What are the best shows on HBO?
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tacogeoff
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True Detective Season 1 is probably the single best season of any show Ive ever watched. S2 (which is totally unrelated to s1, was not good).
Boardwalk Empire was fantastic
The Sopranos is a little older but still very relevant and very good
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Agree on True Detective. Phenomenal. No way to match it in season 2. Especially when they did it so quickly afterwards.
You watch The Wire?
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The Sopranos is a must watch. Kinda been forgotten because so many good shows have come out since. The Wire is one of the best shows ever made. Curb Your Enthusiasm is one of the best comedies out there. If you like Seinfeld it's a must.
RobBrown4PM
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HBO's Rome. First season was amazing. Second season was less good, but still very very good.
I don't think there will be another actor that could do Marc Anthony as well as James Purefoy did.
I don't think there will be another actor that could do Marc Anthony as well as James Purefoy did.
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Game of Thrones
Westworld
The Sopranos
Rome
The Wire
True Detective Season 1
Oz
Silicon Valley
Deadwood
John Adams
Band of Brothers
The Pacific
Generation Kill
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
You can't go wrong with HBO.
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Crap, forgot Westworld. Its awesome as well.
I found Rome very underwhelming, comimg to it from a post Game of Thrones world. It hasnt aged well. The acting ia OK, but the combat and action sequences are laughable.
I found Rome very underwhelming, comimg to it from a post Game of Thrones world. It hasnt aged well. The acting ia OK, but the combat and action sequences are laughable.
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The military combat sequences were a very small treat that the production team didn't have the budget to expand upon.
The individual fight sequences, such as Pullo in the arena were extremely well done.
The show was about showcasing the culture and lifestyle of Rome and the Romans while this monumentus event was occurring. The show exceeded expectations in this regard.
Wasn't technically on HBO but on Cinemax (owned by HBO) but Banshee (one of my favorite shows ever).
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Man, people really like to crap on True Detective S2 but I thought it was solid. I found it more consistent than S1 while S1 had the highest peaks with relatively low expectations but I thought it lost a lot of steam towards the end. I still prefer season 1 and find it the better season, but I don't think the discrepancy to be as glaring as people often make it seem.
With that said, watch The Sopranos. There still hasn't been an HBO show that's even come close since - and only a few outside of HBO for that matter - and is a tour de force as a character study.
With that said, watch The Sopranos. There still hasn't been an HBO show that's even come close since - and only a few outside of HBO for that matter - and is a tour de force as a character study.
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For Comedy: Curb Your Enthusiasm (my fave show of all-time) and Silicon Valley
I will throw in one more suggestion of a show I loved, Rome. S2 is rushed because it got cancelled because of the budget, but I still loved it.
I will throw in one more suggestion of a show I loved, Rome. S2 is rushed because it got cancelled because of the budget, but I still loved it.
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The Wire, Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers, The Sopranos, Westworld, True Detective S1, Game of Thrones, Deadwood - in that order.
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Blender
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I've never watched it.How can you leave Six Feet Under off your list?!
I'm so disappointed in you, Blender
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Probably blasphemy, but the more time that passes, the more I think that Six Feet Under seems to feel a bit dated and bloated. Love the sentiment/heart driving it, though.
The Wire. Curb Your Enthusiasm. Boardwalk Empire. Westworld. Silicon Valley. Boardwalk Empire. Bored to Death. The Larry Sanders Show.
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One of the most underrated shows on HBO....The Leftovers.
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For me, just the opposite actually. I think it has aged really well and remains one of the finest character studies in television history. The low points are obvious enough but there is enough solid material in season's 3 and 4 specifically for me to be able to forgive the stumbles.
Season 5 suffers from a bit of unevenness too but the last 4 or 5 episodes of the series is a tour de force. Of course everybody always (rightfully so as it's the greatest series finale in TV history) raves about Everyone's Waiting but the episodes that preceded it matched the high's from the first couple seasons for me.
Still to this day, criminally underrated and under-watched. Right up there alongside the other HBO greats IMO.
Season 3 was ridiculously good. First couple seasons were as well but the final season was phenomenal.
Im on season 4/5 of the wire. God damn what was I doing with my life before this ?
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