"The Sopranos" is the best written series of History - The Mundo.es

Writers Guild of America (Writer’s Guild of America, WGA its acronym in English) published this weekend’s list of the 101 best written series in the history of television. A ‘ranking’ that tops the fiction of HBO ‘The Sopranos’, followed by the’ sitcom ‘Seinfeld’ and the legendary science fiction series’ The Twilight Zone ‘. [See list]

“a mobster in therapy having problems with his mother.” On this basis and taking own identity of the family television series, the gangster genre and even the soap opera and the ‘sitcom’, David Chase created a thoroughbred who was galloping in the grill HBO from 1999 to 2007 . A great series that raised the quality of television products to a new level and showed the way to go. A total of 21 Emmy Awards and five Golden Globes attest.

sleeplessness Tony Soprano and his family-the real and the mafia-left 86 episodes across six great seasons that culminated in a controversial end of which is still under discussion in Internet forums , social networks … and also in bars, restaurants and family meals. And, besides being the best written television drama of all time, ‘The Sopranos’ was, without a doubt, the series in which you eat more and better television.

After Tony and his family, in the ranking of WGA appears ‘Seinfeld’, the sitcom created by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David and which ran for 9 seasons and 175 episodes on NBC. The third step of the podium is for the series of horror and science fiction that aired on CBS from 1959-1964.

Rod Serling is the only “classic” as is found in the top of the Writers Guild list. And it calls attention little presence in the top ten, with the exception of the aforementioned ‘The Twilight Zone’ series which, at least until the last decade was considered the golden age of American television : the fifties and sixties.

In fourth place is ‘All in the Family’ , the ‘sitcom’ CBS family in the audience that swept America in the late seventies. In the fifth is followed ‘MASH’ , the sitcom based on the film of Robert Altman on the bizarre adventures of a U.S. medical team during the Korean War.

sixth is to ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ , the ‘sitcom’ of the late seventies created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns also known as ‘The Mary Tyler Moore’. Behind her the elegant and multiplemiados advertisers ‘Mad Men’ created by Matthew Weiner and ‘Cheers’ , the friendly ‘sitcom’ set in the unforgettable Boston bar where ‘Everybody Knows Your Name … “.

They close the top ten best written series in history ‘The Wire’ , the raw overwhelming and David Simon’s television creature that very accurate portrays the world of drug trafficking, and its corollaries, in the city of Baltimore, and ‘The West Wing of the White House’ , the series that Aaron Sorkin tries to unravel what’s going on in the engine room of the world’s most powerful government.

doors into noble positions’ ranking ‘of the WGA are so popular and legendary titles as ‘ The Simpsons’ (11), the great ‘Breaking Bad ‘ (12), ‘ Hill Street Blues ‘ (15), ‘ Arrested Development ‘ (16), ‘ Six Feet Under land ‘ (18), ‘ Fraiser ‘ (23), ‘ Friends’ (24), ‘Lost’ (27 ), ‘ER’ (29) or ‘The Cosby Show’ (29).

As a curiosity, note that the list of the 101 best written series of television history closes ‘Oz’ a prison drama created by Tom Fontana for HBO that aired between 1997 and 2003.