best TV show - HBO saved television

[patrick]

i would make this a poll, but i actually more want to hear other options than the ones that i have watched. HBO clearly is the savior to TV, and in my opinion (due to the series' that i have watched) is better than almost 99% of movies out there. you get way more time for true character development and when it is done well it's completely believable...

the ones i have watched fully are, and in my opinion the greatest TV shows in order are:

deadwood
six feet under
sopranos

and some of curb your enthusiasm

my other favorite shows are: arrested development, futurama and firefly, which all ironically have been by fox and all been cancelled by fox pre-maturaly because they realized they had actual good programming and needed to get back to the complete crap of fox.



now, i could easily not expect to find anything easily close to as good as deadwood (or the other two), however maybe people know of shows that are of equal quality?

My neighbor is giving me battlestar galactica as he claims that is amazing, I watched the first two seasons of 24, and ended up doing so i like 5 days each, cause it is addictive like heroin.

anyone got favorites along the same lines as i'm into?

(we should get a tv forum)