What is the best TV show of all time?
Welcome to Watchies, Still watching award ceremony. In the penultimate episode of VFtelevision podcast by, host Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, And Chris Murphy discuss, debate and ultimately award the best TV shows of all time — at least according to them.
Busis, Lawson and Murphy presented awards in three categories: drama, comedy and reality television. Nominations in the first category: Madman, inheritance, And My so-called life. After HBO’s late offer What remains, the trio decided that AMC Madman take the cake.
Created by Matthew Weiner, Madman starred Jon Hamm as suave and troubled 1960s advertising man Don Draper. The series first aired on AMC on July 19, 2007 and ran until 2015. Madman was certainly celebrated in its time, winning 16 Emmy Awards and five Golden Globes over the course of its seven seasons—yet all three agree that Busis’s choice for the greatest drama series of all time Great is correct. only gets better with age.
“Madman very well done and tied together across seven seasons in a way that surprises you when you binge watch them,” Busis said. “It’s surprising in retrospect that there was no planning for the ending from the beginning, because it ended so well.”
While many may argue that Sopranos is the greatest television series of all time, Lawson proposed the award Madman is a way to express praise Sopranos also. Weiner was hired to write about soprano after sending the specification script to Madman; When he finally got the chance to do his own original show, they acted like natural partners. “Madman And the soprano are in deep dialogue with each other,” Lawson said. “What if soprano is about the end of the American dream, Madman is about the first cough. It was like, ‘Oh, something is wrong here.’”
The nominees for best comedy series of all time are Arrested Development, 30 Rock, And Enlightened. After a heated debate, the hosts made Murphy’s choice, Tina Fey‘S 30 stones Incredible meta-comedy about a sketch comedy series, which first aired on NBC in 2006. Directed by Fey and Robert Carlock, 30 stonesIts joke-per-minute ratio is unparalleled — as is its courage to criticize parent company NBCUniversal without ever taking itself too seriously.
“At its core, it is a friendship that develops between the artist and the corporate outfit,” Lawson said. “The corporate suit is almost always right—it’s an interesting tactic to employ and probably wouldn’t be as warmly welcomed now as it was then.”
Talking about things that may not be long gone: America’s top model beat both RuPaul’s Drag Race And Real world: Seattle for best reality TV show. First aired on UPN in July 2003, America’s top model organized by Tyra Bank, who also served as its executive producer. While many of the situations and challenges on the show—such as making contestants change races for a photo op or forcing one to pose in a coffin for hours after learning his friend had died—have aged quite well. terrible way, ANTM entertaining problem and laid the groundwork for many other reality shows, from Drag race ARRIVE Project runway ARRIVE Top chef. And finally, Banks knows what the main attraction of the show is. “The story about America’s top model The top model is always Tyra,” Murphy said. “It’s always about Tyra.”
