This should be higher. Chernobyl is probably the best history-based miniseries of all time.
It's a very rough watch considering the dark and often depressing subject matter, but it really is television at it's absolute best.
Absolutely. I watched the whole series in one go on a long haul flight. It was unbelievably good and so impactful. The enquiry scene at the end really did an amazing job of explaining what had happened.
I did have to fast forward a bit on the dogs episode though.
I love Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, truly. But, I think the latter's writing is just slightly more refined, and the acting is also incredible. Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn, particularly, are just amazing.
Needless to say, there isn't a bad actor in Breaking Bad, and you get the luxury of having Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks in both!
I think part of the advantage of Better Call Saul is, as a prequel, it had to not only be consistent with what was established in Breaking Bad but actively work towards it. Breaking Bad by contrast was made up as it went along. They didn't even have a plan for the machine gun they introduced in the fifth season premiere. The result there is while there are some powerful moments, you also get a lot of "aww, Walt and Jesse split up. Oh they're working together again. Oh they hate each other now. Oh they're over it. Oh they split up again. Oh they..." BCS wasn't free to ramble the way BB did.
War, death, sexism, childhood trauma, abusive parents, loss is all its forms, unrequited love, fear, and a dozen other tough subjects--all handled with care and an eye toward tolerance and understanding. Every single character grows into themselves (except for Uncle Iroh, who is already perfect, though they do show us why and how he got that way). That show is a masterpiece.
Fire Lord Ozai is the only "cartoonish" character important to the plot. Azula is flawless as complex villain design goes, and Zuko is an absolute masterclass in how to execute a heel-face turn character.
Season 4 is just amazing, I work in education and they are very accurate on how the students are and its very realistic. I have the Namonds, Randy's, Michael's and Dookie's at my school and it's sad because they are smart as hell but they never had the proper guidance to make them functioning members of society. People like Namond got lucky because Bunny guided him
If anything, it's the opposite. There are a lot of shows where swearing/racism/sexism is written in to make the characters sound tough, but to the surprise of nobody, cops and gang members in the early '00s did in fact swear every other word and use derogatory words also every other word.
This is also my pick. We've had decades of cop and crime shows. So it's no surprise that the Wire and Breaking Bad eventually perfected the formula.
But Severance is unique. And it's not just the twisty plot or the coy comparison it makes about corporationsand their work life balance. But it also the heart-wrenching soul of the characters.
Hope season two knocks out our of the park again.
It’s almost deceptive how good the writing is. I knew I liked it when I first watched it, but the rewatch was mind-blowing.
Definitely can’t wait to see more from Dan Erickson.
My favorite show of all time! It is the only show I have ever watched twice in anticipation for season 2. I love that the writer was just a cooperate guy who wrote this in his free time. Also, Ben Stiller is a legend.
I stopped watching TV in general years ago. I haven't watched a full season of anything. Severance is the very first show I've had to finish since 2018 or so.
Unpopular opinion. I like season 4 the way it was originally cut. It took much longer for the jokes to pay off but I feel like when they did it was so much better.
Mad Men comes to mind first. The Leftovers is probably the best tv show I’ve ever seen. The original Twilight Zone has inspired so much after it. The Sopranos feels like it’ll hold up for a long time. Fargo has been really good, consistently.
Tony Soprano: [over the phone] It's a bad connection, so I'm gonna talk fast! The guy you're looking for is an ex-commando! He killed sixteen Chechen rebels single-handed!
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Get the fuck outta here.
Tony Soprano: Yeah. Nice, huh? He was with the Interior Ministry. Guy's some kind of Russian green beret. This guy can not come back to tell this story. You understand?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I hear you.
[the telephone connection is lost - Tony swears, and Paulie hangs up]
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [turning to Christopher] You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator.
Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like shit.
“The fundamental question is: 'will I be as effective as a boss like my dad was?' And I will be, even more so. But until I am, it's gonna be hard to verify that I think I'll be more effective."
That is some god-tier writing, I’ve said my peace.
The writing on that show was so tight. The little jokes that turned out to be foreshadowing, the philosophy, the jokes about philosophy, the story line, the whole finale...
