Weekly Poll Results: Best HBO Show
The results are in, and it looks like The Wire is the best HBO series of all time, according to the readers of Film Junk! Strangely, it is one of the few HBO shows I still haven’t gotten into, but at some point I will put aside the time required to get through all 5 seasons. I was surprised to see Curb Your Enthusiasm at #2, despite the fact that it’s a great show, and I was even more surprised to see Flight of the Conchords all the way up at #3! Apparently Bret and Jemaine have more fans that I thought. The Sopranos and Entourage rounded out the top 5.
I guess I should have expected Sex and the City to place dead last based on the arguments that broke out on this Open Forum Friday post, but I thought I’d give some of our female readers a chance to chime in. (Yes, Oz and Carnivale probably should have been included in this poll to begin with. And maybe Extras too.)
1. The Wire — 25.1%
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm — 16.1%
3. Flight of the Conchords — 12.6%
4. The Sopranos — 12.1%
5. Entourage — 10.3%
6. Six Feet Under — 9.4%
7. Deadwood — 9%
8. True Blood — 4%
9. Big Love — 0.9%
10. Sex and the City — 0.4%
Comments (6)
The Sopranos is considered by many to be one of the greatest television shows of all-time (if not the greatest). The depth of writing, direction, and acting was unprecedented for a weekly series. To see the readers of this blog voted it the #5 HBO series of all-time is astonishing.
Posted by Joey on January 27th, 2009“Extras” takes it. Sopranos and the wire are overrated. Deadwood is good, and i love Curb and Conchords… but Extras is the best.
Posted by Jon Rocks on January 27th, 2009I extremely dislike Flight of the Conchords, but other than that I got no complaints about this list. Great job everyone!
Posted by Joel on January 27th, 2009Forgot to vote. I would’ve gone with “Curb” though.
PS – LOST is the greatest one hour show of all time. Not Sopranos.
Posted by Andrew James on January 27th, 2009I second the motion to make Lost the greatest 1 hour drama of all time. Here, here.
Posted by Jon Rocks on January 27th, 2009entourage is a good show a family friend has us hooked lol. can’t wait 4 season 7
Posted by amber on September 8th, 2009Leave a Reply