The moment has arrived. The SpoilerTV Favourite TV Series Competition 2013 has officially begun.
For anyone new, the rules are very simple...
1) Two shows will go into battle in a poll, where after exactly 24 hours, the leading show will win the battle and will progress into the next round.
2) Vote for you favourite, spread the word with your friends & fans.
3) Comment on what you voted for on in the comments below.
4) Have fun. This is a friendly & competitive competition.
We begin with one of the most talked about TV shows of recent times, HBO's epic drama Game of Thrones. Just completed its third season, controversy, hype and shock filled the internet after the incredibly dramatic episode "The Rains of Castermere" aired. Battling for the throne is CBS' ridiculously popular How I Met Your Mother, which also surprised fans in its recent finale by giving the viewers a first glimpse at the mother herself. About to enter its final season, HIMYM is still a tentpole comedy for many.
Also today we have one of the USA networks biggest shows Suits, which has gone from strength to strength and is just about to commence on its third season. Suits is challenging a show, which similarly to HIMYM is in its final season. The first two episodes have been critically acclaimed, and hype for the show is high with the end is sight. It will make for an intriguing battle.
Game of Thrones vs. How I Met Your Mother
Channel: HBO
Seasons: 3
Won: 1 Golden Globe & 8 Primetime Emmy Awards.
Channel: CBS
Seasons: 8
Won: 7 Primetime Emmy Awards.
Suits vs. Dexter
Channel: USA Network
Seasons: 2
Won: N/A
Channel: Showtime
Seasons: 8
Won: 2 Golden Globes & 4 Primetime Emmy Awards
The Draw
Enjoy the battle folks.
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Here we go,
Adam
HIMYM & Dexter
ReplyDeleteThanks again Adam for running this comp this year, much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteHIMYM and Suits
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones and Dexter!
ReplyDeleteGoT, I don't watch either Suits nor Dexter.
ReplyDeleteWhile I love HIMYM, the later seasons are not so great, whereas GoT has only got better
Woo hoo! It begins. Today has no exciting choices for me because I don't watch any of the shows on a regular basis. However I do like the occasional HIMYM episode while the premiere of Game of Thrones left me cold. Incest is never an okay plot point for me. I'm voting HIMYM and Suits although at least one and probably both will lose.
ReplyDeleteHIMYM & Suits
ReplyDeleteHIMYM & Dexter for me this round. I've still not caught up with GoT yet.
ReplyDeleteSeen all four of these, and definitely Game of Thrones and Dexter for me.
ReplyDeleteHIYMY
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones and Dexter
ReplyDeleteI have to vote for How I Met Your Mother, since it's my favorite show on air at the moment, but I know it's going to get creamed against Game of Thrones.
ReplyDeleteHIMYM has more soul than any of this shows.
ReplyDeleteDoes everyone know who won last year ? I can't remember.
ReplyDeleteFor me, HIMYM and Suits.
Castle.
ReplyDeleteWhile HIMYM has been enjoyable, mostly in it's earlier seasons, GoT wins this by a mile... Suits vs Dexter is a little harder for me but i still like Dexter a little more than i like Suits.
ReplyDeleteHIMYM & Dexter.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you making me take hard choices from the start?
ReplyDeleteI know eventually all these shows will go against each other but these pairs and the pairs in the list seem weird.
ReplyDeleteVoted for HIMYM and Suits. :) And I'm not sure if this was a mistake or if I'm really out the loop, can someone confirm is Suits really on it's last season or was that supposed to read Dexter?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I watch and love both Dexter and Suits so it was also hard for me to choose but Dexter has always been close to my heart since the beginning.
ReplyDeleteDexter is on it's last season while Suits is beginning it's third season next week.
ReplyDeleteIt says "Suits is challenging a show, which similarly to HIMYM is in its final season".
ReplyDeleteHIMYM and Dexter
ReplyDeleteI think some battles are a little unfair e.g. Breaking Bad vs 90210 or Castle vs Smash
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones!
ReplyDeleteOhh! Thank you!! :) Clearly it's been a long day for me :/
ReplyDeleteI'm noticing that SVU is not part of this competition. Part of me wants to be insulted that one would omit this amazing series from this list. But, when it comes down to it, SVU beats out all of the series in this competition. Several of the series in this list are great, but SVU rules, enough said.
ReplyDeleteBoth of those are a no brainer for me.
ReplyDeleteWhy no Nikita in the competition? :/
ReplyDeleteThe Top 64 shows were selected from the ones people sent in as their favorites and obviously SVU didn't make.
ReplyDeleteBecause it didn't get enough votes.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I say, there's no competition
ReplyDeleteHIMYM
ReplyDeleteDon't watch Suits or Dexter, but I randomly voted for Suits
Just HIMYM for me. Despite Game of Thrones having many of the elements that I would normally love in a show, it also has too many of those elements that I don't enjoy in a show for me to have ever gotten far into it (plus my read of the first book really prejudiced me against the series in any of its forms, unfortunately). Even when HIMYM turns out a disappointing episode, it tends to do something really creative, something strong with the continuity, something funny, or something in the character development department to make up for whichever other elements it is at that time lacking in.
