Top 5 Drama TV Series of All Time

[Jeffrey]

Please list your top 5 all-time favorite TV drama series (I’m trying to catchup now I’m retired).

Here’s mine:

- The Sopranos
- The Wire
- Deadwood
- West Wing
- Better Call Saul

[CameronBornAndBred]

Please list your top 5 all-time favorite TV drama series (I’m trying to catchup now I’m retired).

Here’s mine:

- The Sopranos
- The Wire
- Deadwood
- West Wing
- Better Call Saul

I can't think of 5 quickly (Sopranos would be on it for sure), but Oz would be in it. (PS, Oz, The Wire, Deadwood, and Sopranos...all HBO products)

[DUKIECB]

Top 5 TV

Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Game of Thrones
The Wire
Band of Brothers

[ClemmonsDevil]

The Americans and Band of Brothers are my top 2. Everything else is playing for 3rd.

[OldPhiKap]

Band of Brothers
Breaking Bad
Hill St. Blues
Better Call Saul
Sopranos

[bundabergdevil]

The Wire, Sopranos and Game of Thrones (even with the ending not stuck).

After that, I’d have to think through Oz, Succession, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Deadwood and a few others.

[JasonEvans]

You know what is sad... how many of the contenders here did not end well.

Game of Thrones
Lost
The West Wing
Ozark
The X-Files

Sigh...

[Rich]

Breaking Bad (IMO best ending of any series ever)
Game of Thrones (minus last 2 seasons)
The Wire (some seasons better than others)
Sopranos (anyone watch recently? Does it hold up?)
Shameless (minus after Fiona leaves)

[fidel]

Good topic. Mine ended too soon.

Sneaky Pete
Bosch
Goliath
Ted Lasso
The Night Manager

[CameronBornAndBred]

You know what is sad... how many of the contenders here did not end well.

Game of Thrones
Lost
The West Wing
Ozark
The X-Files

Sigh...

Game of Thrones (minus last 2 seasons)

I'm an aberration in that I've never watched GOT. and it's likely I never will, solely for the reputation that the last season or two have for being weak. I loved Lost, but will never rewatch it for the same reason, the closing was so lame.

If a series carries a footnote of "It was good until...", then it doesn't make my top of anything list.

[mkirsh]

BBC Edition:

Sherlock
Luther
Broadchurch
The Fall
Line of Duty

[camion]

I'm an aberration in that I've never watched GOT. and it's likely I never will, solely for the reputation that the last season or two have for being weak. I loved Lost, but will never rewatch it for the same reason, the closing was so lame.

If a series carries a footnote of "It was good until...", then it doesn't make my top of anything list.

I seldom get into series, partly from past disappointments with series enders, but more from an aversion to season ending cliffhangers that are written just because it's a season ender and they need a cliffhanger.


But that's just me.

[fidel]

BBC Edition:

Sherlock
Luther
Broadchurch
The Fall
Line of Duty

Wallander

[OldPhiKap]

You know what is sad... how many of the contenders here did not end well.

Game of Thrones
Lost
The West Wing
Ozark
The X-Files

Sigh...

Great build-ups with disappointing resolutions at the climax?

Let me tell you about my honeymoon . . . .

[bundabergdevil]

Breaking Bad (IMO best ending of any series ever)
Game of Thrones (minus last 2 seasons)
The Wire (some seasons better than others)
Sopranos (anyone watch recently? Does it hold up?)
Shameless (minus after Fiona leaves)

RE, sopranos yes and yes! Imminently rewatchable, IMO. Such wonderful non -AJ performances!

[bundabergdevil]

Great build-ups with disappointing resolutions at the climax?

Let me tell you about my honeymoon . . . .

Sporks, love a good callback!

[JasonEvans]

Great build-ups with disappointing resolutions at the climax?

Let me tell you about my honeymoon . . . .

[Rich]

Great build-ups with disappointing resolutions at the climax?

Let me tell you about my honeymoon . . . .

The rumor is there wasn't one

[Rich]

I'm an aberration in that I've never watched GOT. and it's likely I never will, solely for the reputation that the last season or two have for being weak. I loved Lost, but will never rewatch it for the same reason, the closing was so lame.

If a series carries a footnote of "It was good until...", then it doesn't make my top of anything list.

If I knew you I would try to convince you to watch up until the last 2 seasons because up until that point GoT is the single greatest series TV has ever produced and, in my mind, it's not even close.

[Kdogg]

Sci-Fi edition

12 Monkeys
Haven
The Expanse
Orphan Black
Fringe

Honorable mention: Counterpart but it's only two season.

In the past I'd watched a number of the old Marvel animated shows on D+, they were fun, but had skipped over X-Men.
I'm assuming this is "X-Men 97" since production of the first run ended in '96?

Yes. It's an immediate continuation.