Time to start my Top 150 TV shows! As you can tell, I watch way too much television. Almost all of the shows on the list aired in the year 2013. Throughout the year I often have a running document of what shows I watch and when they air so I know when I miss something and I can figure out what shows to watch each night. So when I compiled the whole list, it came to roughly 154 shows. I dropped the ones I didn’t actually finish watching (Sorry Dexter, if only you stayed a good show
) and combined some together and ended up at 150 shows. That's up from 105 last year. So lets begin with:
The Top 150 TV Shows: 150-141
150) "Smash" NBC
Last Year: 105
Leading off my Best of last year, Smash continued to be a disappointment this year. The show had so much potential but the storylines were not interesting, the twists were really silly and stupid and I finished every episode saying “Why am I still watching this”. After dropping a few characters and storylines from Season 1 I hoped things would be better. Some of the actors seemed to stop caring about acting midway and gave up. Katherine McPhee was one of the best parts last season, this season her acting was really horrible. No emotion in her acting. Some songs weren’t bad, but it’s time was up. If it wasn’t canceled, I would have dropped it finally.
149) "1600 Penn" NBC
Last year this appeared on my list of shows I’m looking forward to in 2013 at #10. And I was quite disappointed. The show was not that good at all. Some of the storylines were a little over the top even for a goofy comedy and came across as sophomoric. Other storylines kept me watching all 13 episodes. The show never had the ratings in its favor and was canceled (leaving it on an actually interesting cliffhanger/twist I kind of wish they resolved or talked about more than surprised faces lol). It was a very talented cast given poor product to work with and I hope to see them in other projects soon.
148) "Dallas" TNT
Last Year: 79
A soap is a soap is a soap. If you like soaps you’ll like Dallas. This season was hampered by the sudden death of the iconic Larry Hagman, which forced the show to scramble and rewrite the storylines of the season. The episodes that dealt with his death were the best of the season. The rest of the show unfortunately wasn’t as good. The twists weren’t the worst but the acting brought it down a lot. I didn’t like the cast member they added this season either. Andreas sister from The Walking Dead was pretty unbearable and her whole storyline with the grandmother and her father. Oh god that was bad. And the added brother of Jordana Brewster, the chick from Fast and Furious (who is becoming more and more of a stick to the point where I want to feed her a cheeseburger) was pretty bad too. Hopefully now they’ll fix some things for Season 3.
147) "Degrassi" Teen Nick
Last Year: 103
Yes. I still watch Degrassi. It’s a bad habit I can’t break. The show had a small resurgence back in Season 10/11 but now has reverted back to being unbearable. I miss the characters that just graduated. They left us with the worst characters. Oh and then they go off and kill the most interesting character. The biggest problem is that haracters bend and change to fit a story. One week a character is a bully, nest week they’re redeemed, only to be vilified for something else the following week. Then suddenly they’re the one being the victim. There’s no consistency. It’s bad. LittleDecoy WHY DO WE STILL WATCH lol. Oh Canada, fix this show please cause I’m aboot to loose my mind!
146) "Utopia" Channel 4
This highly ambitious, very in your face graphic and fast paced drama was interesting. It’s about a mysterious graphic novel that could hold the secrets of the future and was able to predict past world wide events. I started watching because of Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, formerly of Misfits. I was able to get through most of the show but eventually the show was getting a little to graphic, even for me. I never finished the last 2 episodes. But the show has a lot of potential and I hope to one day finish it and watch Series 2. But I’ll have to really be in the right mindset for it.
145) "Touch" FOX
Last Year: 104
This season was SO much better. But the show still wasn’t able to rise on my list. I liked the addition of Maria Bello. But she wasn’t in the season enough. Having her on gave the show new life. Also having her daughter be a part of the season rather than the mystery of season one was good. I think one of the biggest problems the show had was that after Season 1’s dull, boring and lifeless episodes, a lot of people gave up. Season 2 had an actual storyline rather than fleeting 6 degrees of separation storylines. Also people want to see Kiefer Sutherland be Jack Bauer. The scenes where they had him running around were some of the best. But Touch had to be cancelled in order for 24 to come back this year so I’m OK with the outcome.
144) "Revolution" NBC
Last Year: 61
Right off the bat, I gave up on Season 2 after 3 episodes. The show is no longer what it set out to be in Season 1. And after an already declining quality from the start to end of Season 1, it was easy for me to give up on this drama. I don’t know why they decided to go in this direction. The numbers are down big from last year, a big part of that being the show is airing at 8PM rather than 10PM out of the ratings monster which is The Voice. But retention out of The Voice wasn’t even that good itself. The Blacklist this year is the true winner. But I digress. Had the storyline stayed about turning the power back on in a post crisis world, I might have continued. But seeing ghosts and being locked in cages for blood types just got too strange for my liking.
143) "Buckwild" MTV
Last year this appeared on my list of shows I’m looking forward to in 2013 at #9. Buckwild was about a group of kids in the middle of West Virginia riding trucks in the woods, drinking at house parties, and blowing up things. Think of it as Jackass meets Jersey Shore. The show was renewed for a second season but following the death of one of the main actors, MTV decided to ditch their plans and end the series. Some of the storylines were compelling enough to continue watching. I love myself some trashy reality shows and this would fall under that.
142) "American Idol/X Factor USA" FOX
Last Year: 95/83
I’m probably all singing competition-ed out by now. I didn’t really completely watch any episode of Idol this year. I would watch clips, listen to performances online. And this year’s X Factor was the same thing. I think I’ve just had enough of the reality singing competitions. So I decided to combine the two shows together. I never got into The Voice so it won’t appear on my list either. So unless some amazing talent appears on one of the shows in 2014, I probably won’t give them much attention.
141) "Crowd Goes Wild" FOX Sports 1
This year FOX launched Fox Sports 1, a rival network to ESPN. Crowd Goes Wild has a panel of all different hosts that discuss sports headlines and often highlight smaller events which may go under the radar. The panel includes the great Regis Philbin and as a long time fan of Live with Regis and Kelly, I knew I had to check out his follow up. I was pleasantly surprised with how well the panel works. You have the esteemed British sportscaster Georgie Thompson who does a great job with the headlines. Michael Kosta brings a lot of humor to the show, and is often the butt of Regis’ jokes. His segment where he asks guests Questions out of Left Field is great. Then there’s Katie Nolan, who is just perfect in every way and I have a huge crush on her even despite her undying love for all things Boston. And rounding out the panel is Trevor Pryce and Jason Gay. They all really embrace the chaos which often happens on the show and make jokes about themselves. A lot of people weren’t impressed with the show but I like the chaos. Also, Regis the Horse. That is all.
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I forgot how much time this stuff takes haha The Top 150 TV Shows: 140-131 will be up next!