Top 10 HBO Series of All Time

[slickdtc]

Re: Top 10 HBO Series of All Time

Maybe Silicon Valley. Only 2 seasons in, something like 10 episodes a season and they are a half hour each. The first season is 8 episodes, 2nd is 10. And the third season just started this weekend.

Seen this through season 2. Probably wait until it's done airing season 3 to catch up. Great show.

Slick, have you watched VEEP?

Nah I'll have to check it out

[JayBee74]

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Vinyl is in its first season. Easy to get caught up.

Sopranos is great, but after season 4 it starts to drag IMO.


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Season's sixes' expansion into virtually two seasons (12 and 9 episodes a year apart) might have had some slow moments

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(wasn't carried away with Tony's getting shot in S6EP1 which lead to several surreal dreams/hallucination over a multi episode arc)

, but had some great stuff, including the rise of Phil Leotardo, the emergence of a thinner Vito, and the gripping episode one that centered on Eugene's attempt to get out of the mob after inheriting two million dollars. I will say #6 was slightly diluted, but I wouldn't say it "dragged". (IMO)

But season five introduced Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi), Phil Leotardo, "Feech" La Manna (Robert Loggia), and Angelo Garepe (Joe Santos) as made men who were all getting out of prison about the same time (they called them "Class of 2004"). All of these characters contributed greatly to what was a fine season, even Garepe whose screen time was limited.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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"Richie is gone."

What an awesome scene (one of many in that episode).

[JayBee74]

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"Richie is gone."

What an awesome scene (one of many in that episode).

Yeah, that episode included this classic Soprano quote:

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[CC]

Re: Top 10 HBO Series of All Time

1. The Wire
2. Game of Thrones
3. Deadwood
4. Entourage
5. The Soprano
6. Band of Brothers
7.OZ
8. True Detective S1 (S2 not as much)
9. How to Make It In America
10. The Pacific

Something like that.

Edit: Oh lol this is old.

When I made this list, I completely spaced on a few shows.

1. The Wire
2. Game of Thrones
3. Entourage through season 5 (or 6. cant remember when exactly it started sucking).
4. Treme
5. Deadwood
6. Curb Your Enthusiasm
7. Sopranos
8. Eastbound and Down
9. The Newsroom
10. OZ

Not a fan of True Blood or Six Feet Under or Veep. Vinyl I haven't seen any of yet.

[Burns11]

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I was bored so I poked around Amazon to see if they had anything decent to watch and saw Carnivale on there, I forgot just how good that show was. Meant to waste an hour, ended up watching all of season 1 and had to force myself to not just go on into the next season. If Amazon had played right through the seasons like Netflix does I wouldn't have stopped, I couldn't have stopped.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I've always felt that one was underrated. The second season is one of my favorite seasons of any show.

[Armor and Sword]

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I had posted my top 5 a bunch of pages back but wanted to round it out. So here we go.


) Game Of Thrones - This show is amazing. I binged watched seasons 1-5 in December and now here we are in season 6. I thoroughly look forward to Sunday night with baited breath. I love Medieval fantasy movies, shows and RPG's (LOTR, Skyrim, Excalibur etc) and this is right in my wheel house.

2) Band of Brothers - Quite frankly, it should be shown in high school US History as required viewing.

3) Six Feet Under - This show was dark, full of humor and simply great.

4) Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David....genius.

5) Oz - Loved every single minute of this prison drama. Awesome TV.

6) The Sopranos - You know you loved this.

7) Sex And The City - My guilty pleasure and some quality time with my wife every Sunday night .

8) The Wire - Gritty, real....intense. One the best indeed.

9) Entourage - I loved.....loved seasons 1-4 then it fizzled...badly.

10) Dream On - Some of you may be too young to remember this one....but I loved it. Superbly funny series about a divorced dad and they also used old TV clips to express emotions. It's highly dated now...but for it's time in the late 80's it was racy TV.


I never watched Deadwood incredibly and I had heard it was awesome. So that is on my list as well as Rome.

[Money99]

Re: Top 10 HBO Series of All Time

I had posted my top 5 a bunch of pages back but wanted to round it out. So here we go.


) Game Of Thrones - This show is amazing. I binged watched seasons 1-5 in December and now here we are in season 6. I thoroughly look forward to Sunday night with baited breath. I love Medieval fantasy movies, shows and RPG's (LOTR, Skyrim, Excalibur etc) and this is right in my wheel house.

2) Band of Brothers - Quite frankly, it should be shown in high school US History as required viewing.

3) Six Feet Under - This show was dark, full of humor and simply great.

4) Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David....genius.

5) Oz - Loved every single minute of this prison drama. Awesome TV.

6) The Sopranos - You know you loved this.

7) Sex And The City - My guilty pleasure and some quality time with my wife every Sunday night .

8) The Wire - Gritty, real....intense. One the best indeed.

9) Entourage - I loved.....loved seasons 1-4 then it fizzled...badly.

