Television

Mr Show with Bob and David

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Show_with_Bob_and_David

Whites

Maybe not super obscure and more my wife’s suggestion than mine (though I also enjoyed it), but Merlin (2008) was a great show that unfortunately had a low budget for the first couple seasons and got cut short with very little warning to the directors at the end, but it’s still a great family friendly fantasy show. It’s my wife’s all-time favourite TV show, and while it’s not mine (I’d probably say Doctor Who for me), I totally get it. It’s very entertaining.

I think my top pick has to be Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot. I gather it's pretty well known in Germany, but in the US pretty much no one has heard of it.

It's a sci-fi comedy, based loosely on The Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem, who is one of my favorite authors. The first season was all web episodes made on a shoestring budget; the spaceship is just the main actor's apartment for the interior, and a coffee press for the exterior. There's also a lot of use of puppets and amusing costumes. It's just incredibly creative. The stories involve things like Tichy's navigation system malfunctioning, so he accelerates out of control around a gravitational anomaly and starts experiencing time slips. Which could be kind of convenient, because fixing the navigation is a two-person task, but the first time his future self asks for his help he thinks it's a dream, and the second time he knows it's real but won't help because if they actually got it fixed then obviously his future self wouldn't still be coming back in time to get his help, so what's the point? etc. I know Lem isn't the best-known sci fi writer these days, but it's criminal that this show hasn't gotten more attention.

Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea.

Primo. A show about a teenager, his mom, and six uncles. Nothing groundbreaking but well done. Really wish it'd got a second season.

Metalocalypse which has probably one of the best first episodes of all time.

And Corporate

The line 'I think I lost some weight because my belt doesn't fit around my neck like it used to' had me rolling.

The Patriot on prime. It's the greatest show nobody's watched, no bad episodes. Acting, script and production values are top notch. Cancelled after 2 seasons...

Brad Neely's Harg Nallin'

We need more Fruit Blood, and there are apparently 120 songs already written

4400, threshold. some of the pre-disney merger series, like gifted, runaway, i feel these are better than todays MCU interpretaiton of "xmen" related content. ALSO AOS, eventhough they had 7 seasons, they dint have the marketing and hyping of post-mcu. x-men related spinoffs seems better without disney inteference.

damages with glen close,