Old and left field ones
Wonderfalls Dead like me The almighty Johnsons (nz)
British ones Teachers (Andrew lincolin one) Coupling
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And you will watch all that, right?
On a long enough timeline, yes! Plus I share my library with like a dozen people so I'm sure someone will appreciate these
Breaking Bad
If you liked Norsemen, I'd say give Plebs a try. It's another historical sitcom, about a group of losers in ancient Rome.
Stargate, all series, end thread!
Travelers is such a great show. It's confusing how few people know about it
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All the star trek. This is not negotiable.
There is an absurd quantity of low quality Trek being shat out recently, did Disney buy the IP or something?
what?
SNW and Lower Decks is pretty much as good as star trek can get. I'm on the fence about prodigy, but people generally are also very positive about it.
disco has its fair share of problems, but the later seasons were also quite good
Avenue 5 is a brilliant dark sci-fi comedy that I cannot stop thinking about. Itβs basically a cruise ship in space but then things go wrong. The physics are actually sound which makes for some really fun and terrifying gags. Itβs heavy on dark humor, but if youβre ok with that itβs such a fun ride. I am biased but I feel like this show is criminally underrated.
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Oz.
Then you may proceed with everything else.
Futurama
Parks and Rec
The Good Place
I loved Netflix' new Ripley series. It's cinematographically gorgeous, has a very poignant bit of humor and is generally the best rendition of the story.
Red Dwarf. Also that recent Netflix show where they explain trying to solve a complicated maths problem to help aliens, but I forget what it's called now. The one where alien eyes appear in the sky.
And also a weird Youtube video that's quite well-known, along with its sequel. They're called The Hole and The Orb.
The Hole is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAIbvlobWDM
Foundation is a surprisingly competent sci-fi show in the second season, but you need to watch the first.
Also of interest: Severance, Person of Interest, The Peripheral, The Returned (French TV show), Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Invincible, Ozark, The Leftovers, Twin Peaks
I'm a huge fan of anything Damon Lindelof has been a head writer on
Lost
Watchmen
And my personal all time favorite show:
The Leftovers
He's latest show Mrs. Davis is ok too but not quite as good as his previous stuff.
Another show recommendation that I love to give because no one watched it is The English. It's a crazy stylish western, reminds me of Coen Brothers.
I watched Lost when it aired and Leftovers during the pandemic. I won't post spoilers, but I think Lindelof has a unique brand of writing intentionally disappointing stories that's not for me. Like most people, my partner and i didn't like how Lost ended, but the internet would have me believe that we are the only people in the world who didn't like Leftovers.
I like how the ride starts, I just don't think he's even trying to write an ending that satisfies all the questions he takes the time to ask.
That's fair. Lost had trouble because they were building the track as they went. I still loved the ride though. For me, I don't think every question needs an answer as long as what it creates feeds into the themes of the show. Like on Lost, I wish they never explained the Smoke Monster, it just wasn't necessary.
With Leftovers, I'd say it's ending is the perfect summation of the show and anything else would betray what it was going for.
spoiler
It's a show about logic vs belief and that's where it leaves us, do you believe Nora? What happened to the 2% ultimately doesn't matter because the show is about how people deal with the unexplainable. There's no satisfying answer to that mystery.
You're not alone in not liking the ending though. I've had this conversation before and it's totally ok not to.
I appreciate what he says he's going for, which is that it's a story about the characters, not the sci-fi/magic. If you've watched Tales from the Loop, I think it does a much better job at this. You always want to know more about the tech, but you're never lead to believe that that's what the story is about.
I would liken good story writing to a magic trick. The writer has to create a bunch of threads, and weave them together in such a way that are interesting, but just opaque enough that you can't predict how they all tie together in the end. And once you reach the end, like a magic trick, your mind is blown at how well everything fits together.
But Lost and Leftovers feel like they're keeping a bunch of threads going, only to drop 90% of them on the floor, tie two together, and say "it was never about those other threads". And I feel like I'm still standing there like, "um...aren't you going to guess my card?"
Lindelof thinks that's his gimmick, but to me just feels like he's just decided he's not going to do the actual difficult part of story writing.
It's a short series (six episodes so far) but with two more in production: The Devil's Hour.
Go in blind, don't spoil it for yourself.
If you like a series that gives you all the clues but none of them fall together until the last episode, this one is dark, brain-bendy supernatural mystery with an excellent cast.
Sounds great!
Also if you like Peter Capaldi (the older actor in that show), he was in a really good crime drama recently called Criminal Record, which is only 8 episodes.