Best US TV drama series

[Prospero]

British television has been enlivened in recent years by some superb drama series imported from the US - in particular series made for HBO.


These have included:
The West Wing
The Wire
Sopranos
Mad Men
Boss
Twin Peaks
Battlestar Galactica
House
Glee
Mildred Pierce
The Pacific
Treme
Wild Palms

and many others.

What are your nominees for the best of US TV ... and why?

[tsadriana]

Twin Peaks ....great drama and great story ...

[jerseyboy72]

The sopranos.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdUaqY0fMaw&list=FLfJIU5_uP8cnl1Ytpw9bFew&index=16&feature=plpp_video

[russtafa]

Rome,American Horror ,Grimm,Weed,True Blood

[GroobySteven]

Best ever? Homicide: Life on the Streets.
Then in order:
The Wire
Deadwood
The Sopranos
Boardwalk Empire
The Shield


Enjoying Breaking Bad, Dexter and Grimm right now.

[gmercer]

Breaking Bad, Dexter (season 1, 2, & 4 are the best), Six Feet Under, Deadwood, The Shield, Lost (but many were disappointed at the ending), Friday Night Lights, Game of Thrones. Also, that new show Homeland is really good.

[rockabilly]

I like "The Walking Dead " and "Weeds",

[arena95]

mad men

[Richctdude]

Walking dead and dexter

[lisaparadise]

British television has been enlivened in recent years by some superb drama series imported from the US - in particular series made for HBO.


These have included:
The West Wing
The Wire
Sopranos
Mad Men
Boss
Twin Peaks
Battlestar Galactica
House
Glee
Mildred Pierce
The Pacific
Treme
Wild Palms

and many others.

What are your nominees for the best of US TV ... and why?house is my fav cause he reminds me of seanchi lol then the westwing and sopranos.

[lisaparadise]

The sopranos.
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdUaqY0fMaw&list=FLfJIU5_uP8cnl1Ytpw9bFew&index=16&feature=plpp_videoomg i dont know how i missed that episode lol best morning laugh ive had in a while lol thank you.

[Prospero]

I forgot to say that, for me, the best of these were The Sopranos and The Wire - though I loved The West Wing as a sort of utopian shadow presidency to the dystopian reality of the times (but it always had the odd "god bless America" moment which made me gag - and i DO love America).
But for sheer inventiveness and bizarre originality I suspect Twin Peaks will never be beaten.

And I forget to mention the black but wonderful "Six Feet Under."

[lisaparadise]

I forgot to say that, for me, the best of these were The Sopranos and The Wire - though I loved The West Wing as a sort of utopian shadow presidency to the dystopian reality of the times (but it always had the odd "god bless America" moment which made me gag - and i DO love America).
But for sheer inventiveness and bizarre originality I suspect Twin Peaks will never be beaten.

And I forget to mention the black but wonderful "Six Feet Under."have you ever seen shark?it got cancelled and it was my fav show http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/internet/shark/

[Prospero]

Shark was good - and bad. Loved the main plotlines, but the business with his daughter used to drive me crazy.

[tsadriana]

Despereate Housewive another good drama/comic series.

[cantona5]

no one mentioned 24! I love that series.

[Dino Velvet]

Boardwalk Empire deserves a mention.

[Prospero]

Both of those - 24 and boardwalk - certainly warrant a mention. Anyone seen Boss (Kelsy Grammar in his first straight role). About a corrupt mayor of Chicago.

[timxxx]

My top 6 in order

The Wire
Sopranos
Mad Men
Oz
Treme
Deadwood

[RainMan]

walking dead, american horror story, hell on wheels, all i can think of at the moment, the wire

[Stavros]

But for sheer inventiveness and bizarre originality I suspect Twin Peaks will never be beaten.

Prospero this shocks me, given your knowledge and understanding of films. Lynch is an avenging angel for the Republican Party and the worn-out morals and misogyny of the 1950s, almost all of his films including Twin Peaks are fundamentally concerned with the negative consequences of the sexual revolution -not Reich's but the 1960s. Blue Velvet? Young innocent guy learns what life is like on 'the other side of the tracks' =a warning to young Americans not to experiment, to go to school, go to church, get a job, vote Republican. Twin Peaks? The negative consequences of allowing your daughter to have sex before marriage, having no control over the young, the young having no respect for their parents, their parents suffering a dysfunctional marriage because they don't have God and Ronald Reagan (Lynch's political hero) in their lives. Mulholland Drive? Naive would-be-star from the boondoks arrive in Hollywood with stars in her eyes and ends up a wracked, washed-up drug addict ruined by the Jews of Hollywood.

Lynch wraps up these jaded and faded moral fables in stylish, slick productions which always contain at least 50% nonsense and pointless charcters (in Twin Peaks the lady with the log, for example) just to make you feel you are watching something original and deep: its neither. Its crap.

