Blue Glow TV Awards: Top 10 Shows of the Year

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• No. 10: "Bunheads"
  “'Bunheads' flouts nearly every 'rule' of good drama, and yet it has coalesced into something funny, sweet, moving, substantial and original about the necessity and difficulty of change." —Willa Paskin, Salon
• No. 9: "30 Rock"
  "'30 Rock' has had a wonderful comeback year, and part of that has stemmed from having its finger firmly on the pulse of who we are right now." —Todd Van Der Werff, AV Club
• No. 7: "Game of Thrones" tied with "The Walking Dead"
  "No show is producing a greater number of tremendously impressive performances, covering more territory, or having more fun with itself than 'Game of Thrones.'" —Alyssa Rosenberg, ThinkProgress
  "It's hard not to encounter the around-the-clock slaughtering of repugnant, brain-dead beasts as an accurate metaphor for navigating an election year." —Heather Havrilesky, the Awl
• No. 6: "Parks and Recreation"
  "What Amy Poehler does, week in and week out, is just amazing to me. Anything they need her to do, she does. Be insane (and insanely funny)? Easy. Be the perfect straight woman? On it. Make me cry like she's a character on 'Parenthood'? Done. It's not just that she can do so many things, but that she's so great at all of them." — Alan Sepinwall, HitFix
• No. 5: "Louie"
  "Louis C.K.'s monologue in which his character asks out a beautiful, smart bookstore clerk played by Parker Posey is brilliant in how it veers from comedy to pathos and allows Louie to ask a woman out by essentially throwing himself on her mercy … After all that, when she says yes, we're as surprised as he is." — Eric Deggans, Tampa Bay Times
• No. 4: "Girls"
  "Great TV is about voice above all, and not only does Lena Dunham have it to spare, she found a way to translate it into a brutally funny, messy, moving treatment of a comedy antiheroine." —James Poniewozik, Time magazine
• No. 3: "Breaking Bad"
  "No series has ever snatched a character away from an audience that loved him and then made that character so irredeemable. None." —Tim Goodman, Hollywood Reporter
• No. 2: "Mad Men"
  "It's not the newest of cable's sexy prestige dramas, it's no longer the flashiest and certainly it has the fewest disembowelments per season (unless you count what life did to Lane Pryce). But it remains the best thing on television: The only thing more depressing than watching Don Draper lose his swag and misunderstand the Beatles is the realization that there are only two more seasons left to see him do it." —Andy Greenwald, Grantland
• No. 1: "Homeland"
  "Season 2 even more harrowing, far more romantic, a tad more frustrating than Season 1; not for a second do I doubt it was the most intriguing drama of the year." — Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly

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