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List of Best Rated TV Series as voted by the Fediverse
It's interesting to me because I honestly enjoy the whole series and have no favorites, etc. Being a casual fan pays off I guess.
The Venture Bros. is a far superior show in every category.
Another show that kept producing unknown to me after I thought it was canceled. Add it to the pile!
I miss it. It took me a bit to warm up to it, but now I love and miss it.
The Frowning Friends truly have won.
Can someone paste the release date I genuinely don't care about any other information.
The acclaimed hit comedy will return for season nine on Sunday, May 24.
The acclaimed hit comedy will return for season nine on Sunday, May 24.
Yeah, nah... R&M trailed off fast after Roiland left. It was good while it lasted.
For me, it got better in the last two seasons.
There was a season or two while he was there where it went so dark and didn’t have the balance it had in the first seasons. IMO
But I also don’t think he was a driving force behind the plot/writing. Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t know how much correlation/causation should be drawn from him being forced out and the tone or quality shifts.
Edit: I just read someone else’s comment in this thread that confirms he was a menace during the seasons that it felt went off the rails. Where I felt it lost the balance the show originally had.
during the seasons that I felt went off the rails.
off the rails is the best Rick and Morty.
Well, for me, off the rails means it lost the heart it once had. But to each their own.
Solar opposites =Yes
R&M= Hard no
S7 was quite a steep drop off from the peaks of S4-S6, honestly stopped watching. That episode with the stupid total recall reference and where Jerry and Rick swap bodies or something was absolutely unwatchable, pure cringe, even worse than S3. Have they fixed it yet?
My fav episodes of late are probably the Dino one and "analyze piss", they just felt so subversive and the writing was sharp and witty. Many eps of S4-S6 just have that hyper intense quality to them, especially S5's first ep, that seems to have completely evaporated by S7 and the humour has that zombie simpsons/family guy vibe to it, everything is just going through the motions rather than rapid fire of sci-fi tropes pushed to their most absurdist conclusions that made the earlier seasons shine.
Comments like this just exemplify that there's no way to satisfy every fan. For me season 4 through 6 marked a massive drop off in quality where the show just meandered haphazardly through its established lore, using crudeness and gross out humor as a stand-in for actual writing. The Mulan sauce years, where it was embarrassing to even talk about having used to like the show. Not to discount the many talented people who worked their asses off to get those episodes to us, but having followed Harmon from Channel 101 through Community and Harmontown, it was obvious something was off. And it turned out something was. After Roiland was fired many came forward to talk about what an awful work environment he fostered, where he was constantly drunk and refused to write or even speak the lines as written, and wouldn't even show up most days. Then there's the abusive behavior... In any case seasons 7 and 8 have maybe not been perfect but are absolutely a return to form and a massive improvement. It is funny to me there are fans of the show who aren't actually fans of that form and prefer seasons 4-6. I will say the two episodes you called out from those seasons are standouts, I kind of hate both of them, but I see where you're coming from. And likewise the two newer episodes you called out were kind of dumb, I can agree with that. But overall the two most recent seasons, I feel, have been a massive improvement over szechuan sauce and dragons and incest babies.
Thank you! I’m glad someone else sees what I sensed. R&M has the ability to balance the grim elements with humanity. It’s part of why it’s good, and the genesis of that copypasta meme in many ways.
They were definitely lost and meandering in those middle seasons. And it didn’t line up with my conceptions of Dan Harmon either. I’m interested in R&M because of Harmon, in spite of Roiland.
IMO solar opposites is the better show.
I do enjoy Solar Opposites, and the way they handled replacing Roiland was amazing. Unfortunately Middleditch, as funny and talented as he is, has also turned out to be a narcissistic POS and it has really put a taint on all the great works he's been a part of over the years.