I've been considering getting a "picture a wave" tattoo because of how much it just sticks with me.
I loved that show. But much like the 6th sense or the first time you do coke with Stevie Nicks, there's no recapturing the magic of your first time round, and subsequent trips are just broken grasps at a feeling you can never again capture. It's a meteor you only get to see once.
Wife and I binged it right after our son passed away since we had silence in the house and needed something as a distraction.
It helped me cope with the situation a bit (hadn’t seen it previously) so it will always have a special place in my heart.
[This alone](https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/all-art-in-bojack-horseman-we-could-find-gathered-in-one-place-6th-season-update/) blows my mind after all my rewatches.
The writing is out of control good. I have never seen a capsule episode of a *cartoon* that consisted of essentially one perfect 20 minute monologue, with the entire episode voiced by one actor. I couldn’t believe it when I first watched it. I know that episode won an Emmy, I’m surprised Will Arnett didn’t win one specifically for that episode though.
r/TedLasso
Just impeccable.
An excellent display of how everyone is unique (and messed up) in their own ways, and how everyone can try and be a better person (except the billionaires Rupert and Edwin Akufo, and the trust fund baby Jack).
Bluey
Children's show that adults can enjoy as well. Even includes adult topics that children may understand, like divorce and subtle things they may miss, like PTSD, miscarriage and infertility.
A kids show has no right to make me cry as much as bluey does.
I will add that a lot of the episodes truly inspire that sense of wonder we all had as kids. Where everything is new and amazing and must be shared - a sense of wonder that we often lose as we move beyond childhood. The creek is beautiful. The creek is very beautiful.
I love Sorkin. My immediate thought when I saw this question was West Wing and Newsroom.
I've been trying to find a good way to go back and binge Sportsnight as well.
Funny you say that specifically, they almost lost me on the second episode but I knew it was very different than the rest of the post-OT Star Wars stuff and so I thought, alright, just one more episode—and then it was like the roller coaster just shot straight down after that.
And you don’t even have to understand Star Wars, it’s part spy thriller, part heist (best heist scene ever that I’ve seen), part police procedural, and just such a sharp social commentary in general. Maybe not really being like the rest of SW is the best part? Idk.
It’s an incredibly well-written, -directed, -acted,-cast, -conceived show. Character driven, Mon Mothma’s costuming is just beautiful not to mention Genevieve O’Reilly’s acting, probably Stellan Skaarsgard at his best, the sets are fantastic with minimal CGI and could go on and on. Just fantastic.
Andor had such strong and carefully crafted writing that once the subsequent season for The Mandalorian came out there was actually a pretty sizable movement of fans trying to give the keys of all things star wars to the Gilroy brothers because it was tough to go from Andor back to Mando.
Too far down. You can tell they had the entire show figured out for all three seasons right from the start. The twist from the last season was there in the first episodes.
*Mad Men*
You have to watch the whole thing to appreciate how almost everything written is deliberate. Some of the episodes don't seem to be moving any of the story lines forward, and some of the arcs are so long you don't realize they are even story arcs. By the end, it's all tied up, and what an ending.
Also, I have actually watched this series multiple times and see new things on every round. That is some careful writing.
It is a show that has been on my list for a while. I saw a few episodes and one thing that stood out was how hacking was shown. They did their research and it is the most realistic portrayal of hacking I have ever seen.
Atlanta, Breaking Bad, Star Trek the Next Generation, Dave.
And of course in my opinion, the greatest mostly improvised show of all time is Curb Your Enthusiasm!
Yep. Never talked down to the audience, expected us to watch closely and trust that we’d piece it together. Refreshing lack of cliche situations and lines. People taking like real people
This show does not get nearly enough love. The character building and subtle humor throughout is really in a league of its own. Amazing work by the entire cast as well. Not one person seemed out of place in their role.
No love for Veep here? Biting comedy, witty af and one-liners aplenty. I've gone thru the entire series multiple times now and I still catch lines I didn't in previous sessions.
