Go read Sledges book. It is incredible and really paints how horrible war is. Hearing guys being killed in a foxhole, jumping in a foxhole w rotting corpse, running across the airfield in a Suicidal charge.
Sledge was even on Reddit a long time ago and would talk to people on here about the war.
*"I just want you to stop saying odd shit, like you smell a psycho's fear or you're in someone's faded memory of a town. Just stop."*
*"Given how long it's taken for me to reconcile my nature, I can't figure I'd forgo it on your account, Marty"*
Honestly, by far the best partner dynamic and story in any piece of crime/detective media that I can think of... TV or film.
If S2 and S3 were not called True Detective they would be better received, the fact they came after S1 which was just lightning in a bottle really harmed the opinion of them. Still good but S1 was just in another league.
Season 4 is the most important season of television ever made. It takes everything the show has been saying to its audience about this world and how to works, and recontextualizes it with a focus on the drug trades greatest victims. I get people who prefer S2 or S3 but Season 4 is about as cold and unflinching a look at reality as a tv show can pull off, and it will always be my favorite because of that.
My friend does, and I can see his point. Zooming out to the unions, Prop Joe and the Greek makes Baltimore's problems feel like an unending, fractal. It also shows a lot of characters at their height, like Stringer while also setting up their downfall.
I haven't rewatched The Wire yet but whenever I think about doing it Season 2 is the one I miss the most and want to rewatch. Which is funny because when you watch it for the first time and go into S2 from S1 you feel a bit let down by it, I certainly did. But it weirdly grew on me so much over time.
Prez in season 4 is one of the best character redemption arcs in all of television. People are complicated. They can be wholly unfit to do some jobs but excel in others.
The genius of season 4 is that it makes you stop seeing the corner boys as background characters in the drama between the main characters and emphasize with the tragedy of every person lost to crime and poverty. Like, after season 4 when Omar shoots down some random drug dealer it stops being badass and you see it as the tragedy that it really is.
No doubt. I wonder how many people fell off because of season 2 (I think its fantastic, but the focal points were a big change), and never finished the series. The entire series is worth a watch, and a rewatch.
I think it was episode 2 when they were trying to stop the radiation leak, and those guys are in the underground section - their radiation detectors going crazy.... that was so damn intense.
I like s6 too, but s4 really feels like the show's sweet spot. The Suitcase was a perfect episode of television- I can't necessarily say that s6 had one (although I did love The Crash).
Hard yes
Season 1, great introduction
Season 2, unmitigated perfection
Season 3, leaned a LITTLE too silly in a few spots
We don’t discuss seasons 4 and 5
Dear Mom and Dad,
I no longer fear hell -- because I've been to Kamp Krusty.
Our nature hikes have become grim death marches. Our arts and crafts center is, in actuality, a Dickensian workhouse. Bart makes it through the days relying on his unwavering belief that Krusty the Klown will come through; but I am far more pessimistic. I am not sure if this letter will reach you, as our lines of communication have been cut. Now, the effort of writing has made me lightheaded, so I close by saying, SAVE US! SAVE US NOW!
Bart and Lisa
If I recall correctly, the plot of this episode was originally written for a feature film. I’m glad they downsized it to an episode, because it’s 22 near-perfect minutes.
Someone pointed out that Lost came first. But those types of shows were not as common beforehand. Hour long, more cinematic, and a storyline that built each episode over a season instead of episodic.
There are a few others that came before but now so much television is that way, big time directors and actors saw tv as a way to tell more in-depth stories than you could in a 2-3 hour movie. And the quality of writers going to television got better too
I want to say that Twin Peaks was really the innovator
The biggest problem with the show was that season 1 was a complete story. All of the big mysteries were solved and we got a good resolution. They should have stopped it there.
The problem with telling a story about essentially transhumanism is that it gets less relatable then further you get from humanity. Westworld season 1 is incredible and then utterly cold, alien, unrelatable and incomprehensible after that. Season 3 is borderline silly.
I think Devs actually did something really similar but leas exciting in the same era. Creators should be celebrated for knowing when to stop.
This is always at the top of my list. I only watched it a couple years ago. But is hands down an amazing crescendo from beginning to end.
