#me but with the sopranos and breaking bad and the office

[chaoticbraves-workshop]

10 Shows to Get to Know Me

I guess I classed myself as one of the “general masses” @corpsebrigadier​ was referring to! This isn’t so much a top 10 of my favourites, but these ones have a lot of my DNA so to speak. There is no rhyme or reason to the order:

Better Call Saul (Breaking Bad qualifies too though)

The Young Ones

The Thick of It

The Office (UK version)

The Simpsons (Seasons 1-8)

Berserk (1997)

The Sopranos

Only Fools and Horses

The X-Files

Blackadder the Third (Goes Forth is better, but the Third is funnier)

[georgescitadel]

George R.R. Martin on the breaking of the television "likable hero" mold

I credit HBO with smashing the damn trope that everybody had to be likable on television. The Sopranos turned it around. When you meet Tony Soprano, he’s in the psychiatrist office, he’s talking about the ducks, his depression and that stuff, and you like this guy. Then he gets in his car and he’s driving away and he sees someone who owes him money, and he jumps out and he starts stomping him. Now how likable was he? Well you didn’t care, because they already had you. A character like Walter White on Breaking Bad could never have existed before HBO.

- George R.R. Martin, Rolling Stone (2014)

Before The Sopranos there was this unwritten rule, that I encountered myself, that the hero of a television show, the main protagonist, had to be a really sympathetic good person that you liked. People like me, doing pilots in the mid 90’s, trying to present a somewhat more nuanced character ran head first into that. The networks’ suits would say “This character is not likable enough. Look, they do this bad thing here, you have to get rid of that and make them more likable.”. The Sopranos shattered that. In the very first episode, we meet Tony Soprano and he’s worried about the ducks that sleep in his swimming pool… He’s talking to his psychiatrist and you kinda like him although he’s funny looking: fat guy, balding, not the usual television hero… And then he’s driving home. sees a guy who owes him money and runs him over with the car, jumps out and starts kicking him in the head… That’s not “likable behaviour”. What that show established was: 1) you can have a fat bald guy as the hero of your show; 2) it didn’t matter if the hero was likable as long as he was interesting. Interesting trumps likable! HBO has proven that time and time again and you certainly see it in our show (Game Of Thrones)… Interesting characters, fascinating characters, not necessarily likable characters…

- George R.R. Martin, Feria Internacional del Libro en Guadalajara (2016)

[awrkive]

you seem to watch a lot of good shows! what are some of your faves and recos? ive been trying to watch something these days but nothing is catching my attention 😔 i fear my attention span is fucked 😭

AHHHHHHHH THANK YOU!!! honestly the shows i watch are pretty popular and have big following so u have probably watched or heard about all of this! i would direct you to my serialzd but i abandoned that app long ago asjhf my top 5 are def:

succession (4 seasons)

(bbc) sherlock (4 seasons)

the queens gambit (1 season)

the sopranos (6 seasons)

twin peaks (3 seasons) / breaking bad (5 seasons) (its a tie coz i cant drop either onejhegfd)

im not sure what u want to watch so the following will just be a bunch of shows that i really liked binging

the x files (the og storyline is drama. but some monster of the week eps are funny. it has 11 seasons but tbh u dont really need dto watch all of it if ur not interested in the whole alien plotline. some eps are skippable)

brooklyn 99 (comedy. a faveee)

the office!! gives me so much nostalgia i): (comedy. some drama here and then)

the sex and the city (romcom. drama here and then)

greys anatomy (rom drama)

hannibal (this is pretty gorey so i dont suggest watching it if ur not keen on those stuff. a really REALLY good show tho and ur missing out on a LOT if u dont give this a chance)

suits (drama and comedy)

true detective (the first szn is just mwa mwa chefs kiss)

peaky blinders (drama)

lucifer (rom drama)

how to get away with murder (very heavy and can age u up to 10 years but its also super entertaining tbh 😭 this made me want to go to law school lol)

this is reality tv but will you guys believe me when i say i binged all of 20 seasons of... hell's kitchen? lmfao s6 is my favorite ive rewatched it like three times now 😭 i just love cooking survival shows

anyways thats it ive probably left out some but these are some of my faves that i keep on coming back to!!

[josephandrewstarkey]

𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐌𝐄 ❣︎

celebrity crushes:

Drew starkey (obv) Kit Harington, Penn Badgley, Emilia Clarke, Billie Eilish, Zayn Malik, Michele Morrone, Dylan O’brien, Brad Pitt, 90s Leo DiCaprio, Theo James, A$AP rocky, Jacob elordi, Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Evan Peters, Pedro Pascal, Nelly, Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Hugh Jackman, 2009 Ian somerhalder , Richard Madden , Chico Lachowski, 90s Tom Cruise, Dominic Fike, James Franco, Chase Crawford, Sam Claflin, Henry Cavill, Chris Hemsworth, Sebastian Stan, Andrew Garfield, Keith powers. (this is only half 😔)

favorite series:

Game of Thrones, The boys, Outer Banks, Breaking bad, Sopranos, Gossip Girl, Euphoria, HOTD, The 100, Shameless, TWD, Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, The office.

