TV of 2011, OS Style

[Mo]

I gave Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones all 10's and Son's of Anarchy a 9. Apparently not many people on OS like truly great, compelling television.

I ranked BB, but I don't remember what it was. No one else ranked it. (I think)

I also gave Justified a 10. No one else ranked it.

Jesse- I gave Louie a 5. Just missed the cut.


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[jake44np]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

My Favorites in order:
1. Modern Family
2. True Blood
3. Storage Wars
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. Last Man Standing (Got horrible reviews but i love Tim Allen)

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

My favorites this year:

American Horror Story
Community
New Girl
Modern Family
True Blood

[areobee401]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

My top 5

1. How To Make It In America
2. Boardwalk Empire
3. Shamless
4. American Horror Story
5. The Big Bang Theory

True Blood just misses the cut.

[jeremym480]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

My favorites this year:

American Horror Story
Community
New Girl
Modern Family
True Blood

I gave True Blood a 9 and American Horror Story an 8. Although, AHS gets my vote for best new show of the year.

I didn't vote for Community, Parks and Rec or Modern Family. I watched part of the first season of Community and didn't really care for it. It's getting rave reviews now so maybe I'll give it another go. I'm a big fan of Parks and Rec. However, I'm a late comer and only in season 2 which means I couldn't vote for it. I really liked the first season of Modern Family, but don't watch it anymore. It's a little to sitcomy for my taste and all the episodes sort of seemed the same.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

I gave True Blood a 9 and American Horror Story an 8. Although, AHS gets my vote for best new show of the year.

I didn't vote for Community, Parks and Rec or Modern Family. I watched part of the first season of Community and didn't really care for it. It's getting rave reviews now so maybe I'll give it another go. I'm a big fan of Parks and Rec. However, I'm a late comer and only in season 2 which means I couldn't vote for it. I really liked the first season of Modern Family, but don't watch it anymore. It's a little to sitcomy for my taste and all the episodes sort of seemed the same.

I enjoyed AHS more than really any other show this year. It was as fun and entertaining as the story was tight. True Blood was probably the best season since season 1. It embraced the legendary campiness, but actually balanced the characters better and more engrossing stories for the remaining cast.

I understand about Modern Family. It is definitely a sit-com and sometimes plays a heavy, moral/sentimental hand, but it is often times hilarious. I don't think its as creative as Community, but I don't see too many sit-com comedies worth watching much anymore.

I need to catch up on so many shows: Parks & Rec, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk, Archer, etc.

I also completely forgot Friday Night Lights was this past season. I would probably bump New Girl out to make room for that.

[55]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

This was my poll:

1- Breaking Bad (10 points, would give more if I could)
2- Boardwalk Empire (9 points)
3- Curb Your Enthusiasm (8 points)
4- Sons Of Anarchy (7 points)
5- Parks And Recreation (6 points)
6- The League (5 points)
7- The Office (4 points)
8- Bored To Death (3 points)
9- It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (2 points)
10- Beavis And Butthead (1 point)

[Husker_OS]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

Didn't vote but...


1. How I Met Your Mother
2. Lizard Lick Towing
3. Body of Proof
4. American Pickers
5. Flip Men

[mburke2]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

I didn't send in a ballot because I didn't watch all that many TV shows on a regular basis this year, but here are the ones I really liked in no particular order:

Game of Thrones
HIMYM
Big Bang Theory
Modern Family
Happy Endings
Parks and Rec
Pawn Stars

[55]

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People really watch those pawn shop and tow truck shows? No offense to anyone but I watched about five minutes of one of those tow truck shows (I think it was a repo show with a bunch of fat people) when I was flipping through channels and I think I lost a few brain cells in the process.

[mburke2]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

People really watch those pawn shop and tow truck shows? No offense to anyone but I watched about five minutes of one of those tow truck shows (I think it was a repo show with a bunch of fat people) when I was flipping through channels and I think I lost a few brain cells in the process.

There's a HUGE difference between what's on the History Channel (Pawn Stars, American Pickers, American Restoration) and those fake "reality" shows on TruTV (like the repo show you're talking about). Anything on History>>>>>>> anything on TruTV.

[55]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

I know those tow truck shows are pretty fake. My brother used to drive a tow truck and do police tows during the week and repossessions on weekends and I would go with him on a lot of those tows, especially in the winter time or when he had to go to a bad neighborhood just to back him up. They were highly uneventful to say the least. Doing accident tows for the cops was much more entertaining (also heartbreaking sometimes when there was a fatality) than the repo tows. I have plenty of stories about the accident tows but can't think of a single one of the repo tows that is remotely interesting. The majority of the time, we just drove to where the vehicle was supposed to be at, hooked it up and left. Every now and then someone would discover we were taking their car but all they did was either beg or bribe us not to take or just go back inside. Nobody ever tried to get physical with us or really even mouth off that bad.

[Dirty Turtles]

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My top 5 would have been as follows:

#5 South Park
#4 Pawn Stars
#3 American Dad
#2 The League
#1 Person of Interest

#6-10 would be some combination of Mantracker, The Simpsons, Mythbusters, American Pickers, and Storm Chasers.

[Mo]

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And I just saw that I made an error,

The Top 5(7) were

5th.(Tie)Boardwalk Empire/How I Met Your Mother/ Archer(19 points)
4th.Community (21 points)
3rd. Louie(24 points)
2nd. Breaking Bad(28 points)
1st. Parks And Recs(31 points)

[Bellsprout]

Re: TV of 2011, OS Style

I still approve of that. More so, actually. Glad Louie made it.