“Irish low-cost carrier helped develop the C919 but has placed an order for the aircraft.”

I appreciate your sincerity, and were I a younger man and haven’t already watched tens of thousands of hours of TV and movies, I’d be more likely to take that plunge. I’m at the point in my life, and my media consumption, to where I value stories that get in and get out and tell their stories with as much power and…

Slumdog won 8 Oscars, including Picture!

Well, regarding The Shield, one thing about the network-ness of it that I think actually helps is that, coming from a network TV background (as did a lot of showrunners from the initial prestige TV era), Shawn Ryan understood how to structure individual episodes to make them satisfying, rather than as one chapter in an…

Other than “Sacrifice of Angels”, which uses the Prophets to great effect, and the pilot, the Prophet aspect of the show was my least favorite and I think the series might have been better off without it.

Agree with this. The last season of BB was mostly fine, but it all basically ending in a shootout with Walt heroically saving Jesse didn’t ring true to me.

Are we the same person?? lol. This is my take on Breaking Bad as well. While the actual finale was... okay, I felt it totally wimped out on giving Walt the fate he DESERVED. He deserved to die alone, uncertain about the futures of the people he actually loved. Instead what he got was a satisfying (for him), victorious…

No love for Newhart?

Six Feet Under will always be my number one. No film or TV show has made me absolutely weep like that, to the point where I was still crying after the credits rolled. Even now, I just hear the opening piano notes of Breathe Me and I’ll tear up. It is absolutely devastating and beautiful.

No Babylon 5 either.

“Granite State” would’ve been a great finale, too. The final cost of Walt’s actions: All alone, the world knows who he is, his family hates him, and all his work is for nothing, because all he has left is a barrel of money and a guy he has to pay to hang out and play cards, who’s just waiting for him to die so he can…

I started watching Derry Girls because kept hearing about it, I figured I’d watch a few episodes to see what all the fuss was about but man I ended up loving that show.

yeah, What You Leave Behind is much more ambitious (because Ds9 was a much more ambitious show), but All Good Things is definitely tighter.

It’s amazing how television was invented in 2000, isn’t it? 

Fucking Derry Girls. I knew it was going to make me cry. Again. And I watched it anyway. I am a mess. 

I try not to be too curmudgeonly because I’m old. But this is a pop culture website and so should know better.

Bloody hell, A.V. Club. M*A*S*H? Mary Tyler Moore? How about the final episode of The Fugitive? TV existed before the 1990s. The oldest show on this list is Cheers, and it ended in 1993.

Good on you for including “Six Feet Under.” The show started so promising (The dead speak!) and meandered for a couple seasons but ended so, so strong. My wife and I were fans and stuck with the show to the very end, and were left breathless with the end-of-lives montage set to Sia’s “Breathe Me.”

Maybe there will be a follow-up tomorrow that says this list was done during a dream inside a snow globe.

Derry Girls is an all-time great, even accounting for recency bias. The video is of course the finale to the first series/season , rather than the final episode, but I was glad to see it because it includes the original soundtrack to Orla’s step routine, Like a Prayer by Madonna. I’ve seen reruns on Netflix in the US…