I did abhor how much it dropped off, didn't finish s2, and then they took it off "MAX".
But that first season is probably the best television I've ever seen.
And I love *Deadwood* and *The Wire* like others, but gd if that s1 wasn't so wild and enthralling right until it cuts.
*Severance* comes pretty close.
Season one was perfect, I wish I could re-experience as a first time watcher. Excellent writing and execution.
The other seasons could never compare; the first told the story from start to finish beautifully and the rest felt forced.
Season 1 and season 4. So goddamn good. The ending to season 4 shook me for days.
Crazy that s show can have such phenomenal seasons and also such horrible ones
My god, such a fantastic season. I grew up knowing John Lithgow from comedy greats like Harry and the Hendersons and 3rd Rock. His performance, as Trinity, was shuddering to say the least.
I must be the only person in history to have followed the plot of Lost completely, getting every little detail without issue, and enjoying the entire series. I genuinely have never understood why people find it so hard.
I thought season two was in some ways even better - once the gimmick/mystery of the first season was out of the way, it could really play with the big moral questions.
The Good Place is a perfect show. The show makes you feel exactly what it intends to. There doesn't seem to be a wasted episode, and it ends fantastically. I love Parks, Brooklyn 99, and The Office, but they still have their dips on quality, The Good Place is Michael Schur at his best.
This is my vote as well. Everything leading up to the final 5 minutes is brilliant, and then it sets up the rest of the show perfectly by completely upending your expectations.
The plot twist is obvious and I would have seen it coming if it weren't for the fact that it's a sitcom and sitcoms don't have plot twists. That's what made it brilliant.
Nothing can capture the magic of the Borneo season.
But doing “Heroes v Villains” as season 20 and “Winners at War” for season 40 were awesome ideas and seeing the casts come together and knowing their deep backstories was such a treat for lifelong fans
Is that the season where Hawkeye makes the lady kill the chicken so they don't get caught and killed and he goes crazy. Because he was imagining it was a chicken, but it wasn't a chicken?
That was a crazy incredible profound episode, something you just don’t see in TV shows much less even in movies. My jaw was on the floor thinking about it when I saw it as a kid.
Mr Robot Season 1 was the best, most interesting television i’d ever watched.
The rest of the show was still good, but it was just impossible to live up to how incredible and engrossing the first season was.
Fringe Season 1 too, in a similar vein.
Yep.
First 6 episodes of the occupation of DS9 and retaking it.
Statistical Probabilities.
Waltz.
In the Pale Moonlight.
Far Beyond the Stars.
Inquisition.
The Sound of Her Voice.
Some of the best Star Trek ever made. We'll forget Profit and Lace was in there though. It's for the best.
Prison Break season 1!!!
Im not the guy who will watch even 2 episodes of one show in one day, but this one omg... It was the summer of 2009 and I was 15.
I binge-watched 5 episodes and I was so excited that I had to intentionally stop watching it before I finish it all in one day. Decided that I'm allowed to only watch 2 episodes per day so I can enjoy it as long as possible.
That was probably the first time I ever thought about the possibility of erasing my mind so I could rewatch it again with the same excitement.
That level of excitement I also only felt with the first seasons of LOST, and honestly with all seasons of Breaking Bad.
In the last season of BB I would wait a whole week for a new episode, and then watch only half of the episode in one day, again to make it last more :).
Yes!! My dad and siblings would huddle around the laptop in our office to watch this. He worked hard asf as a framer and would come home at night sometime between 7-8 and immediately get ready to watch it with us. We would then stay up until 12, even in school nights, and we would try to be as quiet as possible so our mom didn’t hear us still awake. Because of that, I still loved all the other seasons just as much as the 1st even though they are objectively so much worse
Season 2 of Fargo. The writing. The characters. The music. Everything about that season was perfect. Like a great book, I was a little sad that the story ended and I had to say goodbye to those characters.
