I've been rewatching Six Feet Under lately. Clearly it is the greatest and best TV show of ours or any generation. Thoughts?

Personally, I would rank the pantheon of HBO shows thusly:

Band of Brothers
The Wire
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Larry Sanders Show
The Sopranos
Da Ali G Show
Six Feet Under
Def Comedy Jam
The Chris Rock Show
Any America Undercover featuring crackheads
Oz
Autopsy
Taxicab Confessions
Project Greenlight
Sex and the City
Real Sex
Def Poetry Jam
Anything that isn't fucking Arliss
Arliss

Don't forget Mr. Show. The best sketch comedy show ever. Also the Tenacious D HBO series was the best. I don't like the wire all that much, and I haven't seen Band of Brothers yet. I'd also say Oz and possibly the Sopranos should be a bit higher on your list. But yeah, Arliss did suck. It was on for several years, too.

I'm not sure it's fair to count Band of Brothers as a show, it's a miniseries, more comparable to HBO's movies, which have also been good, the ones I've seen anyway. I am a huge Six Feet Under fan, fanatical about The Wire, and like the Sopranos, but liked it better a couple seasons ago.

Shows I watched from the beggining and can watch anytime and consider truly great,
Sopranos
Homocide
Sports Night
Seinfeld
Mr Show

Shows im catching up on that I missed the first time around and consider truly great,
The West Wing
Law & Order
ER

Shows ive never watched reguraly but I thought were truly great from what I saw,
Larry Sanders
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Shows that I tried to watch but came away thinking they were way overated,
CSI
Sex And The City
Friends
Will & Grace

Um.....its Arli$$

Um.....its Arli$$

Now it's C$nce$$ed

Buffy.

Now it's C$nce$$ed

Yeah, cause it $uck$ A$$

Yeah, cause it $uck$ A$$

I seriously have no idea how it lasted as long as it did, it's almost like HBO thought if they kept it on forever, people would think it was as good as their other shows.

Keep in mind that Arli$$ was one of their first, if not their first, shows. It didn't have the quality of the later ones.

Keep in mind that Arli$$ was one of their first, if not their first, shows. It didn't have the quality of the later ones.

"First and Ten" was waaaaay before Arli$$. Now that show was classic. Bubba, Jeffro, all their antics... Good times.

What, no "Most Extreme Challenge"? :D

I've been rewatching Six Feet Under lately. Clearly it is the greatest and best TV show of ours or any generation. Thoughts?

Tried to watch it but I don't think I ever made it past episode two. LOL I love the Sopranos though! I've recently started watching Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO, I like that show a lot too.

How could no one have mentioned "The Shield"! Season 3 begins March 9th on FX.

Kids in the Hall was born on HBO. One could argue that this was the greatest HBO show, ever.

Also, Tenacious D was ALMOST a regular series on HBO. It would have changed the world.

Some Canadians might have an issue with the idea that Kids in the Hall was an "HBO show," but perhaps that's just nitpicking. I know what you meant, sachmo71.

Anyway, I liked Arli$$ at first, but I got over it pretty quickly. Mr. Show was the best by far, IMHO. Tenacious D was great, too. I like Curb Your Enthusiasm, although I don't watch it regularly. It's on HBO Comedy every night, so I just watch it when I can. I don't necessarily need to see the episodes in order. I don't like hour-long dramas, so I don't watch anything that falls into that category. So would I consider Six Feet Under the best TV show of its time? Eh, no.

I cannot stand Robert Wuhl. I think he sucks as a comedian, he sucked for the 2 minutes I saw him in the original Batman movie (I think), and he and Arliss sucked ass. It's hard for me to say about someone who loves baseball as much as he does, but he's just not funny.

I can't think of one redeeming quality about him as an "entertainer." The fact that he had any kind of career is a mystery to me - as a comedian, he was/is like an unfunny Jay Leno. And Jay Leno is not funny to begin with.

Whul was funny as Neubaum Turk in Hollywood Knights. Every time I hear "Volari" I crack up.

Pumpy,

Was Kids in the Hall broadcast in Canada before Lorne Michaels put it on HBO? I never knew that.

The Shield
24
Reno 911
Nip/Tuck
Curb

All I can think of that I watch.

