Time's 100 Best TV Shows...A Good List?

I'm usually at odds with Time Magazine (more over ideology or anything) but I found myself presently surprised when I came across their list of the 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME (Get it? It's a double entendre!) Why? Because three of my favorite four shows were on the list:

LOST: Duh. If this show wasn't on the list, I had decided to stop reading.

South Park: Wow, Trey Parker and Matt Stone are recognized by someone besides Penn & Teller?

And what was the third show?




Wait for it...





Survivor: Yes, I was shocked as well, but, obviously, agree completely.

The only show I would add to the list is House (the fourth of my favorites). Though it wasn't the creators' original interpretation, the show has become a beautiful reinterpretation of CSI-esque procedural dramas as a brilliant character study. Hugh Laurie plays Gregory House a genius doctor (and an objectivist that Ayn Rand would drool over) that his fellows and peers want to embrace but won't. It is that struggle that attracts the (American) audience as it is the same one they face every day.

Check out the rest of the list here. It's made me decide to pick up, err, sit down for a few classics.

The Roark Stratagem

"Painting things
in black and white
is easy,"
the geriatric grumbled
ducking under the overhead bin.
If he didn't,
he would've hurt his head.
Or would he?
I don't know.
The consideration's too complex
for my cold mind
because I think things
like this:

The difference between a gem and e.g. y
is a matter of scope.
Put it in your mouth,
swish it around.
One tastes like sparkling water
the other, confusion.

"The morning sky
looks grey
every time I wake,"
the child complained
crawling under the covers.
If he didn't,
he would've observed the obvious.
Or would he?
I don't know.
The sight is too strange
for my simple eyes
because I see things
like this:

The difference between a gem and e.g. y
is a matter of scope.
Put it in your mouth,
swish it around.
One tastes like sparkling water
the other, confusion.

"The theme is repeated
because that's what it bares..."
I began.
"Where did that come from?"
She interrupted.
Standing, I smirked,
and turned away.
"Probably Bear Village,
how the hell do I know?"

I'm following the leader,
wherever I may go.