In the spirit of NCAA March Madness, Hulu has created a bracket system for determining TV's best show. In this five week-long "tournament," TV shows are matched up according to genre and fans vote for their favorites online. The scores are determined 95% by fans' votes and 5% by the votes of TV critic (and HitFix senior editor) Alan Sepinwall, who will also write analyses of tournament results and critical reviews of shows in the running. While last year Lost emerged victorious, there does not seem to be a stand-out show for this year. Start casting your votes here.
What is the best show on TV? Certainly not one of these shows! Well I can't say that for certain, but where is River Monsters or SportsCenter? What I'm getting at is: what constitutes a "show." This bracket clearly is biased toward pop culture. I'd like to see a bracket with a more eclectic selection of shows. Granted, the same shows would probably win because I would imagine the voters are biased as well.
ReplyDeleteUpdate: Dexter won the best show. Dexter is a clever, well-written show, but again, is popularity enough to make it the "best?" Perhaps a higher critics score would solve this.