Continuing my favorite things series, these are my favorite shows of 2013. Archer This show keeps getting more ridiculous and the running jokes keep getting longer and longer. But it’s still one of the most hilarious shows on TV. Game of Thrones I finally caught up with this show. It really captures what makes the books appealing – the gritty fantasy mixed with realism. It doesn’t tone down anything for TV or make anything more generic either. Key & Peele Still the best sketch show on TV. South Park Sometime last decade, South Park surpassed both the Simpsons and the Daily Show as the most incisive satire of modern America.And amazingly it’s as sharp and as funny as ever after all these years. Suburgatory Probably, my favorite favorite show on TV nowadays. It’s an amazing mix of drama, broad comedy, and suburban commentary. It feels a lot like an updated Daria, and I mean that in the best way possible. Favorite New Show – Brooklyn Nine-Nine This is totally subjective but this is the funniest new sitcom on TV. Maybe its because the majority of the actors are comedians. Or it might be because Andre Braugher’s incredibly dry take on the Police Captain. He’s the perfect straight man to all the ridiculousness going on around him. …
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2011 – A Few of My Favorite Things: TV Shows
The Big Bang Theory The characters may be just caricatures, but the actors are so good it doesn’t matter. It’s also one of the few …