TV shows that did not....
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As said Blackadder, although I rate them as 2, 4, 3, 1 in terms of which were the best.
Red Dwarf was better in series 2,3 and 4 but then went to the dogs.
Would have to think hard about any others though as the last time I tried to watch a whole series was Lost season 1 and I failed after 5 programmes.
Not really a series as such but IMO Sharpe just got better and better until they reached the point with the last few that there was no longer any room for improvement without taking it to silly money extents.
Red Dwarf was better in series 2,3 and 4 but then went to the dogs.
Would have to think hard about any others though as the last time I tried to watch a whole series was Lost season 1 and I failed after 5 programmes.
Not really a series as such but IMO Sharpe just got better and better until they reached the point with the last few that there was no longer any room for improvement without taking it to silly money extents.
Quite a few make it past series 1. Blackadder was darker in the first two series, and better for it. Red Dwarf was better with the cheap effects, it was more focused on the relationships. Even Allo! Allo! was funny and original for that long.
NCIS is hard to judge; it is a bit variable, hit a high point with Kill Ari and the plots around him, but it is still one of the best crime dramas. Criminal Mids is better though; not sure what series we are up to off-hand.
ETA- I never got into The Wire. Mostly because I could barely understand a word they were saying.
Hill St. Blues?
NCIS is hard to judge; it is a bit variable, hit a high point with Kill Ari and the plots around him, but it is still one of the best crime dramas. Criminal Mids is better though; not sure what series we are up to off-hand.
ETA- I never got into The Wire. Mostly because I could barely understand a word they were saying.
Hill St. Blues?
Edited by grumbledoak on Monday 15th August 11:56
grumbledoak said:
Quite a few make it past series 1. Blackadder was darker in the first two series, and better for it.
1 was dark and much more 'Adult' in the humour.2 was dark and brilliantly funny. "Just a wild stab in the dark; which is incidentally what you'll be getting if you don't start being a bit more helpful!"
3 was starting to show Elton and Curtis' political leanings and the humour appeared secondary at times.
4 was very political but due to the time and circumstance this added to, rather than detracted from, the series. IMO it would have fallen back into the realms of 1 and 3 if it had not been for the ending to the Series which was a television master piece without even being over scripted, intended or rehearsed at all.
That people who were not old enough to have watched any of them first time round can be found quoting from Blackadder says a lot to me.
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