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The 10 best geek TV shows
THE SPECTACLE of the US mid-term elections is behind us and Thanksgiving is almost 10 days away, so how are we to amuse ourselves in this late Fall, early Winter interim?
Well, one way to avoid thinking about half-hearted fights in the upcoming lame-duck legislative session in the US, or the posturings of our craven politicians in the UK as they attempt to excuse their abandonment of the working and middle classes to please the wealthy and financial scamsters, is to escape into remembering old TV shows that many of us once enjoyed, and which we'll claim from having watched them at the time - though we are not entirely sure we remember a lot from those years - were all bitchin' great.
If that sounds like fun, or at least a bit better than contemplating the current sorry state of the UK Commonwealth, we can do no better than suggest you repair to read V3's list of the Top 10 geek TV shows. µ
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I can think of several geeky shows that didn't make it into the list:
* Tomorrow's World (when it was broadcast live) - you'd wait in anticipation for a live mistake in the demonstrations.
* Babylon 5 - arguably the best sci-fi show with a multi-season arc ever, even if they really should have cut it short by a season once the war was over.
* Farscape - watchable stuff, although the floating puppet dragged down the show somewhat.
* Chuck - Can't believe this was missed off! Chuck even works for the "Nerd Herd" at Buy More (some play on the real-life Geek Squad for Best Buy?).
* Fringe - Walter Bishop's geeky/rambling character makes this show.
* Eureka - A show about the world's brightest geeks all working in a single town doesn't make the top 10 geek shows?! WTF?!
BTW, Red Dwarf at #1 is a bit of a joke - might have deserved it if they'd stopped at season 5. But the seasons after that (including the Dave reboot) were so appalling that it totally wrecked what would have been considered an all-time classic. RD seriously jumped the shark for long enough for it to slip out of the top 10 completely, IMHO.
With the links to V3 articles? It seems that links from the Inq to V3 always land me on the home page of V3 and not at the mentioned article.
Anyone else have this issue? Is it only certain platforms?