More like a miniseries, but HBO’s Chernobyl. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen.
I did watch it twice already. The third rewatch is nearing, now that you make think about it.
As a scifi buff: Battlestar Galactica, and The Expanse were excellent. Nightsky was also a really good watch even though it was slow moving, and was more about relationships than SciFi
The Expanse is magnificent. And they are at the perfect time to get certain actors back to continue with the Laconia story in the last three books. I want it so badly.
I’m 60% through the last book, it’s so good!
I want to believe they will finish the Expanse.
At least they ended up on a fairly logical point if not. But I still wonder why they included the Strange Dogs novella if they knew that’s the last season.
Have thought the same. Its inclusion doesn’t indicate anything will happen, but it does seem intended to allow such a thing by providing some continuity over a long break.
I guess it could otherwise just be a brief apology to readers. “Sorry we aren’t getting to this.” But I remain hopeful.
Oh please oh please oh please‽
I’m feeling so-so about The Expanse. I enjoyed the first few books and seasons, but it didn’t really capture me once they went through the gate.
I enjoyed it myself, but I remember people thought the Cibola Burn weak. It really picks up after that though. The next two books are peak.
Obligatory Firefly mention.
And if you like Firefly but know nothing about anime, then Cowboy Bebop!
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- A&E’s Nero Wolfe
- Agatha Christie’s Poirot (with David Suchet)
- The Expanse
- Star Trek: TNG
- Fleabag (season 2 is a masterpiece, and I don’t throw that word around)
- For All Mankind
- Archane (season 1 is another masterpiece)
- Penny Dreadful (it dips in quality in the later seasons, but worth it for the Frankenstein’s monster story alone)
Poirot, Coupling and IT Crowd are some of the best telly ever created in my opinion.
The Wire. It’s the best piece of visual media ever created. Not only is it the best portrayal of the inner city drugs trade but also the decaying institutions and social structures that allow it to flourish, and the corrupting influence of dirty money.
It also is consistently the best written show on TV and is grounded in it’s reality better than anything else. Half the cast were complete unknowns, in many cases plucked from the streets of Baltimore itself and there are standout performances all across it’s vast and diverse cast.
It’s a little slow to get going, the first few episodes have a lot of ground to cover to get the viewer up to speed, it also makes no effort to ease the viewer in, with a lot of jargon, slang and some very thick accents to content with, there’s also no “previously on the wire” to go over key points from earlier episodes so it definitely requires more participation from the viewer than most TV but it’s all the better for it.
The Wire hit me so hard. Nothing quite like it.
I recently re-watched The Wire, and 100% agree with it. It’s at the cusp of being so outdated that only olds will get it and technical elements seem quaint, but wow, it still hits so hard. 25/10, I’ll probably watch it again in another 20 years and enjoy it all over again.
I really enjoyed Babylon 5. Especially seasons 2-4. The interplay between the characters, especially Londo and G’kar was excellent. The stories were epic and political, it would be relevant today I think. It was so quotable and parts really moved you.
The effects were dated even then, and the transfer to widescreen after the digital models were lost was an absolute travesty. Instead of widescreen making the show better, they cropped the 4:3 for every effects shot, making them all blurry and poorly composed.
Even so, the story and characters are epic and timeless.
I was learning 3d modeling back then and found lightwave was used for the cgi!
It’s also extremely quotable.
One I dont see mentioned often is Dark Matter which I think is pretty underrated.
Honestly the intro takes too long… I just kept fastforwarding till they started doing the actual dimention hopping…
Also the other Dark Matter is just awesome… in some ways even more awesome than this Dark Matter
This is the one I thought they were talking about lol
TIL it was renewed for a season 2.
Fringe. Best Sci-Fi ending that wraps back around to an episode that broke the show open. The last season getting there is kind of rough. But the first 4 seasons are solid.
Fringe is worth it for the White Tulip episode alone. For me that was when the series changed from a monster of the week series to actual art.
Since someone else mentioned Arcane,
My choice would be Chernobyl. I watch it probably once a year and I’m just as hooked every single time. Damn fine work.I also adore Haunting of Bly Manor. Haunting of Hill House ranks just below that one, I think. But both of those are very good.
And if weird and irreverent are your thing, Bee and Puppycat is so cozy and fun.
“Better Off Ted” is really funny and still holds up.
Those ads…
Alway and forever The Wire
arrested development
I am surprised that I’m the first to mention Bojack Horseman here.
This series is for you if you want to cry out your mental health problems
Absolutely one of the best shows ever
The Pitt. Not usually a medical show guy but the acting and realism were top notch. Kept me hooked the whole way. Deserved that Emmy for sure.
Quick pitch: Follow an ER team throughout a shift, with each season being one single shift. Every episode is an hour. ER is understaffed like they all are, you bounce from one crisis to the next to the next. There is absolutely no medical situation they will not show uncensored in full.
I mean, I appreciate realism. But I’ve seen too many clips from actual doctors saying The Pitt is too real and I don’t need that in my life.
I mean I guess it depends how squeamish you are.
ODDTAXI (with subtitles) is some of the best dialog I’ve experienced in a long time. With a fun story about a walrus who lives and drives a taxi around Tokyo. It’s anime, so I know it isn’t everyone’s thing, but it’s very different from what most people think anime is.
