The Best TV Moments of 2010

With 2011 now in full swing and the vast array of upcoming new and returning television series upon us, there’s no better time than now to reminisce about last year’s great television moments.

Over 50 new series premiered on television throughout last year, and combined with the series already running on air, it’s fair to say that 2010 provided more new and continual television viewing opportunities than any other year previously. Sure, that largely had to do with NBC completely ruining their primetime line-up and attempting to fix it with a slew of new programming, but we’ll talk about that a little later.

While watching television is a completely subjective experience and not everyone will agree with everything included on our list, I would like to note that we tried to be fair and looked at every television series, in an attempt to find something that could be considered for our list of best moments in 2010.

As usual, there will be some obvious choices that you probably already knew were going to be on the list, but I’m sure there are many moments that you’ll be surprised to see. Whether you agree with our choices or not, there’s one thing that remains certain… these were all great moments in television.

(Keep in mind, these are in no particular order.)

***Spoiler Warning***

Many of our choices, especially ones relating to a particular series finale, will include spoilers and flat-out ruin the ending of the series for you. You have been warned!

***Spoiler Warning***

Now, without further ado, we kick of this list with one of the most iconic series ever on television.

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For 6 years, audiences around the world tuned in to watch the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 traverse a mysterious island in an attempt make sense of all the fantastical events that have continued to threaten their lives from the moment they crashed.

When Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse announced that Lost would be coming to an end in 2010, viewers waited in suspense to see what exactly was behind this mysterious island. With nobody safe from death and the number of episodes left slowly dwindling, everyone was focused on what would happen in the two-hour series finale.

After everything came together and the island was once again safe, the focused shifted to the sideways storylines that accompanied almost every episode of the final season. As the familiar members of the iconic cast began to reunite, it was revealed that everyone came together in a single church to “move on” together.

Whether you loved or hated the finale, Lost presented viewers of the world with some of the most intense and enjoyable viewing experiences ever on television. In the end, it’s not how many questions were answered or how many explanations for the unexplainable were revealed, it was (as the finale pointed out) the journey that was the most important.

The end of any television show will never meet the expectations of its many fans. If anything, it should simply serves as a symbolic bookend for viewers to take a step back, look at the past years of emotions and viewing experiences that this series brought and, ultimately, acknowledge it for the enjoyable journey that it was.

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The Top 10 Movie Moments of 2010

As 2010 comes to an end, most sites are busy compiling top 10 lists ranking the best films of the year. While I always appreciate a good top 10 movie list, I’ve slowly come around to the opinion that at year’s end, it’s not just the discussion of entire films that dominates the talk around my holiday dinner table, but also the best scenes and/or moments that stuck in moviegoers’ minds.

So, following in the tradition started by our list of the best movie moments of 2009, I’d once again like to submit to you, the readers, Screen Rant’s top 10 movie moments of 2010.

This was an odd year in cinema. 2010 started off with moviegoers still caught up in the phenomenon of James Cameron’s Avatar; people were wondering just how prolific the implementation  of 3D would be in upcoming films, and Avatar’s financial success had some questioning the future direction of cinema as a whole. The addition of murky-colored, pop-up book post-converted 3D to the mix (Alice In Wonderland, Clash of the Titans) may have fattened Hollywood’s wallet, but did little to impress moviegoers.

There were some highly-anticipated films on the calender, but if you are a real movie geek, 2010 was truthfully more of a rest stop between 2009 and the years 2011-2012, which will be a time of geek Nirvana thanks to the biggest rollout of sci-fi and/or comic book movies ever (see: Thor, Green Lantern, Captain America, The Dark Knight Rises, Superman: Man of Steel, Cowboys & Aliens, etc., etc., etc…).

Yet, 2010 also offered us some truly entertaining movies as well. Whether they were original works (Inception, Black Swan), adaptations (The Social Network, True Grit), 3D event films (TRON: Legacy, How to Train Your Dragon) or even sequels (Toy Story 3), 2010 had some truly great moments worth remembering.

There are parts of some films from the 2010 lineup that deserve mention, but not necessarily a spot on our list. This is primarily due to the fact that the items in question are general aspects of a film that impressed, rather than specific moments. Here are the aspects of certain movies that impressed us enough to warrant recognition:

The fight scenes in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Edgar Wright’s adaptation of this comic book cult fave was refreshingly  inventive and visually stunning, as evidenced by the wild and epic fight scenes between Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) and the evil exes of his geek-chic love-crush, Ramona (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). We couldn’t pick a particular favorite out of the six-round battle royal (was it Lucas Lee, Matthew Patel, Todd Ingram, Roxy, Gideon Graves or the Katayanagi twins?) so instead, the battles of Scott Pilgrim top our honorable mention list.

The Grid battles of TRON: Legacy – The script was absolutely ridiculous and most of the movie involved characters sitting around spewing exposition that made no sense at all (ISOs? Identity disks? Clu is after what exactly?). However, TRON: Legacy did entertain whenever young Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) followed in his father Kevin’s (Jeff Bridges) footsteps by competing in the gladiatorial games of The Grid, a digital world inside of a computer (…that’s apparently not hooked up to the Internet). The disc wars and lightcycle battles were a thrill for aging nerds everywhere, who could finally see the Tron universe they knew and (sort of) loved given a sleek modern-day 3D makeover. But once the wore off, TRON: Legacy had little else to offer.

The total discomfort of Black Swan – Thanks to Darren Aronofsky, cinephiles now have a new game to play: Approach a friend and ask the question, “Wanna be really uncomfortable for about two hours?” and should they say yes (why wouldn’t they?), simply pop in Black Swan and press play. Dancing, stretching, massages, nail clipping, finger peeling, seduction, masturbation,  – all the things you love to do in life are transformed into cringe-worthy experiences thanks to the (genius?) of Aronofsky’s vision. Consider our dreams of being ballet stars officially over.

The Winklevoss Twins - While we have an actual moment from The Social Network rated on our list, who didn’t love a double-dose of actor Armie Hammer as snide aristocrats the Winklevoss Twins? In a year where CGI doubles continued to infiltrate cinema (see: TRON: Legacy) the Winklevi truly were a technical achievement – and wonderfully hilarious character(s), to boot.

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