➜ on my watching list: peaky blinders, dexter, the last of us, prison break, lost, gilmore girls, 13 reasons why, ozark

favorite films:

stand by me, the notebook, la la land, me before you, hunger games & the maze runner trilogy, lord of the rings, the shawshank redemption, prisoners, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the godfather, fight club, gladiator, prisoners, interstellar, forrest gump, the dark knight, tye shining, hachi, green mile, bridge to terabithia

➜ on my watching list: 12 angry men, alien, shutter island, get out, american psycho, the sixth sense, the wolf of wall street, oppenheimer, the florida project, beautiful boy, goodfellas.

if anyone has any movie/series recommendations pls message me 🙏🏽

favorite artists:

mariah the scientist, brent faiyaz, lana del rey, sade, the weeknd, ariana grande, billie eilish, frank ocean, tyler the creator, RAYE, mac miller, yade lauren, tame impala, PARTYNEXTDOOR, daniel caesar, the neighborhood, arctic monkeys , giveon

i’m open to being mutuals <33

[rafesangelita]

29 and 30?

29: i have soooo many but i’m going to list the ones that i can think of right off the bat 🎀 the princess diaries, 13 going on 30, freaky friday, coyote ugly, halloween town, selena, princess protection program, gone girl, the notebook

30: outer banks (obvi lol), sex and the city, breaking bad, game of thrones, gilmore girls, the sopranos, the office, and a lot more but i can’t think of them lol

ask me a question!

[battery-low]

some movies/series i have seen/want to see

first slam dunk

blue giant

mary and the witch's flower

sirocco and the kingdom of winds

rascal does not dream of a dreaming girl

the tunnel to summer, the exit of goodbyes

the girl who leapt through time

‌wolf children

boy and the beast

mirai no mirai

belle

summer wars

in this corner of the world

metropolis anime

your name

children who chase lost voices from deep below

5 centimeters per second

the place promised in our early days

‌suzume

weathering with you

garden of words

little nemo

‌fist of the north star

vampire hunter d

vampire hunter d:bloodlust

wings of honneamise

ninja scroll

macros plus

patlabor

redline

the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya

the disappearance of haruhi suzumiya

tekkonkinkreet

serial experiments lain

the case of hana & alice

the piano forest

night is short walk on girl

okko's inn

millennium actress

i want to eat your pancreas

a silent voice

liz and the blue bird

kimi no iro / the colors within

the heike story

dog of flanders

angels egg

giovannis island

night on the galactic railroad

to the forest of firefly lights

a letter to momo

josee, the tiger and the fish

summit of the gods

kodoku no gurume

time of eve

panda go panda

patema inverted

kabaneri of the iron fortress

orange

gravity

wayne

big boys

small lights

old enough

begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil

schindlers list

colourful (1999)

colourful (2010)

‌anthem of the heart

‌maquia

maboroshi

inu-oh

birdboy

‌banana fish

‌terror in resonance

short peace

500 days of summer

summer ghost

chungking express

goodbye don glees

fleabag

one day

office space

lost in translation

manchester by sea

blue valentine

paddington 1, 2

neon genesis evangelion

end of evangelion

evangelion: 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.0+1.0

le otto montagne

the bear

met mes

call me by your name

beatiful boy

beau is afraid

chainsaw man

white lotus

sopranos

band of brothers

monster anime

pluto

master keaton

to your eternity

miss hokusai

‌your lie in april

march sweeps in like a lion

‌a place further than universe

the perverts guide to cinema/ideology

yuki yukite, shingun

everything everywhere all at once

the hunchback of notre dame

jojo rabbit

coldfish

love exposure

in the mood for love

house

in bruges

midnight gospel

‌god father i,ii,iii

‌scarface

‌death parade

one punch man

mob psycho i,ii,iii

vinland saga

bee and puppy cat

‌violet evergarden

violet evergarden (special)

violet evergarden (movie 2019)

violet evergarden (2020 movie)

frieren

‌anohana the flower we saw that day

erased

scavenger reign

inuyashiki

over the garden wall

‌bojack horseman

‌better call saul

‌breaking bad

‌game of thrones

severance

shogun

‌naruto

‌scrubs

‌moonlight kingdom

‌freedom writers

a sun

handmaids tale

carnival row

7 samurai

kingdom of heaven

persona

a brighter summer day

how to make millions before grandma dies

past lives

perfect days

dear zachary:a letter to a son about his father

paris,texas

time still turns pages

silent love

monster (movie)

wonka

get out

poor things

‌us‌

candyman

‌nope

fionna and cake

audition

on the count of three

sensitive the untold story

lucy

the creative brain

rudy

nyad

‌the whale

memories of murder

taxi driver

after hours

goodfellas

a clockwork orange

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

‌requiem for a dream

trainspotting

waking life

fight club

‌children of heaven

‌my sisters keeper

‌hachi dogs tale

the big short

‌gardenstate

‌boyhood

‌perks of being a wall flower

‌into the wild

‌good will hunting

mishima: a life in four chapters

what's eating gilbert grape?

