Top TV

[Will Layman]

C'mon, guys -- don't get nostalgic.  Though it goes against the usual pap,
the truth is that recent TV is better:

The Sopranos
The Wire
Six Feet Under (first season, at least)
Etc

Not to be an ad for HBO, but . . .

-- Will

On 9/21/04 11:47 PM, "Mark A. Douglas" <madness at airmail.net> wrote:

> Yes to many of these classics, and also:
> 
> Sports Night
> the Lance Henrikssen show by guy from X-files (how's that for knowing my
> shit?)
> Twin Peaks, of course
> Hill Street Blues (for a while)
> The Barney Miller Show (for a while)
> The John Laroquette Show
> Night Court
> the Dabney Coleman show about the news guy (?) in Buffalo...
> [Anyone who wants to help with names...feel free...]
> Not Northern Exposure, but a show that came on at the approximately same
> time period (annularly speaking, I mean)
> Ferndale USA
> 
> And, finally
> 
> Love, American Style.
> 
> My list feels cheap and used, sodden, almost.
> 
> Peace
> 
> Mark 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
> Of Ian Scuffling
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 10:28 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Top TV
> 
> How about 10 FAVORITE television series?
> 
> Television is generally a guilty pleasure, but I've enjoyed (I'm not saying
> they're somehow greatest [don't watch much television these days]) (in no
> particular order):
> 
> 
> Simpsons
> 
> Monty Python
> 
> Smothers Brothers
> 
> On the Air
> 
> Modern Farmer
> 
> Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
> 
> The Prisoner (uncomfortably labored and self-conscious after all these
> years, but it was the most paranoid show tv ever, which appealed to the
> devious adolescent mind)
> 
> The Addams Family
> 
> Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
> 
> The local shows were called that featured Betty Boop, Popeye, early Looney
> Tunes or perhaps even darker animated cartoons (I remember an anteater)
> 
> 
> HenryM
> 
> 
>