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  4 0 You should go The Wire Mad Men Deadwood in that order. Well, let me qualify a bit: If you're into 50s/60s aesthetics and zeitgeist and enjoy TV for escapism and/or nostalgia, start with Mad Men. If you're into a social commentary disguised as crime/action with incredible writing and a full five-season story arc, not to mention an incredibly talented majority-minority cast (the regulars are >50% African-American and >90% awesome) and stereotype-busting characters, start with The Wire. "The Wire" is a slow burn at first but pays you back. capicola answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by capicola… 0 0 Wait--I just found a link with the answer: You should watch "Mad Peaks." http://thisrecording.com/today/2009/8/4/in-which-were-just-mad-enough-to-climb-these-peaks.html capicola commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  4 1 Weeds was/is boring. I gave up on it part way into the second season. Desperate Housewives with pot... ooooooooo, edgy. The opening sequence is great though, so just watch the various covers of the opening song on YouTube and experience the best part of the show. The Wire and Mad Men are both great shows, but generically great so everyone on the West Coast loves those shows. Those are shows you're not going to forget about because everyone in Seattle is going to tell you watch them every other time you have a conversation with a new person. So watch Deadwood. It's amazing, positively lovely, for all the reasons M Baxter stated, and it's not a show many people you talk to have seen, so it's more likely to slip through the cracks. Watch it now while you're considering it. Lilting Missive answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  4 2 "Mad Men" is artistic television with the script of a classic novel. Even when it's not in peak form, it's still better than anything else on television right now. "Deadwood" may be the greatest television drama of all time. The dialogue is positively Shakespearean. Only, replace the archaic insults with "cocksucker". Furthermore, it's chock full of filthy, sexy men and women. I still haven't seen "The Wire", but pretty much everyone I trust tells me I need to. "Weeds" is awful. Don't waste your time. You didn't mention it, but I would also highly recommend "Justified". Especially if you like "Deadwood". It's basically "Deadwood" in modern rural Kentucky. It stars the phenomenal (and phenomenally sexy) Timothy Olyphant (who was also in "Deadwood"). Jessica Baxter answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report 2 comments by protosaurus and Jessica Baxter… 0 2 A woman who describes Deadwood's dialog as Shakespearean? OooOoOOoo protosaurus commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 I don't get it. Jessica Baxter commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Mad Men and The Wire are great choices. Up there is of course The Sopranos which is better than either of those. The funniest show on TV right now is NBC's "Community". It is a great ensemble cast and by that I mean, each person gets featured as well as coterie of guest stars. I would recommend watching Season 1 from the beginning on DVD and then catching up with season 2. Other good series are Dollhouse, Lost (of course) and Fringe. John Bailo answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Deadwood and Fringe adwb answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 1 Mad Men is the only show since the Sopranos to develop each and every character with depth, avoid cheap/bullshit plot devices and stay interesting and honest in just about every episode. They don't pull punches or try to please a crowd. They just make the best show they possibly can week in and week out. The Wire doesn't cheat either, but it isn't nearly as addictive and the characters aren't nearly as well-developed. Mad Men is basically the best thing on TV right now. LMNOP answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report 3 comments by LMNOP, protosaurus, and LMNOP… 0 0 Come to think of it, as much as I love the Sopranos, they'd occasionally churn out a couple of BS episodes. That one with the hip-hop producer? Ugh. LMNOP commented about 1 year ago | Report 1 3 Gotta thumbs down since The Wire ended in March of 2008 (Sopranos ended in June of 2007). The Wire had, arguably, more character development than any other show that's ever been on TV. protosaurus commented about 1 year ago | Report 1 1 Dude. What's with your "gotta give this a thumbs down" comments? This is the second time in two weeks you've felt the need to actually state that, though the last one was more explicitly prickish. Opinions are fine. Just comment, thumbs down, if needed, and move on. I'm well aware of when each series ended. I think Sopranos had better character development than The Wire and, in my opinion, was better at "staying interesting" in every episode, which is something The Wire didn't do for me. "The Wire" was a great show that I didn't feel the need to watch every week. LMNOP commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Mad Men. Seriously, it's worth every minute. It's better than anything that's been going on in movie theaters over the past few years. Amazingly beautiful costumes and sets, but the depth of the story-telling is what really makes it -- it is novelistic. You can get caught up in the sixties-isms -- are those stockings six months early? Would she really be saying that then? But the characters are not archetypes, they are living people. You should definitely read some of the superior blog commentary along with it. Basket of Kisses is the most comprehensive coverage, but Tom and Lorenzo (the Project: Rungay guys) have my favorite Mad Men coverage overall -- both episode-by-episode and also style coverage -- and if you don't think fashion is important, wait until you read what they say about what the clothes (and sets) in this show say to us. Absolute power. Best drama I've ever seen on TV, maybe even comparable to some of the best comedy series (The Larry Sanders Show, Alan Partridge, Human Remains). Fnarf answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 1 The Comeback! http://youtu.be/HEWbrzH-TnI Bradford Schroeder answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 4 Mad Men bored the hell out of me. I absolutely loved the first four seasons of Weeds. Haven't made it any further than that though. David answered in Television about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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