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I found Delicious in Dungeon to be charming.

No love for Archer? Witty, profane, great animation/artwork, one writer/creator carrying the whole show, and eponymous lead voiced by H. Jon Benjamin. What am I missing?

Not nearly enough love for Andor? Season 2, episodes 7, 8, and 9 showcase some of the most compelling sequences on TV. Diego Luna, a man under enormous pressure ready to come apart at the seams, run by master manipulator Stella Skarsgård. Andy Serkis. Forrest Whittaker. Empire baddies Denise Gough and Ben Mendelssohn. Best Star Wars offerings outside the original trilogy screenplays hands down. Fight me.

Nor for my most embarrassing and guiltiest pleasure Downton Abbey? Plus two full length feature sequels? Come now.

Of those, or those are yours?

I liked a lot of them to a point, then I stopped liking them. Others I haven't seen.

I'd recommend Revenge to anyone. ABC (US Disney-owned TV network) soap opera-stylised drama based very loosely on The Count of Monte Cristo. A rich woman and her husband have another rich man set up for a crime he didn't do and his five year old daughter is traumatised by the arrest (they show this every episode, or just about) and she grows up to be a rich woman no one recognises (and she uses a new name) and she undoes them and their allies one by one. It's super satisfying until you realise none of them are really great people. Except maybe for the hacker/nerdy dude. He's cool. But honestly, it's a really good show. Give it one episode, that's representative of the first three seasons. The final season is a bit different, but still good (and worth it for when she reveals who she really is... no, they never figure it out until she announces it on live TV).

Some shows you may not have heard of:

British comedy:

• The Young Ones - Absurdist British comedy about a group of students who live together.
• Bottom - More silly comedy with Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson who were also in The Young Ones. They play two loser roommates who can't get a date. "Bloody lesbians!"
• The Office - IMO much better than the American adaptation. Ricky Gervais at his most painfully awkward.
• Little Britain - Quite possibly the greatest sketch show of all time. Very popular at the time, but some younger people haven't heard of it.
• Peep Show - Mitchell & Webb of "Are we the baddies?" fame are roommates and frenemies who get into a lot of very awkward and painful situations.

American comedy

• Jack of all Trades - Bruce Campbell plays an American spy who is forced to work together with an attractive English spy on the fictional French occupied island of Pulau Pulau. The kind of cheesy fun you'd expect from Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell.
• The Comeback - Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe from Friends) tries to stage a comeback.
• The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret - David Cross plays the titular character who moves to Britain for business. Things only get worse from there.
• In the Know - Claymation by Mike Judge about an extremely progressive radio host.

New Zealand comedy

• New Zealand Today - Comedian and wannabe journalist Guy Williams covers some of the most important issues facing everyday New Zealanders.
• Wellington Paranormal - Two local police officers investigate paranormal cases in a semi-competent manner. A spin-off of the What we do in the Shadows movie.
• Flight of the Conchords - Two musicians from New Zealand try to make it in New York City.

Science fiction

• Lexx - Large parts of this show are a slog to get through. If you do, however, you'll be rewarded with some unique and bizarre moments, like the Netherlands being eaten by a giant space ship.
• Travelers - Proves that great sci-fi does not need a massive budget or a lot of special effects. A team of time travellers tries to save the world.
• Murderbot - A security android gains sentience and free will. Decides to spend most of his time watching a cheesy sci-fi show.
• Alice in Borderland - A group of friends find that suddenly almost everybody in Tokyo has disappeared. They have to compete in a series of bizarre games to survive, a bit like in Squid Game. Season 3 was unnecessary.
• Counterpart - Solid spy thriller that revolves around a very interesting science fiction concept I'd rather not spoil.

Drama

• Waiting for the Out - A man deals with his daddy issues while teaching inmates about philosophy. Highly recommended if you've already seen Adolescence and Baby Reindeer and need more British Drama.
• Slow Horses - A team of MI5 (domestic British intelligence) misfits and outcasts save the day.
• SAS: Rogue Heroes - War drama that chronicles the creation of the (in)famous special forces unit.
• Cobra Kai - Could a Karate Kid spin-off be any good? The answer might surprise you!
• Landman - Extremely American/Southern/conservative gentleman manages the day-to-day business of running a company that drills for oil.

Since I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, I really enjoyed Continuum

On that list:

• Game of Thrones
• Stranger Things
• Sherlock Season 1, Episode 1 and 3 of Season 2 and then stop.
• Breaking Bad

I have many more that are not on that list.

Recent ones:

Severance

Pluribus

Older one I didn't see anyone mention yet:

Peep Show (amazing British comedy, truly uncomfortable levels of cringe)

Lost up until Season 6.

Walking Dead up until Negan.

Firefly, all of it.

Babylon 5, start with Season 2-3-4 then go back to 1.

Really enjoying "From". But there's a drinking game:

Every time someone asks "Hey, are you OK?" the answer is "Naw, man, I'm pretty fuckin' FAR from OK." abd take a drink.

Chernobyl. Easy

Slow Horses.

What We Do In The Shadows - I still need to watch the last season

Wellingon Paranormal - A spin-off of the What We Do In The Shadows movie.

Letterkenny

Corner Gas. - Kinda old school, but very charming and hilarious.

15 Stories High - Peak Sean Locke - It's on YouTube

Garth Marengi's Dark Place - Also on YouTube

Band of Brothers, The Americans, Rome, Andor, Mindhunter

Line of Duty, a police procedural about anti-corruption. Absolutely gripping.

Two shows that weren't mentioned yet:

• Warehouse 13 - An endearing sci-fi show about a warehouse full of weird artifacts. Despite some intense episodes, it offered mainly a light, feel-good entertainment, and featured a really well-crafted send-off.
• Fringe - Starts out weird, then it goes totally off the rails, but in a good way. Also wrapped up nicely.

The OA

I didn't see either of these mentioned:

Farscape

The Orville

As I didn't seen them mentioned

• Scrubs: 8 UND ONLY 8 seasons of funny comedy, heart wrenching tragedy. For such a funny show, they managed to still make me cry with "Where Do You Think We Are?"
• Better off Ted: very funny too, hardly ever hear anybody mentioning it
• Bluey: is you have small children and you are going to give them screen time, do both of you a favor and chose bluey.

Bob's Burgers.
I thought it looked off-putting at first, so I hadn't actually started watching it until it had a bunch of seasons ready to binge-watch, but it's funny, relaxing, and mostly wholesome.

The Owl House (Disney) a ridiculously wholesome magical animated show with some amazing well integrated LGBT/non-binary representation.

Battlestar Galactica. It's heavy weight politics, in space. Cast is rock solid. ~there's~ ^too^ ^much^ ~confusion~ ~here~ The follow on movies are also excellent.

More like a miniseries, but HBO’s Chernobyl. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen.

Recently: Succession, Pluribus.

OG: ATLA, Toradora (the best love story ever told, btw).

Bored to death

Utopia. (2 season UK version, not the 1 season Amazon reboot.)