The Sopranos<\/strong> is amazing in depicting so many characters and mixing violence and soap. The Wire<\/strong> is the most realistically paced series, building up slowly, and then paying out for the patience by giving this overview of crime and politics in Baltimore. Breaking Bad<\/strong> has the best opening. It puts you right in the middle of the story, it is exhilirating and makes you wonder: how the hell did that guy get in the desert in his underpants? And what\u2019s next? Dexter<\/strong> kills bad people and you keep wondering why you like him. Or is that the reason I like him? Game of Thrones<\/strong> is candy for the eyes, fairytales you sort of remember from your childhood how they should be, with kings and monsters and women. Like the Sopranos Battlestar Galactica<\/strong> is amazing in depicting so many characters and mixing scifi with philosophic questions about human identity, leadership, democracy, religion, determinism, free will and good and bad. Deadwood<\/strong> also has no clear lines between good and evil with a lot of agression. Is that the natural way for a civilization to develop? Is natural good?<\/p>\n B. UK comedy from 8 to 11 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Thinking of Fawlty Towers<\/strong> I always see Basil\/John Cleese on the landing of the first floor, all folded up and chastizing himself for the embaressment he put himself through, again. A definite must see. Monty Python\u2019s Flying Curcus<\/strong> is best at changing your perception. After I\u2019ve seen the show the otherwise normal world looks absurd. Black Books<\/strong> is for depressed people who want to be able to identify with a negative hero and laugh about it. My favourite episode is when they write the childrens book. Coupling<\/strong> is funny in dealing with relations in a recognizable way.<\/p>\n C. Comedy and drama from the USA at 12 through to 15 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Seinfeld<\/strong>\u2019s episodes about waiting for a table in a Chinese restaurant and finding their parked car in the parking garage are classics. Friends<\/strong> is funny and endearing. Firefly<\/strong> is a western in the sky, with beautiful production and people, and with this hero, the lone cowboy, who is not righteous but does the right thing. Mad Men<\/strong> paints very vivid how a 60\u2019s housewife can get depressed, because of the way society works at the time you\u2019re living your life, and how that all changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lately – the last year – I’ve been watching a lot of TV-series. This is my top 15 of TV-series selected from the IMDB top 100. This gives an overrepresentation of UK and USA produced TV-series produced after 2000. In three categories: A. Agressive and flawed heroes from the USA you should dislike from 1 … Continue reading “Top 15 TV series”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-en-tv","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/vtongrn.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Top-15.png\" "\\"Top")
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