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Old 23-04-2015, 05:57 PM   #3
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I made all these lists nowdays, let's finish them with this one. Again in no particular order.

1 - The Lost Room: miniseries with mystical objects what can make you a superhero and traditional investigation.
2 - Cult: the meta-series. It successfully blur the borders between reality, the tv-series, and the tv-series inside the tv-series.
3 - You rang, mylord? : and english comedic story, which operates not (just) by traditional english humour, and successfully presents a point of history.
4 - Buffy/Angel: I nominate both the original and the spinoff-show here. They were intelligent, and handled the characters and the audience way more adult than other products usually do.
5 - Joey: the spinoff-show of Friends might have been not great at the box office, but I hold it is "handbook to be a movie-actor", and by that it stopped not for disinterest, but for consciously knowing it told everything the theme could offer. And was funny.
6 - Mekk Elek, az ezermester (Mek Elek the handyman): I couldn't skip the chance to tellyouabout this, even if you'll never be able to watch, just for the language. It is a puppet-miniseries for children shown in hungary as night-tales about a goat who freshly moves to the village/city, and starts all kinds of professions (a new on in every episode) failing miserably in all of them until of course the last one. It was creative and funny, educative and inspiring.
7 - Diary of a Call Girl: I won't hesitate to add a more adult-oriented show here. It was made by british, and was clever, funny and kinky. While not ever turning into porn, it had plenty of nudity, but only on the level of Game of Thrones, but here it was part of the story. It had some exploring/educative purpose too breaking down the taboo of the sex-industry while never forgetting it was there for fun.
8 - Hex: another british show, a lot like Buffy centered around mid-school girls (and boys), but with a limited number of episodes (2*13), a lot more brittish, and at the end they brought the apocalypse (Legend-stlye, referring here the 1985 Tom Cruise/Mia Sara movie).
9 - Shake it up: ye, why not add a Disney-production? It was cheerful and innovative.
10 - Star Trek Voyager: it had a beginning and an end, was a full journey which never lost track. We all prefer some parts of it over the others, but we all like the show in general. Ok, killing the Borg in its entirety was a "little" far-fetched, but at least wasn't rushed like DS9.
11 - The Great Jang Geum: unlike The Great Queen Seondeok which I always finish in the middle at the changing of profession I watched the cook/medic series twice. It is a good costume-drama showing a piece of asia's history.
12 - Millennium: this spinoff-show of X-files was much darker, way shorter, and a tons more creative. There were also no fake aliens.
13 - Xena: face it, this is a show with a female Conan. What's not to like?
14 - Full metal, panic?: This anime spinoff-show was just everything you can wish from an adult-oriented mecha-comedy cartoon. Full of sex-jokes, always clever stories, likeable characters and good animations make me suggest this. (The original show was meh on the contrary if you ask me)
15 - Dallas/Friends: Ok, most "best" shows are compound naturally. For a very long running show you will sooner or later loose track. But if I'd want to point out a couple which never expired beyond relief, these two would them be.
16 - american horror story, coven (season 3): yep, instead of its season-title people referring to it the season's own title it was so good. Dark, complex, full of special effects, daring when coming up with stuff, but never gorss for itself. Good work.
17 - Heaven's lost property (Sora no otoshimono): why not add another anime to the list. Ok, the ending ova was ... less than what it should have been (if you reach there look up the manga's ending), but until then it was the most absurd comedy they came up with. From wish-fulfilling androids to flying panties and robot-wars it had everything.
18 - Bravestar: Not just asia does good cartoons. Here was a cowboy hunting bad guys on his cyborg-horse with bazooka. What's not to like?
19 - Total drama island: a reality cartoon-show where the fallen out contestants are literally fall out from the crew's airplane. Sadistic, satiric and funny.
20 - The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: yep, even in Europe they do good cartoon-shows. This is just a traditional storytelling about a boy shrinked to the size of a mouse as punishment from the fairy-gnome traveling around the world to learn his lesson.
21 - Nikita (1997-2001): there might be the original film, and other variants, but this I'll forever remember.
22 - Alias: while very similar to Nikita the main difference is here that this was always a "that must be the end" story, whatever happened in the present episode. that overarching plot distinguishes enough to make its own category. And it presented the Final Impossible Mystery in the way you both seen it, and was satisfied. A truly remarkable job.
23 - Agatha Christie - Poirot (1985-): While it might not always be faithful to the books, the calm and wits David Suchet radiates here always catches me.
24 - Bionic Woman (2007): The show got canceled not making enough profit likely. Amongst other reasons. It was canceled during the big Writer Strike you know. likely sentenced Katee Shakoff from making to the A-list, but whatever. While the show might have been not really special, it was still a remarkable job with all its nitbits, takes only a couple of episodes to watch, and despite everything it got an ending that actually solved the series. And that's why it's on this list.
25 - iZombie: totally fresh series appealing to a wide audience. The Current Bad Guy is from Vampire Diaries and surprisingly lot of other products. I think this'll stand to its start.
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