From on MGM+ is absolutely fantastic. I love the mystery, the horror, and everything else about it. I am excited to see where it goes. I also absolutely love Foundation on Apple TV+, amazing CGI and fantastic world (or universe) building.
3rd rock from the sun
Newsradio (RIP Phil hartman)
I don’t think it is very well known, but I thought Scavengers Reign was very good. It was a bit slow, but I thought it gave time to see the weird alien world.
If you are on the fence about it, the show is a followup to this short and has some similarities in its world building.
If you like para-military actions I highly recommend Spec Ops: Lioness.
Lioness is a CIA program who recruits military women to infiltrate terrorist organizations and destroy it from within.
It’s currently on its second season. Zoey Saldana is fantastic in the show.
I’m gonna give it a second try
Better off Ted
10/10, so underrated I wouldn’t have even remembered to recommend it.
The Mighty Boosh!
The masses know nothing of the crunch. They’ve never even been to the crunch.
Raised by wolves (cancelled)
Dark angel
First Wave
Dollhouse
Seven days
The peripheral (cancelled)
Dark matter (the Canadian one, cancelled)
Dark matter (the new one)
Outer range
See (appletv)
Raising hope
Sanctuary
War of the words (2019)
Sense8
The guild (Felicia Day web series)
Con Man (Alan Tudyk web series)
Hell on wheels
Halt and catch fire
Debris (cancelled)
Continuum
Defiance
Cult (cw low budget-ish show that only lasted one season. Very ridiculous weirdness)
Colony (kinda meh at times)
Bored to death
Californication
Brockmire
Party down
Ive watched way too much shit. I should become a tv tv critic.
Oh yeah, The Critic
Fuck HBO/Discovery
I really enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire, and I see so few people talk about it. The only issue I had with it was that each season felt like it was almost a reset point rather than a straight continuation of the plot. I wish they would have left a few more open plot points at the end of each season that flowed into the next. I felt the same way with Silicon Valley, even though I enjoyed that one as well.
I actually liked that as it didn’t leave huge cliffhangers at the end of each season. Also i think they were going with the whole ‘leap’ technology took between each season. Like it happens really fast and can miss a lot if you’re not paying attention.
I enjoyed the beginning of Raised by wolves, but once it started to get “creative” (the levitating offspring…) I lost interest. Which is a shame because this was a high quality series.
Preacher, it’s on Netflix now. So good.
Warrior, also I think on Netflix now.
Andor was crazy good too, and Scavenger’s Reign.
Not sure about unrecognized, but those are great.
Lexx - The Dark Zone.
Pure Canadian-German Madness with a really great cast and the wildest stories ever. And what other show has a certified anti hero as starship captain?
Few things have made me laugh as hard as that coked up vegas mummy snorting a box of omo and going on a rampage foaming bubbles everywhere
I didn’t know this had a show, I found a random VHS of The Lexx movie at a thrift store and watched that though, odd movie, but I keep watching it. I guess I need to download the show now!
From is underrated? I didn’t know that, been watching it religiously.
An older favorite of mine was The 4400 (the reboot is absolute dogshit though). Unfortunately they cancelled it after 4 seasons, but the original authors published 2 books afterwards to finish the storyline.
Other series I enjoy that aren’t on most people’s radar (primarily for being British, mostly crime):
- Vigil (crime series dealing with an investigation on board of a nuclear submarine, 2 seasons, closed storyline).
- Unforgotten (crime, every season starts with an old body being discovered and then showing all people affected by the loss of said person over time until they eventually get closure. Highly empathic actors and excellent character development, season 6 currently being filmed).
- Death in Paradise (iconic light entertainment crime series playing on a remote Caribbean island where changing inspectors from England with various degrees of clumsiness are being sent to solve murders. Every episode is usually a closed case. Season 14 to start end of year).
The 4400 was great. Fun writing and amazing casting.
Jeffrey Combs and Summer Glau together I think for the only time.
Updoots for The 4400. Might be my favorite show of all time. The theme song is still playing in my head.
Do /not/ make the mistake of watching the cw’s 4400 (without a The). I would rather watch Tommy Wiseau’s The Neighbors over it.
