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The 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME
"First, I apologize. I know I left some of your favorite shows off this list. How do I know that? Because I left some of my favorite shows off this list. The happy and unfortunate fact is that there are far more than 100 great shows, and more created every year. Lists are incredibly important: they are how we define what matters to us, what we want entertainment and art to do, what we expect of our culture."
TIME TV critic James Poniewozik
Buffalo Bill
This lustily misanthropic comedy was HBO back when HBO was just a movie channel: it took Dabney Coleman, the movie's comic villain of choice (Tootsie, Nine to Five), and made him into Bill Bittinger, the preening, conniving host of a local-TV talk show. A man whose only moral dilemma was whether it is better to lie to get a job or to get into someone's pants, Bill bulldozed over rivals and meek producers on the strength of Coleman's swaggering, damn-the-likeability performance. This sitcom was smart and ahead of its time, and that plus 50 cents will still get you canceled after two seasons, but it's hard to imagine Larry Sandersor Larry Davidor David Brentwithout Buffalo Bill.
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