Someone at Empire magazine is smoking crack

[viktor_haag]

According to AICN, here's the shows that Britain's Empire magazine are better than The Wire on their alltime best TV list:
- Friends
- 24
- Lost
- The West Wing
- The Sopranos
- Buffy
- The Simpsons

Oh, please. These sorts of lists always reveal more about how the source feels about their target demographic than it reveals about anything closely approximating an impartial judgement of quality.

MASH? not listed.

Mary Tyler Moore show? not listed.

I Love Lucy? not listed.

Dick vanDyke show? not listed.

The Honeymooners? not listed.

Jack Benny? not listed.

Gunsmoke? not listed.

Any television show at all made before 1980? not listed.

Bah. These sorts of lists only serve to add that frisson of enragement to my day. I must learn not to glance at them.

Comments

[thebitterguy]

In that vein, I'd like to thank you for showing me your Rochester/Marshal Dillon fanfic. I found it very engaging.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Anything before 1995 in fact, with the exception of the Simpsons!

[maliszew.livejournal.com]

That's what you get for reading AICN. The whole site seems designed to add the frisson of enragement to my life.

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

No children's TV, either (Sesame Street, Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, The Electric Company).

And where is The Odd Couple? The original Twilight Zone? The Muppet Show? The Prisoner?

::B::

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

They made a TV show of Gunsmoke? :O