Mad Men - Because if you can’t portray minorities with deceny because of the time period, then you might as well make the women complex. Bravo. I see a bit of myself in every female character on the show. Given the circumstances I could be Peggy, Joan, Betty, Trudy or Bobbie. Depends on my hotness : smartness : talentedness ratio, really.
Dexter – We all want revenge against the wicked; and we all know that it makes us wicked in turn. Dexter fulfills all fantasies. There should be a fundamentalist Christian version of the show. Y’know, maybe someone who could smite people down with the power of their thoughts. It would probably make them a less excitable bunch.
Battlestar Galactica – Maybe this one is just good because all the other sci-fi stuff is crap. I loved Star Trek. I totally identify with everyone in Trekkies the movie, but BSG makes it look like schlock. It’s more nuanced, more thought out, and more relevant to the actual human experience. We’re flawed, our creations are flawed, and yet we keep hoping and striving, Ahhhh, a show after my own life-philosphy (except more optimistic because it assumes a grand order to things).
30 Rock – This is just the best written show currently on television. Period. I’m not going to get into the debate on what is the best written of all time, because All in the Family would place higher in my books and I’m sure there are others out there that I haven’t seen. But still, Tinay Fey is an amazing writer and this show is clearly too smart for most people in America.