funny, horrifically violent and shocking at times, it was brilliant

Emmy for Best International Drama, 2014

David Fincher was going to remake it for HBO but it fell through, now Gillian Flynn is due to remake it for Amazon

The Guardian say "Channel 4 haven’t managed to match the uniqueness of Utopia’s pitch-black comedy and intrigue since"



And if that's not enough, the daily mail gave it zero stars saying "As television, it is beneath contempt. Anyone who watched this dross and was taken in by it should be ashamed of themselves"

endofrainbow

https://tenor.com/view/hbo-the-wire-omar-little-michael-kwilliams-gangster-gif-4038754

FortuneChip

I think the winner is a lock, but I'll be curious as to how the rest pans out...

Picking five is very very difficult...

The Wire - Cast, writing, setting, Sheeeeeeeeeeeeit
Breaking Bad - Cast, iconic moments, Hank Schrader
Justified - Best Hero/Anti-Hero dynamic on TV, throughout the whole show.
Friday Night Lights - Clear eyes, full hearts
Parks & Recreation - Treat yo'self.

(Battlestar Galactica - if you need a sixth - so say we all)

B_ecke_r

FortuneChip wrote: »

Justified - Best Hero/Anti-Hero dynamic on TV, throughout the whole show.

Great shout

quickbeam

I know there's no parameters set, but I don't think shows that are still running should qualify. At least I'll not be entering any of them.

Necro

quickbeam wrote: »

I know there's no parameters set, but I don't think shows that are still running should qualify. At least I'll not be entering any of them.

So you mean Grey's Anatomy won't qualify?

You monster :eek:


:D

quickbeam

Necro wrote: »

So you mean Grey's Anatomy won't qualify?

You monster :eek:


:D

Was reminded when I saw PJ nominate The Simpsons

Only fools and horses is the winner

Necro

Better make sure it's nominated then Strawbs :P

Necro

6 entries so far, yay

Electric Nitwit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s6P-gqWGXs

quickbeam

quickbeam wrote: »

Was reminded when I saw PJ nominate The Simpsons

The simpsons ended after season 11

Banjo

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OK, serious campaigning. Not many saw it the first time round I don't think, but I want to ring a bell for what a genuinely think is the best thing I've ever watched...

UTOPIA

Like nothing else in style. Dark, funny, horrifically violent and shocking at times, it was brilliant

And if that's not enough, the daily mail gave it zero stars saying "As television, it is beneath contempt. Anyone who watched this dross and was taken in by it should be ashamed of themselves"

Was this the thing with the asthmatic thug and Mr Rabbit?
That was ****ing brilliant. I heard there was a 2nd season, haven't seen it, but the 1st season was brilliant - kind of like a horrifically violent and disturbing scooby doo episode that refused to end.

khalessi

What no McGyver ATeam or Airwolf :0

Necro

You can nominate them if you like khalessi

Electric Nitwit

Banjo wrote: »

Was this the thing with the asthmatic thug and Mr Rabbit?
That was ****ing brilliant. I heard there was a 2nd season, haven't seen it, but the 1st season was brilliant - kind of like a horrifically violent and disturbing scooby doo episode that refused to end.

That's the one!

The second series wasn't as good but wasn't as big a drop off as you might imagine, and some of the story development was amazing. There was apparently a third written but C4 pulled the plug, it just wasn't getting the viewers. Shame, I really do put it number one on my list I think

Love your scooby doo description

Banjo

But that's what it's like - 10 minutes into the episode, Velma and Fred realise that it's not a ghost that's kidnapping all those kids, it's a paedophile ring and then Shaggy and Scooby raid the fridge for snacks but they find Daphne's head, and then it comes out that Fred knew, he had figured it out a long time ago but realised that if they didn't let the kidnappings continue there'd be no children to feed to the angry volcano and stop it from destroying the city killing millions, and he's really sorry Velma but you were just too clever, too clever, and his hand close around her throat. And that's when you find out that Zoink is the brand of antipsychotic that Shaggy has been prescribed, and he can't stop calling out for one in the hope that all of this will go away and he's be back in his room in the hospital, and that's all you hear over the credits. No jaunty, jangly themetune, just white text on black as he whimpers "Zoinks..... zoinks...."

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I'm in!

Kolido

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

God Tier Shows!

Trigger

PM sent, tried to be diverse :pac:

Necro

36 different shows entered so far

This is fun already

Trigger

Jaysus I threw together 5 on the train but now seriously thinking about it, there is just so many shows that I would love in this.. really hope people pick misfits

mrmorgan

Anyone that says "Friends" here, should be banned immediately!!!

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

mrmorgan wrote: »

Anyone that says "Friends" here, should be banned immediately!!!

As long as nobody says Two and half men or the big bang theory...

tedpan

I have 2..

2. Curb
1. Always Sunny

Spook_ie

I can only say I didn't float up the Lagan on a bubble y'know

Necro

mrmorgan wrote: »

Anyone that says "Friends" here, should be banned immediately!!!

Hunky Monster wrote: »

As long as nobody says Two and half men or the big bang theory...

One of the three shows mentioned here have already been entered :P

mrmorgan

Necro wrote: »

One of the three shows mentioned here have already been entered :P

You can't be serious.

Which one??

They have to be banned!!

Electric Nitwit

Good to see some comedy getting name checked

Father Ted and Blackadder (particularly Goes Forth) have to be considered

Spook_ie

I have a cunning plan and it involves sending a PM to Necro, because the truth is out there somewhere of the best ever TV shows

pawrick

Very difficult to decide on 5 shows between what you like to watch and what you actually think is a great show. I love some god awful tv shows tbh. Even within what I think were defining series looking back they have aged badly or have been done better since but still hold the title to being the first to do x or y.

Paddy223

Few people forgetting Stranger things it has to be in top five going by first three seasons.

mrmorgan

Paddy223 wrote: »

Few people forgetting Stranger things it has to be in top five going by first three seasons.

up there with the Wire, sopranoes, Breaking Bad,Justified, Game of thrones (even though i think slightly overrated)

There are better shows on netflix than Stranger things!!

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Paddy223 wrote: »

Few people forgetting Stranger things it has to be in top five going by first three seasons.

Lol... ok.

Necro

Anyone can nominate, if you feel something that hasn't been mentioned already deserves a crack feel free to PM it to me

Can't go into the arena without a nomination though