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I’m done watching all Star Trek series now, which means I can draw up my top 3 of my favourite TV series. This list excludes my favourite comedy series, stuff like Frasier, That ’70s Show, Malcolm In The Middle, and so on - this regards more serious series.

1. Dead Like Me - No doubt, of course. Best ever, by a long shot, no doubt about it. It’s going to be impossible for anything, or anyone, to top this. I’ve tried Bryan Fuller’s next creation (Pushing Daisies), but apart form the mind-blowing visuals, each episode felt exactly the same as the previous one. Dead Like Me is more than just TV, it’s an eye-opener.
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Best. Character. Development. Ever. The fall of Gul Dukat, Jadzia’s death, Sisko’s struggle between his loyalty to Starfleet and his assignment as Emissary, and so on, and so forth. And of course, the epic war between the Federation and the Dominion… Nothing but brilliance. Even the usual Star Trek filler episodes were awesome - because instead of being ordinary filler, they contributed to all the character development story arches. By far the best of the Star Trek universe, and I felt truly depressed when it was over.
3. Jericho - Weird choice, maybe, but I’m in the 2nd halve of the first season, and Jericho is basically a series I’ve been waiting for all my life: the struggle of a small community dealing with a massive apocalyptic disaster. I love how, contrary to Lost, Jericho keeps the excitement going by having shorter sub-plots that only span one, maybe two episodes. This prevents it from having ‘lostities’, where there are lots of episodes that are teeth-grindingly slow. Hint to the Lost writers: introduces one/two episode long sub-plots. This keeps the excitement going. As it stands now, after each episode of Lost, all I can think of is: that’s another 45 minutes of me not getting any closer to unravelling the mystery. Jericho does this a lot better, and I also love the rapid changing of scenes in Jericho, this makes every episode feel like a roller-coaster ride, another thing that keeps the adrenaline pumping. Too bad those networks in the US don’t settle for having a show at the number 2 or 3 spot, rating-wise. Too much good stuff has been cancelled this way in the US.

Take it or leave it.