Earlier this evening a friend on Facebook posted the challenge: “Favorite three TV shows of all time” —
Go.
At first glance, I thought it an easy question. Then I noticed the comments were few in number; many people had only listed one or two shows instead of the requested three.
After spending some time on the topic, now I understand why.
My first favorite was immediate and top of mind: The West Wing. From episode one until the the drama drew its last breath, I was one of its biggest fans and most vocal supporters. It’s what television — and government, for that matter — should be.
Jed Bartlet is still my president.
My second choice is more of a sentimental favorite. I wrote my television programming paper on Cheers as a freshman in college and rightly predicted that it was a comedy that had long legs.
I also watched Cheers — perhaps not with the same religious fervor as West Wing — but until its end. And it was way cool to eventually live just a few blocks from the Boston bar that served as its inspiration.
My third choice was the hardest one. I watch a lot of television, a lot of great television — House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, Breaking Bad —
but I decided, if I was honest, I should choose the show that turned me into a schoolgirl fanatic:
Downton Abbey
I have the DVDs. And the hardback companion. And the bound scripts. And a couple of pictures on my office bulletin board.
Yeah, that probably qualifies as a favorite.
Girl!
Facebook and Twitter have been all , well, a-twitter with the news of the October release of The Gilmore Girls on Netflix.
Every episode. All the Girls, all the time.
I am happy to see this series finally get some love and attention.
I’ve been with them since the get go. When Rory was young and Dean was her awkward boyfriend and not a stud on Supernatural. When Lauren Graham was passed over in the Emmy nomination department year after year. When Melissa McCarthy played her very funny yet subtle sidekick Sookie St. James. Breakout performance? I didn’t have to wait for Melissa to break out.
I knew her all along.
Need proof?
Old school.
Perhaps not as beautifully displayed as you see here.
(Takes up too much room that way.)
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