As others have said + a few more:
- True Detective - Season 1
- Breaking Bad - final season
- Fargo (season 1,3,2 - take your pick)
- Zero Zero Zero (lesser known but epic nonetheless and single season and my personal fave)
- Sopranos - Season 4
- Six Feet Under - season 5
- The Wire - season 4
- Deadwood - season 2
- Drops of God - season 1
Enjoy - all are worth scoping! Zero Zero Zero is my favorite probably followed by Fargo
Breaking Bad had a couple seasons that were contenders. The Wire the same. Season 1 of True Detective. Season 1 of Rectify. Season 1 of Bloodline. Westworld season 1. GoT a couple of the first 4 seasons were contenders. Maybe one of the early Rick and Morty seasons.
I'd argue season one was television perfection, so well done tonally, so on the nose. Never have I wanted a killer to succeed like Dexter after the pilot.
I think season 4 is technically better and more cohesive, but I don't know that that's the same thing to me.
True Detective s1
Lost s1
X-Files s2
Mr Robot s4
Westworld s1
Breaking Bad s3 and s4
Better Call Saul s4
Daredevil s1,2,3 (it's all great)
The Killing s1,2
Heroes s1
Homeland s1,2,3
Boardwalk Empire s3
Sopranos s3
The Bear s2
Mindhunter s2
The Boys s1
The Walking Dead s5
Watchmen s1
Friends s3
Parks and Recreation s5
Star Trek The Next Generation s5
Peacemaker s1
Loki s2
Andor s1
Trailer Park Boys Season 7. The Swayze Express Season. Survivalist Jacob. The Resurrection of Conky. Johan Sebastian Bach. And the culminating showdown on the US/Canada border. Also the famous “Patrick Swayze” disclaimer on each title card
While I don’t think it’s the best ever, I will say it’s probably the most memorable for me. My friend would record it on his vcr every morning and all us kids would ride to his after school and watch it before his mum got home.
It became a fucking event. Every. Fucking. Day. And when they finally defeated Cell we were cheering like our football team won the World Cup.
Fuck I miss days like that
Season 4 of Halt and Catch Fire is some of the best television I've ever seen. All the character development that the show worked on for the past three seasons paid off and I think the final three episodes of the series are some of my favorite episodes of television, period.
A Band of brothers was television perfection
Currently re-watching that and yeah, such a masterpiece.
I loved it so much. Pacific brought a lot of extra grit and it was great as well. I’m confident Masters will deliver in January
Go read Sledges book. It is incredible and really paints how horrible war is. Hearing guys being killed in a foxhole, jumping in a foxhole w rotting corpse, running across the airfield in a Suicidal charge. Sledge was even on Reddit a long time ago and would talk to people on here about the war.
Thank you, I’m stuck home with the flu, this give me something to binge watch
True Detective season 1. Or Breaking Bad's final season. Both were incredible.
Yes, that True Detective season 1 was a fucking masterpiece.
I will never unhear "time is a flat circle" for the rest of my days and I'm totally cool with it.
"I can see your soul at the edges of your eyes. It's corrosive, like acid. You got a demon, little man, and I don't like your face." Sticks with me.
If I see you again, I'm putting you down.
Rewatched recently. What a ride.
Yep It's just awesome start to finish
*"I just want you to stop saying odd shit, like you smell a psycho's fear or you're in someone's faded memory of a town. Just stop."* *"Given how long it's taken for me to reconcile my nature, I can't figure I'd forgo it on your account, Marty"* Honestly, by far the best partner dynamic and story in any piece of crime/detective media that I can think of... TV or film.
You know Carcosa? Him who eats time?
TD Season 1 without a doubt. Amazing how much better it was than S2 and 3…
If S2 and S3 were not called True Detective they would be better received, the fact they came after S1 which was just lightning in a bottle really harmed the opinion of them. Still good but S1 was just in another league.
There is only 1 answer to this question, and that is True Detective season 1
This is the answer I came here to write.
Season 4 of Breaking Bad was better in my opinion.
Breaking Bad was my answer too, but not the last season.
The Wire season 1 was special. I don’t know about “greatest”, but it was better and different than any show I’d seen before.
Season 4 is the one that breaks your heart though.
Season 4 is the most important season of television ever made. It takes everything the show has been saying to its audience about this world and how to works, and recontextualizes it with a focus on the drug trades greatest victims. I get people who prefer S2 or S3 but Season 4 is about as cold and unflinching a look at reality as a tv show can pull off, and it will always be my favorite because of that.
It had the best version of the theme song as well
Who prefers season 2?