better days

king of staten island

schindlers list

meet joe black

we are who we are

cowboy bebop

yasuke

nr. 10

dead poet society

ghost in the shell

ghost in the shell sac

memories 1995

euphoria

atlanta

the vince staples show

matrix i,ii,iii

animatrix

star wars visions

castle of cagliostro

my neighbour totoro

spirited away

howls moving castle

kikis delivery service

ponyo

the wind rises

whisper of the heart

the cat returns

the boy and the heron

tales from the earthsea

from up on poppy hill

castle in the sky

nausica valley of the wind

porco rosso

princess monoke

ocean waves

only yesterday

pom poko

grave of fireflies

the tale of the princess kaguya

the neighbours yamadas

gauche the cellist

arrietty

when marnie was there

red turtle

samurai shamploo

oldboy

tales of the unusual

insidious

the face of another

rin daughters of mnemosyne

afro samurai

close

paranoia agent

bullet in your head

gladiator

american gangster

american psycho

poltergeist

eyes wide shut

mind game

if beale street could talk

heat

a time to kill

killers of the flower moon

dunkirk

the iron giant

tree of life

mindhunter

blue eyed samurai

twin peaks

[mogwai-movie-house]

Hello! I would like to ask two questions, actually.

From what I can judge, you seem to enjoy watching and reviewing movies. Do you also watch TV series sometimes and if yes, what are the ones you would say are genuinely worth watching? (except Succession, and I also know that shows like Mad Men, Sopranos and the Wire are considered to be some of the prime TV examples.)

What are your favorite old Hollywood classics?

Thank you!

Howdy,

I can see from looking at your blog that you like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and I really can't think of any better-realized shows than those. Their creators really stuck the landing and told a perfect, clear story from the beginning to the end, which is where most other shows seem to fall down: the first 4 seasons of Game of Thrones might be the best TV show ever made, but the last 2 or 3 might be the very worst; the same goes for Rick & Morty (first 4 seasons perfect, last couple a disaster). The Simpsons was the best show on TV for the first 13 or so seasons, but has been a dull and unfunny walking corpse of its former self for over two decades now, which is terrible to see. South Park was at the very peak of human achievement in that medium for over 20 years, but then hit a very tiresome and uneven patch a few years back and hasn't really recovered, though it's always worth a look. The first 3 seasons of Arrested Development are perfection; the last two are dismal. The first season of True Detective is mostly excellent; the rest just get worse and worse. So decline in quality is probably the greatest issue with even the greatest shows, particularly in America, where the makers tend to view a hit show as a cash cow they can keep on milking until it dies, rather than a story needing telling with a beginning, middle and end, like a good film or a book.

I never really clicked with Mad Men: I had an ex-girlfriend who was hooked on it, and I tried to watch a couple of episodes with her, but I just couldn't connect. I could see that it did a nice job of recreating the physical details of the era in which it was set, but was completely anachronistic in its depiction of the people, their words, actions and motivations, none of which seemed at all real to me, and all clearly in the service of creating some very clumsy feminist strawmen to attack, while also perversely reveling in it. In some ways it seemed to me a test run for The Handmaid's Tale (or 50 Shades of Grey); a fetishization of real-or-imagined female victimhood, consumed overwhelmingly by women who found a strange mix of pleasure in the pretty clothes and smartly dressed aloof, boorish and powerful men they delight in hating but secretly want to bang. I can see some people must have felt they found more than that in it, but I just don't seem to be the audience for it.

My favourite shows in recent years have been Inside No. 9, Rick & Morty and Black Mirror, though the quality of all of them has become much more patchy. Get Shorty is not at that level but very enjoyable. Curb Your Enthusiasm has remained consistently slight but fun. The White Lotus and Enlightened are both good.

Further back I would list Extras, The Office (the original UK show) and Life's Too Short, all perfectly realized from start to end. Same goes for Spaced, Father Ted and I'm Alan Partridge. Northern Exposure and Buffy The Vampire Slayer are both wondrous and unique, though the last season of each goes downhill. I loved Community (first 3 seasons) and Louie. Then obviously things like the original Twilight Zone and Star Trek. I really enjoyed Lena Dunham's Girls, too, though I haven't gone back to rewatch it.

There are too many great films from the past to list, but if I were to try recommend some of the classics to people unfamiliar with anything before their own schooldays, off the top of my head I would probably say Sunset Blvd (1950), The Third Man (1949), The Night Of The Hunter (1955), His Girl Friday (1940), It Happened One Night (1934), The Ladykillers (1955), North by Northwest (1959), Le Plaisir (1952), The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1930), The Last Command (1928), and Black Narcissus (1947). All of them are strikingly original and perfectly-realized stories that satisfy in a way all films should but almost all present-day films are incapable of doing.

