End-of-the-Year Blogging: 2009 Lists | Television
Today in 2009 lists: television shows and moments.
- Tom Shales looks at the best television moments of the decade.
- TV.com’s most popular television shows of the decade.
- Paste Magazine’s 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade (2000-2009). Clocking in at 19 and 18, respectively, are two of my favorites: “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad.” Other favs, “Curb” and “30 Rock,” also made Paste’s list.
- Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune was allowed by her editors to choose 15 tops for 2009; choosing 10 was just too darn hard.
- Mike Hale’s (New York Times) list is here, but before he announces his picks, he feels the need to say this:
- “Before we get to the list: There are a lot of perfectly well-made, intelligent, but essentially lifeless shows on television that get great reviews and end up on Top 10 lists. People like these shows because they feel that they flatter their intelligence, and because they confuse surface realism with some kind of deeper truth. I don’t (like them, that is), so don’t look for “Breaking Bad,” “Damages,” “Dexter,” “Mad Men” or their like here.”
<Whatever that means. “Breaking Bad,” “Damages,” and “Dexter” are lifeless? To me they are, quite simply, very entertaining.>