The wire is still my all time favorite.
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I just really love comedy. I mainly watch television to laugh.
My favorite comedies are the single camera sitcoms of the 2000's and 2010's, in this order:
- Arrested Development
- 30 Rock
- It's Always Sunny
- The Office
- Community
- Brooklyn Nine Nine
- Parks and Rec
- Veep
- Silicon Valley
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Seinfeld (not single camera but still great)
- Abbott Elementary is climbing the list for me, too
I also love the weirder stuff:
- All the Nathan Fielder produced stuff that is kinda unscripted (Nathan for You, The Rehearsal, How To With John Wilson)
- Review (the Andy Daly one, never saw the original Australian one)
- All the Tim Robinson absurdity: I Think You Should Leave, Detroiters, The Chair Company (Friendship if we're counting movies).
- Broad City isn't quite as absurd as some of the others, but it was the right kind of quirky.
- Adult Swim animation, including the early low budget shows like Sealab and Aqua Teen, through Frisky Dingo, Tim and Eric.
- Peep Show
- Mainstream/network animation, like South Park, Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty. I've fallen out of love with Futurama and Simpsons, but used to love those shows.
I enjoy sketch comedy: SNL, Key and Peele, Chappelle's Show, and MadTV all have plenty of sketches that have stayed in my brain forever.
Even with more serious shows, I like comedic elements:
- Fallout is legitimately hilarious at times
- Patriot is the most underrated show of this century
- Fargo is just great, and happens to have had occasional moments where I unexpectedly just blurt out with laughter.
- Is Atlanta a dramedy? Or just a comedy? Either way, it's funny to me.
There are a bunch of shows I once loved but never went back to rewatch, either:
- The League
- Scrubs
- The New Girl
- Mindy Project
- The Good Place
I imagine they still hold up, though.
I'm working my way through Hacks and Righteous Gemstones while I have an HBO subscription, and suspect they'll be in my "liked it but probably won't rewatch" category.
And overall there are probably dozens or hundreds of others I liked well enough. I just like to laugh.
Rings of Power GOT - with caveats Parks and Rec Bob's Burgers Difficult People Broad City Fallout What We Do in the Shadows Stranger Things
My favourite of all time is Netflix's DARK. Only 26 episodes in total; everyone a work of genius.
It was left unfinished if i recall correctly, right?
Nope, it definitely finished, and it also nailed the ending, despite me being so utterly lost by S3E5 that I couldn't see how they'd possibly wrap it up in a logical and satisfying manner. Season 3 was a complete mind-fuck and I nearly stopped watching; in hindsight it was incredible. It's the sort of show which is actually better on a second viewing, where you know the basic plot and can focus on the characters and foreshadowing.
Sadly, the follow-up 1899 was cancelled after one season, so we were left with a massive cliffhanger.
I see. I'll have to re-watch it. First season was absolutely memorable, but I have forgotten the rest, as it became increasingly unhinged. But I'll give it a second watch to the whole thing...with my gf, who hasn't watched it.
Are you confusing Dark with 1899? After Dark performed so well, the creators started working on 1899 (which had similar vibe and was also a sci-fi mystery). However, it was cancelled after just one season. To my knowledge, Dark was not cancelled and did have a complete story (although admittedly I didn't finish the final season so I could be mistaken).
I don't recall what the ending was. I have forgotten most of the second season and completely the third. I need to re-watch the whole thing again I guess.
I like Apple’s Slow horses (although as the series progressed my excitement went down a bit)
I binged the series this past year, so while there were ups and downs during the five season run, I felt it was fairly consistent overall. I'm looking forward to the next season, especially catching it as it airs.
Yeah the plot becomes a bit more unhinged every season. I still watch it though, friggin Gary Oldman in one of his acidest roles.
I felt the same. Especially the very end of season 1.
firefly tops my list. for movies its lotr and for tv its firefly.
I did not like LOTR as much as most. It was meh, for me. But I learned to read on the Hobbit and read the series before I was 11, so, I do not know if anything would have made me happy there.
I don't think reading it early makes a difference as I read it pretty early to. I did not reread it much the way other fans did though. I mean I can't even say I was a fan. I liked tolkein but there are many authors I would rather have in a desert island situation.
never liked nutrek enough to care about paramount+, especially with the skydance merger not likely to support it anyways. get rid of people like KURTZMAN. netflix had gamera rebirth and singular point godzilla, but thier ip is probably tied to japan so they cant really continue a series.
Patriot is one of the few shows I've bothered rewatching. Still great.
I got recommended it when I was looking for something similar to Fargo. It's so good but came out during a time when Amazon wasn't that far into streaming, so didn't get proper marketing to make people aware of such a gem.
The ones that really blew my mind were Firefly, Game of Thrones (first 4 seasons), The Expanse and The Last Of Us.
I guess I like gritty fantasy/SciFi with a focus on realism.
If anyone has recommendations, I'd be very thankful.
Is For All Mankind good?
Oh, you want Pluribus.
I rewatched Pluribus with a friend this past weekend after watching it week to week originally. It was a totally different show, but also the same ultimate conclusion.
Week to week I was left with so many questions and not fully expecting what would come next. Watching it in a binge the season felt so fast paced. Whenever the current time would come up it was almost impossible to really understand how little time had actually passed.
