The Good Place for me, off the top of my head. So incredibly intelligent, well written, controlled, incredibly well run, amazing cast, and hilarious writing and acting. No bad seasons, few weak episodes, trusts the audience, and deals with complex philosophical issues in an easy to access manner. Brilliant forking show.
Always sunny
I hope you're only referring to the first 3 seasons. The 4th and 5th seasons weren't total trainwrecks, but there was a marked downgrade in quality.
Yea I can see that. I don't love Seinfeld for the same reason. I think it is just personal taste here.
I liked The Good Place. It had an interesting story line but was not as funny as AD for me.
Yes. First three seasons. It was hard for me to watch the newer seasons because I had such a high expectations and it was a let down.
How I Met Your Mother, to me maximized density of humor, relatability of the ‘situation’, likability of characters, and lasting catch phrases, jokes, and gags.
Also How I Met Your Mother. Such a good show
Schitt’s Creek is too perfect a show for me to consider it a sit-com.
Shouldn’t that be considered a Schitt-com?
As stated I think all such lists are fundamentally flawed and fluid.
@Indie is trying to get me to watch this but it’s difficult to overstate how much I hate laugh tracks.
That's when I stopped watching. But I want to pick it back up.
It’s definitely still had great episodes…but it just feels to me like that was the arc.
Which is why I usually try to phrase it as "favorite"(or in this case, "what do you consider the best" vs "best." There is reasons to discuss why something is your favorite, and why something misses for you. "Best" is too subjective, and all opinions hold the same weight and validity: whatever makes your sick little heart happy, just like everyone else.
Even favorites can changes from day to day or month to month depending on mood or recency etc. Hierarchies are all flawed.
That was where I was. I wanted to like it, I just couldn't. It was as if they said Seinfield's characters are mostly unlikeable, what if we made characters who were utterly reprehensible? And I can do that in a movie, for 120 minutes, but not in a long-term commitment like a sitcom. But what was worse for me was the incredible overacting. Like SNL levels of overacting. I wanted to be one of the cool kids, full of cynicism and bile, but I would rather watch reruns of The Adams Family. I'm Basic.
Well, then you have to take it down to seasons sometimes. I think the first seven to eleven seasons of the Simpsons were brilliant, smart, and hilarious. The next...175 years or whatever it is now...not so much.
I've seen a lot of Sunny but it makes me literally cringe and have anxiety sometimes at how horrible they all are. Lol.
Don’t dosageee with any of this. I think my biggest argument against AD is that is has too strong of a narrative for me? My ideal sitcoms let me just drop in and out on random episodes and laugh at what’s there. AD’s a slightly different beast. Very good but different.
