Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows

[BlueHammer85]

Genuinely never heard of it.

Do you not have a TV ?

 

[ZenHalfTimeCrock]

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

He is actually pretty measured, sober and usually far less outspoken in his assessment of books, TV shows, music, films and so on.

Anyway, as it’s available to watch for free, I might still give it a go after all. I was just curious as to what distinguishes the series from other police shows and has made it so popular among those who voted for it here.

 

[RobMCFC]

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 sure it's very good, and I know this is probably going to say more about me than the series, but any show that is heavily plugged by the BBC/ITV, has constant trailers and dramatic BBC sound department music and has it's stars making regular appearance on TV chat shows for interviews telling everybody how good it is, puts me right off.

I'd rather watch something a bit more low key and unheralded.

Plus, I've already got a large "to watch" list to take me through the rest of this year.

 

[willipp]

He is actually pretty measured, sober and usually far less outspoken in his assessment of books, TV shows, music, films and so on.

Anyway, as it’s available to watch for free, I might still give it a go after all. I was just curious as to what distinguishes the series from other police shows and has made it so popular among those who voted for it here.

Its really good, hopefully you will enjoy it.

 

[west didsblue]

9 out of my top 10 already in the top 100. I'm surprised that Columbo will be in the top 6 ;-)

Also got 3 from 11-20 in the top 100.
In reality I suspect that just one out my remaining 8 will be in the top 6.

Top 6 prediction:
Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Only Fools & Horses
The Office
Game of Thrones
The Wire
Not necessarily in that order and not what I'd have picked.

 

[N1985]

Never seen Line Of Duty. I probably should.

 

[RobMCFC]

9 out of my top 10 already in the top 100. I'm surprised that Columbo will be in the top 6 ;-)

One thing that I am slightly surprised at it the lack of any 70s/80s American cop/action shows in the top 100.
Didn't vote for any myself, but I would have expected shows like Columbo, The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, Quincy, Starsky & Hutch, Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, The A-team etc. might feature in the lower reaches of the 100.

OK, they never had a story arc, but they were good entertainment for the most part.

 

[OB1]

One thing that I am slightly surprised at it the lack of any 70s/80s American cop/action shows in the top 100.
Didn't vote for any myself, but I would have expected shows like Columbo, The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, Quincy, Starsky & Hutch, Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, The A-team etc. might feature in the lower reaches of the 100.

OK, they never had a story arc, but they were good entertainment for the most part.

Some of those would be in my 100.

 

[Dirty Harry]

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?

It's far fetched and heavily exaggerated in places mate, you'd probably get 50 years of Met fuck ups for just one series in this, it's just very condensed, but as long as you don't take everything too seriously and to the extent it puts over, it's genuinely a cracking show and well worth watching, completely different level to something like 'Luther' imo.

 

[BlueHammer85]

One thing that I am slightly surprised at it the lack of any 70s/80s American cop/action shows in the top 100.
Didn't vote for any myself, but I would have expected shows like Columbo, The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, Quincy, Starsky & Hutch, Hawaii Five-0, Magnum, The A-team etc. might feature in the lower reaches of the 100.

OK, they never had a story arc, but they were good entertainment for the most part.

I will reveal the top 30 shows that just missed out this list. after.