What, no "Most Extreme Challenge"? :D

I'll tune that in occasionally...every once in a while there's a hilarious dubbed line they come up with...

Personally, I would rank the pantheon of HBO shows thusly:

Band of Brothers
The Wire
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Larry Sanders Show
The Sopranos
Da Ali G Show
Six Feet Under
Def Comedy Jam
The Chris Rock Show
Any America Undercover featuring crackheads
Oz
Autopsy
Taxicab Confessions
Project Greenlight
Sex and the City
Real Sex
Def Poetry Jam
Anything that isn't fucking Arliss
Arliss

I would agree with 'The Wire", couldn't believe how strongly this one gripped me, also wonder if this is the model for the CBS show "In the Line of Fire"

Going to have to say The Office as it's the only "new" show I've consistently watched and loved.

What a great show. I hear it's being redone over here, and I hate to imagine how bad they'll butcher it to fit the normal sitcom mold.

I'm not sure if it's just a matter of timing, but I think The Wire is my favorite TV show ever.

Going to have to say The Office as it's the only "new" show I've consistently watched and loved.

What a great show. I hear it's being redone over here, and I hate to imagine how bad they'll butcher it to fit the normal sitcom mold.
They shouldn't redo it at all. Air the orginal, please, as any remake will suck.

I'm not sure if it's just a matter of timing, but I think The Wire is my favorite TV show ever.

I only started watching it near the start of season 2, and was immediately hooked by the more "realistic" depiction of the police. Paperwork, inter-departmental squabbling, corruption, some occasional good police work, it's got it all! I've since watched back through Season 1, all I can say is, I love this show. I can't wait till Season 3 comes out, this is a great show. Having a different "storyline" for each season is a really good idea.

The first two seasons of Six Feet Under were great, but last year it really sucked. They made their likeable characters unlikeable, a really bad formula.

I think The Sopranos, The Wire, and Sex and the City are far and away better than anything else on TV.

I liked From the Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers and Oz.

Carnivale is a good show also, I really like the setting and concept.

HBO's best show ever:
1st and 10!

But I am really enjoying Dead Like me

Don't forget Mr. Show. The best sketch comedy show ever. Also the Tenacious D HBO series was the best.

I knew I'd forget some good stuff, both of those shows were definetely hilarious and would deserve a high personal ranking. Also Kids in the Hall, if you count it as an HBO project, would be top 5, as they were

I'd also say Oz and possibly the Sopranos should be a bit higher on your list.

Don't get me wrong, Oz and obviously The Sopranos, are awesome shows, and I consider 2/3 of what HBO has produced excellent television, but The Wire and Band of Brothers were probably the the most enjoyable dramatic television I've ever seen (sorry Automan). The Sopranos and Oz, while both thoroughly enjoyable, have a little too much soap opera for my taste. Oz, upon repeated viewings, took a serious nosedive in the later seasons, and suffered from the fact that it was a great premise (prison soap opera) written by a bunch of fellows who were obviously huffing gas. Seriously...a high-fashion death row photo shoot? An inmate who is given the winning lottery numbers by God? Rick Fox, and his jheri curl, in a dramatic role? It was campy as hell, which certainly added to it's appeal, but makes it hard to call it great television. Or, maybe I'm still bitter from Adebisi's death.

I thought the first season of Six Feet Under was excellent, but it turned a little too tragic for me, as things progressed. I wish things weren't always going wrong for every member of the Fisher family, and every person they ever met.


Carnivale is a good show also, I really like the setting and concept.


Carnivale was like the longest movie trailer ever made. The first hour made me interested in knowing the answers to all these mysterious questions, but two hundred hours later all I've got is a basket full of more questions, and not an answer in sight.

Ultimate Force
Thats the best TV show I know of.
It even has the distinction of having Chris Ryan (the SAS member who escaped in the doomed 'Bravo Two Zero' patrol as an actor and Technical advisor).
I am desperately waiting for the next series to arrive on DVD.

American Choppers is the best TV show.

I have proof*.

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*claims of proof will not be backed up

Miracles was a great show, until they decided to shit can it after 6 episodes. :(

Ed was good too.