10) Dream On - Some of you may be too young to remember this one....but I loved it. Superbly funny series about a divorced dad and they also used old TV clips to express emotions. It's highly dated now...but for it's time in the late 80's it was racy TV.


I never watched Deadwood incredibly and I had heard it was awesome. So that is on my list as well as Rome.

I totally remember Dream On! Loved that show too!

[Hammerhunker]

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1. Sopranos
2. Six Feet Under
3. The Wire
4. True Blood
5. Game of Thrones
6. Boardwalk Empire
7. Veep
8. Silicon Valley
9. Entourage
10. The Newsroom

I made the mistake of jumping in and enjoying Hung and Bored to Death then eventually learned that both series were cancelled. Each list is so open to debate and I don't even agree with my list. I have enjoyed each series on its own merits. What great entertainment HBO has produced over the years.

[DickDalewood]

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My two personal favorites...

1. Entourage

2. Veep

[55]

Re: Top 10 HBO Series of All Time

I had posted my top 5 a bunch of pages back but wanted to round it out. So here we go.


) Game Of Thrones - This show is amazing. I binged watched seasons 1-5 in December and now here we are in season 6. I thoroughly look forward to Sunday night with baited breath. I love Medieval fantasy movies, shows and RPG's (LOTR, Skyrim, Excalibur etc) and this is right in my wheel house.

2) Band of Brothers - Quite frankly, it should be shown in high school US History as required viewing.

3) Six Feet Under - This show was dark, full of humor and simply great.

4) Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David....genius.

5) Oz - Loved every single minute of this prison drama. Awesome TV.

6) The Sopranos - You know you loved this.

7) Sex And The City - My guilty pleasure and some quality time with my wife every Sunday night .

8) The Wire - Gritty, real....intense. One the best indeed.

9) Entourage - I loved.....loved seasons 1-4 then it fizzled...badly.

10) Dream On - Some of you may be too young to remember this one....but I loved it. Superbly funny series about a divorced dad and they also used old TV clips to express emotions. It's highly dated now...but for it's time in the late 80's it was racy TV.


I never watched Deadwood incredibly and I had heard it was awesome. So that is on my list as well as Rome.

Loved "Dream On" back in my high school days. You can totally tell that Seth McFarlane was inspired by that show with the flashbacks/pop culture references when he started doing "Family Guy." A truly forgotten gem.

And you must check out "Boardwalk Empire" too man. Absolutely amazing show.

[JayBee74]

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And you must check out "Boardwalk Empire" too man. Absolutely amazing show.

One of the grittiest shows I've ever seen.

[jeremym480]

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1. Game of Thrones
2. The Wire
3. Boardwalk Empire
4. The Sopranos
5. Six Feet Under
6. Curb Your Enthusiasm
7. True Detective
8. Oz
9. True Blood
10. Eastbound & Down

*The first five are so tough for me.... Honestly, they're all interchangeable based on what kind of mood I'm in.

If The Leftovers has a great S3 then I may have to put it up there ahead of The Wire and The Sopranos.

We just knocked out both seasons of The Leftovers in less than a week and it's amazing. It's already cracked my Top 10 and could be Top 5 depending on what they do with the 3rd Season. Also, if the Leftovers and it's cast doesn't take home an Emmy or two I'm going to be extremely disappointed.

[jake44np]

Re: Top 10 HBO Series of All Time

I had posted my top 5 a bunch of pages back but wanted to round it out. So here we go.


) Game Of Thrones - This show is amazing. I binged watched seasons 1-5 in December and now here we are in season 6. I thoroughly look forward to Sunday night with baited breath. I love Medieval fantasy movies, shows and RPG's (LOTR, Skyrim, Excalibur etc) and this is right in my wheel house.

2) Band of Brothers - Quite frankly, it should be shown in high school US History as required viewing.

3) Six Feet Under - This show was dark, full of humor and simply great.

4) Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David....genius.

5) Oz - Loved every single minute of this prison drama. Awesome TV.

6) The Sopranos - You know you loved this.

7) Sex And The City - My guilty pleasure and some quality time with my wife every Sunday night .

8) The Wire - Gritty, real....intense. One the best indeed.

9) Entourage - I loved.....loved seasons 1-4 then it fizzled...badly.

10) Dream On - Some of you may be too young to remember this one....but I loved it. Superbly funny series about a divorced dad and they also used old TV clips to express emotions. It's highly dated now...but for it's time in the late 80's it was racy TV.


I never watched Deadwood incredibly and I had heard it was awesome. So that is on my list as well as Rome.

Between our love of MLB The Show and you list above, I am pretty sure we are brothers somehow or at least long lost cousins! lol
With that being said, did you not watch True Blood. Or did you not like it?
It just seems like we like a lot of the same shows for the same reasons but you don't mention True Blood.
I absolutely loved the first 4 seasons and the last season of True Blood. It is my 3rd favorite show of all time behind GOT's (which is just truly amazing, my fav show of all time and its not even close) and Lost.