[gobbluthbutagirl]

tony soprano

First impression: [to the tune of eleanor rigby] tony soprano new jersey mobster who cares for the ducks by the pool loves gabagool. Or whatever that post said

Impression now: Thee likeable antihero. i mean obviously he was the blueprint but when you compare him to like. Walter white for example. like you watch breaking bad and walt is pretty much just a freak who has everything wrong with him and loves to cause problems on purpose. you see his motives but you’re just like come on man really? And tony in comparison just feels very human. like you see his faults and flaws and issues and problems and whatnot but he’s less a ticking time bomb and more just… a person. If you know what i mean

Favorite moment: honestly? in soprano home movies when carmela’s like, “i’m supposed to be turned on by you beating up your brother-in-law at your 47th birthday?” and he’s just like so shocked that she’s not. that was so funny to me

Idea for a story: hmmm. maybe a post-finale death/afterlife-themed dream sequence? i don’t know lol i have not thought about this before

Unpopular opinion: tbh i’m not sure what is and isn’t “popular opinion” but one opinion i do have is that if he would have been allowed to kill the man who raped dr melfi that would have been fine

Favorite relationship: i am going to say dr melfi just because that relationship is what really made the show. i can pinpoint the exact moment it really drew me in and it’s the, “the morning i got sick, i’d been thinking. it’s good to be in something from the ground floor. and i came too late for that, i know. but lately, i’m getting the feeling that i came in at the end. the best is over.” which is obviously right at the beginning of episode one and obviously takes place in her office so. Yeah

Favorite headcanon: about to get booed off the stage here but i honestly do not know that i have one. perhaps if i were to rewatch i would but as we stand currently i have only seen the show one time. SAD!

[jinxxpal]

Okay so since I love making lists, here's my top 10 TV shows from the 2000s:

10. Dexter: could be higher with a better ending, but here we go, it just made the top 10.

9. South Park: technically the show started in the late 90s, but the 2000s were it's golden age, so I can't not include it.

8. Fringe: I loved this show for so many reasons, not the ending tho, the future timeline was a bad idea imo.

7. Skins: I was obsessed. As a young queer guy I just couldn't believe that this kind of stories could be told on screen.

6. Lost: of course it had its bad moments, still, one of the most memorable show of the decade.

5. Breaking Bad: I don't think explanation is necessary.

4. Mad Men: just an amazing show. Nothing more, nothing less.

3. The Office: this one is tricky coz I didn't watch it in the 2000s. It was one of the favorite shows of my then boyfriend, and I just couldn't watch it with him coz Steve Carell's character was so fucking annoying. I haven't seen him in anything else before, and his presence on screen was just unbearable. Years later when I finally watched the series, it became one of my all time favorites. Also I have seen Carell in dramatic roles and realize that he's a genius and his acting is simply exquisite.

2. The Sopranos: another one that technically started in the late 90s, but I definitely consider it a 2000s era series. Also it was a fundamental piece of early HBO originals.

Before getting to the No.1, some honorable mentions that didn't make my top 10: The IT crowd, Queer as Folk (UK original with the Manchester accent), Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives (guilty pleasure level infinity), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

Final remark before revealing my favorite 2000s show: by now you're probably certain that it's going to be the wire, but you're wrong. I think that show is super overrated, it wouldn't make my top 50. Feel free to comment if you disagree, and let me know that I'm stupid af.

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So, my favorite TV show of the 2000s is:

1. The Venture Bros

This is one of the best television ever created. The humor, the characters, the stories, the whole universe is so unique, it's really something worth watching and rewatching. It took ages for the creators to finish the story, we had to wait many years between seasons, but it was definitely worth it.

[dolphs-world]

Oh this town without love

I have never liked TV as a medium, apart from cartoons. Repetitive and formulaic, it fails to movies in every way but length. It also didn't help that my sister would watch the same show on loop everyday when we were growing up. At one dinner when my sister was allowed to watch TV, without me seeing the television, I was able to say every line in an episode before it happened to the amusement of my mother. Because of this, I hated binge watching things. As time has marched on and no TV exists anymore, I have become vindicated in my hatred for binging. It used to be that a season of television was 8 hours long for a half hour show and 16 for a full one. Then the Sopranos happened. Still in between that time frame and honestly a much needed limit. And then Breaking Bad. Now, every show wanted to be prestige. But there are faults in TV, as I listed above. So TV doesn't exist anymore, only miniseries. Most of these could be movies. And now I have a fondness for TV. Granted, I am being a bit hyperbolic, my favourite piece of media is classic Simpsons after all. Here's another way to put it. In a normal distribution of a 1-10 scale, the average would be a 5. For movies it's a 6, for everything else it's a 5. For TV it's a 4. There are high highs but I still believe it a lesser medium. The Simpsons did eventually get bad. So imagine my surprise in rewatching the Sopranos with my mother that I think it's the best show in terms of using the medium's uniqueness to its benefit. Character driven as opposed to plot driven, I can't remember the mob politics but I can remember Tony complaining about OJ. Every episode is self contained, characters are constantly joining and leaving, the show progresses with the time. I really do not know what else to say, it is the best TV drama. So why aren't there more shows like it? Well, Breaking Bad. I love Breaking Bad, probably more than the Sopranos, but it very much wants to be more than TV. It is a very plot driven show. And with a smaller episode count than the Sopranos, the writing was on the wall for the shrinking of TV. Hence the name miniseries. But what about regular TV i.e not prestige drama. Well, what's the last sitcom or procedural that is a) immensely popular amongst all age groups b) not based on an existing IP c) wasn't short lived d) deconstructive? That last one is bit specific but basically the best TV shows are ones that constantly deconstruct themselves and their mediums, like Seinfeld and the Simpsons. But my point still stands, what's the most recent popular TV show? Superstore? Maybe, I don't know. TV is supposed to be this comforting thing, there's a reason why the Office is still one of the most popular shows. But where's the new shows to add to the canon? About 6 months ago I started rewatching Modern Family. A show with a LARGE cast, it was one I grew up with. And it's decent television. Not groundbreaking but consistently funny, but not enough to pause the show. But it's gimmick is it's undoing. Too many characters with not enough screentime for their plotlines which makes them more shallow and often repeated. Add in the developing plots and characterisations for the children which boils down to relationship drama and by the 7th season it's just boring. So it got me thinking, what is a show that is the most consistent. Even Seinfeld got significantly weak in it's last two seasons. Well, remember that dinner where I was essentially reciting the episode? Do you know what that show was? Friends.

