Background: this article
Purpose: Ostensibly, to name one drama the winner, but actually... entertainment.
Scope: All television dramas
Before I put the poll up, I need nominations for what you think is the best television drama ever made. Don't nominate one you think 'deserves to be up there.' Only your choice for the 'best.' If someone else has already named it, you should second it, third it, whatever. You cannot nominate and second. I have no mod powers in this forum, but don't be a jerk; follow the rules. Discussion is fine, but please make your votes clear.
The following should be considered nominations that require a second (x's next to it mean it's been seconded):
Breaking Bad [x]
The Wire
Mad Men
The Sopranos [X]
Deadwood [x]
Rome
Lost [X]
Twin Peaks
Homicide: Life on the Street
Battlestar Galactica [X]
Dark Shadows
Northern Exposure [X]
Millenium
24
Dexter
Best Television Drama of All Time?
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Best Television Drama of All Time?
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I really really want to second some already up, but if I'm reading the rules right, I can't nominate my own if I do...so I've got to nominate
Twin Peaks [though the ending failed, in my book].
Twin Peaks [though the ending failed, in my book].
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....and NYPD Blue and the new Battlestar Galactica are just the tiniest mood quiver short.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Twin Peaks and Homicide: Life on the Street are the only ones on the original list that I have seen. Homicide was certainly intense and had me on the edge of my seat more than I can say for most shows. Except BSG. This is a surprisingly difficult choice, but I'm going to second BSG.
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BSG, Millennium, Homicide. And truthfully I think that some of the best dramatic moments on television were on Magnum, p.i., though the series wasn't as good overall as the prior three.
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seconding Deadwood. (as you might have guessed i would! 
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
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and that's not what we brag about.
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have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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Hell yeah! I just watched all 8 seaons back-to-back last year, and realized what I had been missing out on. But then again, it's nice to watch a series straight through and not have to wait.Kil Tyme wrote:24
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OK, the poll's up. I was hoping for some more action on this thread, but... If you want to hold off on voting to nominate or second something, I can put it up as a late runner. I think ten poll options are the max. Otherwise, there you go.
I'm all over the place on this one. I seconded The Wire, and I came very close to voting for Breaking Bad. But maybe it's me coming off watching the Justified season premiere, but my vote went for Deadwood.
I'm all over the place on this one. I seconded The Wire, and I came very close to voting for Breaking Bad. But maybe it's me coming off watching the Justified season premiere, but my vote went for Deadwood.
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Clearly, this poll is for the best TV drama of all very recent time. 
Definitely not the best of ALL time.
Definitely not the best of ALL time.
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