game of thrones is one of the biggest messes I’ve ever seen screenwriting wise. Easy to keep introducing new fun story lines if you just constantly give up and abandon the ones you already started I guess. There’s a reason a few of the shows you listed, you had to specify only one season or not all of them. That’s greatness sopranos and the wire had no one else could touch. They were shows they succeed season after season for the good parts of a decade.
Breaking bad is so clearly a spin off Sopranos but fails to develop the family characters/dynamic into anything interesting and that fell flat so it lost it’s way and started becoming a different show as it went on. I find Saul a better written character/show.
stranger things was too derivative for me to consider one of the greats. A lot of what they do in that is pretty closely ripping off/spinning off a scene, shot, or set up from horror or action flick of that era. I appreciate homage but it was too much of that.
firefly I will never understand. Love Sci-fi. Star Trek NG is top 4 tv shows for me. But firefly? It was a totally mediocre, cut and paste space show that didn’t do anything unique or special. Writing was meh, funny lines but not interesting or ground breaking sci-fi story telling, special effects were ok, the plots nothing that hadn’t been done before. Something about it getting canceled early made fans imagine a greatness that could have been but I don’t think ever was really there.
I loved Chernobyl but would never revisit it, doesn’t have that timeless quality like a soprano or the wire where you’ll be telling your friend to check it out a decade or more later.
true detective 1 was great, although the finale/ending writing did not carry the same momentum as the beginning of the season. Definitely lost it’s way a bit by the ending. And as you can see it’s inability to produce consistent greatness season to season is where it falls behind the Sopranos and the wire.