[cillian-gets-me-wetter]

izzy’s masterlist ✨🩰

hi, i’m izzy, i’m 22 years old, bisexual and a sagittarius! ♐️ i write and edit celebrities i like! edits i have made: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

all fics are tagged under izzy writes 💕

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characters and people i write for (open for requests):

outer banks:

rafe cameron

- never lose me (headcanons)

- a freak like me too (in the works)

joe burrow (lsu or nfl era):

- if u think i’m pretty

- milk and coffee

- say yes to heaven

- hot one (moodboard)

- kiss it better (series masterlist)

christopher moltisanti (the sopranos):

- blonde (in the works)

johnny knoxville

lip gallagher (shameless u.s.):

- right side of my neck

dominic sessa

spencer reid (criminal minds)

conrad fisher (the summer i turned pretty):

- bad religion

ethan landry (scream 6)

jim halpert (the office u.s.)

carmy berzatto (the bear):

- casual

- silver springs

rob rausch (love island usa)

bradley “rooster” bradshaw (top gun: maverick)

jesse pinkman (breaking bad):

- dating the local dealer (mood board)

callum turner

[pynkhues]

do u have a list of show recs anywhere u have such good taste

Oh gosh, thanks, anon, haha. I don't know if I have good taste exactly, but I watch a lot and I watch pretty broadly, so I feel like I have very eclectic taste, that's for sure. I'm not really sure what you're in the mood for / what you like, so I've compiled a pretty big rec list and categorised them in a way that hopefully helps you find something you like!

Let me know if you end up watching any of them!

Terrible People Trying to Get Better

Bojack Horseman (complete with six seasons) (animated, dramedy)

The Good Place (complete with four seasons) (spec fic, comedy)

Misfits (complete with five seasons) (spec fiction, drama)

Terrible People Staying Terrible

AP Bio (complete with four seasons) (comedy)

Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 (complete with two seasons) (comedy)

House of Lies (complete with five seasons) (dramedy)

Succession (three seasons and counting) (dramedy)

You’re the Worst (complete with five seasons) (comedy)

Good People Getting Worse

The Big C (complete with four seasons) (dramedy)

Better Call Saul (final and sixth season airing now) (legal / crime, drama)

Breaking Bad (complete with five seasons) (crime, drama)

Good Girls (complete with four seasons) (crime, dramedy)

Workplace Shenanigans

Better Off Ted (complete with two seasons) (comedy)

Futurama (seven seasons and counting) (spec fic, comedy)

The IT Crowd (UK) (complete with four seasons) (comedy)

Mad Men (complete with seven seasons) (period drama)

The Knick (complete with two seasons) (period drama)

Love on the Job / Office Romance

Hacks (one season and counting) (dramedy)

The Mindy Project (complete with six seasons) (comedy, romance)

Offspring (complete with seven seasons) (dramedy, romance)

Family Hijinks

Bob’s Burgers (twelve seasons and counting) (animated comedy)

Malcolm in the Middle (complete with seven seasons) (comedy)

Speechless (complete with three seasons) (comedy)

United States of Tara (complete with three seasons) (dramedy)

Created / Forced Family Hijinks

Cougar Town (complete with six seasons) (comedy)

The Get Down (complete with one seasons) (period drama)

Playing House (complete with three seasons) (comedy)

Pose (complete with three seasons) (LGBT period drama)

The Umbrella Academy (two seasons and counting) (spec fic, drama)

Commit Crimes

Barry (two seasons and counting) (dramedy)

Boardwalk Empire (complete with five seasons) (period drama)

Fargo (four seasons and counting) (period dramedy)

The Sopranos (complete with six seasons) (drama)

Solve Crimes

Elementary (complete with seven seasons) (crime procedural)

Justified (complete with six seasons) (crime procedural)

Mindhunter (complete with two seasons) (crime drama)

Survive Crimes

I May Destroy You (complete with one season) (drama)

Paranoia Agent (complete with one season) (anime drama)

Unbelievable (complete with one season (drama)

Ladies are Doing it for Themselves (sometimes, eventually)

Better Things (fifth and final season airing now) (dramedy)

Big Little Lies (complete with two seasons) (crime drama)

GLOW (complete with three seasons) (period drama)

Orphan Black (complete with five seasons) (spec fic, drama)

WandaVision (complete with one season) (spec fic, drama)

Spies! Subterfuge! Conspiracy!

