Breaking Bad vs Mad Men vs The Sopranos vs The Wire

[koyvoo]

Which of these shows was the best and how would you rank them?

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[TP]

Loved them all, but Sopranos wins.

 

[World of Ice]

The Sopranos.

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

The Wire
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
Sopranos

All fantastic shows.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

The Wire
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad

Never saw Mad Men.

 

[Bruins4Lifer]

Voted the Wire but they are all the Mount Rushmore of All-time TV. I'd also but Deadwood and The Shield up there too.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

There's The Wire, then there's everything else

 

[NyQuil]

The Wire and I found it a pretty easy decision.

The Wire
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Mad Men

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

Love them all but I was most into Breaking Bad. It probably has to do with the fact that I watched it from the jump and was the person telling other people they had to watch it. Got a lot of friends into it, including watching the 1st 3-4 seasons (to get caught up) with my now wife. I was a season or two late to Mad Men. Only caught up the Sopranos for the last season or two and watched the Wire completely after it was done. In terms of my own personal enjoyment, which isn't the same as best, I'd go...

Breaking Bad
Sopranos
Mad Men
Wire

All great though.

 

[Do Make Say Think]

I haven't seen all of Mad Men but it not being about crime makes it the most interesting and fun of this bunch.

The Wire and the Sopranos are just behind it.

Breaking Bad was a bad show carried by a great lead.

 

[VEGASKING]

Going by how many times I've watched each series all the way through the winner would be Mad Men but that's because it plays on a loop, in order and commercial free on Directv. I've watched it at least 3 or 4 times and I still watch it every day when I get home from work. I would probably do the same for BB and Sopranos under the same circumstances. I need to watch Sopranos at home. Both times I watched it at work so it never got my full undivided attention.

All 3 are completely different kinds of shows so it's hard to say which is best.

 

[Trap Jesus]

The 4 shows people always say "How the hell have you not seen it????"

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

There's The Wire, then there's everything else

Yeah, as much as I love all four, The Wire is on another level.

 

[Ceremony]

The Wire
The Sopranos
(I haven't seen Mad Men)
Being deaf, blind and mute.













Breaking Bad

 

[Shareefruck]

The Wire is the best among them and deserves almost all of its high praise

The Sopranos is also great and deserves a lot of its high praise

Mad Men is very good and deserves some of its high praise

Breaking Bad is ridiculously overrated and overpraised, despite being entertaining/engaging/thrilling in a shallow pop-corny/roller-coaster kind of way and having high production values. It has much less real substance/worthwhile value than it aims for and gets credit for, IMO (just like something like Game of Thrones). It presents a bunch of heavier subjects, but it's clearly more interested in winning the viewer over with a constant cycle of generic/repetitive dramatic-suspense-pay-off tricks than actually doing anything interesting with them. It's just "Whooaaa, what bad-*** way is Walt going to get himself out of this impossible predicament!?" over and over again.

 

[the squared circle]

Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Mad Men
The Wire

I enjoyed the Wire a lot, but still can't see how it is so extremely highly regarded.

 

[67 others]

The Wire and I found it a pretty easy decision.

The Wire
The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
Mad Men

My order is exactly the same and I agree the wire ran away with it for me

 

[MNRube]

The Wire
The Sopranos


Breaking Bad

Mad Men


The first two are way better than BB or MM

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Sopranos
The Wire

Breaking Bad


Never seen Mad Men.

 

[Neutrinos]

The Sopranos for quality of writing and characters
Breaking Bad for story line

The Wire was okay, but I don't think it's the masterpiece that so many make it out to be

I only made it through the first 3 or 4 episodes of Mad Men before tapping out

 

[Neutrinos]

Voted the Wire but they are all the Mount Rushmore of All-time TV. I'd also but Deadwood and The Shield up there too.

I would think Game Of Thrones has surpassed them all

 

[Shareefruck]

It always confuses me why everyone seems to agree that HBO-style dramas dominate the Mt. Rushmore of television. To me, television comedies have been much more satisfying, for the most part. When you move past The Wire and The Sopranos, there's not really a whole lot there, in my opinion. I would pretty easily take shows like Atlanta, Louie, prime Simpsons, Monty Python, The Office UK, Arrested Development, and others over just about all the dramas out there besides those two big ones.

 

[glovesave_35]

I really enjoyed watching The Wire, but I have never really understood how it is held in such high high regard by many. I'm even willing to call it a great show.

Breaking Bad also tends to be very overrated.


My list:

Sopranos

The rest

 

[glovesave_35]

It always confuses me why everyone seems to agree that HBO-style dramas dominate the Mt. Rushmore of television. To me, television comedies have been much more satisfying, for the most part. When you move past The Wire and The Sopranos, there's not really a whole lot there, in my opinion. I would pretty easily take shows like Atlanta, Louie, prime Simpsons, Monty Python, The Office UK, and others over just about all the dramas out there besides those two big ones.

I agree with your general sentiment. Peep Show is on my Mount Rushmore.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Only saw The Sopranos and The Wire. I pick The Sopranos. The Wire suffers terribly from a bad final season whereas the former never stumbles. Would probably rank Atlanta and Horace and Pete above it as well.