Rypro 525

Kay, another decade end list, debate, bitch moan, whatever lol
The best shows of the Decade
1.The Sopranos
2.Lost
3.The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
4.American Idol
5.Arrested Development
6.the Wire
7.the Office (UK)
8.the Shield
9.Gilmore Girls
10.the Comeback

and to add insult to injury, in their top 100 things of the decade,
20. Buffy episode "the Body"
24.Team Edward vs Team Jacob (that twilight vampire crap, and it also said "it had all of america choosing sides
25.The Wire
26.A Federal Agent Named Jack Bauer
28.The Office UK version

and here is author Stephen King's top TV shows of 2009
10.Dead Set (british zombie show/mini series)
9.Harper's Island
8.The Rachel Maddow Show
7.Flashforward
6.House
5.Sons of Anarchy
4.Damages
3.Lost
2.24
1.Breaking Bad

Jadzia

Yeah I saw that Stephen King list. Harper's Island????? Oh sure, that show is much, much better than Mad Men.

conscience

He even said Damages was better than Mad Men. I could give him that if he was talking about Damages' first season. It's second season? Not in a million years!

DeanoBKN

No Six Feet Under = FAIL

Rypro 525

the finale made no.50 on their top everything list

Gizmo

Gilmore Girls? WTF

starseed1981

Did Ausiello have anything to do with that list? Because that would explain that.

Nausicaa

Not a terrible list, as there are at least some really quality shows there. However, including stuff like American Idol is pretty insane. Especially when masterpieces like Deadwood are absent. That show should be in the top 3 or 5.

superdeluxe

nice

Groucho

The Comeback?!?

Decker

Seriously, someone's smoking weed there. I thought that show was unwatchable. It wanted to be uncomfortable in an Office sort of way, but it was just mean and ugly. I have no idea why anyone would watch it, let alone consider it among worthy of any Best Of list. And this is from someone who was a big Lisa Kudrow fan before.
Certainly Mad Men, 24, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Big Love, Survivor, Six Feet Under and many other shows would have been more worthy of recognition. That's the sort of inclusion that has far more to do with a critic who has an axe to grind than an objective look at the quality of the product.

celmendo

4.American Idol
9.Gilmore Girls
10.the Comeback

Seriously? American Idol is a huge success but one of the best shows of the decade? And the other two should be nowhere near that list. There are crazy people everywhere.

critterdvd

In all honesty that one made me really happy. But "American Idol" and "The Comeback" should read "Six Feet Under" and "The Amazing Race".

Navinabob

To be fair to King, if he has never seen the show he can't pick it as great. His list is limited to every show he gets around to seeing.

Tscott

I love Gilmore Girls. It'd definitely be on my top ten of the decade. I think too many dismiss it as a chick show, but the writing was top notch funny throughout the entire run. High quaility TV, and I'm glad to see it get some recognition- even it's just on a EW list.

I liked The Comeback too. Don't think it'd make top ten but it was a funny, cerebral show that completely skewered the celebrity reality show tread.

And mad props to SK for listing Rachel Maddow.

FantasticVSDoom

I enjoyed GG as well, not sure top 10, but The Comeback? I think no...

spamurai

The Shield, The Wire, and The Office (UK, thankfully)??!?!?!?!

*leaves thread satisfied*

BJacks

I love the Comeback. It was darkly hilarious. I can't imagine anyone listing it in a top 10 of the decade list, though.

Drexl

I kind of lost interest in their top everything list when they had Harry Potter (at #1) over LOTR.

Hokeyboy

Rypro 525

you'll be pissed to know that their overall no 1 thing of the decade was 'a boy named harry potter', but they had the full LOTR trilogy as their best movie of the decade

Drexl

Yeah, but they include the books in HP being the #1 thing. Also, with the HP movies, people don't tend to lump them together like they do with the LOTR movies. Obviously they're going to take the LOTR trilogy over any one of the HP movies.