no Community, no Terriers, no Men of a Certain Age, and no Justified, which is probably better than all three plus the 3 actually great shows that made the list (30 Rock, Modern Family, & Temple Grandin). But they have Glee & Boardwalk Empire, which are steaming piles of crap. Feh.

all those shows and the only one I watch is
the Walking Dead LOL

community is way better than 30 rock, SGU should be on there, and I cant respect any "best of" list that doesnt include Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Glee? GLEE? But not Treme? Based on music alone, without the fabulous acting, scripts, and location shooting, Treme is light years better.

The Big C should not be on the list. Laura Linney is great as always and makes the show tolerable, but the writing was poor and predictable. The whole will she or won't she tell her family about her cancer also dragged on for way too long.

As for The Walking Dead, I think it's an entertaining show, but I agree it's not one of the best of the year. Perhaps it just wasn't a great year of television.

Also, not surprised Dexter isn't on the list, this season was a huge disappointment, and the show in general is nowhere near as strong as Mad Men or Breaking Bad.

It's really too bad that few people liked "In Treatment." The acting, especially Gabriel Byrne, is absolutely top notch. (If he doesn't get an Emmy it's because hardly anyone watches the show). "Boardwalk Empire" "Breaking Bad," "Mad Men" in no particular order. All those shows were number ones. "Treme" also. Lower down but still aces in my book were "Rubicon" and "Fringe." I preferred "Parks and Recreation" to "30 Rock." "Modern Family" has its charm. But I think I'd rather watch a Seinfeld rerun for the 100th time.

Community is way better than 30 Rock

Hmm, no Terriers? I didn't realize the list couldn't include prematurely canceled shows.

I still don't get the critical acclaim for The Walking Dead.

The acting tended to be poor.
The characters were horribly boring.
The dialogue tended to be garbage.
The plots varied between insanely dull and insanely ham-fisted.
And any opportunity to actually be interesting were completely skipped over.

Rather than be a tormented man losing grip with reality Shane is a sex-offending villain.
Rather than dealing with Shane slowly becoming untrustworthy we're given dialogue from a wife-beater.
Rather than do anything with zombies we're given lame dialogue at the camp.


And no story arc. No point A to point B. Bland people having bland conversation in a camp then driving to a compound with no story arc. No character arcs. No growth. No decay. No change. Nothing. Just terrible dialogue, terrible characters, and Lori giving a wooden stare.

Bah, it pisses me off so much because it would have been so easy to make a compelling zombie show. Focus on the interesting characters, give them enough time to actually be interesting, and for the love of god have the occasional zombie (something often missing.) Trimming away the terrible characters no one cared about and sticking tightly on Lori, Shane and Rick, with a side of Glen, Redneck and Gilliganhat, would have worked well. Start the plot of Shane going nuts and have it advance every week. End with something happening there. Arc!

Even the choice to show Shane's reason for leaving Rick behind was poorly timed. By then we'd already seen Shane aim his gun at Rick and were inches from seeing him try to rape Lori. I get that they were trying to do a juxtaposition there but Shane was never really set up as anything but a villain. We have not seen him as anything else post-apocalypse. If they wanted us to have sympathy for him they could have shown that earlier. Instead they reveal it when it's already easy to hate Shane and see where that plot is going.
Such a waste.

How can they not put dexter on the list???