Best Television Show Tournament round 2c: Deadwood (18) vs The Good Place (47)

[Chris]

Deadwood
Plot: A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.
Genre: Western, Period drama, Serial drama
Created by: David Milch
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Leon Rippy, William Sanderson, Robin Weigert, W. Earl Brown, Dayton Callie, Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Kim Dickens, Anna Gunn, Jeffrey Jones, Sean Bridgers, Titus Welliver, Bree Seanna Wall, Josh Eriksson, Garret Dillahunt, Brent Sexton
On-air: March 21, 2004 – August 27, 2006


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The Good Place
Plot: Four people and their otherworldly frienemy struggle in the afterlife to define what it means to be good.
Genres: Comedy, Philosophical fiction, Fantasy, Dystopia
Created by: Michael Schur
Starring: Kristen Bell, William Jackson Harper, Jameela Jamil, D'Arcy Carden, Manny Jacinto, Ted Danson
On-air: September 19, 2016 – January 30, 2020​

 

[Keith]

Both great shows in their own ways, but gotta be Deadwood for me.

 

[John McHenry]

I feel like one show is more enjoyable and the other show is better if that makes sense. I won't be upset either way here.

 

[Keith]

I feel like one show is more enjoyable and the other show is better if that makes sense. I won't be upset either way here.

Makes perfect sense. Like no matter how great something like The Wire might be, I would always choose to rewatch something like Seinfeld more often etc.. Or you can apply Sopranos or Breaking Bad to that.