Shows where you like every season

[mattiasflgrtll6]

It's rare for a show to go without a weaker season. Even with ones I love there's at least one where I go "Yeah, that wasn't really the best year...", or worse, they go downhill. But with a few there is just such consistent quality for me that I can't say that one is really bad or anything. Some of these examples for me include...

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Out of the ones they made my least favorite is probably Aqua Unit Patrol Squad. It doesn't feel quite as random and goofy as other seasons, but it's definitely still fun to watch.

24: I know a lot of people hate season 6, and even the cast and crew don't think it's the most inventive when they look back at it. But you know what? I think it's still good. Sure, there are some repeated plot elements and at times the drama gets very soapy, but most of the time it gives me that thrill I'm looking for when I watch the show, and Jack Bauer is still as fascinating of a character as ever. The finale sees him making one of the toughest decisions of his life. It's truly heartwrenching.

Oz: Can't even rank them. Love each and every last one of these seasons.

Moral Orel: On the contrary, it only gets better and better.

The Ren & Stimpy Show: While season 5 is not the funniest one of the bunch, I think it's good in its own right. John Kricfalusi is a legend, but the Games Animation era is better than people give it credit for.

Metalocalypse: Fantastic dark comedy series throughout (even if the last year had some rushed episode endings)

Twin Peaks: I haven't seen the revival yet, but the second season had some people feeling mixed on its quality. I thought it was great all the way through, with only a few slightly fillery episodes. The last three episodes alone are worth the entire ride.

[Velvet]

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[John McClane]

House
The Expanse
Frontier
Battlestar Galatic (the reboot)
Marco Polo
The Shield
Sons of Anarchy

[cricket]

Survivor
Breaking Bad
The Shield

[ynwtf]

Breaking Bad
Deadwood
Lost
Hell on Wheels
Star Trek: TNG
Rome
Battlestar Galactica reboot
The Wire

[John McClane]

Holy crap, how did I forget these two?!? Probably because I was so traumatized by their endings.

Hell on Wheels
Deadwood

[SeeingisBelieving]

It's rare for a show to go without a weaker season. Even with ones I love there's at least one where I go "Yeah, that wasn't really the best year...", or worse, they go downhill. But with a few there is just such consistent quality for me that I can't say that one is really bad or anything. Some of these examples for me include...

Secret Army was fantastic all the way through.

[Saunch]

Gravity Falls *******!

[Gideon58]

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Oz: Can't even rank them. Love each and every last one of these seasons.



Nice to see love for Oz, though, personally, I hated the final season.

[Gideon58]

The Odd Couple
The Rockford Files
Knots Landing
Scandal
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Dirty Sexy Money
Desperate Housewives
Bewitched
Revenge

[Stirchley]

I never can analyze different seasons of a show. They all tend to blur together for me. If I love a show (The Sopranos, e.g.), I usually remember the seasons as all being good.

[lenslady]

Good topic. M.


I also can't analyze or remember every season of shows I've liked, but those that I have an overall good feeling about are the ones I 'll list. And I sure do remember some shows that ' jumped the shark'. Like The Practice when they pushed Dylan McDermott out. Grey's Anatomy was another one that, despite its long run, just got boring and outlandish to me.

But there's lots of good ones. A few of these I've only seen in reruns, but these
are the shows I remember as having a total quality run:

Mary Tyler Moore show
Dick Van Dyke show
The Honeymooners
Becker
Monk
House
Star Trek ( the original)
Taxi
Murder She Wrote ( a guilty pleasure)
Cagney and Lacey
Doc Martin
Nova
Peep and the Big Wide World ( another guilty pleasure ; a kids show I like as an adult)
Judging Amy
Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show)
David Letterman (Late Night & Late Show)

[doubledenim]

Awesome to see ATHF, I wish Carl was my neighbor in real life :(


Ren & Stimpy may never get the appreciation it's due. Simply put, those episodes are work of art. Absurd, maybe :D I could ramble all day about that show, but it was truly made in a different time. Nickelodeon.


