TV (the book) : two experts pick the greatest American shows of all time / Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sepinwall, Alan, 1973- author.

Seitz, Matt Zoller, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television series--United States--History and criticism.

Television series.

United States.

Local Subjects:

United States.

Genre:

Television comedies.

Television programs -- United States.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 410 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible? For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, but it all ultimately boils down to this: What's the greatest TV show ever? That debate reaches a conclusion in this book. Sepinwall and Seitz have identified and ranked the 100 greatest scripted shows in American TV history. Using a complex, obsessively all- encompassing scoring system, they've created a Pantheon of top TV shows, each accompanied by essays delving into what made these shows great. From vintage classics like The Twilight Zone and I Love Lucy to modern masterpieces like Mad Men and Friday Night Lights, from huge hits like All in the Family and ER to short-lived favorites like Firefly and Freaks and Geeks, TV (The Book) will bring the triumphs of the small screen together in one amazing compendium. Sepinwall and Seitz's argument has ended. Now it's time for yours to begin!

Contents:

The great debate: How do you pick the best show of all time?

1-10. The inner circle. The Simpsons ; The Sopranos ; The wire ; Cheers ; Breaking bad ; Mad men ; Seinfeld ; I love Lucy ; Deadwood ; All in the family

11-50. No-doubt-about-it classics. M*A*S*H ; Hill Street blues ; The shield ; The twilight zone ; Arrested development ; The Larry Sanders show ; The honeymooners ; Louis ; The Mary Tyler Moore show ; The X-files ; Curb your enthusiasm ; SpongeBob SquarePants ; The Rocky and Bullwinkle show ; Twin Peaks ; Lost ; Buffy the vampire slayer ; Freaks and geeks ; My so-called life ; Oz ; The Dick Van Dyke show ; Friday night lights ; NYPD blue ; Frasier ; Homicide: life on the street ; Battlestar Galactica ; In treatment ; South Park ; The west wing ; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman ; It's Garry Shandling's show ; The Jack Benny program ; Soap ; The Andy Griffith show ; The Cosby show ; Moonlighting ; Taxi ; East side/West side ; Hannibal ; ER ; Parks and Recreation ; Roseanne ; 30 Rock ; The Bob Newhart show ; Malcolm in the middle

51-75. Groundbreakers and workhorses. Miami Vice ; The office ; St. Elsewhere ; Community ; The golden girls ; Friends ; Police squad! ; 24 ; The defenders ; Gunsmoke ; Sex and the city ; Star trek ; Firefly ; Law & order ; Maude ; The Rockford files ; China Beach ; Enlightened ; Everybody loves Raymond ; The wonder years ; Barney Miller ; Frank's place ; Justified

76-100. Outlier classics. thirtysomething ; Columbo ; Futurama ; The outer limits ; Northern exposure ; Batman ; King of the hill ; Veronica Mars ; Cagney & Lacey ; EZ streets ; Wiseguy ; Six feet under ; Star trek: deep space 9 ; Batman: the animated series ; Boardwalk empire ; NewsRadio ; Picket fences ; Scrubs ; WKRP in Cincinnati ; How I met your mother ; Terriers

Works in progress

A certain regard

Miniseries

TV-movies

Live plays made for television.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781455588190

1455588199

OCLC:

935196084