The ninety-fourth TV show: #699 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
We've been watching Sunny for a long time now, although we took a break for a while from getting through it. Coming back to it, though, has been a delight, and it's amazing how fresh the show is in its thirteenth season.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia takes the "no lessons learned" philosophy of Seinfeld to the extreme, creating a show around four, and later five flawed characters to its messed up extremes, between psychopathic and vile behaviour of them as they descend further into madness throughout the seasons and take those around them with them - something seen especially well in the fate of Rickety Cricket, a friend of the gang who not only can't get his life together, but makes it worse at every turn.
While you want to follow the adventures of the gang, the show threads things well enough that you never sympathize with the characters. Bad things happen to them, but they deserve it, and the way of their comeuppance is always a moment to look forward to. The fact that they can carry it off, and the main pathos comes from these characters failing in a deserved way, is an amazing treat, and I would argue this is one of the best sitcoms out there now, with some great ongoing performances.