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)
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
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.
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.
I love the female lead on river. I’ll watch anything of hers based on her river performance.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
There’s a phenomenal French horror series on Netflix called Marianne that my wife and I enjoyed immensely. I don’t usually shoot for that particular brand of horror (demon/ghost), but Marianne is fucking excellent. Can’t recommend it enough.
I could not get over the tone shift. It was so baffling for me, one moment a super sinister and serious tone and the next scene was all comedy with a soundtrack that would not be out of place in the 3 stooges. I saw it to the end but was constantly getting out of the immersion with the change to comedy sprinkled all over the place.
It’s been a few years but I don’t remember that at all, but I’d be interested to see if I’m bothered by it on a re-watch.
It has being some years for me too. But if my memory serves me right there is this scene I think in the later half that 2 of the main characters break in a house, I guess it is the witch’s mother house I don’t quite remember but the background music did not match the vibe at all.
- The Terror (First season only) (Horror TV drama)
- Death Parade (Anime)
- The Duchess of Duke Street (Older period drama)
- Oshiete! Galko-chan (Short anime)
I second The Terror (never saw season 2 though). It was a slow burn horror for much of it, which I really appreciated. I liked the historical aspects and thought they conveyed the isolation well. I need to get around to reading the book at some point.
Detectorists Lovely wholesome English comedy drama, it’s too good to be so rarely mentioned.
Dark I’d say this is my favorite time travel story. It’s more recognized though as I usually see vocal fans of it every time it gets mentioned but perhaps since it’s in German many are still sleeping on it.
Venture Bros An animated Adult Swim show that first aired 2003 on a shaky first season but has improved every single season since. Has grown into something quite special.
Transparent Great drama comedy about a family after their aged father, played by Jeffrey Tambor, reveals some secrets. Very funny and hits you in the feels some times.
Dark is super famous, at least in my corner of the woods. IIt as all the rage if anything it is kinda overrated.
Venture bros is a work of fine art
Black Sails Occupied (Okkupert) Orphan Black
Farscape
Best alien puppets in any show ever
truly
Growing up, I loved Tattooed Teenaged Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills. Now that I’m old, it’s even better.
