Welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending May 6. April showers (of blood, naturally) bring May, um, stability? Well, it doesn't roll off the tongue but it's mostly true. The only big entry this week and for a few more to come is Sherlock on PBS. More important, we haven't had quite the episodic quality fluctuations of the past, so things at the top are relatively solid.
Welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending April 29. So, what have we learned so far? If you answered, "We are in a time of great shows that do no take kindly to other great shows trying to out rank them, so there's blood," then yes, you guessed correctly. And if you wondered out loud who could possibly upset this Elite Eleven, then I'll tell you straight up that it's no one. We have the same Elite Eleven this week that we had last week, but they're in a new order.
Welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending April 22. And if you think the bloodshed ends here, you're as insane as King Joffrey. Look, last week might have been the most competitive version of The Power Rankings! ever, and while we lost Justified to its season finale, one great sitcom retuned and the makings of another great one premiered. So, yeah, if you want blood, you've got it. Television is pretty competitively great right now. On my command, unleash hell!
Welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending April 8 -- yes, April 8. I was on vacation! Cut me some slack. And not to be a broken record about it, but The Power Rankings! are crazy competitive now and extremely difficult to crack. Also hard? Staying on top. Additionally difficult? Not sliding down a few slots. We're still at the Elite Eleven -- because how could we not be? -- but there's no easy generosity here. You earn it by not bringing the weak stuff.
Welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending April 1.
I pity the fools. I really do. And by fools, I mean comedies. How are they supposed to compete with this onslaught of great dramas? It's almost not fair. But then again, The Power Rankings! don't care about fair. We care about greatness! Sorry, carried away there.
Anyway, brutal week. Tons of brilliance. Blood at the top. Instability. Flux. All the things we enjoy because it means there's a lot of great TV on right now.
Welcome to The Power Rankings! for the week ending Feb. 19. Thanks to the glory of television, we expand to the Elite Eleven this week (and some weeks we shrink back to the Great Eight - and then when television is not so glorious, I just go on vacation and don't do the rankings). But hell, lots of blood on the ground this time around. We've got three new entries, two apologies and good shows left wanting. Not long from now, it's going to get even more brutal. But let's assess the change at hand.
Welcome to return of The Power Rankings! Yes, it's been a while. But hell, if the networks can pull shows off for weeks on end and the cable channels can let a year (or more, in Mad Men's case) go by without much comment, so too can I. A lot of great series have come and gone -- and a lot of crappy series have come and stayed -- but we're living in a 52 week television season, so we'll have plenty of time to root out brilliance in the coming weeks and months.
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