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Had a full spectrum Monday, not my usual admin plan the week, hide from the world start. Well I guess I always preferred the deep end. So I’m in the mood for a braindead blogging 101 top 5 list. I’m a human blogging being, so if I want to do a top 5 list, I will. And if you havent seen every available ep of below shows you are missing out. Not that I’m a sloppy OCD messy perfectionist.

Nor am I going to tag u to list your best shows. The below are without doubt the best shows of 2008. So only list shows which my internet skills and suppliers have left me short in providing, that are highbrow better/complementary. Objectively too, not on a digg.com crowdsourced model; Gotta be kick ass creative mad skillz. So, without further ado, best 5 TV shows I’ve seen this year (well on the internet) find the links yourself sorry. (ok i put some in dont know why:) I’m speedblogging….

1. The Wire - watched every series, every ep. I dont trust people that havent. Omar, McNulty, Barksdale, nuff said…. took about 5 days to watch it all. Baltimore Institutional decay, with criminals, politicians and police mutually complicit. Shakesperean tragedy says the writer…. Early series were better but all good.

2. Mad Men - series 1 done, brilliant - series 2 is only 2 eps in. The smoking by every character in every scene, the pre swinging 60’s dysfunction and affairs, helmed by the inpenetrable purple hearted lead ultimate alpha Draper, the Madison Avenue Creative Director is pure brilliance. Better than Dexter, would take The Wire first though altho its Apples and Oranges. Made by Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner…

3. Weeds - i’d been told by many how good it was and I’d seen alot of episodes, but Season 4 I’m in love with. See here. The Mary Louise Parker Nancy love story with the Mexican President and all the subplots with Guilermo - mid level dealer - and her “lesbos” crazy stalker maternity retail outlet informer… is classic. Get season 4.

4. The Tudors - Just as the smoking makes Mad Men, The Tudors give you beheadings.. Series 1 + 2 rock, Johnathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII has those eyes which u know he’s been up for days, delirious with power and the kings mistresses and power playz with Sir Thomas Cromwell.

5. Dexter - series 1 + 2 every ep in about 3 days… good to see david from six feet under became a hetero serial killer.

Bonus - Aussie Shows I like - Hollow Men coz it reminds me of a Large Aussie Telco, Underbelly well coz it happened in Melbourne, and I’ll get City Homicide each week. I almost added above Flight of the Concords as that would be #6 but being from NZ…. I havent seen every ep so I’ve gotta procure a source for that ?:)

(In the same noirish vain of shows I also like The Closer, but its not Aussie, and not same level as above… and the rumour that I watch Living Lohan is not true, Ali Lohan’s musical career does not interest me at all, even if the Maloof bros in Vegas have a 12 month exclusive while they shop her to the majors..)