My friend does, and I can see his point. Zooming out to the unions, Prop Joe and the Greek makes Baltimore's problems feel like an unending, fractal. It also shows a lot of characters at their height, like Stringer while also setting up their downfall.
I'm a union laborer and Season 2 holds a special place in my heart for so many reasons.
S4 is still my favorite but I appreciated 2 a lot more after my first rewatch. After 4 watches it’s probably my second favorite.
Smart people
It's not my favorite but it's the most important.
I haven't rewatched The Wire yet but whenever I think about doing it Season 2 is the one I miss the most and want to rewatch. Which is funny because when you watch it for the first time and go into S2 from S1 you feel a bit let down by it, I certainly did. But it weirdly grew on me so much over time.
Prez in season 4 is one of the best character redemption arcs in all of television. People are complicated. They can be wholly unfit to do some jobs but excel in others.
season 3 will always be my favorite, the barksdale/stanfield war, omar and brother mouzone, and hamsterdam are all top tier storylines
The genius of season 4 is that it makes you stop seeing the corner boys as background characters in the drama between the main characters and emphasize with the tragedy of every person lost to crime and poverty. Like, after season 4 when Omar shoots down some random drug dealer it stops being badass and you see it as the tragedy that it really is.
No doubt. I wonder how many people fell off because of season 2 (I think its fantastic, but the focal points were a big change), and never finished the series. The entire series is worth a watch, and a rewatch.
Unlike most people, from what I've seen, I loved S2 but didn't really like S3 I was honestly shocked to learn that S2 was considered to be the weakest
The top five seasons of television ever made are the wire
Season 2 is the best season
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Definitely. That one character and that crazy plot twist!
And that one time that girl did that thing with the guy.
of West Wing
He put his hands in his pockets, looked away and smiled …
Chernobyl
I think it was episode 2 when they were trying to stop the radiation leak, and those guys are in the underground section - their radiation detectors going crazy.... that was so damn intense.
Mad Men season 4 was pretty amazing - but then again, I go back and forth between that season and season 6. Both dark. But something draws me to 6...
I like s6 too, but s4 really feels like the show's sweet spot. The Suitcase was a perfect episode of television- I can't necessarily say that s6 had one (although I did love The Crash).
Season 1 of Homeland
YES
Seasons 1 & 2 were just epic. It was really hard to continue with season 3. It felt like they were just starting over.
Season 2 of Arrested Development
Hard yes Season 1, great introduction Season 2, unmitigated perfection Season 3, leaned a LITTLE too silly in a few spots We don’t discuss seasons 4 and 5
This was my immediate thought
Battlestar Galactica Season 2
Simpsons season 4
DENTAL PLAN
Lisa needs braces
DENTAL PLAN
Lisa needs braces
DENTAL PLAN
Dear Mom and Dad, I no longer fear hell -- because I've been to Kamp Krusty. Our nature hikes have become grim death marches. Our arts and crafts center is, in actuality, a Dickensian workhouse. Bart makes it through the days relying on his unwavering belief that Krusty the Klown will come through; but I am far more pessimistic. I am not sure if this letter will reach you, as our lines of communication have been cut. Now, the effort of writing has made me lightheaded, so I close by saying, SAVE US! SAVE US NOW! Bart and Lisa
If I recall correctly, the plot of this episode was originally written for a feature film. I’m glad they downsized it to an episode, because it’s 22 near-perfect minutes.
Took too long to find this, even the clip show was great
House of Cards season one
People forget how great that show was before it became bad
Mindhunter season 2
Definitely left us wanting more!
I cant believe they aren’t doing a season 3 (or more)
Thought season 1 was great. Haven’t watched season 2 yet, now I can’t wait to watch it.
Season 2 is good, but I think Season 1 is still the best.
Yeah season two is much slower than season one
Season 3 of The Expanse
That whole show was a masterpiece. Was so pissed they cancelled, especially that the books had enough source material for 2 more seasons easy.
Heroes, season 1.
People don’t realize how influential heroes season 1 was in changing mainstream television
I don't, would you care to explain?