Breaking Bad is the only show that floats to the top of my brain. DARK is currently living in the neighborhood. Carnivale would be there if it got cancelled after 1 season. Pretty sure Firefly never suffered from bloat.

[dadgumblah]

Great topic!
Star Trek all versions that aired on FREE TV! :mad:
M*A*S*H (the big finale was a bit too serious, yet I still liked it)
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Andy Griffith Show
The Twilight Zone
Cheers
Frasier
Battlestar Galactica (reboot)
Hill Street Blues
The Wild, Wild West
All In the Family
Sanford and Son
Seinfeld
Monty Python's Flying Circus
Fawlty Towers

[mattiasflgrtll6]

After finishing it recently, I gotta give a shoutout to Californication. Sure it wasn't quite as great throughout, but still great. Just like 24 season 6 is the weakest, but it still gives me what I'm looking for with Californication. The characters alone save the occasionally ridiculous scenarios. I also loved the way the show ended.

[Yam12]

After finishing it recently, I gotta give a shoutout to Californication. Sure it wasn't quite as great throughout, but still great. Just like 24 season 6 is the weakest, but it still gives me what I'm looking for with Californication. The characters alone save the occasionally ridiculous scenarios. I also loved the way the show ended.


Nah Season 7 was worse cause that Levon guy was annoying as hell. Ending was pretty good tho.

[GulfportDoc]

IMO all 5 seasons (so far) of Bosch have been fairly consistently well done. If one has read Michael Connelly's novels, it takes getting used to how they've made some PC cast changes. But overall they're pretty well produced.

Titus Welliver as Harry Bosch is a near exact representation of the mental image one gets of Bosch from the novels. He does play it a little too dourly, but the character absorbs it.

Connelly is arguably the best police procedural crime novelist in the past 10 years or so, so there is plenty of material for the screenwriters; and Connelly is not slowing down. Most of the seasons are compendiums of several of his novels blended into one multi-faceted story.

The 5th season was a little weak for my taste, simply because the Harry Bosch character doesn't seem to lend itself to an undercover ringer story. Happily they toned down that portion from the novel, so the other parts kept it at a more believable level. A 6th season is in the works.

~Doc

[Gideon58]

Survivor
Breaking Bad
The Shield

Forgot about The Shield...I'll second that

[mattiasflgrtll6]

I have a new entry now: Six Feet Under. Even in season 3 where the Lisa character starts getting boring and unlikable, there are still many things to love about it. It's got one hell of an impactful season finale too, not to mention the fascinating first 20 minutes of the premiere where Nate floats between life and death.

[Stirchley]

⬆️ I own the box set of Six Feet Under. Brilliant show.

[ynwtf]

Huh. Nice bump. Even given the OP, I had not considered animations so yeah ATHF should probably be added to my list. Same for Venture Bros. That was just so great once story arcs carried over season to season. I should also make an edit to my list under Battlestar Gallactica (reboot) as the last season (and a half?) was kind of weak in comparison to the whole, IMO.

[Cobra]

Trailer Park Boys
Married With Children
Tales From The Crypt
Ren and Stimpy
Rocko's Modern Life
Kenan and Kel
Jacka__
Viva La Bam
Seinfeld
Dukes of Hazzard
Goosebumps

[matt72582]

The Larry Sanders Show
Peep Show

[xSookieStackhouse]

Shadowhunters
Greys Anatomy
Station 19
True Blood
Charmed (1998 Version)
Dawsons Creek
Sabrina The Teenage Witch (90s Version)
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Angel
CSI
CSI:Miami
CSI: New York
Ghost Whisperer
Bones
Dark Angel
ER
Scrubs
Friends
Heroes
Lost
Goosebumps (90s version)
Are You Afraid Of The Dark (90s version)
21 Jump Street
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
Xena: Warrior Princess
Roswell (90s version)
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Party of Five (90s version)
The Secret World of Alex Mack
Darkwing Duck
Rugrats
The Wild Thornberrys
Beverly Hills, 90210 (90s version)
CatDog
i have alot from 90s to early 2000s favorites lol cant be bothered to write them all lol

[John-Connor]

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[gandalf26]

Not many shows out there that have had strong seasons, every season.

