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To be fair, i didn't say in my post it was a positive influence. I mostly agree with his rant about "reality" tv, but i loved that show at the time and i gave big points for a few shows such as Real World that were a huge part of my watching at the time.
Along with Sonny and Rico being fashionistas, it incorporated music into the show, and some music artists guest starred (Leonard Cohen!), but one of the biggest things that stood out to me was how in many of the episodes the bad guys got away. You didn't see many cop shows back then where the bad guys escaped, which gave it some realistic credit on how it can be really hard to bring down drug kingpins. Anyway, it was on my list, and so was Good Eats. My nephew and I would watch Good Eats, and then sometimes try to make whatever the dish was. My favorite that we made was Mac and Cheese.
This may have been true when Mark Burnett was showrunner. But Jeff Probst is now showrunner as well as host, and more than anything he sees Survivor as an adventure show for kids. He has said so on his podcast. And it's reflected in how the post-pandemic seasons are cast, structured and presented.
Music videos as a TV concept would have died anyway when YouTube was invented.
Of course, but would have been a much longer runway. TRW just totally turned MTV on its ear seemingly overnight.
just the good ole boys...
Same for me. Loved it when I was young but couldn't imagine it holding up. It was a pretty dumb (but fun) show.
Currently do not have HBO but would be interested in this when I cycle back into it.
+1
There is a 'rubber-burnin'' Duke boys and Daisy joke here somewhere...
Question on the math because my ocd is kicking in and the math isn’t matching for me. For the scores, if someone ranks a show #70 that is 1 point, #69 is 2 points, up to #1 for 70 points, right?
I started watching this in December but I'm not a binger and took a hiatus when the NFL playoffs started. Definitely will pick it back up but my watching felt too incomplete to rank
Got to be off most people's radar because this show is great. One of the best final episodes to a season i've seen in a while too
I had Pacific in my top 70, but nowhere close to BoB. I also really liked the 3rd show in the Tom Hanks/Stephen Spielberg WWII trilogy, and I had it in my top 70 too. I wonder if it will show in the rankings, but it's probably too new...
I was thinking a little more on this, and will say that at the time I personally didn't care as much about the music stuff on MTV. Around this time we were already making runs the stores to buy a ton of music. To me MTV was too much like the radio and mostly played hits over and over. Great when I was in MS since that was my outlet to some stuff like metal and alternative, but by that time I don't remember watching videos much. To me Real World was just a fun show that was popular that I watched with friends. Now I might have a different stance because of what Real World unleashed on us, but I also think reality tv was inevitable without that show, and people were getting farther away from radio and MTV in general as we had more and more access to music IRL.Real World destroyed MTV. It went from playing music videos and presenting music news with the occasionally off music show to you couldn't turn the damn channel on without a non-music show running non-stop. I watched the entire SF season, not by choice, but rather my roommates at the time had MTV on non-stop in the living area, so when I was in there with them, it would be on. That's all these ****ers talked about, Puck did this or Jud and that girl did that, and blah blah blah blah blah.
I'm not judging people that liked this show (yes I am), I just despised it and cannot stand reality television at all. My wife watches Survivor (SPOILER ALERT) and big brother and it's the same damn thing over and over and over again. I honestly think Survivor will not be happy until someone perishes during one of their seasons.
/rant
Nothing personal KarmaPolice. I didn't submit a list for this because a) I hardly have watched any tv series over the past 20 years and b) don't like certain genres of television at all. I appreciate you all who did, and I'm just here to make a comment from time to time
@Scoresman i had this on mine too at #34.
Yup, me too. Still don't think it would have made my 70, but i've been remembering a handful of older shows that may have.
Way to start off with a bang. I absolutely whiffed on this. It should have been on my list but completely escaped me.
Shame. No VCR?
Those car chases hold up and the midair freeze frame Waylon Jennings voiceover does too imo.
My thoughts too. I won the bath time slot - I got to watch Dukes while my brother had his bath, then he got to watch Chips while I had my bath. Dukes > Chips
Nice job, dildo.
We were supposed to be home already,but the service at the Ground Round was slow that night.
#57 on my list! I love me some Jon Bernthal.
I liked what I saw but missed it too often to rate properly. Common for me for shows that aired on Monday nights
Oh yeah
I had this on my list, but I don't show here...
You probably spelled it "Kwontum Leep."
At the time?
I had this on my list, but I don't show here...
