The 20 Best TV Shows of 2012
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- CreatorDavid BenioffD.B. WeissStarsEmilia ClarkePeter DinklageKit HaringtonNine noble families fight for control over the lands of Westeros, while an ancient enemy returns after being dormant for millennia.While its new season approaches, Game of Thrones will most likely succeed at having another brilliant season adapted in glory from the epic "A Song of Ice and Fire", but will it top the adaption of the epic's second installment "A Clash of Kings"? Game of Thrones' second season came full of bounty it's ten weeks and blazed a vivid landscape and woven plots in unison to create something more absorbing and engrossing than before. It had high grade acting, fantasy-dreamed stories, and everything it could have under the cold sun to make it all even colder. Chills blow through the Westeros and out of your Television screen. Best Episodes: "The North Remembers", "What is Dead May Never Die", "Blackwater"
- CreatorLouis C.K.StarsLouis C.K.Hadley DelanyUrsula ParkerThe life of Louie C.K., a divorced comedian living in New York with two kids.Louis CK had a good year in 2012. His self-produced special "Live at the Beacon Theatre", made over $1 Million, he won two Emmys, and had another fantastic season with Louie. When coming back from its second season, which was the best television show of 2011, I had fear it would suffer from post-traumatic success, and keep trying to wrap around and repeat what had made it so great, without investing the originality to make it great like it was. But CK proved doubting him was as dumb as thinking the sky was green, and rolled on through with face-smacking hilarity, and personal crisis that goes beyond the spectrum of a celebrity comedian and into everyone. Sometimes he could be eating with Melissa Leo and on The Tonight Show, other times his car's being destroyed in a 100 thousand dollar joke, and just being worried about his daughter. CK is so many things, and Louie lets us see it all in a true state. "Daddy's Girlfriend part One and Two", "The Late Show Saga", "New Year's Eve"
- CreatorLena DunhamStarsLena DunhamAllison WilliamsJemima KirkeA comedy about the experiences of a group of girls in their early 20s.Tiny Furniture showed us Lena Dunham could be funny in tight locations and on a small budget, while still showing every drop of anxiety, entitled behavior, and unknown futures, but she really gave it all into Girls. Her own spin on the twentysomethings in New York scenario, she lays out a season long journey of four girls trying to accomplish what they want in the easiest ways possible. Her jokes are clever and deadpan, and t can't get past you for even a moment. Lena Dunham was the hottest comedy phenomenon since Louis CK, and she stole the show for herself. Best Episodes: "Pilot", "Vagina Panic", "All Adventurous Women Do"
- CreatorMatthew WeinerStarsJon HammElisabeth MossVincent KartheiserA drama about one of New York's most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s, focusing on one of the firm's most mysterious but extremely talented ad executives, Donald Draper.Season five of Mad Men, longed for and well wanted, stormed on with some new ideas and dynamics that sent new kinds of chills and darker shades of characters we had known all along. Characters depart as bridges are burnt and formed across a deep, yet deceptively shallow looking water. Mad Men can't help but be sleek and mesmerizing. Best Episodes: "Signal 30", "Far Away Places", "The Other Woman"
- CreatorVince GilliganStarsBryan CranstonAaron PaulAnna GunnA chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student in order to secure his family's future.What happens when Walter White has it all? That's what season four was always leading to, and instead of halting at Walter White going to the highest point possible, they remember a concept that started it and often got lost in the show. Walter White may have it all, but all he has, he can't keep. Cancer's coming to take him, so even when he's became king, he's going to have an early fall. The first part of Breaking Bad's final season had everyone in ruins around Walter, yet everything was still hot to handle. Now he has to face the thing that had been driving him, up until it wasn't. All good things must come to an end, and this showed that it could end as good as it lived. Best Episodes: "Fifty-One", "Dead Freight", "Gliding Over All"
- CreatorDan HarmonStarsJoel McHaleDanny PudiDonald GloverA suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body.Community launched its second part of the third season by edging into dark territories. The universe Community inhabited had always been a place of great wonder and fun, but under all that had to be unhinged chaos, and they dug it all up. It was all leading towards a series finale that didn't end up being the season finale, but the way season four is acting, maybe it's why we should hold the second part of Community's third season dear. It was a time where its pop culture was hilarious and had sense, where Troy and Abed weren't just hallow xerox copies of their inner-child, where Jeff was still the man who brought things together because he believed in himself, and he cared because he had to. Wherever Community stands now isn't bad, but it isn't natural or free. Here marks the end of when Community was just so, where all the darkness was conquered by hope. Best Episodes: "Pillows and Blankets", "Virtual Systems Analysis", "Introduction to Finality"
- CreatorKevin BiegelBill LawrenceStarsCourteney CoxChrista MillerBusy PhilippsFollows the escapades and relationships of a group of neighbors living in Gulfhaven, Florida.TBS caught this show by the collar of its neck just as it was falling into oblivion, but Cougar Town was falling with grace. It's well too known that Cougar Town is not as the title makes it seem, and it gave us something more funny then ever before. Streams of solid after solid episode of wit, goof, silly-antics, and some emotion grab got this characters floating to become the best of shows about friendship. You wished you had the lives of Friends? Start looking at Cougar Town's. Best Episode: "Ain't Love Strange", "A One Story Town", "Down South"
- CreatorEmily KapnekStarsJeremy SistoJane LevyCarly ChaikinTessa Altman is used to the big city, but when her dad moves her away, she has to adapt to her new suburban life in Chatswin.It failed at satire, so it brought in it's characters to remake it as just a fun show. In the surreal place called Chatswin, where all your high school beliefs you had in elementary school, and where everything you thought your parents would be doing last, happen. Its actors honed something that could tear through ridiculous, and still know its lead character was abandoned by her mother, characters are adopted and not told, and things fall apart. But that never took away the humor. Best Episodes: "Driving Miss Dalia", "The Wishbone", "Krampus"