Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows

[lancs blue]

Red Dwarf isn't going to be in the list, is it? I can't believe it.

I thought about Red Dwarf but decided that - like Blackadder in my view - it was inconsistent, some episodes were totally flat.

 

[RobMCFC]

I thought about Red Dwarf but decided that - like Blackadder in my view - it was inconsistent, some episodes were totally flat.

Agreed, and I accept that it's a fair reason why people might not put it in their list. But my view is that series 3-6 was consistently brilliant with the 4 main characters bouncing one-liners off each other for the full half hour. 24 episodes of that trumps many shorter series IMO. I had it at #3 on my list so I'll wait for @BlueHammer85 to provide the tale of the tape as to why it missed out ........... or maybe it didn't (but I wouldn't expect it to finish higher than Fawlty Towers and Blackadder).

 

[Stoned Rose]

LOD right up there on my list.

Genius show.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Agreed, and I accept that it's a fair reason why people might not put it in their list. But my view is that series 3-6 was consistently brilliant with the 4 main characters bouncing one-liners off each other for the full half hour. 24 episodes of that trumps many shorter series IMO. I had it at #3 on my list so I'll wait for @BlueHammer85 to provide the tale of the tape as to why it missed out ........... or maybe it didn't (but I wouldn't expect it to finish higher than Fawlty Towers and Blackadder).

i'll put you out your misery Rob

4 picks, but not really close to the top 100

Red Dwarf

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[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

A friend of mine (who is usually spot-on when it comes to the evaluation of TV shows ) had this to say in a recent e-Mail:

‘... in need of something to watch we scoured iPlayer last night. We decided to watch the first Line of Duty in case it wasn’t as crap as it looked. We needn’t have bothered. So desperately earnest, it’s like the Archers, thrusting a CONTEMPORARY ISSUE in your face in the expectation that you will be too polite to say you have already heard of it. I doubt that any episode passes without a heavier expenditure of ammunition than the real Met gets through in a year.’

Obviously, he didn’t stick with the show and I am therefore also minded to avoid it.

Is there someone prepared to argue for its merits?

 

[OB1]

Never seen Line of Duty.

Red Dwarf isn't going to be in the list, is it? I can't believe it.

Ha, I can well believe Red Dwarf isn't on the list.

I have never watched Line of Duty either. Might watch the new series, which starts this weekend and see what the fuss is about.

 

[BlueHammer85]

I have never watched Line of Duty either. Might watch the new series, which starts this weekend and see what the fuss is about.

It's good, plenty of twists and turns and good acting

but i'd say LOD 7th is the biggest surprise for me out of this whole list.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Never seen Line of Duty.
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The new series is starting this weekend on BBC

 

[willipp]

A friend of mine (who is usually spot-on when it comes to the evaluation of TV shows ) had this to say in a recent e-Mail:

‘... in need of something to watch we scoured iPlayer last night. We decided to watch the first Line of Duty in case it wasn’t as crap as it looked. We needn’t have bothered. So desperately earnest, it’s like the Archers, thrusting a CONTEMPORARY ISSUE in your face in the expectation that you will be too polite to say you have already heard of it. I doubt that any episode passes without a heavier expenditure of ammunition than the real Met gets through in a year.’

Obviously, he didn’t stick with the show and I am therefore also minded to avoid it.

Is there someone prepared to argue for its merits?

Just watch it and give it a chance, you might not be as far up your own ass as whoever wrote that review.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Genuinely never heard of it.