OT: True Detective finale may be the best episode of tv ever
Every scene was perfect, from the acting and writing to the cinematography and sound. I know it’s the night of the oscars but this stole the show.
Sorry, I’m sure everyone is still pissed about the game, but I just had to write this down before the moment passed.
February 25th, 2019 at 11:47 AM ^
Always weird when *SPOILER* a girl getting fed lithium in a bank vault is the happy ending
February 25th, 2019 at 2:20 AM ^
And yes, you definitely want “some of what I’m smoking” before you watch it.
February 25th, 2019 at 2:43 AM ^
Ridiculous. The series finale of Roseanne will always be the greatest television episode of all time. Hands down.
February 25th, 2019 at 3:16 AM ^
It’s crazy to think that there is very likely someone died or alive who actually believes that statement. It makes me sad to think I’ll never know that person. And it blows my mind a little to wonder if I’ve ever met that person.
February 25th, 2019 at 6:47 AM ^
Clearly you have never seen the Kenny Rogers chicken episode of Seinfeld.
February 25th, 2019 at 11:28 AM ^
... or the final scene from the finale of Newhart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdUWXf8jJk
February 25th, 2019 at 12:15 PM ^
"Mr. Marbles?"
February 25th, 2019 at 6:48 AM ^
I haven't watched it yet, but this season has been spectacular. I'm looking forward to it this evening.
February 25th, 2019 at 7:04 AM ^
February 25th, 2019 at 8:34 AM ^
It was really good, especially compared to the train wreck that was season 2...I would not go so far as to say the greatest of all time...
Breaking Bad, start to finish is probably the strongest, best acted, and most well written and plotted show ever on TV, bar none. I still hold The Wire as the best show I’ve ever seen if only because it feels like watching a documentary and not a scripted show, even when it dips in quality in seasons 4 and 5.
Season One of True Detective is certainly in the argument for best season of TV ever. There have been better than what we saw last night though.
February 25th, 2019 at 8:41 AM ^
I'm interested in watching True Detective, Should I watch from Season 1 or can I jump into season 3 and not be lost.
February 25th, 2019 at 8:51 AM ^
There's a reference or two to the first season in S3, but its otherwise entirely standalone.
February 25th, 2019 at 9:00 AM ^
Thanks, I'll check it out
February 25th, 2019 at 9:28 AM ^
With that said, season 1 was the best one so don't skip it. But doesn't matter whether you watch it before or after season 3. And skip season 2.
February 25th, 2019 at 9:33 AM ^
Concur with all this although I liked season 4 of The Wire. The tragedy of watching the next generation of kids develop and go down the same paths was fascinating to watch but in a horrible way.
February 25th, 2019 at 9:44 AM ^
i don't understand why people hate season 2 so much. relative to season 1 it wasn't as good because the style and narrative was very different. but if it was an entirely different stand alone series i don't think people would be as negative to it.
February 25th, 2019 at 9:49 AM ^
It wasn't close to season 1, but it was ok on it's own. The reaction was similar to the people who hated season 2 of The Wire because it didn't follow season 1 chapter and verse.
February 25th, 2019 at 10:03 AM ^
I liked season 2 more but I saw it first so it was season 1 to me..
February 25th, 2019 at 12:45 PM ^
Season 2 is my favorite
February 25th, 2019 at 1:56 PM ^
I get it, you're a Rachel McAdams fan. She was worth the watch.
February 25th, 2019 at 11:49 AM ^
I've got Dexter up there also.
February 25th, 2019 at 2:43 PM ^
The biker gang heist of the projects stash house from Season 1 of TD is definitely one of the best (if not the best) action sequence ever filmed for TV. Amazing tracking shot. IMO Season 3 lacked the action and set pieces from Season 1 that put it over the edge for me, but the acting was great and overall it was a compelling story.
February 25th, 2019 at 10:06 PM ^
Perfectly Stated!
February 25th, 2019 at 2:47 PM ^
Obligatory:
February 25th, 2019 at 3:49 PM ^
Interesting you brought up Breaking Bad. I was going to nominate Ozymandias as the best episode of TV ever.
February 25th, 2019 at 9:15 PM ^
Did a poster above really just say The Wire dipped in quality in season 4?! That’s considered by most the best season in television
February 25th, 2019 at 9:23 AM ^
Wife and I thought last night's season finale was very underwhelming. Really liked the entire season up until last night.
February 25th, 2019 at 11:11 AM ^
I had the same sentiment
February 25th, 2019 at 11:18 AM ^
season 1 for me was like watching adaptation - the other brother must've taken control somewhere during the finale. it suddenly switches to an action flick where the logic behind the whole season is just thrown out the window. why was this guy being hailed as the yellow king with reverence by politicians and the like? i thought it was all fantastic until they clearly just hoped that "he was the bad guy, and they got 'im!" was enough explanation.
February 25th, 2019 at 12:00 PM ^
100% agree with this statement. No real sense of closure other than knowing what happened to Julie. The scenes between Wayne and his wife last night were a snooze. I don't know, maybe there was some deeper meaning to the episode and season overall than I can appreciate, if so, it was lost on me.
February 25th, 2019 at 2:21 PM ^
Yes, there were lots of threads left hanging, and then others that were tied up way too neatly.