Archer (twelve seasons and counting) (animated comedy)

Chuck (complete with five seasons) (action, romance, a great ship)

The Expanse (sixth and final season airing now[ish]) (spec fic, drama)

Mr Robot (complete with four seasons) (drama, thriller)

Utopia (UK) (complete with two seasons) (drama, thriller)

Spook Shows

Bates Motel (complete with five seasons) (drama, horror)

Black Mirror (five seasons and counting) (anthology, horror)

Channel Zero (complete with four seasons) (anthology, horror)

The Exorcist (complete with two seasons) (horror)

The Haunting of Hill House (two seasons and counting) (anthology, horror)

The Devil in the Details / The Monstrous as Metaphor

Daredevil (complete with three seasons) (spec fic, crime, drama)

Dark (complete with three seasons) (spec fic, drama)

Hannibal (complete with three seasons) (crime, horror, drama)

In the Flesh (complete with two seasons) (LGBT, horror, drama)

Jessica Jones (complete with three seasons) (spec fic, crime, drama)

Teenage Disasters

Cloak and Dagger (complete with two seasons) (spec fic, drama)

Dare Me (complete with one season) (LGBT, drama, crime)

Deadly Class (complete with one season) (spec fic, crime)

Derry Girls (two seasons and counting) (historical, comedy)

I Am Not Okay With This (complete with one season) (LGBT, supernatural, drama)

My Mad Fat Diary (complete with three seasons) (drama)

Twenty-Somethings Really Going Through It

Broad City (complete with five seasons) (comedy)

Greek (complete with four seasons) (dramedy)

Insecure (complete with six seasons) (dramedy)

High Camp / Big Heart

The 10th Kingdom (complete with one season) (spec fic, drama)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (complete with four seasons) (dramedy, musical)

Galavant (complete with two seasons) (period comedy, musical)

The Great (two seasons and counting) (period drama)

Jane the Virgin (complete with five seasons) (dramedy, romance)

[hmslusitania]

What's your headcanon for each of the main characters' favorite show/thing to watch on TV?

Okay. Okay so

Athena — we know canonically that at least as of 2.01 her favourite show is Claws and she live tweets it and believes Niecey Nash should be on Mount Rushmore.

Bobby — gets extremely invested in every season of the GBBO, complains about the technicals every time, and then Athena and/or Harry will find him in the kitchen at like. Half two in the morning. Baking whatever it was.

Maddie — is a stated “reader” rather than watcher according to 2.02 but considering she lives with Chimney now I’m sure he’s done is best to curate something he thinks she’d like and I want to say it’s like. Downton Abbey or something else equally Austenian (I don’t know if that’s the right adjective it was autocorrect’s suggestion and we all know how that goes)

Chimney — has watched basically every scripted television show that’s gotten anything like buzz in the past ever. The West Wing? Yes. The Sopranos? Yes. Breaking Bad? Yes. Westworld? Yes. Game of Thrones? Yes. Supernatural? All fifteen seasons, baby. He’s also done the funny ones, your Mike Schur shows, your Office and Parks and Rec and Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the Good Place. His favourite right now currently airing is a tie between the Mandalorian and Ted Lasso.

Hen — doesn’t really strike me as a big TV person? But I feel like she and Karen have Movie Nights with a bottle of wine and a huge bowl of popcorn and it’s every sort of movie from old classics to modern comedies (Karen does a very good “here’s looking at you kid” Bogie impression that Hen does not find charming shut up)

Related but Karen has seen Every Episode of Every Star Trek Ever and this will be relevant later

Buck — much like Maddie (obviously) didn’t grow up with TV as a thing, like they had one in the house but it was in the living room in a cabinet and the only thing it got was the game and the only time they watched was Thanksgiving and the Super Bowl. In his adulthood, Buck is a huge fan of documentaries and docuseries. He’s seen every iteration of Planet Earth and Cosmos and the one docuseries the Radiolab guy did and watches all the space documentaries on all the streaming services and technically this all started before he started spending a bunch of time with an intelligent and curious kiddo but it got way more extensive when he wanted to impress Chris with random knowledge all the time. Also Jeopardy. He watched back episodes of Jeopardy on Netflix all the time and he cried when Alex Trebeck died yes I’m projecting onto a fictional character again