At least The Wire is about real life, real people, real problems.

[hippifried]

Breaking Bad

I've known all the chatacters at one time or another.

[chelseafc]

So 'Burn Notice' doesn't count?

[russtafa]

i like the English series the Misfits it's so funny and weird

[bte]

American Horror Story, True Blood, Grimm, House, Law and Order SVU

[Dino Velvet]

Breaking Bad

I've known all the chatacters at one time or another.

Hell yeah!:cheers:

Hippi, you know when the next season starts? I can't wait.

[robertlouis]

Champion the Wonder Horse.


What?

[robertlouis]

Seriously, I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned Band of Brothers so far.

[Ineeda SM]

Flash Gordon ~vs~ Ming The Merciless On The Moon.

[Prospero]

Champion the wonder horse - of course who could forget that. Plus Rin Tin Tin and Lassie and flipper
I thought Band Of brothers was dull thought at least - unlike Pacific - you could tell whoas who.
Stavros - sorry the Marxian interpretation of Twin Peaks had evaded me until now.

[robertlouis]

I mentioned Champion the Wonder Horse in a half-serious way, but one thing singularly lacking in the schedules for many years now, with just a couple of honourable exceptions, is a good western series. Series like Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Maverick, Wyatt Earp, The High Chaparral, were all over TV in the 60s and 70s.

Recently we've had the magnificent revisionist Deadwood, and before that the lyrical Lonesome Dove, but that's about it. Does it mean that the appetite for televised westerns is as low now as it seems to be for movies? In my view it will be a shame to see one of the great traditions of moviemaking die. When Clint Eastwood reaches Boot Hill the western may well die with him.

[Prospero]

Lonesome Dove passed me by totally. The heyday of the Western has gone and i think it impossible to recapture the "innocence" of the Boots and Saddles, Rawhide, Paladin, Gunsmoke, Walls Fargo, Gunsllnger etc days... just consider them a part our misspent youths.

[rbiller]

Of what is on now, The Good Wife and NCIS are probably my favorites. Over the years my favorites include, The West Wing, LA Law, NYPD Blue, Dallas, ER and there are many others. Now if we include mini-series, my all-time favorties are The Winds of War / War and Remembrance and the Thornbirds.

[Hunginmastic]

Dexter
Shameless

Hands down are the best

[Dino Velvet]

Lonesome Dove passed me by totally. The heyday of the Western has gone and i think it impossible to recapture the "innocence" of the Boots and Saddles, Rawhide, Paladin, Gunsmoke, Walls Fargo, Gunsllnger etc days... just consider them a part our misspent youths.

Not too many Westerns made anymore. Not a television program but the remake of 3:10 To Yuma was damn good.

[Jericho]

Not too many Westerns made anymore. Not a television program but the remake of 3:10 To Yuma was damn good.

I hated 3:10 to Yuma but, loved Appaloosa! :shrug

[Dino Velvet]

I hated 3:10 to Yuma

So you're the one? Did you not like Casino either or was that someone else?

[Ineeda SM]

Out of curiosity, did any of you watch a Fox TV series called "FIREFLY"? It only went 14 episodes and was canceled. It was a sci-fi series done in the flavor of the old westerns. The show did terrible in the ratings, but has since become a cult favorite of millions. It ran in reruns on the Syfy Channel for a while, then The Ovation Network ran it. The "Science Channel" is running the series now. They made a follow up theartrical movie just a few years ago called "SERENITY" with the original cast to officially finish the series cliffhangers.

I enjoyed the series and the movie enough to buy all of them on DVD.

[Ineeda SM]

So you're the one? Did you not like Casino either or was that someone else?

The original 3:10 To Yuma was good. The recent remake lacked the content and focused too much on action. It was ok to watch once, but I was disappointed.

I love Casino. I have it on HD/DVD. I love gangster flicks. Goodfellas is another favorite of my collection.

[Yvonne183]

I don't watch much US television, most of it is crap. I'd have to go way back in time for good tv drama like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. Maybe Sons of Anarchy cause of the motorcycles.

But for me nothing in the US can beat out the Brit show "Wire in the Blood". It's so uncanny the resemblance between me and some of the psychos in that series.

Good fellas was great,, but not a tv show, my dad met some of those gangster guys back then.

[Dino Velvet]

The original 3:10 To Yuma was good. The recent remake lacked the content and focused too much on action. It was ok to watch once, but I was disappointed.

I love Casino. I have it on HD/DVD. I love gangster flicks. Goodfellas is another favorite of my collection.

I liked the original with Glenn Ford but thought that Russell Crowe and Christian Bale did a heck of a job too. I was on the edge of my seat the final 30 minutes and hollered at the theater screen at the end. I was completely dialed in. Ben Foster was good too as well as Peter Fonda in a tiny role.