ReplyDeleteAs for the other two, I like Dexter, but I've never fallen in love with it. And since it's not one of my favorite shows, I hesitate to give it a vote when I haven't seen an episode of Suits.
Oh, there was a poll to vote for the competitors already... I must've missed it. Thanks for replying!
ReplyDeleteYou had to send your favorite shows.
ReplyDeleteVery easy today. While I love HIMYM, Game of Thrones is one of the best shows on TV and ever and easily crushes it. Dexter also gets an easy win for me as I don't watch Suits and Dexter has been phenomenal last year and so far this year.
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones and Dexter
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones and Dexter!
ReplyDeleteHIMYM and Dexter!!!!
ReplyDeleteI think these are probably the worst ones for me for the entire first round.
ReplyDeleteThe first one is especially puzzling because, as I've said in an earlier comment, it is like comparing food to drink. Comparing dramas with comedies just makes very little sense to me, I enjoy them both for very different reasons. The age of the shows is also vastly different. Anyway, I went with Game of Thrones because 1) I generally tend to prefer drama to comedy in 90% of the cases and 2) I am still biased considering how good the third season was and the Red Wedding episode - too recent. I do love me some How I Met Your Mother though
The second one is also terrible. Dexter is one of the first shows I fell in love with when I got into this world of tv series. I love it, it is quality tv at its best IMO. Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall have been rocking my TV world for 8 years now and I adore seeing the character growth and complexity, the twists, the relationship dynamics. On the other hand, Suits, particularly during season 2, has been one of the most wonderful surprises. It was my favorite show last summer and unlike for instance White Collar with which I always fall behind during winter episodes, I was always eager to see it during its winter run as well. I love how real and complex the characters are, how flawed everyone is and how tricky the game they are always playing is. I ultimately went with Dexter, if not for everything else, for its age, as 8 great seasons for the most part (I wasn't a fan of season 6 or season 3 that much) top 2 great seasons (especially because season 2 was far far better than season 1 of suits imo). Besides, there is the nostalgia fact that Dexter is ending.
Tough ones!!
Ah, bummer... Too late now.
ReplyDeleteIf weaker shows were always facing weaker shows in earlier rounds, people would complain of the opposite: that weaker shows would move on while stronger shows would not in earlier rounds. There is no perfect way to do it IMO
ReplyDeleteThis a lot, thank you!
ReplyDeleteIn my case of Dexter vs Suits, age ended up being the deciding factor. And the nostalgia factor also helped.
ReplyDeleteJust a quick comment about GoT: the premiere is far from being the best episode of the show. For starters, the show is set in a world of multiple characters, set relationships, families, lands and supernatural beings to which it takes time to get acquainted. I never read the books, and I am assuming you didn't either, so it takes a bit of time to get used to the world of the show. Once you do, you are able to truly start to experience the show and how rich and complex the characters are and how boundless the show is. As for the incest, while it is there, it is nowhere near as big of a plot point as the pilot makes it seem like. You can go for more than 6 episodes without even remembering it. Maybe if you have time it is worth another try ;) Just my two cents!
ReplyDeleteThat's how i decided as well...
ReplyDeleteMe too!
ReplyDeleteSuits and GOT. You know it makes sense!
ReplyDeleteHIMYM don't watch the others but I do like Dexter.
ReplyDeleteI also have a major problem with how much nudity was in it. That's one reason why I generally do not like HBO shows. I am more likely to read the books than watch anymore of the show. However I will wait until all of them are out given that I hate being in the middle of a series and then having to wait for years for the next one to come out.
ReplyDeleteI had to read it twice too since the name Dexter never appeared. It was understandable to be confused.
ReplyDeletePremium cable for the win today. I like Suits but Dexter is a once in a lifetime show. Picking GOT over HIMYM was an easy call because that formerly great sitcom should have planned to wrap things up by season six.
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones i expected
ReplyDeleteSuits i expected that also..
Okay, then. But, the fact that enough people didn't think SVU was their favorite is just sad to me.
ReplyDeleteI also feel sad about Orphan Black but I don't think of it as hard because I will always vote for Lost regardless of what show is up against, as much as I love Orphan Black. The ones from today are actually much harder for me.
ReplyDeleteFair enough, I understand your problems with the show, they are both valid reasons ;)
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones and Dexter
ReplyDeleteGoT and Suits :)
ReplyDeleteGoT and Suits. I have really gotten hooked on Suits, great series.
ReplyDeleteSo excited for this!!
ReplyDeleteFirst one I went with game of thrones.
I used to love how I met your mother but I haven't watched it for like 3 years now.
And game of thrones is amazing.
Second poll was harder. I liked both but kinda just stopped watching them. ) but when I did watch them I loved dexter so I voted dexter. Suits is great too though
don't watch either show in the first poll so i couldn't vote, but i watch both shows in the second and ultimately decided on Suits. the acting and is superb in both shows, but i care more about Mike and Harvey than Dexter and Deb. Also all of the secondary characters(Donna, Louis, Jessica...)are way more interesting, where as in Dexter i really only care about Dexter and Deb. the rest are kind of just there.
