Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows

Double R said:
Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive is what compelled me to take the plunge with Twin Peaks. But hated Inland Empire. Funny how we can have differing opinions about certain Lynch projects yet have mutual appreciation of his other works.
This Frank Booth fella you know sounds.... interesting lol.
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It was a potentially violent nutter I was stuck in a room with for about an hour. It was scary because the guy was completely unpredictable and you just didn’t know what might set him off.

Again, with Lynch, I can understand why someone might not like Inland Empire and can’t say why I did. Maybe with him as a director, it’s more like the way you might approach a painting or something. Or perhaps he is tapping into subconscious dream imagery in a compelling manner.

One thing about the DVD is that there are loads of extras and you get to see Lynch’s working methods. He is a lot more hands-on than I would have anticipated but the cast didn’t seem bothered.

Just as an aside, watched Lost Highway yesterday for the first time in over twenty years and thought that was great too.
 
On a roll now, Life on Mars makes it 4. Excellent show, Ashes to Ashes though wasn't nearly as good.
Have a thing for Philip Glenister, he stars in my no.1 choice too but I could probably bet my house I'm the only one who voted for it.
 
Aba452 said:
The World at War was made in the early 70s like me! But nearly 50 years on its probably as definitive a WWII documentary as you'll ever find. The sombre tomes of Olivier as narrator with much rare archive footage particularly Germans' home movies interspersed with interviews from many participants from events then about 25 - 30 years ago at that point.

A lot of the footage contained images of the dead military and all too often civilians something which never fails to shock me. It's not perfect due to the scope of the War they couldn't cover all campaigns, the stuff on india was very cursory. However it is the quality of the interviewees which takes it to another level including Hitler's architect Speer as well as top allied leaders. Amongst the talking heads was one American Army Airforce Captain James Stewart who despite being medically unfit enlisted as a pilot. Great man, great actor rather braver than John Wayne!!!

Just to finish off, the orchestral score by Carl Davies sad poignant and utterly epic.

If you've got about 15 hours to spare this is sobering reminder of what freedoms we take for granted.
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It’s a magnificent endeavour and possibly the high water mark of factual television in terms of scope. Like others have said of I Claudius, it probably would never be made today as it demanded too much of the viewer.
 
Dr Jacoby said:
Boo! Twin Peaks is too low.

The first season was the most captivating television I have seen.
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Proper ‘event’ television as others have said.
I was at university living in a house with six mates when it aired and we would record each episode and rewatch them several times over the sunsequent week, usually accompanied by some strong weed and Red Stripe, to try and pick up/decipher hidden messages and clues. Needless to say we never did get a proper grip on what was really going on. David Lynch was like a mad scientist playing mind games with the entire planet
 
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