Eddie — my darling Eddie who has a Snake Plissken cosplay on lock? For no reason? Eddie is a closet spec-fic geek. And like yes he’s seen the big culturally significant stuff (Star Trek (he and Karen definitely bonded over that — they drive Hen and Buck a little nuts with discussions of Star Trek lore), GoT, Battlestar Galactica, the Mandalorian (he and Chim talk about it at work and it gets them both right in the dad places), Stranger Things) but I also mean like. Speculative fiction schlock and trash (I do not mean this in a derogatory way as Ive watched all these too). I’m talking like. Heroes. Legend of the Seeker. Timeless. The Witcher. iZombie. Eureka. Warehouse 13. Killjoys. Like Buck shows up at his house and finds him two seasons deep into a Magicians binge because Chris was on a sleepover. Eddie will never ever admit to any of this in public ever.

[n-revolution]

According to The Guardian these are the 10 Best TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME

10. Atlanta (2016-)

Donald Glover’s foray into dramedy fizzes with pop-culture callbacks, political subtext and dark lols, following underachieving Earn, wannabe rapper cousin Paper Boi and their black millennial peers. Its best episodes are the ones where racial conflict meets all-out weirdness, among them Helen – in which Earn feels thoroughly adrift at a Germanic festival – and Teddy Perkins, the Shining-inspired, Get Out-style tale of Darius’s (Lakeith Stanfield) trip to pick up a piano from a mysterious hermit. 

9. Peep Show (2003-15)

The king of 00s sitcoms: formally innovative, with its point-of-view filming and audible inner monologues, and unflinching in how it used that format to be disgustingly honest about diseased male minds. A textbook contrasting duo in careless Jez and cowardly Mark gave writers Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain the platform for greatness, and the quality barely dipped across nine seasons. Peep Show was always, hilariously, an inch over the boundary of good taste.

8. Fleabag (2016-19)

When Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag arrived on stage in London some six years ago, critics had their doubts (one even commented “I doubt if this material will spin off into a long-running radio or television series”). How wrong they were: as well as returning to the stage for a sold-out run this year, Fleabag’s two-series TV run saw Waller-Bridge infuse the nascent sadcom genre with classic British awkwardness, encompassing grief, family breakdown and, of course, Obama-themed masturbation.

7. Game of Thrones (2011-19)

Despite the widespread calls by superfans to rewrite the entire last series, from Daenerys’ descent into madness to Starbucksgate, Game of Thrones remains the biggest show of the century so far. Even Ed Sheeran sitting by a fire singing a ditty about hands of gold can’t irreparably dent its reputation. And it did come up with the goods throughout its eight-year reign: from the thrills and blood spills to the men baked in pies and the best battles ever seen on the small screen, right through to Cleganebowl. Only The Winds of Winter book will spare us all from Westeros withdrawal.

6. The Office (UK) (2001-03)

It didn’t invent the mockumentary, but Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s debut was so stylistically confident it defined swathes of the comedy that followed its 2001 premiere: two decades on, people are still making pale imitations. Its creators haven’t topped it either but with time, their casting decisions look as extraordinary as their scripts. It’s hard to fathom now that Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook and Gervais himself were all then relative unknowns.

5. Breaking Bad (2008-13)

The show that arguably killed off the antihero drama: nothing since has been able to top the depraved descent made by Walter White (a never-better Bryan Cranston), from milquetoast chemistry teacher to meth overlord, and few have dared to try. Yet as grimly engrossing as White’s transformation was, what kept us returning to Vince Gilligan’s low-key epic was Aaron Paul’s performance as his reluctant partner in crime, Jesse Pinkman, whose frayed humanity shone through the moral murk like a beacon.

4. The Thick of It (2005-12)

The craven, idiotic likes of Peter Mannion and Nicola Murray would be paragons of probity and wisdom in today’s parliamentary landscape. But at the time, Armando Iannucci’s scabrous comedy felt like an indictment of everything wrong with the spin and cynicism of British politics. Luckily, it was also hilarious, mainly thanks to the inventive invective of Peter Capaldi’s ferocious “Iago with a BlackBerry” Malcolm Tucker.

3. Mad Men (2007-15)

The sex! The swagger! The suits! Matthew Weiner’s Madison Avenue masterwork went down with all the smooth, smoky allure of one of Don Draper’s copious Old-Fashioneds. But by spanning the entire 60s, showing the mammoth social shifts in an ad agency in minute detail – from the advent of the Pill and second-wave feminism to the rise of hippies and the dropping of LSD – it became more than just the tale of one mystery man and compulsive philanderer come good: it was a meditation on how modern America came to be made, one iconic advert at a time.

2. The Wire (2002-08)

Along with The Sopranos, David Simon and Ed Burns’s Baltimore crime saga showed that small-screen entertainment could be anything it aspired to be: polemical, panoramic, funny, tragic or all of those things at once. Beautifully written and performed, this was both TV as high art and TV wrenched from the soul. To this day, it’s an exemplar of a certain brand of intelligent, ambitious and uncompromising television.