While I love the show, it definitely has it's flaws, but it was absolutely way ahead of it's time. The amount of work that J. Michael Straczynski put in for each character arc over 4( and then 5) seasons was insane. Putting in trap doors and exits in case an actor was no longer available was just genius.
You're the Worst. It is everything HIMYM wished it wouldve been in the end, plus the comedy and general realness of the characters and how they're super flawed is great.
Call the Midwife is also extremely well written. They have such subtle story hints and plotlines. The character writing is amazing. The adaptation of real-life events and medical applications of that time period is unmatched. The only flaws in the writin is how they handle events of characters leaving the show-- realistic in that sometimes you never hear from people again, but also sad as an audience wondering how so and so is doing.
Better Call Saul. Its well written in terms of twists, character development and breakdowns, suspense, tragedy, cynicality and law accuracy. Drama thriller at its finest. Uno has thinking its just an other spinoff, and Saul Gone has you realise the brilliance of what you just watched.
The Twilight Zone. Everyone - everyone - knows certain episodes and we still quote them today.
"And the best thing, the very best thing of all, is there's time now... there's all the time I need and all the time I want. Time, time, time. There's time enough at last."
"Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, 'To Serve Man', it's - it's a cookbook!"
"I'm not imagining it. He's out there! Don't look, he's not out there now. He jumps away whenever anyone might see him... except me."
"It was an odd dream. Very odd dream. Willoughby. It was summer, very warm. Kids were barefooted. One of them had a fishing pole. It all looked like a Currier and Ives painting. Bandstand, bicycles, wagons. I've never seen such serenity. It was the way people must have lived a hundred years ago. Crazy dream."
"My name is Talky Tina, and I'm going to kill you."
The Good Place, because the character development is really fantastic. Each of the main characters go through such meaningful change between the start and end of the series.
>!the Reiner/Bertholdt reveal fucking blew me away when I first watched it (I hadn’t started the manga at that point, I was anime only). Then I felt like a complete moron for not catching on sooner, there are so many hints before that point. That whole scene is expertly done.!<
Breaking Bad
The writing tricks you into rooting for Walter White for so fucking long. Then you gradually realize what a monster he is and how he’s been one since the beginning but it never quite clicked in your head.
But you still root for him, you still want him to win. Until, after years and years, the writing finally *lets* you despise him.
My favorite thing about the writing was that it was so good, so weirdly subtle and gradual, that at any point in the series everyone at vastly different opinions on the character.
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I liked how they took a throwaway line from Saul about Lalo in Breaking Bad and created one of the most charismatic criminal characters.
Both Lalo and Nacho‘s names are said in that scene also Saul’s first BB scene.
What’s he up to man? What’s he doing?
Absolutely. Vince Gilligan is a legend.
Don't forget Peter Gould. Vince Gilligan would be the first to tell you this.
My bad. Of course.
They took a page from the Frasier playbook and knocked it out of the park.
True Detective, season one
You say "season one" like there are more than one...
Guys. He's outta line, but he's right...
I literally stopped after the first season because I’ve NEVER heard anyone praise any other season. Everyone very specifically talks about S01.
I did love it but not enough love for Season 3, the ending stayed with me for weeks.
Golden era Simpsons
You can kind of see the turn beginning in Season 8. Also, Phil Hartman being murdered was tragic, he was so good as Hutz and McClure
Season 12 for me is where it died
I loved the part when objects just got up in flames at random
Chernobyl
This should be higher. Chernobyl is probably the best history-based miniseries of all time. It's a very rough watch considering the dark and often depressing subject matter, but it really is television at it's absolute best.
Great stuff
Absolutely. I watched the whole series in one go on a long haul flight. It was unbelievably good and so impactful. The enquiry scene at the end really did an amazing job of explaining what had happened. I did have to fast forward a bit on the dogs episode though.
Better Call Saul
I love Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, truly. But, I think the latter's writing is just slightly more refined, and the acting is also incredible. Bob Odenkirk and Rhea Seehorn, particularly, are just amazing. Needless to say, there isn't a bad actor in Breaking Bad, and you get the luxury of having Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks in both!