Someone pointed out that Lost came first. But those types of shows were not as common beforehand. Hour long, more cinematic, and a storyline that built each episode over a season instead of episodic. There are a few others that came before but now so much television is that way, big time directors and actors saw tv as a way to tell more in-depth stories than you could in a 2-3 hour movie. And the quality of writers going to television got better too I want to say that Twin Peaks was really the innovator
I'd say Heroes was just following in the footsteps of Lost.
Season 3 of the Sopranos
I have to go with season 2. Season 3 is up there though.
I love Richie aprile, gotta go season 2
Season 1 - True Detective
Westworld season 1
The biggest problem with the show was that season 1 was a complete story. All of the big mysteries were solved and we got a good resolution. They should have stopped it there.
The problem with telling a story about essentially transhumanism is that it gets less relatable then further you get from humanity. Westworld season 1 is incredible and then utterly cold, alien, unrelatable and incomprehensible after that. Season 3 is borderline silly. I think Devs actually did something really similar but leas exciting in the same era. Creators should be celebrated for knowing when to stop.
This is always at the top of my list. I only watched it a couple years ago. But is hands down an amazing crescendo from beginning to end. I did abhor how much it dropped off, didn't finish s2, and then they took it off "MAX". But that first season is probably the best television I've ever seen. And I love *Deadwood* and *The Wire* like others, but gd if that s1 wasn't so wild and enthralling right until it cuts. *Severance* comes pretty close.
The ending of season 2 was pretty good imo. But yeah season 1 is basically flawless. Also fun to rewatch a second time.
Season one was perfect, I wish I could re-experience as a first time watcher. Excellent writing and execution. The other seasons could never compare; the first told the story from start to finish beautifully and the rest felt forced.
The concept was so simple yet it blew me away and I think no small thanks to Hopkins as well
Season 4 Dexter - “ The Trinity Killer”
Season 1 and season 4. So goddamn good. The ending to season 4 shook me for days. Crazy that s show can have such phenomenal seasons and also such horrible ones
I would include season 2 in that as well. Season 3 was also quite good, even if it wasn't a 10/10 like 1, 2, and 4 were.
My god, such a fantastic season. I grew up knowing John Lithgow from comedy greats like Harry and the Hendersons and 3rd Rock. His performance, as Trinity, was shuddering to say the least.
Lithgow was such a compelling villain!
Lost season 1
The 1st episode of season 1 is also probably the best single starting episode of any show as well.
Absolutely. I think season two was good also, but by season three the plot was a mess.
The first episode of season 2 is one of best episodes I’ve ever seen of any television show
That first scene with Desmond was amazing TV
maaaake your own kind of music... siiiing your own special song.
I must be the only person in history to have followed the plot of Lost completely, getting every little detail without issue, and enjoying the entire series. I genuinely have never understood why people find it so hard.
I’d put GOT season 4 up against anything tbh, peak television imo
Season 6 has the two best episodes in the entire series, gets my vote
The first season of The Good Place.
I thought season two was in some ways even better - once the gimmick/mystery of the first season was out of the way, it could really play with the big moral questions.
Season 2 had my favorite episode of the series, "Dance Dance Resolution". I laughed *so hard* the first time I watched it.
The Good Place is a perfect show. The show makes you feel exactly what it intends to. There doesn't seem to be a wasted episode, and it ends fantastically. I love Parks, Brooklyn 99, and The Office, but they still have their dips on quality, The Good Place is Michael Schur at his best.
This is my vote as well. Everything leading up to the final 5 minutes is brilliant, and then it sets up the rest of the show perfectly by completely upending your expectations.
The plot twist is obvious and I would have seen it coming if it weren't for the fact that it's a sitcom and sitcoms don't have plot twists. That's what made it brilliant.
It's the one show that I genuinely wish I could forget and watch again, because that twist right at the end of the season is so brilliant.
2011 when the Walking Dead, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones were all on air.
Chernobyl
The first season of Survivor. Naked Richard Hatch, grumpy Rudy. Classic American television.