1. The Sopranos (1999-2007)

It is hard to fathom now, but when Tony Soprano first slumped into an armchair in his psychiatrist Dr Melfi’s office, TV was still largely looked down upon. The slogan for the Sopranos’ broadcaster – ‘It’s not TV, it’s HBO’ – felt telling in its dismissiveness, as if making a television programme was something to be ashamed about. The Sopranos changed all that.

Text Source: The Guardian

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[zalrb]

what are some shows where everyone in the cast can act extremely well?

Succession

The Sopranos

Breaking Bad

Sons of Anarchy

I May Destroy You

Peaky Blinders

How To Get Away With Murder - for the most part

Scandal - for the most part

Game of Thrones - for the most part

Fleabag

The West Wing

Mad Men

Barry

Ted Lasso

The Handmaid's Tale

The People Vs. OJ Simpson -- for the most part, John Travolta was terrible

The Wire

Veep

Shameless

Superstore

The Good Place

The Office

Parks and Rec (I mean Chris Pratt made us believe he wasn't a POS)

True Blood - for the most part

Boardwalk Empire

Spartacus

I don't think the overall cast is AMAZING in This Is Us but Sterling K Brown is enough for me to put it on this list, and the other acting isn't bad, it's good, just not on his level

Season 1 of True Detective

I will put BTVS down and say, for the most part

I am also going to put FNL down

The Dropout

Severance

Orange Is The New Black

Small Axe

Better Call Saul -- for the most part but my exception is a HUGE unpopular opinion

The Thick Of It

Broadchurch - at least the first season

Criminal UK

Arrested Development

Black Earth Rising

Patrick Melrose

I'm going to put That 70s Show down because I think it does something quite rare where we see the actors, all of them were unknown at the time, start very raw -- in the first season, they broke character A LOT in the episodes -- and get more and more professional as the seasons progress

Homecoming - first season

Mrs. America

Ramy

Plus kdramas

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[dancer-me]

17 Questions, 17 People

tagged by @ravens-words, @onelonelytortillachip, @stellalore, and @tinselbuck - thank you all for thinking of me! I'm VERY late to the game but I've been meaning to catch up and do this! 💖

nicknames: most people just use Hayley - some people refer to me by a pun of my last name if they also know my siblings but that's not for tumblr haha

zodiac: aquarius (hiiii @arrenemris!)

height: 5'6”

hogwarts house: ravenclaw which stereotypically aligns with me well. I had to do the Pottermore test a few years back for a themed party with beer pong quidditch and a very alcoholic polyjuice potion

last thing i googled: 'weather tomorrow' and if that's not the most stereotypical thing too. Listen it's hard to know if it's a parka or a leather jacket kind of day out there right now, okay? Mother nature is fickle.

followers: 140 ❤ I am shiny and new to tumblr this year so big thanks to all of you for welcoming me into this space!

song stuck in my head: Stretchy Pants - Carrie Underwood, because the first time I heard my brain just bluescreened at the idea that it was just a fever dream. It is cute and fun and it puts me in a good mood every time I hear it.

how much sleep: somewhere between 6-7 hours on average which is not ideal and I'm trying to do better. I oscillate between getting way too little sleep and then trying to catch up in a single night like I'm still a teenager.

lucky number: 8

dream job: I... think I have it as of last year? Which is absolutely mind-boggling. I just wish I got to do it in person which was the part I really dreamed about because being an exclusively online professor can on occasion be horribly disenchanting. Thinking positive thoughts for the future 💕

wearing: forest green lace trimmed halter top and grey sweatpants. I have every intention of listening to Christmas music after this and going into my basement-converted-into-Christmas-workshop and wrapping all my presents like the last-minute person that I am.

favourite song: I don't even know. I wish I kept track of what I listened to a lot like I used to back in the day. I'm throwing back to the last time I declared a song "my favourite" which was ages ago and "I love you always forever" by Donna Lewis.

favourite instrument: I grew up playing the soprano saxophone and vibing on Kenny G (yes I know that's again a stereotype)

aesthetic: "cozy jewel tones and warm neutrals" <- imma just borrow this from @stellalore because this in fact my current vibe. Pre-pandemic was the dark blue jeans, brown faux-leather heeled boots, wears a mostly buttoned-up but open at the top dress shirt casually with the sleeves rolled up to the elbow with a tank top on underneath kind of 'gal.

favourite author: Suzanne Brockmann

favourite animal noise: the excited sound my sister's dog makes every time she sees me 🥺

random: you know those old teenaged heist movies where teens orchestrate to break into the teacher's office to steal the exam answer key so they can do well and graduate? I am the foil to that because the students would break in at 3am the day of the exam and I'd still be there sitting in the dark and glow of my screen like "oh sorry guys I'm still writing it my bad" 😂

I have no idea who to tag at this point because I am so late to this activity and I think many people who wanted to do it already have! But I'm going to tag @arrenemris, @ronordmann, @tails89, @midnightdiaz, @corgiqueen14, @marjansmarwani, @afoldintime and anyone else who wants to! (no pressure and if you already did one feel free to tag me in it so I can go read it!)