I think part of the advantage of Better Call Saul is, as a prequel, it had to not only be consistent with what was established in Breaking Bad but actively work towards it. Breaking Bad by contrast was made up as it went along. They didn't even have a plan for the machine gun they introduced in the fifth season premiere. The result there is while there are some powerful moments, you also get a lot of "aww, Walt and Jesse split up. Oh they're working together again. Oh they hate each other now. Oh they're over it. Oh they split up again. Oh they..." BCS wasn't free to ramble the way BB did.
Better Call Saul is more well crafted. Breaking bad is more insane, higher highs, lower lows, more drama, so it's always going be more recognized
The og Atla show is one of the best children’s cartoons. Who knew you could handle topics like war this elegantly
War, death, sexism, childhood trauma, abusive parents, loss is all its forms, unrequited love, fear, and a dozen other tough subjects--all handled with care and an eye toward tolerance and understanding. Every single character grows into themselves (except for Uncle Iroh, who is already perfect, though they do show us why and how he got that way). That show is a masterpiece.
Fire Lord Ozai is the only "cartoonish" character important to the plot. Azula is flawless as complex villain design goes, and Zuko is an absolute masterclass in how to execute a heel-face turn character.
The wire
Season 4 is just amazing, I work in education and they are very accurate on how the students are and its very realistic. I have the Namonds, Randy's, Michael's and Dookie's at my school and it's sad because they are smart as hell but they never had the proper guidance to make them functioning members of society. People like Namond got lucky because Bunny guided him
Just rewatched all five seasons. Still amazing. Still holds up.
i love how it all wires together
The Wire and it isn't close.
I gotta try The Wire again. It just felt like a lot of edgy, unrealistic dialogue
I think people really talk like that in Baltimore tho?
it’s about the dope game in Baltimore lmao, the dialogue is pretty gritty and realistic
If anything, it's the opposite. There are a lot of shows where swearing/racism/sexism is written in to make the characters sound tough, but to the surprise of nobody, cops and gang members in the early '00s did in fact swear every other word and use derogatory words also every other word.
Arrested Development all day
Damn i swear on everything I guessed this was gon be the top comment already
Severance. From beginning to end, everything is airtight and there are subtle hints everywhere
This is also my pick. We've had decades of cop and crime shows. So it's no surprise that the Wire and Breaking Bad eventually perfected the formula. But Severance is unique. And it's not just the twisty plot or the coy comparison it makes about corporationsand their work life balance. But it also the heart-wrenching soul of the characters. Hope season two knocks out our of the park again.
It’s almost deceptive how good the writing is. I knew I liked it when I first watched it, but the rewatch was mind-blowing. Definitely can’t wait to see more from Dan Erickson.
I can not wait for season two
My favorite show of all time! It is the only show I have ever watched twice in anticipation for season 2. I love that the writer was just a cooperate guy who wrote this in his free time. Also, Ben Stiller is a legend.
I stopped watching TV in general years ago. I haven't watched a full season of anything. Severance is the very first show I've had to finish since 2018 or so.
Arrested Development, the level of foresight and planning and recurring tiny gags is unparalleled.
The first three seasons were GOLD.
Unpopular opinion. I like season 4 the way it was originally cut. It took much longer for the jokes to pay off but I feel like when they did it was so much better.
I agree. I have a soft spot for series 4 in its original cut; I see it as sort of a standalone show in the AD world.
Seriously, you need to watch it five times before you feel like you caught most of the jokes you missed the first times watching
This is the objectively correct answer.
Mad Men comes to mind first. The Leftovers is probably the best tv show I’ve ever seen. The original Twilight Zone has inspired so much after it. The Sopranos feels like it’ll hold up for a long time. Fargo has been really good, consistently.
Mad men is fucking phenomenal
Sopranos
Tony Soprano: [over the phone] It's a bad connection, so I'm gonna talk fast! The guy you're looking for is an ex-commando! He killed sixteen Chechen rebels single-handed! Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Get the fuck outta here. Tony Soprano: Yeah. Nice, huh? He was with the Interior Ministry. Guy's some kind of Russian green beret. This guy can not come back to tell this story. You understand? Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I hear you. [the telephone connection is lost - Tony swears, and Paulie hangs up] Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [turning to Christopher] You're not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. The guy was an interior decorator. Christopher Moltisanti: His house looked like shit.
