What we do in the shadows. The show is based off the Taika Waititi/Jermaine Clement film of the same name. And is also written by Jermaine Clement

It's a comedy/mocumentary about a group of vampires. The characters are really well written and it straddles the line between the banality of everyday life as a vampire, and obviously the weird supernatural aspects of vampires. It recently aired it's final episode so you can binge it now and get through the whole thing.

If you like the office/community/parks and rec/I.T. Crowd type of stuff I think you'll really like it

Severance is the best show of the 2020s IMHO.

The Expanse. I forgot how good the earlier seasons were, and looking forward to seeing the newer stuff for the first time.

Columbo

Succession, perhaps the best script I've ever experienced

Severance is an all too graphic caricature of life in corporate America and I had a visceral reaction to watching it that made me feel dead it was awful don’t watch it because the show is magnificently well done and immaculately satirical stay away from this terrifyingly good show watch it

Older than you are and worth looking at. [available on Youtube]

The Prisoner. Imagine if Ian Fleming and Franz Kafka got together to do a TV show. A government official resigns and is immediately kidnapped. He wakes up in The Village; a lovely little place with nice views, great food, plenty of fun things to do, and no possible escape.

I, Claudius. A very young Patrick Stewart is the least reason to watch this reenactment of the first five Roman emperors.

Connections. Non-fiction. Wonderfully entertaining and informative. The creator's premise is that scientific progress is almost never straight forward. Coffee houses open in London = coffee houses become popular places to do business = coffee house customers join together to invest in ships to the New World = the new 'companies' begin looking for ways to make their ships safer = they start to invest in making pine tar to protect the ships = add two hundred years and you have insurance companies and the chemical industry

Jury Duty, binge watched and loved it, I couldn’t stop laughing.

Silo.

Severance (rewatching cause season 2 is around the corner).

Star Trek Strange New Worlds (also rewatched waiting for next season).

Shōgun

I just finished Only Murders in the Building. I love it. Its a whodunit with Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. The whole cast always feels to me like they're always having a lot of fun!

Schitt's Creek is currently on Netflix. One of my favorite, wholesome sitcoms!

• Silo
• Ted Lasso
• A Man on the Inside

I've been enjoying Skeleton Crew as it releases.

The ones I've been watching and it's been good are:

1. Dark Matter;
2. Severance;
3. Silo;
4. From;

Halt and catch fire. Expected nothing from it but we are really enjoying it.

Super old show called scrapheap challenge or junkyard wars, which depends on whether it's the british or american version. I loved this show as a kid.

A lot of my picks are already mentioned so I'll pick an odd one:

Air crash investigator (called Mayday in NA). It's dramatizations of the reports from air crashes, organized like a murder mystery. Surprisingly compelling.

I've never been nervous about flying but this show really underlined how safe flying is, it's actually kinda crazy how thorough the reports are and how often they lead to rule changes. I wish the same institutional dedication to safety was practised in other industries (especially cars).

Episodes that take place in the 80s have you face palming at how stupid the mistakes are, more modern episodes are almost always a combination of many many different small low chance events and minor mistakes from the pilot piling up. I usually skip the terrorist episodes though.

Arcane.

I missed the hype for Arcane season 1, mostly because it didn't really seem up my alley. I figured it'd be boring to me because I wasn't into that specific game, or too juvenile for me, or something.

I was really wrong. Really, really wrong. It stands on its own and season 1 has the strongest storytelling I've seen in anything in a good, long time. You don't need to care about or play League of Legends to watch the show. And it's very much NOT a kid's show even if it starts with kid characters...it touches a lot on crime, poverty, mental illness, etc. It's very honest and truthful and complex and nuanced on these things.

And every aspect of storytelling was strong. EVERY ONE.

What I mean by that is this...in most TV shows, animated or live, you usually have one form of strong(ish) storytelling carrying the entire thing and compensating for other things that are weaker. So a show will have one or two stand-out aspects, and others that are okish to bad, but able to be overlooked because of the other awesome things going on.

Like, you might have a poor script but really good actors who can elevate the poor script with their spoken intonation or physical acting. Or you might have a good script and really good soundtrack but mediocre acting and bland costume/set design. Basically, script, art/costume design, music, and actor ability all play together to deliver a story, and usually you have one or two of those that are strong, and the rest are being carried by the strong parts and ranging from competent-but-not-awesome to mediocre to bad.

Arcane's not like that.

Arcane has top-tier storytelling on the writing level, AND on the art and animation level, and in the choice of songs for the soundtrack. Like, the script itself is fantastic, but then you watch the animation and see they decided not to use common animation shorthand. Instead, they went back to actually LOOK at how humans display emotion and move their bodies and translated THAT into their animation. So you have a strong script AND strong "physical acting". How they frame shots is fantastic too. And if that wasn't enough, all the music is stellar and pertinent to the scenes it's used in. And if THAT wasn't enough, even the design of the characters BEFORE they even move or speak is top-notch. And if THAT isn't enough the voice actors are phenomenal too.

For Season 1, nothing's carrying anything else, everything is strong. And that's EXTREMELY rare in ANY show. So, so, SO rare.

Season 2 is not as good--but that's really just in comparison to how outrageously and unusually good Season 1 was. I'd say in Season 2, the script is not as tight, but all the other things are still as good as Season 1. So the animation/art design/music/etc. carry the script a little in the second season. The script isn't HORRIBLE though...it's mostly the pacing is off and it's missing some appropriate build-up in some parts. I've read they had to cut some scenes, and if that's true it would completely explain the flaws. The second season also suffers a bit in comparison to Season 1...Season 1 did everything right, so anything that's not perfect in Season 2 naturally sticks out. It doesn't make it bad though.

Anyway, yeah. Watch Arcane, if you missed that boat previously.

Something I haven't seen mentioned is Ghosts. Recently got caught up on it and it's definitely a fun watch!

Shrinking is excellent

DanDaDan on Netflix is bonkers.

Right now I'm watching silo (apple tv+) and Gilmore girls. They are nice

Modern Family slaps so hard

!showsandmovies@lemm.ee has weekly discussions thread on that topic

I love Vox Machina. Give it three episodes though, it needs the Briarwood ark to really get going.

Scrubs

I've been doing Doom Patrol lately, switching between it and What we do in the Shadows.

I can recommend them both with the caveat that I'm not very far into either.

Halt and Catch Fire.

Set in the 80s, it’s about a company in Texas trying to build a computer to rival IBM. Er, that’s how it starts. I liked it so much, I bought it.

From

Secret Level.
The Outsider

• The good place
• Inside job
• Dogs in space
• Daredevil
• Final space

I recommend “Severance” on AppleTV. Also recommend “Shining Girls”. AppleTV is free this weekend.

I'm watching the dune show, it's not great.

I'm also watching creature commandos which is pretty good if you don't mind animation.

• FROM
• Kevin can f*$*$! Himself

Frazer Cain recommended Dr. Stone, an anime series that features the scientific method prominently in a scenario about rebuilding civilization. I haven't watched it though. I don't agree to the Netflix terms of service with stalkerware and exploitation.