ReplyDeleteThrones vs. Dexter
ReplyDeleteNo real choices here for me today.
ReplyDeleteNever been a great fan of fantasy and although I used to enjoy period drama, it has worn off now.
Sit-coms aren't my thing either, but I have seen a couple of eps of HIMYM, so I'll give it there.
Have seen a couple of eps of Dexter too, I even read the first book, but serial killers will never be my look-up-to heroes, so I'll give it to Suits.
Now THAT will be a hard call for me
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones and Neither (never watch Suits and got bored with Dexter 2 seasons ago)
ReplyDeleteGame of Thrones and Suits
ReplyDeleteBrutal! No "Wild Card" for HIMYM? I mean really, this could be the finale Vote!
ReplyDeleteThe only thing I watch is Game of Thrones.
ReplyDeleteEasy choices for me today; Game of Thrones and Dexter. I ahve never seen suits and don't like HIMYM. Hope all the polls are this easy... but I doubt it!
ReplyDeleteRegarding Dexter, season 6 is, in my opinion and of the both critics and fandom, the worst season of the show. Season 7, however, is widely regarded as being one of its best seasons and, so far, Season 8 seems to be on par with it.I would advise you to give it another go to season 7 ;)
ReplyDeleteAs surprising as it is, I hadn't even thought about it! Jeez, that will be even more awful than the ones we have right now!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I voted for Dexter, you certainly have a MAJOR point concerning secondary characters on both shows, well said.
ReplyDeletefirst poll is tough! in the end i chose HIMYM just because i know GoT will pass this :) and Suits in the second! I never kept watching Dexter... maybe I should lol
ReplyDeleteI like both HIMYM and GoT, but HIMYM is currently my favorite show so I'm gonna vote for it.
ReplyDeleteGoT and Suits, HIMYM lost its spark and I consider Suits to be one of the best shows out there right now
ReplyDeleteMe too. I like Game of Thrones more than HIMYM but I already know how Game of Thrones will play out whereas for HIMYM I can't exactly know how it will end.
ReplyDeleteI voted too, but I can't see the draw, I mean it doesn't appear on the computer screen. Anyone else has the same problem or do you know how I can fix it? Everything else seems fine.
ReplyDeleteHi
ReplyDeleteWhat browser and version are you using? eg Chrome, Firefox 17, 18 or 19, IE 8, 9, or 10 Safari 4, 5 or , Opera 10, 11 or 12. Normally help about will tell you the version
Lol, HIMYM vs GoT? I love HIMYM, but I also know that GoT has bigger fanbase and HIMYM doesn't have a slightest chance. Such a shame, my favorite show gets knocked out in first round :(
ReplyDeleteSuits and Game of Thrones
ReplyDeleteHow I Met Your Mother & Dexter..
ReplyDeleteSeason 7 of Dexter was outstanding.
Game of Thrones and Dexter for me today.
ReplyDeleteI like both Suits and HIMYM, but the choice was easy for me. HIMYM is a solid sitcom, butnothing groundbreaking or iconic and the same goes for Suits. A solid legal drama with a unique viewpoint, but nothing that new or groundbreaking.
Both Game of Thrones and Dexter are groundbreaking series!
GOT is the most epic in scale series ever on TV. Period. Dexter took us into the mind of a killer like never before. Both have had a few stumbles at times, but their level of quality is far above most network TV series.
I use Firefox 22.0 and I have Windows 8.
ReplyDeleteCan you try
ReplyDeleteClearing your cookies and cache in Firefox.
if that does not work, can you try another Browser like Chrome.
Ive tested it on Chrome, Firefox, IE and Opera and the draw shows for me. Normally it's a problem with a stale cookie or some corrupted cache code.
I can't decide. I love both HIMYM and GoT.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be impossible for me to chose in this competition in the final rounds, but now it has already begun.
It worked! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAwesome :)
ReplyDeleteArgh no! GoT vs HIMYM?! The best drama vs the best comedy?! This should be the final round argh! Sucks!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, little future warning, if any of you decide to vote TBBT over Buffy I'll personally whoop your ass into the Hellmouth. ;D
I have to agree about HIMYM and Got. At first I couldn't chose between them, because I love them both, but quality wise, GoT is much more of a tv show than HIMYM. My vote went to GoT.
ReplyDeleteEasy for me, GoT and Suits.
ReplyDeleteAmen, well said.
ReplyDeleteI think if GoT was going up against HIMYM in the first years of the show then it'd be a tougher choice, but the past couple season have episodes that either are good or meh. Where GoT just keeps getting better and better.
ReplyDeleteI knew HIMYM would lose. Hurts that it couldn't get past the first round.
ReplyDeleteYou speak the truth. *bows*
ReplyDeleteI did start season 7. But when his sister started the move in with me and I'll make you stop, thing...I lost the interested to fire up the DVR.
ReplyDeleteIt is known. (I bow to you if you know the quote)
ReplyDeleteReally bad luck for HIMYM, but there's nothing it could do.
ReplyDeleteFrak! I missed the first few days. Am Happy though that Game of Thrones and Dexter managed to pull through!
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