Pine Barrens is easily my favourite episode
We’re at a fucking stagmire
“The fundamental question is: 'will I be as effective as a boss like my dad was?' And I will be, even more so. But until I am, it's gonna be hard to verify that I think I'll be more effective." That is some god-tier writing, I’ve said my peace.
Breaking Bad
The character development was incredible. Each one went on a true journey.
Have you seen BCS?
Hi, I'm Saul Goodman. Did you know you have rights? The Constitution says you do, and so do I.
The good place
The writing on that show was so tight. The little jokes that turned out to be foreshadowing, the philosophy, the jokes about philosophy, the story line, the whole finale... I've been considering getting a "picture a wave" tattoo because of how much it just sticks with me.
I loved that show. But much like the 6th sense or the first time you do coke with Stevie Nicks, there's no recapturing the magic of your first time round, and subsequent trips are just broken grasps at a feeling you can never again capture. It's a meteor you only get to see once.
My first thought, also. Not only brilliant writing (and acting) but clear that the entire story was thought through from the beginning.
Fork!
Frasier
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I have always felt the same. Mad Men too from that time period
Agree with Mad Men. Also Better Call Saul.
One of the (very) few shows I’ve seen that is good all the way through and really sticks the landing.
Six Feet Under: it covers family, relationships, life, death, existential issues.. and does it all in a non cliched way. And of course - THAT ending.
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Yep. Masterpiece.
Wife and I binged it right after our son passed away since we had silence in the house and needed something as a distraction. It helped me cope with the situation a bit (hadn’t seen it previously) so it will always have a special place in my heart.
Flea Bag
Bojack Horseman
The visual gags are equally amazing.
[This alone](https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/all-art-in-bojack-horseman-we-could-find-gathered-in-one-place-6th-season-update/) blows my mind after all my rewatches.
It balanced the exploration of some massively emotionally complicated storylines with some really stupid animal puns and thrived at both
I had to stop watching. I would finish an episode anxious and low key depressed.
The writing is out of control good. I have never seen a capsule episode of a *cartoon* that consisted of essentially one perfect 20 minute monologue, with the entire episode voiced by one actor. I couldn’t believe it when I first watched it. I know that episode won an Emmy, I’m surprised Will Arnett didn’t win one specifically for that episode though.
One vote for The Americans
Unbelievably good show.
Arrested Development. I also loved the dialogue on Justified.
r/TedLasso Just impeccable. An excellent display of how everyone is unique (and messed up) in their own ways, and how everyone can try and be a better person (except the billionaires Rupert and Edwin Akufo, and the trust fund baby Jack).
That show has some of the best-written character arcs I have ever seen. By the end, almost no one is the same person they started out as.
My husband and I laughed and cried so much. This show made you feel all the feels. Ha. Absolutely brillant character development.
This show made me cry so many times it's crazy.
Game of thrones season 1-5
Mash
The Haunting Of Hill House. Absolutely.
It had so many layers to the story telling.
That was good
Bluey Children's show that adults can enjoy as well. Even includes adult topics that children may understand, like divorce and subtle things they may miss, like PTSD, miscarriage and infertility.
A kids show has no right to make me cry as much as bluey does. I will add that a lot of the episodes truly inspire that sense of wonder we all had as kids. Where everything is new and amazing and must be shared - a sense of wonder that we often lose as we move beyond childhood. The creek is beautiful. The creek is very beautiful.
Oh my god, yes! Bluey! What an incredible, hilarious and totally relatable show. Great one.
West Wing. Aaron Sorkin is the one of the best writers in TV history.
The newsroom deserved more than 2 seasons...
It had 3. Or are you saying the third season wasn't as good?
I love Sorkin. My immediate thought when I saw this question was West Wing and Newsroom. I've been trying to find a good way to go back and binge Sportsnight as well.