I love the female lead on river. I’ll watch anything of hers based on her river performance.
I don’t recall how I heard about For All Mankind, and I never see it mentioned very much, but I have had such a great time watching that.
It’s an alternate history of the space race from the 60s onward, and it’s so exciting to watch what could have been. Each season jumps forward a decade, so the advances in missions and tech keep leaping forward.
If you grew up thinking we should be pioneering space by now, you will probably enjoy it.
I absolutely love For All Mankind. Such a great show, although it has been lacking in terms of intensity in recent seasons
Intensity is a good word to describe that element. I feel the show is willing to bump off characters, but 2 of the leads have survived too many close calls and it lowers the stakes a good bit.
The individual that showed up with the surprise faction really threw a wrench into things that I enjoyed though!
Black books
I ate your bees!
Fabulous show. Always frustrated me how much bigger The IT Crowd was than BB.
Frustrated? You need the little book of calm
I think I’ll just drink heavily and shout at things!
Father ted over BB tho.
Tough call for me, love them both!
Well we can both agree that it crowd is third place, no?
Definitely. And there shall be no mention of Count Arthur Strong.
I love them all*, but the IT Crowd is at the top for me
(*Graham Linehan is a prick)
Dreadful bastard of a person, definitely.
Dammit, now you’ve mentioned it, I’m going to have to watch every episode again for the 11th time.
Hands down it has to be Fringe, amazing cast, great premise and manages to transition from monster of the week - a la X Files - to a fully immersive story that is action packed and tugs at your heartstrings. I’m not sure what platform it’s available on these days, but I’m sure you can sail the high seas if need be.
Oh, and it’s 5 seasons that actually has an ending, unlike many shows on streaming these days!
Yeah good call fringe was a great show that didn’t outstay it’s welcome.
Lost, but not the one you’re thinking of.
Travel back in time with me to September 4, 2001. It was a golden age, and reality television had taken off in a big way. NBC and CBS were each set to premiere a new show, with basically the same format: Teams of two Americans would start somewhere in the world and have to race back to the United States to win a cash prize.
NBC’s show Lost was the first to air, with CBS’s The Amazing Race airing the night after. The premise of Lost was great:
Three two-member teams knew only the final destination (thousands of miles away) and were given only a backpack full of clothes and other essentials. In addition, team members were not acquainted with one another prior to the show, and were assigned to teams. Contestants were blindfolded and dropped off with a single camera person in a remote location of an unknown country to find their way back to their home country…Teams were given no money until they managed to figure out what country they were in. During the first set, the teams were abandoned in Mongolia. (Source: Wikipedia)
The show did not do well. NBC blamed the low ratings on the fact that 9/11 happened shortly after, which actually preempted the second episode. Considering The Amazing Race debuted at basically the same time and went on to tremendous success (Lost had 1 season with 6 episodes, whereas The Amazing Race had 36 seasons and 418 episodes), I suspect something else was the cause.
So if the show was so bad, why did I like it?
First, I liked the idea that the teams started out in a location that was a mystery to them. Their first challenge was to figure out where in the world they were in a country where they (almost certainly) didn’t speak the language.
Second, although they were two-person teams, any passage they secured for themselves, they also had to secure for their camera person. You want to catch a flight? Well, I hope you have enough money to buy three tickets!
And finally, I was hooked early on when this one moment happened. It’s still one of my favorite moments of reality TV. Remember, all three teams started out in the Mongolian desert. They were spread out from one another, so no two teams would cross paths right away. This meant that as they made their way to the nearest village, they were headed to different villages.
Two teams had a similar plan: To catch a bus that drove between the villages (and, IIRC, was headed to a larger city). So the first team gets on the bus in their village, and as the bus drives into the village where the second team is waiting, the first team spots them. They then quickly convince the bus driver not to stop and to just keep on driving instead. We’re then shown two shots: One from inside the bus, where we see the second team and their camera guy as they watch the bus go by, and then one from outside the bus, as the second team watches the bus blow past them and they realize the first team is on board.
I really wish Dead Like Me could have lasted longer.
Or Wonderfalls, or Pushing Daisies, or basically anything Bryan Fuller does.
