Rolling Stone Top 100 TV Shows

OK, I looked at the rest of the list anyway. Hill Street Blues (59) and NYPD Blue (42) both should be in at least the top 20.

 

Yeah, Hill Street Blues is in many ways responsible for about half the shows on TV right now.

 

No Perry Mason. No Dinosaurs. No Adam-12. No Get Smart. No Hee Haw. No Sanford & Son.
And no Upstairs Downstairs??? NO UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS???
POS list by drug-addled 22-year-old idiots. Not that I have an opinion

 

If "Girls" is #72, "Hee Haw" has to be somewhere in the 20s.

 

Where is Andy Griffith and WKRP on that list?

 

Given some of those omissions, the inclusion of Girls really does damage the credibility of the list.

 

Yeah, putting Downton Abbey in and Upstairs, Downstairs out is insane, but I'm sure the authors never saw the latter.

 

Where is Horace and Pete?

 

The Wonder Years needs to be much higher. So does The Shield. So does Oz.

I personally would put 24 higher, but understand its annoying habits prevent it from achieving true greatness.

It seems awfully weird to me to have American Idol, the late-night shows, and other assorted reality TV nonsense on the same list with scripted shows.

And, fuck LOST.

 

It was voted on by TV critics and industry people, an impressive panel, so you can't simply blame millennials. Other older Brit shows got their due.

But I can't believe Andy Griffith didn't make the list.

I agree with Starman that Girls shouldn't have made it, and I even watched it before judging it.

 

Have watched 74 out of those 100. And I really don't have too much problem with the list. I think the cream of the crop is generally at the top, although I'd go higher with Key & Peele (95), The Dick Van Dyke Show (90) and Taxi (49). And although I enjoyed The State, seeing it one slot above the Ed Sullivan Show doesn't ring right.

 

I know it was popular, and I never could really get into it, but Mad Men at No. 4? Above Seinfeld? That felt off. I'm not saying it is wildly overrated, but I don't think it belongs in the same discussion as The Wire, The Sopranos, Seinfeld and Breaking Bad.