Quentin Tarantino’s All-Time Favorite TV Show Is This Unlikely Sitcom
Quentin Tarantino’s all-time favorite TV show? If one had to venture a guess, maybe it would be an old Western like the fictional Bounty Law from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. How about a show like The Wire, full of the violence and profanity for which he’s known? If his favorite is a sitcom? Now it gets tougher, though you’d expect him to love something with a darker edge, maybe It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia or BoJack Horseman.
Leave it to Tarantino to come up with a completely unexpected choice. When the director was out promoting Django Unchained (another Western) a few years back, MTV News asked him to name his favorite TV show.
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“Hands down, my favorite show is How I Met Your Mother,” he responded. “I’ve been watching that since the very first episode, so that’s the one show that I always keep watching.”
And that’s that — no other explanation given about his love for Ted, Marshall, Lily and Barney, even though he’s told other outlets like Vulture the same thing. The only thing about Tarantino’s HIMYM fandom that makes sense is that he’s notoriously a fan of low-brow art. Comedies don’t get much less sophisticated than the legend… — wait for it — …ary sitcom. Remember, this is a guy who appeared as an Elvis impersonator on an episode of The Golden Girls.
Tarantino’s other TV favorite, at least back in 2012, was Aaron Sorkin’s so-so The Newsroom. “I love Newsroom,” he said. “That writing, every week, is just so exciting.”
What about edgier fare, like the Emmy-winning first season of True Detective? “I tried to watch the first episode of Season One, and I didn’t get into it at all,” Tarantino complained. “I thought it was really boring. And Season Two looks awful. Just the trailer — all these handsome actors trying to not be handsome and walking around looking like the weight of the world is on their shoulders. It’s so serious, and they’re so tortured, trying to look miserable with their mustaches and grungy clothes.”
In fact, every time you think Tarantino will zig, he'll zag. So don't count him among the Martin Scorseses of the world hating on superhero movies. “I’ve been reading comic books since I was a kid, and I’ve had my own Marvel Universe obsessions for years,” he said. “So I don’t really have a problem with the whole superhero thing right now, except I wish I didn’t have to wait until my 50s for this to be the dominant genre. Back in the ’80s, when movies sucked — I saw more movies then than I’d ever seen in my life, and the Hollywood bottom-line product was the worst it had been since the ’50s — that would have been a great time.”
