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Long Run
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When watching TV makes you an expert

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Nice read to take on a summer vacation or to have bedside. I disagree with many of their relative ranking of shows, but their essay articles were top notch and easy to read. With more than a few of us who watch "too much TV", this might be a good summer bring along.

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Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?

For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, but it all ultimately boils down to this:

What's the greatest TV show ever?
https://www.amazon.com/TV-Book-Experts- ... 1455588199

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