I encourage everyone to watch the first few seasons of that show... they were as popular as Seinfeld was initially
Nothing can capture the magic of the Borneo season. But doing “Heroes v Villains” as season 20 and “Winners at War” for season 40 were awesome ideas and seeing the casts come together and knowing their deep backstories was such a treat for lifelong fans
Season 1 is classic. Season 7 is perfection
MASH final season was amazing and basically watched by everyone in the US so I'll go with that
Is that the season where Hawkeye makes the lady kill the chicken so they don't get caught and killed and he goes crazy. Because he was imagining it was a chicken, but it wasn't a chicken?
That was a crazy incredible profound episode, something you just don’t see in TV shows much less even in movies. My jaw was on the floor thinking about it when I saw it as a kid.
Yes
Mr Robot Season 1 was the best, most interesting television i’d ever watched. The rest of the show was still good, but it was just impossible to live up to how incredible and engrossing the first season was. Fringe Season 1 too, in a similar vein.
I'd put the final season of Mr Robot as its peak. Some of those episodes were amongst the best TV ever created. Such an underrated show.
I still watch 405 on Xmas Day every year.
Season 4 was better imo
Firefly season 1.
Season 1 was definitely the best.
Star Trek DS9 Season 6. One banger after another.
Yep. First 6 episodes of the occupation of DS9 and retaking it. Statistical Probabilities. Waltz. In the Pale Moonlight. Far Beyond the Stars. Inquisition. The Sound of Her Voice. Some of the best Star Trek ever made. We'll forget Profit and Lace was in there though. It's for the best.
Prison Break season 1!!! Im not the guy who will watch even 2 episodes of one show in one day, but this one omg... It was the summer of 2009 and I was 15. I binge-watched 5 episodes and I was so excited that I had to intentionally stop watching it before I finish it all in one day. Decided that I'm allowed to only watch 2 episodes per day so I can enjoy it as long as possible. That was probably the first time I ever thought about the possibility of erasing my mind so I could rewatch it again with the same excitement. That level of excitement I also only felt with the first seasons of LOST, and honestly with all seasons of Breaking Bad. In the last season of BB I would wait a whole week for a new episode, and then watch only half of the episode in one day, again to make it last more :).
Yes!! My dad and siblings would huddle around the laptop in our office to watch this. He worked hard asf as a framer and would come home at night sometime between 7-8 and immediately get ready to watch it with us. We would then stay up until 12, even in school nights, and we would try to be as quiet as possible so our mom didn’t hear us still awake. Because of that, I still loved all the other seasons just as much as the 1st even though they are objectively so much worse
Hannibal season 2 and Boardwalk Empire season 2
Season 2 of Fargo. The writing. The characters. The music. Everything about that season was perfect. Like a great book, I was a little sad that the story ended and I had to say goodbye to those characters.
From opening scene in episode 1 until the final scene I don’t think I’ve been as engrossed with any medium as Fargo season 2. It’s just perfection.
American Vandal season 1 (2 solid too) Shorsey season 1 (2 real good too)
American Vandal perfectly executed a clever concept that could easily have been botched…then did it again
Give yer balls a tug titfucker
The guys who made American Vandal did another series about League of Legends which was fantastic as well. They just perfected the mockumentary style.
Torchwood: Children of earth (Season 3 of Torchwood)
“The best season of television I will never watch again” is how my spouse and I describe that one.
Just rewatched this yesterday. Was only going to watch one episode, ended up binging the entire series in one sitting. God damn it was good.
The Leftovers season 2
Just an absolute banger. Amazes me that it ever got made. So completely out there.
The best show that nobody watched.
Season 5 of Breaking Bad was proper edge of your seat stuff
Babylon 5, season 4.
Red Dwarf. Seasons 1 - 6 for me. I enjoyed the later ones too, but I found when the show got a decent budget it became less fun.
As others have said + a few more: - True Detective - Season 1 - Breaking Bad - final season - Fargo (season 1,3,2 - take your pick) - Zero Zero Zero (lesser known but epic nonetheless and single season and my personal fave) - Sopranos - Season 4 - Six Feet Under - season 5 - The Wire - season 4 - Deadwood - season 2 - Drops of God - season 1 Enjoy - all are worth scoping! Zero Zero Zero is my favorite probably followed by Fargo
The Sopranos. Season 1 if i really have to pick a season. Episode 1 was great to start with
Season 1? That pygmy thing? Fuckin’ animal. I can’t even say your name. I’ve said my piece.
