Best Ever Television [Poll]

[theblueboy]

Best Female Performance:
1. Julia Louis Dreyfus- Selena Meyer (Veep)
2. Uzo Aduba- Suzanne ‘Crazy Eyes’ Warren (Orange is the New Black)
3. Annie Murphy- Alexis Rose (Schitt’s Creek)
4. Alison Jenney- C.J. Cregg (The West Wing)
5. Elisabeth Moss- Peggy Olsen (Mad Men)
6. Amy Adams- Camille Preaker (Sharp Objects)
7. Nancy Cartwright – Bart Simpson (The Simpsons)
8. Jodie Comer- Villanelle (Killing Eve)
9. Amy Poehler- Leslie Knope (Parks & Recreation)
10. Catherine O’Hara- Moira Rose (Schitt’s Creek)
11. Sofie Grabol- Sarah Lund (The Killing)
12. Sandra Oh- Eve Polanski (Killing Eve)
13. Taylor Schilling – Piper Chapman (Orange is the New Black)
14. Regina King- Angela Abar/ Sister Night (Watchmen)
15. Samira Wiley- Poussey Washington (Orange is the New Black)
16. Ellie Kemper – Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
17. Pauline McClynn – Mrs Doyle (Father Ted)
18. Gillian Anderson- Jean Milburn (Sex Education)
19. Rea Seahorn- Kim Wexler (Better Call Saul)
20. Kirsten Dunst- Peggy Blumquist (Fargo)
21. Lily Tomlin-Frankie Bergstein (Grace and Frankie)
22. Alison Steadman – Pam Shipman (Gavin & Stacey)
23. Alison Brie – Ruth Wilder (GLOW)
24. Susie Essman – Susie Green (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
25. Michelle Gomez –Sue White (Green Wing)

Best Male Performance:
1. Jason Alexander- George Castanza (Seinfeld)
2. Dan Castellaneta- Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)
3. Peter Dinklage- Tyrian Lannister (Game of Thrones)
4. Michael Kenneth Williams- Omar Little (The Wire)
5. David Cross – Tobias Funke (Arrested Development)
6. David Jason – Derek “Del Boy” Trotter (Only Fools and Horses)
7. Nick Offerman- Ron Swanson (Parks and Recreation)
8. Tracy Morgan- Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)
9. Bob Odenkirk – Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)
10. Rhys Darby – Murray Hewitt (Flight of the Conchords)
11. Jon Hamm - Don Draper (Mad Men)
12. Ken Jeung- Ben Chang (Community)
13. Bryan Cranston – Walter White (Breaking Bad)
14. Idris Elba- Stringer Bell (The Wire)
15. Steve Coogan- Alan Partridge (I’m Alan Partridge)
16. Martin Sheen- Josiah Bartlett (The West Wing)
17. Andre Braugher – Captain Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
18. Rainn Wilson – Dwight Schrute (The Office, US)
19. John Michael Higgins – Chuck Pierce (Great News)
20. Toby Jones – Lance Stater (The Detectorists)
21. Will Arnett- Bojack Horseman (Bojack Horseman)
22. Danny John-Jules- Cat (Red Dwarf)
23. Jim Parsons- Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory)
24. John C. McGuinly- Perry Cox (Scrubs)
25. Andrew Sachs – Manuel (Fawlty Towers)

[Antonio-Pedro]

Never been much a fan of tv but here's a shot

1. Over the Garden Wall (US)
2. Peep Show (UK)
3. The Office (US)
4. Fargo (US)
5. The Simpsons
6. Breaking Bad
7. Twin Peaks
8. Chernobyl
9. Arcane
10. Key & Peele
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[Hayden]

Awesome, thanks Blueboy and Antonio

I have a bit of tallying to do.

(Antonio, feel free to add more whenever — and Blueboy, don't forget about Best Score )

I've been working on my list. I actually don't think I'll be hitting 100. Looks like it'll cap around 75 atm.

