Critics Poll Summer 2007: Best & Worst
By fred | July 9, 2007
The Critics Poll Summer 2007 is over, results are in, as you may already known, especially if you read about 24’s next season’s bad start.
Votes were tabulated using a weighted scale. Critics submitted 10 shows in the best series category, the top choice receiving 10 points, the second choice 9 points and so on down to the last (10th) choice, receiving 1 point.
In the worst series category, they only submitted five shows, the top (worst) choice descending from 5 points, the next from 4 points, and so on till the last one, descending from one point.
Selected shows were televised between January 8 and June 18, 2007.
The Best
Let’s start with the winners. The first thing I’ll say, there are some very wrong things on that list. For instance, House is only 15, while it is (one of) the best shows on TV. And I cannot think of any reason that would actually make sense for having that fantastic show below the shitty real-TV that is American Idol, the absurd soap that became Grey’s Anatomy, or FX’s new show The Riches, which is good, but not that good.
I also can’t stand Ugly Betty and am horrified to see it on the fifth place. And I wonder if, really, anyone still cares about Desperate Housewives…
Not everything is wrong though, and I’m pretty pleased to see HBO’s Entourage making the list. Since we’re on comedy, hilarious NBC’s sitcom The Office stays strong, which is great, and NBC ensures another comedy success with 30 Rock, but I just cannot understand why How I Met Your Mother didn’t make it.
Still on NBC, which has the most shows in the top 10, Heroes did found its way up to the sixth place. I still find that a little high.
Obviously season’s finale (or series finale, for some…) had a huge influence on the critics, just like it has on any viewers. And while Heroes had “a wonderful first season“, according to Mr. McCollum, obviously its crappy finale, or on his impressively diplomatic words, “mildly disappointing” (did he watch the same piece of crap I did??) did cost the show points.
Not enough, if you ask me.
5. Ugly Betty
Again, I don’t understand. “Smart, snappy dialogue and deliberately overwrought acting disguised thin plot lines” wrote Mike McDaniel, of Houston Chronicle. Oh really? Well, that’s not really how I see it…
“[But] who cares? We loved, loved, loved these characters.” I could say the same, only with hate, hate, hate, I freaking hate them, and the show. Hate.
4. The Office
Love! I love, love, love that show!! And the characters! Like lots of critics, “When the music starts playing, it just makes me happy.” (Kushman)
As mentioned previously, Steve Carell and his crew are in good shape, and take a well deserved fourth place after yet another hilarious season. “More than a copy of the brilliant, cringe-worthy original, it’s evolved into something so uniquely American” wrote Ellen Gray, of Philadelphia Daily News.
And that is simply true, although I don’t think it’s new. Watch the first seasons of both shows, you’ll see it was already there. On their first season they had already turned a good & funny British sitcom into a great & hilarious American one!
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Shows: 24, 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, House, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, October Road, Shark, The Black Donnellys, The Office, The Riches, The Sopranos, Ugly Betty
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