GreyTechnicianWhat is the best TV show that you have ever seen?
Drama: Mad Men
Comedy: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Animation: Rick & Morty
Educational: Connections (1970s, with James Burke as host)
Miniseries: tossup between True Detective Season One and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC, 1979, with Alec Guinness)
True Detective Season One was groundbreaking. I bought the score, and I don’t buy movie or TV scores.
Was it ground breaking? It’s just two dudes bad mouthing each other for 20 minutes and a basic detective plot ever 30 minutes. There was no effort to make anything original. Mindhunter is much better despite lacking direction.
With its’ bleak philosophical and metaphysical concerns, True Detective S1 felt to me very much like Tarkovsky and/or Bergman exquisitely done for television.
I wonder why I found True Detective unoriginal but I suspect it’s because I grew up on The Simpsons where philosophy and metaphysicality frequently is the joke and plot of an episode. Maybe a perspective that expanded on and challenged common modern thought would have made True Detective interesting to me, but as it was I felt it lacked insight and purpose. The show didn’t personally expand on anything I knew to be true.
Oh my god, I loved Connections! It really was a great show.