Best US TV drama series

[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!

[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.