Time Magazine has published their Top 10 Everything lists for 2008.

Their television list is gorgeous.  Rare is the top-ten list that neither panders to pop nor eschews favorites just to feel more artsy.  I thought my favorites this year were pretty esoteric, so I was greatly pleased to see how much they agreed with the way I spent my television-watching hours:

1. The Shield
2. Mad Men
3. The Presidential election
4. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog
5. The Wire
6. Breaking Bad
7. Lost
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. Architecture School
10. Chuck
    

Bravo.  Here’s a list composed by people who know how to seek out the best in television.  I don’t know Architecture School, and I have to question any such list that forgets comedy, especially when 30 Rock has been extraordinarily good.  And if I were to nitpick, I could switch #2 with #4…

Still, HUGE points for realizing that an internet television show was one of the most significant and best productions this year.  Plus, picking The Shield (heck, even just being aware of The Shield) earns the list authors enough credit to make me want to watch everything on their list.

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