{"id":30,"date":"2012-02-22T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2013-03-21T15:30:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T19:30:23","slug":"tv-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/tv-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I watch a TV show I tend to watch every episode in order. If you watch them on DVD you don&#8217;t waste time on commercials and you don&#8217;t have to wait months for the resolution to cliffhangers. I try to wait until the series is done but I am watching a few current series. I certainly haven&#8217;t seen every great TV show, but below are the best of the best ones I have seen.<\/p>\n<p>For science fiction and fantasy fans, there are lists of those types of TV shows on the <strong>Sci-Fi Lists<\/strong> web site. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/scifilists.sffjazz.com\/lists_tv.html\">science fiction TV shows<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fantasy100.sffjazz.com\/lists_tv.html\">fantasy TV shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I keep mentioning the <strong>Sci-Fi Lists<\/strong> web site? The person behind this particular site has used statistics to compile his list, taking data from awards, critics, other lists, and people who visit the site. So I figured as lists go it was the one to make use of.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to review individual episodes but I&#8217;ll review whole seasons. The shows in these lists all get 5\/5 for most or all of their seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Top 8 science fiction &amp; fantasy TV shows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angel<\/li>\n<li>Babylon 5<\/li>\n<li>Battlestar Galactica<\/li>\n<li>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/li>\n<li>Firefly<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/li>\n<li>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/li>\n<li>The X-Files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 9 comedy TV shows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arrested Development<\/li>\n<li>The Big Bang Theory<\/li>\n<li>Boston Legal<\/li>\n<li>Castle<\/li>\n<li>The IT Crowd<\/li>\n<li>Modern Family<\/li>\n<li>New Girl<\/li>\n<li>Raising Hope<\/li>\n<li>Scrubs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 5 dramatic TV shows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Big C<\/li>\n<li>ER<\/li>\n<li>Law &amp; Order<\/li>\n<li>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit<\/li>\n<li>Sherlock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 2 TV game shows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Match Game<\/li>\n<li>Whose Line is it Anyway?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top 2 TV comedy news shows<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Colbert Report<\/li>\n<li>The Daily Show<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I watch a TV show I tend to watch every episode in order. If you watch them on DVD you don&#8217;t waste time on commercials and you don&#8217;t have to wait months for the resolution to cliffhangers. I try to wait until the series is done but I am watching a few current series. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[16,15,9,42,8,11],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-fantasy","tag-lists","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}