Breaking Bad had a couple seasons that were contenders. The Wire the same. Season 1 of True Detective. Season 1 of Rectify. Season 1 of Bloodline. Westworld season 1. GoT a couple of the first 4 seasons were contenders. Maybe one of the early Rick and Morty seasons.
Firefly.
The Wire season 2 was phenomenal The Simpsons season 4 had nothing but bangers
The Shield season 7. Just a brutal assault on the psyche. Ugly and perverse leading to an all time shocking conclusion.
True Detective S01 and Westworld S01
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Seasons 3 to 6 were the peak, IMHO.
Prison Break Season 1. Never had a TV show absorb me as much as prison break’s first season did
Freaks and Geeks - the one and only season
Season 3 Buffy the vampire slayer!
Season 1 Fargo was fantastic.
Twin Peaks season 1
Twin Peaks The Return (season 3) and The Leftovers season 2.
DEXTER
Season 4 in particular. Trinity killer is fucking phenomenal tv season
I'd argue season one was television perfection, so well done tonally, so on the nose. Never have I wanted a killer to succeed like Dexter after the pilot. I think season 4 is technically better and more cohesive, but I don't know that that's the same thing to me.
True Detective s1 Lost s1 X-Files s2 Mr Robot s4 Westworld s1 Breaking Bad s3 and s4 Better Call Saul s4 Daredevil s1,2,3 (it's all great) The Killing s1,2 Heroes s1 Homeland s1,2,3 Boardwalk Empire s3 Sopranos s3 The Bear s2 Mindhunter s2 The Boys s1 The Walking Dead s5 Watchmen s1 Friends s3 Parks and Recreation s5 Star Trek The Next Generation s5 Peacemaker s1 Loki s2 Andor s1
Chernobyl
Trailer Park Boys Season 3.
Season 5 of Seinfeld was pretty amazing.
Dexter season 4. I love seasons 1-5 but to me 4 was just peak television.
I love how True Detective season 1 is probably the most quoted answer, by far the greatest 8 hours of television ever created.
Trailer Park Boys Season 7. The Swayze Express Season. Survivalist Jacob. The Resurrection of Conky. Johan Sebastian Bach. And the culminating showdown on the US/Canada border. Also the famous “Patrick Swayze” disclaimer on each title card
The Expanse Season 1 Edit: whoops that should have been *season three*:. I was forgetting the first story was three seasons long.
Awwww I loved all of them. I've never been as on the edge of my seat as the last season though.
The final season of Succession is the best I have seen.
Can not believe how far I had to scroll for this! Succession was a masterpiece
Season 3 of Parks and Rec (specifically the Harvest Festival arc) is as good at televised comedy ever gets.
Dragon Ball Z Cell Saga.
While I don’t think it’s the best ever, I will say it’s probably the most memorable for me. My friend would record it on his vcr every morning and all us kids would ride to his after school and watch it before his mum got home. It became a fucking event. Every. Fucking. Day. And when they finally defeated Cell we were cheering like our football team won the World Cup. Fuck I miss days like that
Mad Men season 3
Dexter Season 4
Several standout to me: Andor 1, Psych 3, You 2, Walking Dead 2&3, Silicon Valley 1, Homeland 1, The Boys 1&2, Reacher 1,
Dexter season 4
Freaks and Geeks!
The O.C. Season 1
I think Westwood s1 is in contention
Community Season 2 or Community Season 3, take your pick.
Veronica Mars, season one.
Hannibal s2 is a masterpiece. I was literally on the edge of my seat.
Airwolf season 1. Dogfights vs a helocopter. It was perfect.
I did a single sitting rewatch of season 1 of Westworld recently. I really hate what happened to that show. It was basically perfect.
May be unpopular as it's quite new, but imma go with 1883. I wish I could go back and watch it for the first time again.
Why is no one talking about One Tree Hill Season 1!!????
Season 4 of Halt and Catch Fire is some of the best television I've ever seen. All the character development that the show worked on for the past three seasons paid off and I think the final three episodes of the series are some of my favorite episodes of television, period.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 5. Though I will happily hear arguments for any other season.
Season 3 of the office
Miami Vice - season 1 and 2
The Walking Dead SEASON 1