I watched the show as it aired and loved it but even as it was still running, i think around s3 or s4 it started to be a chore to watch and by the end i had enough of it. Walt was bleeding out in the snow as cops surround him I’m like fucking finally, shut it off and never looked back.
If you want to say goat like the beatles are goat, okay fine, i agree no music we listen to today would be what it is without the beatles but I’m not firing up the white album on my drive home I’m picking something that learned from the white album and improved on it.
Is shakespeare a better playwright than david mamet? I guess, technically. But you’d have to tie me down to get me to watch one
Interesting because IIRC the show was only doing moderately well until around season 3 when it was put on Netflix and people discovered it, binged all three seasons, and it became must-see television on AMC.
The list you posted overlaps considerably with my own. I’d add twin peaks the return
BB wouldn’t have been great without learning how to adapt a drama/thriller from film to tv from Lost. So is Lost the goat? Of course not. As we move further from it the flaws become more obvious. And the reason for that is because the new shows learn from its successes and mistakes.
I had a dream last night that I was standing on the sidewalk when Nathan Fielder parked and got out of his car. I told him I really like his show, and he kind of waved at me.
The creators/writers of Lost didn’t intend for it to go on for so long. It did so well that the network told them they are doing more seasons and they were like, “Uh…fuck, we didn’t plan for this.”