The Shield (as others have mentioned)
The Wire - Lots of people don't like the 2nd or final season as much but I do.
The Sopranos -If anything S1 is the weakest but still good, bit of a dodgy pilot that they ret conned later.
Breaking Bad, again S1 was lacking a bit but you can forgive them due to writers strike.

I would have said Peaky Blinders as reminded by John Connor above but that season with Adrian Brody as the avenging Mafioso was quite bad.

I'm sure more will pop in my head later.

[AgrippinaX]

Breaking Bad
Hannibal

[Gideon58]

[QUOTE=mattiasflgrtll6;1983403]It's rare for a show to go without a weaker season. Even with ones I love there's at least one where I go "Yeah, that wasn't really the best year...", or worse, they go downhill. But with a few there is just such consistent quality for me that I can't say that one is really bad or anything. Some of these examples for me include...


Oz: Can't even rank them. Love each and every last one of these seasons.

Also loved Oz except for the final season...it sucked.

[John-Connor]

I would have said Peaky Blinders as reminded by John Connor above but that season with Adrian Brody as the avenging Mafioso was quite bad.Forgot about that, it was quite a drop in quality compared to the other seasons. I'll put The Shield or Oz or Deadwood in it's place.

[Chypmunk]

Fawlty Towers

[Stirchley]

The Wire - Lots of people don't like the 2nd or final season as much but I do.

My fave season is season 2. Unbelievably good IMO.

I'll put The Shield or Oz or Deadwood in it's place.

Binge-watching The Shield for the 3rd time.

[gandalf26]

My fave season is season 2. Unbelievably good IMO.



Binge-watching The Shield for the 3rd time.

S2 might just be mine too, though I love s3 with all the comstat meetings and Bunny Colvin. Lets be honest the whole things a masterpiece.

Must be 6-7 years since I watched the Shield last, it's getting to top of the list again.

[Stirchley]

Must be 6-7 years since I watched the Shield last, it's getting to top of the list again.

It’s brilliant. On season 3 now & it’s getting better & better. Michael Chiklis really made this show.

[gandalf26]

It’s brilliant. On season 3 now & it’s getting better & better. Michael Chiklis really made this show.

What's truly amazing about the Shield for me is that it didn't get more recognition.

Another thing I take away is that Micheal Chiklis said many Police approached him and said Vic Mackey was exactly like them, which is scary but unsurprising given decades of shocking Police behavior and virtually no accountability.

[Stirchley]

What's truly amazing about the Shield for me is that it didn't get more recognition.

Another thing I take away is that Micheal Chiklis said many Police approached him and said Vic Mackey was exactly like them, which is scary but unsurprising given decades of shocking Police behavior and virtually no accountability.

Right. It’s never gotten the acclaim of The Wire, e.g. Because it’s not as good a show, IMO.

Funny thing, if you noticed. No bad language. Definitely no “f” bombs. It was on Fx & no bad language was allowed. This made it not quite believable, IMO, because you know Mackey & Shane would have had appalling language. (Just researched and, apparently, since it was on basic cable with advertisers, the language had to be toned down.)

Do you remember Aceveda’s oral rape scene? Wow, amazing acting. So hard to watch.

Some terrific fight scenes in the show. When Shane & Tavon got into it, e.g. Terrific scene.

[Gideon58]

I just remembered another sitcom that belongs here:

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/11/26/ron-glass-21-bcf1f6987aa22f18d100aafc4a16bb99cfa86708.jpg


On of the most brilliantly written and cast sitcoms ever

[Stirchley]

⬆️ Does it have a name?

[mark f]

"Barney Miller"