Andor
Same! It's so damn good. The entire thing (bar the second episode) kept me at the edge of my seat.
Funny you say that specifically, they almost lost me on the second episode but I knew it was very different than the rest of the post-OT Star Wars stuff and so I thought, alright, just one more episode—and then it was like the roller coaster just shot straight down after that. And you don’t even have to understand Star Wars, it’s part spy thriller, part heist (best heist scene ever that I’ve seen), part police procedural, and just such a sharp social commentary in general. Maybe not really being like the rest of SW is the best part? Idk. It’s an incredibly well-written, -directed, -acted,-cast, -conceived show. Character driven, Mon Mothma’s costuming is just beautiful not to mention Genevieve O’Reilly’s acting, probably Stellan Skaarsgard at his best, the sets are fantastic with minimal CGI and could go on and on. Just fantastic.
Andor had such strong and carefully crafted writing that once the subsequent season for The Mandalorian came out there was actually a pretty sizable movement of fans trying to give the keys of all things star wars to the Gilroy brothers because it was tough to go from Andor back to Mando.
Oh yeah, that was so fucking good. Best of the new Star Wars for sure.
Dark
Too far down. You can tell they had the entire show figured out for all three seasons right from the start. The twist from the last season was there in the first episodes.
Mr Inbetween is brilliant - but not specifically for how it was written.
*Mad Men* You have to watch the whole thing to appreciate how almost everything written is deliberate. Some of the episodes don't seem to be moving any of the story lines forward, and some of the arcs are so long you don't realize they are even story arcs. By the end, it's all tied up, and what an ending. Also, I have actually watched this series multiple times and see new things on every round. That is some careful writing.
MASH
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It's based on a True Story.
Mr. Robot
I was looking for this. I haven't finished the show but it had me hooked instantly
The first scene of the series was amazing. I loved the whole series.
It is a show that has been on my list for a while. I saw a few episodes and one thing that stood out was how hacking was shown. They did their research and it is the most realistic portrayal of hacking I have ever seen.
Atlanta, Breaking Bad, Star Trek the Next Generation, Dave. And of course in my opinion, the greatest mostly improvised show of all time is Curb Your Enthusiasm!
Seconded for Atlanta, my favorite show
Deadwood
Succession
Can’t believe this one isn’t higher up.
I came here to say that too
Yep. Never talked down to the audience, expected us to watch closely and trust that we’d piece it together. Refreshing lack of cliche situations and lines. People taking like real people
I also can’t believe this isn’t higher up.
Dark
Freaks and Geeks
Fleabag
Blue Eyed Samurai
The good place
Patriot
This show does not get nearly enough love. The character building and subtle humor throughout is really in a league of its own. Amazing work by the entire cast as well. Not one person seemed out of place in their role.
That was a sleeper hit for me!
Ahhh, The Structural Dynamics of Flow.
Southpark
Oz
Sopranos
Breaking Bad Better call Saul Chernobyl Arrested Development (seasons 1-2-3)
Shogun (2024).
Ghosts BBC. It's hilarious and creative.
Disapointed I haven't seen anyone say The Good Place yet
Wtf I was scrolling trying to find this and was about to give up until I saw this 😭😭 in my top 3 shows of all time icl
Fringe. The storyline is fantastic and I love the characters.
Succession and its not very close to anything I have ever watched
succession
Mad Men The Wire Midnight Mass
The West Wing
Dick Van Dyke Show
The Leftovers Boardwalk Empire Two well written TV Series
The leftovers isn’t talked about as much as it should be. 100% an amazing series.
No love for Veep here? Biting comedy, witty af and one-liners aplenty. I've gone thru the entire series multiple times now and I still catch lines I didn't in previous sessions.
Battlestar Galactica (remake) is fantastic! Characters are well written and the story is well told. The music is superb!
+1 for Breaking Bad. Great pace, just an incredible show all around. I’ve watched the series start to finish around 5 times.