February 25th, 2019 at 8:37 PM ^
I really liked season 3 all season UNTIL last night's season finale. I thought the season finale was very disappointing and anticlimactic. Otherwise, I really enjoyed the rest of season 3.
February 25th, 2019 at 8:39 PM ^
Season 1 was incredible.
February 25th, 2019 at 9:44 AM ^
Goodness. Hard disagree. It was good, but it wasn't better than even a regular episode of Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad or any one of another half dozen shows.
February 25th, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
Memorable? Definitely. Very good? Sure. Among the best TV series’ FINAL episodes? Not so sure. “Best TV episode ever”? No. (But thanks for the conversation starter.)
During the past 45 years, most of my TV viewing has been limited to sports, news and news interview shows, but just thinking of the most memorable TV series’ finales that I’ve seen, I'd rate Breaking Bad, M*A*S*H, Newhart, Six Feet Under, Mad Men, The Fugitive, St. Elsewhere, The Americans, The Sopranos, 24, Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and even Seinfeld and Frasier ahead of last night's True Detective - Season 3 finale.
Among shows that either I’ve never watched or have seen only a few episodes, I’m told that The Wire, The Shield, Lost, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Cosby Show, Friends and ER also had great final episodes.
Calling it the “best TV episode ever” ignores several from Seinfeld (The Contest, The Boyfriend and The Strike - in which we learn the story of Festivus), The Sopranos (College, Pine Barrens, University, Employee of the Month and Whitecaps), Game of Thrones (Hardhome, Battle of the Bastards, Blackwater and Rains of Castamere), Breaking Bad (Felina, Ozymandias, Say My Name and Face Off), I Love Lucy (Lucy Does a TV Commercial and Job Switching), The Honeymooners (Better Living Through TV, The Golfer and The $99,000 Answer) and Mad Men Nixon vs. Kennedy, Waterloo, Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency, The Suitcase, Shut the Door. Have A Seat, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - the pilot, and The Wheel - season one’s finale), among many, many others.
February 25th, 2019 at 11:59 AM ^
“During the past 45 years, most of my TV viewing has been limited to sports, news and news interview shows...”
And then you name off pretty much every show ever, with details, lol. How many TVs do you have??
February 25th, 2019 at 2:09 PM ^
"You name off pretty much every show ever" - Really?
Naming 27 TV shows that have been broadcast in regular runs or re-runs during the past 45 years constitutes "pretty much every (TV) show ever"?
Other than HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and True Detective: Season Three, Showtime’s Ray Donovan, The Circus and Shameless, CBS’s Sixty Minutes and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and NBC’s This Is Us, I haven’t watched any TV series in 2019. So far this year, I've watched many more basketball and hockey games and wrestling meets on The Big Ten Network and EPL matches on NBC Sports Network than any one of those shows.
After checking the Nielsen ratings for the top 10 shows from the week of February 11, 2019, I realized that other than CBS’s 60 Minutes and Blue Bloods, I’d never seen a single full episode of any of the other eight shows listed. LINK
February 25th, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
Just started watching 24. On season 3 now. Man what a great show so far. Doubt it will top The Shield or SOA as my favorite, but it’s damn good so far.
February 26th, 2019 at 1:13 AM ^
Season 1 of 24 is incredible. First show I ever “binge watched.” On DVD, not Netflix.
February 25th, 2019 at 3:58 PM ^
The best TV finale, IMHO, was the last episode of Justified. They stuck the landing. After watching the last episode I rewatched the first episode and was amazed at how faithful to the beginning the last episode was. The consistency of the central characters values (or lack thereof) over six seasons was remarkable.
Also, Justified remained true to the spirit of Elmore Leonard.
February 25th, 2019 at 10:19 AM ^
This deserves a giant lolwut. The entire mystery was revealed by finally finding the dude that they had originally been looking for decades earlier and him just voiceovering the entire plot. Such lazy storytelling. Season started off strong but then meandered with time filling nothingness and then ends with an explanatory monologue. Sucked.
February 25th, 2019 at 10:19 AM ^
Three words: The Cartridge Family.
February 25th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
You guys are clearly overlooking “Who’s the Boss?” final episode. Oh, why couldn’t they just get married?! The horror!
In regards to the TD S3 season finale, I think once I understood this story wasn’t about missing children or cops and robbers, but rather a journey through the mind of a man that’s trying to piece together his life, I appreciated it more.
February 25th, 2019 at 12:02 PM ^
Have you seen Breaking Bad Ozymandias? I have no idea how long I sat in stunned silence.
February 25th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
Fonzie jumps 14 garbage cans in the Arnold's parking lot
February 25th, 2019 at 1:01 PM ^
Yeah, but he should’ve given the thumbs up mid jump, slow mo style, with a big smile on his face.
February 25th, 2019 at 2:09 PM ^
I could never get into true detective because all I saw was harrelson and Matt mac (don’t know how to spell it) and I don’t like either of them as actors.
My favorite episode of all time is It’s always sunny when the gang squashed their beefs. One of the few episodes of any show where I laughed the entire time.
February 25th, 2019 at 2:55 PM ^
Love the hell out of Sunny .Thought the last season was not any where near as good as previous years .
February 25th, 2019 at 3:45 PM ^
Give it an honest look. The storyline(s) dialogue, and acting are all compelling.
Not at all “Ed TV.”