Pasolini's Medea, too.

This is mostly because the Wire only really blew up in pop culture consciousness after it went off the air - when everyone was talking about Buffy being ongoing, nobody was watching it.

It is very Pushing Daises esque, part of the reason I like it more.

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It's on Amazon Prime, nine episodes in. Engrossingly depressing is also fair, but I've found these mutually pathetic relationships can have a degree of bitter comedy - like anything that happens to Noriko.

Out of the blue, and far too late, admittedly, but did you register at the TI Forum?

I'm also doing this. It's just easier.

I thought it was pretty good from the get-go, so I'm not sure where it might 'get good' for others.

I can think of plenty offhand, but most would seem a little odd to compare to Buffy (Scum's Wish leaves me cry-laughing every episode and is the best TV series of 2017.)

Well, the Wire is one (and unlike Buffy, it's one I've heard people talk about outside of college, and quite often) but so too many prestige shows of the last decade, like Mad Men and Breaking Bad.

I'd say the reverse: There are so many comparable shows now. Either in terms of being influenced by it or similar to it, or alternately in terms of engendering a degree of obsession (even when I was at college, the Wire was even more talked about by academics.)

No, I think she seems warm and approachable.

God no. To be clear, I have nothing but contempt for Breitbart. But if one wishes to claim nobody's criticised the AV Club, well, they clearly prove the contrary.

I stopped watching after the third season, but the 'arc' in that show in terms of antagonist mostly seemed to be 'let's keep repeating a word until we tell you what the word means at the end of the year.' The more meaningful arc was usually the character interplay, normally about one of them reacting to the loss of…

To be fair, the X-Files had a lot of that last one.

I guess I lean much more towards schlock than most people. I'd call Sleepy Hollow a guilty pleasure because I can't recommend it (well, I can't recommend anything past the first season, which was excellent) but I keep watching.

And Reaper's showrunners would go on to do Marvel's Agent Carter, which may also go on this list (and had a similarly short shelf life.)

Although let's not forget the MiddleMan's debt to Batman. It's probably the closest thing we got to Batman this millennium.