Some episodes only a few hours would pass, but what an hour. Other episodes weeks would pass, but it felt like an hour.
Timeline spoilers
By the last episode ~75 days have passed, but it feels like forever.
I think that one episode of The Last of Us might have been one of the single best episodes of television ever made.
I don't know which one you mean, but my mind instantly went to the one with the prepper couple and the strawberries.
That's the one.
Firefly was mind-blowing, back in the day. So was Stargate SG-1. CSI, for all its faults, was fascinating at the time. Blue Planet was gorgeous. Fullmetal Alchemist. Pushing Daisies. Dead Like Me. The Middleman. Wonderfalls. Numb3rs. The Last Detective. Have Gun Will Travel.
I have a soft spot for Dr. Who, and the old Star Trek stuff. Loved House. For all it's flaws, Sherlock was excellent. Dexter was fantastic for a little while. The X Files - so much wrong with it and honestly hard to care because of the acting. One Punch Man. The Expanse. Poirot. MASH. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. Wire in the Blood. Babylon 5. Titus.
I liked Hogans Heroes. Highlander: the Series. Airwolf, when I was young and uncritical . Forever Knight.
There were some middling shows with exceptional episodes - Supernatural, "jump the shark", others that were good.
I haven't watched much tv lately. It's hard to like fiction as much as I used to.
i started rewatching some SGU episodes(disjointed) onyoutube, old videos that havnt been copyright striked(yes whole episodes of sga and sgu, but not all seasons). they shouldve continued with that instead of "a new series reimiangined". sgu would be nice if they continued that series rather than a rehash of the og ones. We know the actors got pretty old, maybe that can explain it away by bringing a new team on board the destiny.
the most recent doctor, ncuti was a pretty weak series, even jodie was better.
supernatural 1-5 was kripke that why it was called golden age, and silver was season 6,8(not 7, it seemed pretty bland and too fanmade sexualizing the leads), and only 11 where "a sister god" was the archenemy of the season.
The ncuti episode with the social media wonks needing to be talked to safety struck me as absolutely and completely perfect. I am in awe of it. It's so uneven, though, other episodes are awful.
i watched the clips, but the only watachable ones are the villians(rani, toymaker, etc), not the doctor, or his campanion, she seems more of a background character. i think the dude overacts too much.
I certainly would not call kripke the best but he sure knows how to keep a series going without it going completely to shit. I found supernatural entertaining right to the end even with its best days behind it. Hard to believeI started watching it with smallville. Its not the same thing but kinda reminds me of john doe. It wa entertaining enough to watch but once firefly was canceled not decent enough to be sitting down and catching the episodes. I think streaming saved supernatural and that it was a bit better than john doe. Still if I could not catch it whenever I wanted I think I would have missed a few episodes and then that would have been that.
Didn't John Doe get cancelled? I liked that show while it lasted.
yeah. its kinda funny because I think they saw firefly and john doe getting the same high ratings (it was friday nights I think so the ratings they got I think were pretty high relative to the slot) but firefly was really expensive and john doe was cheap. So they were like. Okay we are dropping firefly we can just do more shows like john doe. Whelp once firefly was canceled then john does ratings tanked because it got a lot of folks who made time for firefly and hung around for doe because it was not half bad. It was not good enough though to get people to make it a point of scheduling around it. so then it got canceled a bit after.
My favorite is probably still Breaking Bad, lately I've been watching Fallout and re-watching The Boys before the new season drops.
Have you watched Gen V? I really enjoyed it, but it had a weird off screen arc between season one and two since we had a season of The Boys, which shifted where the universe was.
season 2 seems better than season 1. With season 1 people had problems with the actor that died in a vehicle accident. andre? he has been found to have following Pro-maga memes, and supporting trump, so he was on his way out anyways. season 2 is more coherent, as it connects 4 and 5 of boyz.
I had no idea about Chance Perdomo. I really enjoyed his performance in season 1, and thought that season 2 had an abrupt start because his character was missing (understandable given that he had passed). Perhaps, in a world where he was cut, season 2 would have had a rough start regardless.
My main issue with season 2 is that it only worked as an in-between season of The Boys season 4 and 5. It was a great in-between, but Gen V setup a great story line for The Boys season 4, but that show just ignored Gen V.
Either Gen V needed lower stakes, or Gen V needed to play a major role in The Boys and The Boys needed to continue that story.
I'm excited for the finale of The Boys, but I'm also excited that once it's over Gen V will get the freedom to control the larger narrative of the universe.
When is the new season coming?
April last time I checked
- Better Call Soul
- Fallout first season, watch some of the fisrt episodes of the second season but did not hook me like the first one
- GOT
- I can’t really pin point specific series that I watched 😅, but i recently watched Welcome to Dery and realy enjoyed it
Fallout has been fantastic so far. Also can't wait for new episodes of f is for family
I've been watching it too. Good stuff.
off the top of my head: The Terror (S1), Interview with the Vampire, Extraordinary, Black Sails, Righteous Gemstones, Kingdom (the korean one not the lars von trier one), The Last Kingdom (unrelated to previous yet both involve swords 🤔), Orphan Black, Taskmaster
like many here i am still enjoying Fallout as well. and looking forward to Paradise coming back this month too. i think i also want to try getting onto Spartacus (yes more swords) because i heard good things about House of Ashur
I really want to watch orphan black!!!
yesss it is well worth it!