Another week, another round of rankings: Breaking Bad, Parks & Recreation and Fringe keep their tight grip on the Top 3, while True Blood’s fifth season moves up to #4 after another decent episode: call me crazy, but I’m really enjoying both the Bill-Eric-Sookie story and the Tara-Pam story.
Agree with my list? Disagree? Post your thoughts below …
| # | LW | SHOW | CH | LATEST EPISODE |
| 1 | 1 | Breaking Bad | Four | 4×02 “Thirty Eight Snub” |
| 2 | 2 | Parks & Recreation | Four | 3×16 “Li’l Sebastian” |
| 3 | 3 | Fringe | TV2 | 4×11 “Making Angels” |
| 4 | 6 | True Blood | Prime | 5×05 “Let’s Boot And Rally” |
| 5 | 5 | Louie | CC | 2×02 “Bummer / Blueberries” |
| 6 | 7 | Episodes | One | 1×05 “Episode Five” |
| 7 | 10 | New Girl | Four | 1×24 “See Ya” |
| 8 | 11 | Modern Family | TV3 | 3×23 “Tableau Vivant” |
| 9 | - | Weeds | SoHo | 8×01 “Messy” |
| 10 | - | The League | Four | 2×02 “Bro Lo El Cunado” |
| 11 | - | Supernatural | TV2 | 7×04 “Defending Your Life” |
| 12 | - | 30 Rock | Four | 6×03 “Idiots Are People Three!” |
Dropping Out:
House (TV3), The Killing (SoHo), The Simpsons (Four) and Girls (SoHo) are all done for the year.
Making Noise:
Castle (One) and Hawaii Five-0 (TV3) are both sitting just outside the Top 12.
Coming Soon:
Click here for a full look at the week ahead, including new series The Glades (Four, Monday) and Forbrydelsen (SoHo, Thursday).
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(The rankings are put together using an average rating for each show over its past five episodes: every episode is rated out of 10, then the average rating across all episodes is worked out – the shows are then ranked according to their average to date. The episode rating is purely the opinion of Chris Philpott – no input from other critics is used, and information like ratings is not considered. Shows will be considered for the rankings only when they are on the air. Also, non-fiction shows – panel, current affairs and reality shows, for example – are not considered.)
