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David Lynch

Top 3 Television Shows of All Time

Pull into the garage and put the Mercedes wheels on lock for the night and snuggle up with some of the best television you've ever seen. These are More Than TV shows, they are high art.

The Wire

“Television show” doesn’t even do The Wire justice. Less a TV show than a carefully planned visual novel, The Wire is the ultimate TV show for people who don’t want their TV to insult their intelligence and who favor character development over fast plots. The Wire changed how people see drama television and the power it can have in the exploration of difficult and often times ignored sociopolitical themes. The Wire was more than just a cop show or a show about the drug trade in Baltimore, Maryland. In its grandest scope it was a show about America; a show about how the modern American city functions, for good or bad.

Seinfeld

With the glut of Seinfeld ripoffs today it is hard to imagine how groundbreaking the writing of Seinfeld was. Not only was their little to no plot, but the show was filled with unlikable, unchangeable characters. Creator and writer Larry David’s famous mantra about the shows direction, "No hugging, no learning” summed up what made Seinfeld so unique. The characters never learn from their mistakes and there are rarely if any lasting consequences for their actions. Their lives are static, sad, hilarious, unbelievable and realistic all at once. There will never be show to match Seinfeld’s story-telling arcs and incisive wit ever again.

Twin Peaks

The strange brainchild of director, writer and all around weirdo David Lynch, Twin Peaks broke nearly all the rules of what one thinks of when they think of primetime drama television. Slowly moving like a surreal dream, Twin Peaks was as much about mood as it was actual plot. Near the end of Season 1 and throughout Season 2, the plot began to get a little too weird for even diehard fans, and the show’s ratings dropped off and it was eventually canceled. For as odd and sometimes unwatchable as Season 2 can get, the string of final episodes which Lynch can back to write and direct are some of the strangest and most visceral material ever shown on network TV.

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Alan Lomax is a freelance writer from MPLS