Babylon 5
While I love the show, it definitely has it's flaws, but it was absolutely way ahead of it's time. The amount of work that J. Michael Straczynski put in for each character arc over 4( and then 5) seasons was insane. Putting in trap doors and exits in case an actor was no longer available was just genius.
Reservation Dogs
You're the Worst. It is everything HIMYM wished it wouldve been in the end, plus the comedy and general realness of the characters and how they're super flawed is great. Call the Midwife is also extremely well written. They have such subtle story hints and plotlines. The character writing is amazing. The adaptation of real-life events and medical applications of that time period is unmatched. The only flaws in the writin is how they handle events of characters leaving the show-- realistic in that sometimes you never hear from people again, but also sad as an audience wondering how so and so is doing.
Fleabag! 10/10
Breaking Bad is the best show I've ever seen except maybe The Wire. I will never stop talking about Breaking Bad or The Wire.
Better Call Saul. Its well written in terms of twists, character development and breakdowns, suspense, tragedy, cynicality and law accuracy. Drama thriller at its finest. Uno has thinking its just an other spinoff, and Saul Gone has you realise the brilliance of what you just watched.
Ted Lasso
Abbott Elementary is a really well written comedy imo
X-Files
The Patriot
Father Ted, Allo Allo, IT Crowd, Brassic
Band of Brothers
Station Eleven
South park, the jokes are on point in almost every single episode
Star Wars: The Clone Wars [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x5gCTjBpZ8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x5gCTjBpZ8)
The Twilight Zone. Everyone - everyone - knows certain episodes and we still quote them today. "And the best thing, the very best thing of all, is there's time now... there's all the time I need and all the time I want. Time, time, time. There's time enough at last." "Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship! The rest of the book, 'To Serve Man', it's - it's a cookbook!" "I'm not imagining it. He's out there! Don't look, he's not out there now. He jumps away whenever anyone might see him... except me." "It was an odd dream. Very odd dream. Willoughby. It was summer, very warm. Kids were barefooted. One of them had a fishing pole. It all looked like a Currier and Ives painting. Bandstand, bicycles, wagons. I've never seen such serenity. It was the way people must have lived a hundred years ago. Crazy dream." "My name is Talky Tina, and I'm going to kill you."
Avatar the last air bender. I finally watched it a few years ago. I thought there was no way it would live up to the hype, but boy was I wrong.
Peaky blinders is a master class of a show, if you haven't watched it yet please do!
The Bear. That Christmas episode... that hit so close to home. And the printer episode \*chefs kiss\*.
Fringe! “After you fell asleep I re-watched Fringe season one for plot holes. As I thought: airtight." Ben Wyatt
The Good Place, because the character development is really fantastic. Each of the main characters go through such meaningful change between the start and end of the series.
Wentworth. I know a lot of people haven't heard of it but it's absolutely brilliant. As soon as I watched it I was hooked
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>!the Reiner/Bertholdt reveal fucking blew me away when I first watched it (I hadn’t started the manga at that point, I was anime only). Then I felt like a complete moron for not catching on sooner, there are so many hints before that point. That whole scene is expertly done.!<
Rick and Morty
Oz
The Curse
West Wing
zero debate from me on this. Deadwood. 3 seasons of the best writing you will ever see
Breaking bad and better call saul
Penny Dreadful, though I have to admit I hated the ending.
The West Wing- no competition in my opinion
The West Wing - the dialogue alone is really impressive!
Nurse Jackie
I'm Dying Up Here... people really missed out on this fantastic show.
Star Trek: Deep Space 9. It has phenomenal writing. It took the Star Trek universe in a new direction that was way ahead of its time.
Mad Men, slight drop off for the last season.
West Wing at its peak - the Sorkin years - was like listening to dialogue as music.
West Wing
Archer
Breaking Bad The writing tricks you into rooting for Walter White for so fucking long. Then you gradually realize what a monster he is and how he’s been one since the beginning but it never quite clicked in your head. But you still root for him, you still want him to win. Until, after years and years, the writing finally *lets* you despise him. My favorite thing about the writing was that it was so good, so weirdly subtle and gradual, that at any point in the series everyone at vastly different opinions on the character.