We are too busy running victory laps around the “Alec Burks isn’t playing bc he’s unplayable” crowd.

maybe we could have lost to the sixers instead of going 1-4 against Indy if we played Burks more

i know i keep repeating myself on this, but yeah Spartacus: Blood and Sand worked incredibly well for me, in particular i thought the season finale was one of the most “rewarding” pieces of tv in forever…

a great list of all time tv classic episodes…i need to go watch that simpsons one 🙂

PS — loved the RS list of best episodes.

Me too. My #1 is at #13, it’s Twin Peaks season 1 episode 1. It’s so amazing, that it feels more like a movie than an episode of a TV show. I was stunned at the time… when? I don’t know, maybe 1989 or 1990.
From Game of Thrones, there was a lot of great episodes to choose from, but i think i would’ve gone with the episode where the Night King turns Viserion into an Ice Dragon. Maybe the show should’ve ended there and it’d be epic.
One TV show absent from the list, that i have at the top is Dexter. The episode where Dexter finds Rita dead in the bathtub and Harrison covered in blood and crying on the floor was epic to me, and again maybe if the show ended with that episode it would be remembered as a much better show, instead of slowly fading away in the following 4 seasons.

But the “Thibs threw a good player in the doghouse” crowd might want to do some reflection.

We are too busy running victory laps around the “Alec Burks isn’t playing bc he’s unplayable” crowd.

Full disclosure: I’ve never seen an episode of “The Sopranos” — ever — and I’m a TV glutton. Don’t shun me, board 😉

For whatever reason, years ago I started the pilot and didn’t get past the bit where he chases the guy with the car.

As time went past I realized I was missing something special bc of the chatter, but that only made me more reluctant to dig in.

Now it’s my white whale, and I’m waiting for “the right” binge holiday to do it.

PS — loved the RS list of best episodes.

Cyber- I am unimpressed with your compatriot

Missed the match, but looking at the score… oof, not his finest hour! 🙁

“Jim’s father, Rocky, openly expressed his love for his son despite constantly nagging him about finding a more stable (and less dangerous) line of work. That was an important depiction for a queer kid obsessed with the familial disapproval I might face when I finally got the courage to make myself whole.

“Rockford” also gave me my first look at a son coming out to a parent. When a mobster confronts his adult son about his sexuality, the son refuses to lie or pretend that he will live his life any other way. It’s a minor subplot in the episode “Requiem for a Funny Box,” but the fact that an entire scene is devoted to this moment says a lot about what the show’s creators wanted to convey.

In “The Deep Blue Sleep,” Janet MacLachlan played Adrienne Clarke, who owns her own high fashion house. She explains to Jim the barriers she has continued to face even though she’s far from her meager beginnings. “I’m a woman. I’m Black,” she says. “That doesn’t change inside the ghetto or out.”

In 1975, before it had a name, Clarke was talking about misogynoir, a brand of discrimination steeped in racism and sexism. I wasn’t just watching a TV show; I was getting life lessons. “Rockford” was answering questions that I didn’t even know I had.

I also have no doubt that seeing Black people portrayed as CEOs, doctors, police officers, federal agents, bus drivers, musicians, secretaries, and bartenders had a major impact at a time when I was more accustomed to TV dramas that showed people who looked like me only as criminals.

Female characters were fully developed and complex. I relished watching Beth push back and take no mess, especially when she was the only woman in a roomful of hostile men. She — and other women — were never reduced to ornaments or arm candy.

But “Rockford” was also a show about everyday life — taxes, broken kitchen appliances, bill collectors, the cost of groceries, and cops who were mean simply because they could be. (The show generally shunned the kind of cop-aganda still rife in TV crime dramas.) More than an anti-hero, Rockford was both uncommon and completely familiar.”

Edit: Apparently one of the main writers, David Chase, went on the help create “The Sopranos.” Small world.