[theblueboy]

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[Johnnyo]

So here is my list of actor. Been a really hard job and still thinking about actresses and scores

1. Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
2. Idris Elba (Luther)
3. Andrew Lincoln (Walking Dead)
4. Michael C Hall (Dexter)
5. James Gandolfini (Sopranos)
6. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)
7. Vincent D-Onofrio (Daredevil)
8. Michael Douglas (Kominsky Method)
9. Martin Sheen (West Wing)
10. Jon Hamm (Mad Men)

[Tha1ChiefRocka]

A love letter to public television,

There was a show on the local PBS station called "Rare Visions and Roadside Revelations". It features three Kansans exploring the country for folk art creations and roadside attractions. During the 13 years it was on TV, they traveled to 47 states to catalogue and showcase the weird, the wonderful, and the heartwarming. It had a remarkable impact on me, and I think about it often. I recently found out that all of the episodes are online for free on the PBS website many of which I have not seen since I was a child. I can remember watching some episodes and being astounded that art and artists could exist anywhere and everywhere.

Here's the full description from PBS.

Launched in 1995, Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations sought out a hidden world of outsider artists and, in a traveling show format, brought their eclectic work to the viewers of public television. The series followed Randy Mason, Mike Murphy and Don the Camera Guy as they loaded up their cramped minivan and hit the road to document grassroots arts environments and offbeat attractions of all kinds, exploring human creativity across 47 states and four time zones. Along the way, the crew mixed in the odd and the unusual — roadside attractions that they liked to say "your father would never stop the car for."

Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations became a serious repository of interviews and photographic documentation of a large number of these sites, many of which have been torn down in the years since the episodes were filmed. The show’s legacy was cemented when The Kohler Foundation, a philanthropic organization known for art preservation, accessioned show footage into its collection as an archive of the life’s work of many of the artists featured in the series.

It is still, to this day, one of the best travel programs that I've ever watched. Many of the grassroots artists that are featured on this program may have never had some of their art shown to the world if it were not for the intrepid crew of Randy, Mike, and Don. This program lives by the motto of Gusteau in Ratatouille. "Anyone can cook". Or, in this case, anyone can, uh, art?

I love the low budget. I love the platform that they gave to people. I love the people. I love the dry and silly humor. I love the respect for art. I love Don the Camerman. I love that they throw a baseball around at the end of an episode. (Not the first one, but ones after) I love regionalism and eccentricity. I love the world's largest ball of video tape. I love public television for letting stuff like this exist. And, although it may be long forgotten by the handful who originally saw these episodes broadcast, I'm sure that it lives on in the hearts of some that felt impacted by this in a way that I did. It's a true testament to the undaunted spirit of human creativity that exists in every single one of us. I'm sure of it.

I also never realized that this wasn't broadcast outside of the KC metro area (at least I don't think so) so I'll post a link to the first episode if you're interested in this kind of thing.

https://www.pbs.org/video/kansas-zsvys8/

[Hayden]

Thanks Johnnyo, tallied


I won't have my list until at least next month, but I think I've whipped up what I want to submit for the scores—

TV Music Scores

1. Twin Peaks (OG)
2. Cowboy Bebop
3. Twin Peaks (2017)
4. Chernobyl
5. Over The Garden Wall
6. Flight of The Conchords
7. Game of Thrones
8. Planet Earth II
9. Samurai Champloo (*)
10. Breaking Bad
11. Stranger Things
12. Mr Robot
13. Blue Planet II
14. The Knick
15. The Underground Railroad
16. Better Call Saul
17. Succession
18. Community
19. Death Note
20. Fargo
21. Boardwalk Empire
22. Euphoria
23. The Crown
24. Planet Earth
25. A Series of Unfortunate Events


*I’ve never actually watched this one, I’ve only heard the Nujabes scores.

Being said, I intend to watch The Leftovers soon, and I’m aware the score is apparently one of the best ever. Same with (hopefully) Treme.

[Johnnyo]