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Some of the best TV shows of all time have highs and lows, and critics have their favorites.
We turned to review-aggregator Metacritic to find the best and worst seasons of six acclaimed TV shows. The majority of them started out rocky, with the first seasons being rated lower than the rest. Interestingly enough, the fourth season of the majority of the shows are their best.
Below are the best and worst seasons of six great TV dramas:
Best: "Breaking Bad" season 5 (of 5)
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Metacritic score: 99/100
Audience score: 9.7/10
What critics said: "Breaking Bad [is] a radical type of television, and also a very strange kind of must-watch: a show that you dread and crave at the same time." — New York Times
Worst: "Breaking Bad" season 1
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Metacritic score: 73/100
Audience score: 9.2/10
What critics said: "In such rare instances [in the second episode], Breaking Bad achieves a perfect moment of nerdy believability, but too often the series fails to provide details that would help explain its characters’ illogical choices." — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Best: "The Wire" season 4 (of 5)
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Metacritic score: 98/100
Audience score: 9.6/10
What critics said: "David Simon and his writers aren’t out to change the world; the slippery slope of civilization is already in place on The Wire and Simon is just out to document how each and every person survives. Or doesn’t, as this season quite devastatingly proves." — Slant
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Source: Business Insider – tclark@businessinsider.com (Travis Clark)