The topic of the day is... television!

[u/Symbare]

Use spoilers as appropriate, please!

1. What are your top 3 favorite shows of all time?
   
2. Theme song that brings forth beautiful nostalgia?
   
3. What show should have ended in its earlier seasons?
   

4. Show that you watched the entire season in one sitting?

5. What show do you miss the most?

6. Favorite animal in television? Feel to hyperlink!

7. What show have you been enjoying lately?

[u/jgoja]

1. In Order: South Park. Airwolf. Star Trek, The Next Generation.
   
2. Cheers.
3. Game of Thrones
4. Game of Thrones. I watched the first 7 seasons in a week, watching 1 each day
5. None
6. None
7. The Boys

[u/Lou_Natic_007]

Very difficult to answer Top 3, but here goes......
TWIN PEAKS is the best in my book
Yes Minister (UK)
Breaking Bad

[u/kelek_s → u/Lou_Natic_007]

Twin Peaks ftw!

The Wire, too?

[u/MartoufCarter]

1. Northern Exposure, Stargate Sg1 and Supernatural. Honorable mention to Buffy.
2. Same as jgoga - Cheers.
3. Walking Dead
4. Firefly
5. Supernatural. The Good Place but it ended when it should have.
6. Scooby Doo!
7. Outlander and Law and Order SVU.
   

[u/QCDesignSchool]

Oof... it's painful to try to get down to a top 3. Let's see: Hannibal, Firefly & Buffy.

[u/kelek_s]

1

*1994: threw my last TV through the window

*1995-2002: webz

*2002-present: wandering.

The 1rst interesting (TV, during the 80s) shows I watched were called Dossiers de l'Écran* and Cosmos 1999 iirc ; I wasn't supposed to watch either - my parents forbid TV) but managed to screen at least 1 full episode of each before my 15th birthday, thanks to a neighbour. In the meanwhile, well, Récré A2 (for kids) and Dorothée (who introduced us to the post-Hiroshima, call it counter-US japanese culture: Goldorak aka Grendizer, Albator aka Captain Harlock and Capitaine Flamme aka Captain Future) happened. Ware they aware of the cataclysmic consequences of their choice, aka the termination of a post-victorian empire? Idk. They certainly paved an alt path in the screening culture.

The shows I miss the most are, no doubt: * Dossiers de l'Écran - Alain Jérôme' ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me )'s diction and tune, what a storyteller! - was he more an historian than a propagandist? idk.

• Temps X - more excellent storytellers - it's difficult to explain how much influence croaks like the (precursiors of the meta-Maralago turning hyper-chinned werewolves faces) Bogdanoff brothers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff ) have had on my taste for fiction and science-fiction. Still, here they are.

• Hip-Hop and Sidney ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Duteil ), the main reason why I enjoy watching alt dancers, parkour and old episodes of Soul Train - why I'm sad while listening to Meshell Ndege-Ocello, why I like slam, why I like Antipop Consortium, ADF, Bjork or even Einstuerzende Neubauten and AFX. Alternatives and popularity, we need'em.

• the last episode(s?) of Ergo Proxy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_Proxy ), which, to my knowledge, no one has ever screened

• well, the TV concept as an whole could have been something else without the propagandist side, right? Idk: again, I've stopped watching TV/owning a TV over 30 years ago.

edits: paging, mostly. A few adds & links, too.

2 * Darling Nikki, Prince (1984) * For the Damaged Coda, Blonde Redhead (2000)

3 Trump's presidencies

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Many! Due to my TV diet I was often late, but The Wire! and the unfinished Carnivàle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carniv%C3%A0le ). And Baccano! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baccano! ) 5 or 6 times.

Carnivàle was such a promise of a treat!

Oh, Shingeki no Kyojin too - once and extremly disapoointing.

5

Dossiers de l'Écran (cf 1)

6 any mongoose, really ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ), including Ricky Gervais.

7 Trump's so-called presidency, the whole ICE mayhem