A ranking of the most game-changing, side-splitting, tear-jerking, mind-blowing, world-building, genre-busting programs in television history, from the medium’s inception in the early 20th century through the ever-metastasizing era of Peak TV
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-shows-of-all-time-1234598313/
I always find it hard to recommend TV shows. While some are no brainers, many have inconsistencies across their seasons. While I vastly tried to choose shows that were good from start to finish, there are some exceptions. I've provided a list of the exceptions below.
American Horror Story: Seasons 1-4 are best. Season 8 is good. Seasons 5, 6 & 8 are solid. Skip seasons 7, 10 & 11.
Boardwalk Empire: Seasons 4 & 5 closed well. The first 75% of those seasons were lower quality.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season 8 was bad.
Community: Quality steadily drops after Season 3.
Dexter: Quality steadily drops after Season 5.
Dr Who: S1 is good. S2, S3 & S4 are best. S5-S6 are good. S7-S8 are bad. S9-10 are ok. S11-S13 are average.
Happy!: Season 2 was a dip in quality.
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: S1-2 are great. S3 was ok. S4 was bad. S5 was great.
Master of None: Season 3 is unwatchable.
Modern Family: Quality dip after Season 6.
Not Going Out: Quality dips a little after Season 8.
Office: Slight quality dip after Season 7.
Red Dwarf: Season 7 doesn't have a laugh track. Only bad season.
Shameless (US): Quality steadily drops around Season 8.
That 70's Show: Season 8 was not great.
True Detective: Season 1 deserves this list. Season 3 is worth watching. Season 2 is moderate.
Two and a Half Men: Stop watching after Season 8.
Walking Dead: Season 1-4 + Seasons 7-8. Grit and bear through Seasons 5-6. Stop after Season 8.
X-Files: Quality starts to dip around Season 7. Completely skip Seasons 10-11.
60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, & 2000s TV shows, sitcoms, varieties and comedies I've enjoyed.
Amazon Prime Top Series
Scripted Live Action Television
In an effort to watch more classic television, I have created a list of shows that I am either currently watching or have completed that aired their pilot before the year 1990. (It's an arbitrary date, but I have to make some kind of distinction.)
Supernatural horror that is both beautiful and intellectually stimulating... or at least it started that way...
They're all defintely worth watching.
Recently, I wrote 100 essays totaling 260,000+ words about my 100 favorite shows ever made! You can find all of them here: https://medium.com/the-television-project-100-favorite-shows
Pre 1960's Classic movies, dance, actors & biographies from an earlier era that brought movies into our lives.
(Click on the actor's photo for more info & their movies.)
Classic movie list: https://www.filmsite.org/classicsfilms
Related links:
"THE FLASHBACK COLLECTIONS"
PRE 60's https://trakt.tv/users/krissykk/lists/flashback-to-the-golden-oldies-movies-actors-pre-60-s?sort=title,asc
60's & 70's https://trakt.tv/users/krissykk/lists/flashback-to-the-60-s-70-s?sort=released,asc
80's https://trakt.tv/users/krissykk/lists/flashback-to-the-80-s?sort=rank,asc
90's https://trakt.tv/users/krissykk/lists/flashbacks-to-the-90-s?page=2&sort=title,asc
MUSIC Elvis Presley (3 of 4) https://trakt.tv/users/krissykk/lists/music-elvis-presley-3-of-4?sort=released,asc
MUSICALS Movies & Shows (4 of 4) https://trakt.tv/users/krissykk/lists/musicals-movies-shows-4-of-4?sort=rank,asc
MARK TWAIN: https://trakt.tv/users/krissykk/lists/tom-sawyer-huck-fin-mark-twain-novels?sort=rank,asc
A list of what's on my Plex Server
Anything with a run-time of 3 days or longer, or anything that might otherwise be a chore to watch. LOL @ me failing horribly at sorting watch list stuff to feel slightly less intimidated. I'm always open to recommendations! See https://trakt.tv/users/bangiras/lists/read-me for details and also ways to contact me if you don't have a Trakt.TV account.
Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time
by Alan Sepinwall
by Matt Zoller Seitz
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-sepinwall/tv-the-book/9781455588190/
All things Horrific: Undead, Demons, Devils, Ghosts, Ghouls, Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies, Slashers, Supernatural, Paranormal, Horror, Monsters, Possession, Succubus, Incubus,
From time-capsule sitcoms to cutting-edge Peak-TV dramas — the definitive ranking of the game-changing small-screen classics.
Movies and series referenced in The Simpsons. Not finished, current status 7x08 Mother Simpson
Horror Serie
by Marcelo Castanheira (Rexx)