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Originally Posted by Criterion7 Twin Peaks..6great episodes followed by a series that completely fell apart.
Carnivale...never ended.
Battlestar...extremely over-rated.
You could go on but american tv isn't as good. They spoon feed in the sitcoms and programming. It's just not as good nor as intelligent. The structure is what kills it. The longer seasons and the dumbed down scripts.
You realize it's only by doing the shorter seasons like those done in the UK that they have managed to structure some of these shows tighter.
A good show like Carnivale will be either watered down or cancelled. You mention Firefly, a series cancelled after the first season. And twin peaks a show that was so bungled by the channel that he literally killed off his cast. |
Firefly may have been cancelled, but it doesn't take away the genius of the first season which many choose to revisit. Think replay value.. after all the question is if US TV is better. As for
Twin Peaks - it may have gone all over the place in Season 2, but so what? It endures and has an unprecedented cult following and tons of replay value. And
Battlestar may be overrated to you, but many people loved that show. My OH and I had a blast with it and flew through all the seasons.
And as for
Breaking Bad and
Deadwood which you neglect to comment on - astonishing TV.