I’m not sure if it went under the radar or if I just got into it late, but Fringe is a great show that has a lot of interesting twists. I haven’t watched it in a while and I’m planning a rewatch soon.
Banshee was very good. Some other series that didn’t seem to be “big” but I enjoyed are: Hell On Wheels, Mr. Inbetween, Preacher, SAS Rogue Heroes, Tacoma FD and Warrior
I’ll second Mr. Inbetween.
Banshee, Hell on Wheels, and Preacher all started strong, but lost me over time.
Carnivale. Too bad it didn’t get a proper ending.
One of the best shows ever made.
Better Off Ted is one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen and it pisses me off to no end that it flopped
The racism episode or the one where Ted is accidentally erased from employee records (might even be the same one), just genius.
It’s, to this day, one of my favourite shows ever.
We need a mouse that can stand temperatures up to 195 degrees.
We can do that. Uh, computer mouse or live mouse?
[thinks about it] I’ll get back to you.
The Purge
You, Me & the ApocalypseA Touch of Cloth.
A parody of British police procedurals in the vein of Police Squad/Naked Gun. One of the creators is Charlie Brooker, who also created Black Mirror.
(The title is a pun on the title of a British police procedural called “A Touch of Frost” and the euphemism “touching cloth”.)
If you are a British millennial then you’ve probably heard of BrassEye, but everyone else should seek it out. Absolutely hilarious.
Off the top of my head, Oz and The Americans are under-appreciated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Næturvaktin and its sequel series are really good, if we want to go proper-obscure.
I don’t know quite how obscure it is because of how it ended up, but Summer Camp Island.
It’s a 6 season Cartoon Network cartoon about a group of kids who attend a summer camp on a magical island with 3 teenage witch camp counselors. First maybe season or 3 the show is mostly episodic and can be watched in any order after the first establishes some things.
Later seasons they really start having more lore and push more story driven narratives ( and even dividing the season into little character focused mini-arcs for one season ) into the picture. Season 6 definitely felt a little rushed ( probably because cartoon network/hbo just wanted the series finished so they could quickly shove it out and then kill it for tax purposes ), but it has some pretty amazing moments and themes later on. For pretty much as much of the series as I can remember, the show doesn’t have a bunch of “lol random!” style comedy, so you shouldn’t have to worry about that.
One of my biggest gripes is that there’s a later season episode I absolutely cannot watch as someone with arachnophobia because it involves one of the main characters and a talking spider. Other than that, it’s how the pacing can feel a little rushed towards the end of season 6 ( which I, again, attribute the most likely cause being corporate telling the people behind it that they don’t get a season 7 so they better wrap things up as fast as possible ).
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. Western animation series on Netflix. Coming of Age story, post-apocalyptic sapient mutant animals, representation that’s neither perfunctory nor performative, inclusiveness triumphing over intolerance, and it occasionally involves a little bit of Kaiju combat. All that and they got a proper ending.
Don’t remember why, but I at one point stopped watching it a few episodes in. Definitely, from what I remember, recommend it. Definitely gonna need to start over from the beginning and watch it. Especially knowing there’s a proper ending.
Better Off Ted
The workplace comedy about Veridian Dynamics, the company that can make anything, whether it’s a good idea or not.
It was on a major network, but the timeslot kept abruptly changing and the final two episodes were preempted by a live sports event, and never even aired in the US.
Veronica: Ted, we need a mouse that can withstand temperatures of up to 300(?) degrees.
Ted: Live mouse or computer mouse?
Veronica: …I’ll get back to you.
An attempt at creating an artificial meat:
Jerome: It tastes familiar…
Ted: Beef?
Jerome: No…
Linda: Chicken? We’ll take chicken.
Jerome: [Shakes head.]
Ted: What does it taste like?
Jerome: Despair.
Ted: Is it possible it just needs salt?
Great TV series.
I randomly came across Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency on Hulu and it quickly became one of my all time favorites. Super interesting characters.
Damn shame it was cancelled after the second season
This. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency had both a UK (cool) and an US (downright OUTSTANDING) version. If you can only watch one of them, pick the US one.
It has two versions? Oh fuck yeah. Thanks.
Edit uh are you sure? I can only find the one with Elijah Wood. Are you thinking that the book is the British version?
Cheers m8
I find it hard to believe that a US version of anything was better than the UK version.
Whose line is it anyway
Ghosts.
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Pantheon.
Pantheon.
Seriously, watch Pantheon if you haven’t already. Its screwed up release/licensing (died on the vine on some AMC streaming service) is a crime against humanity.
I literally can’t say anything else about it without spoiling it, other than it’s some of the best sci-fi ever, and its pacing is fast.
I still need to finish this. The release really killed the momentum on it for me, and I feel I need to do a full rewatch now to do it justice. I was shocked that I heard almost nothing about it anywhere. I hope it has a solid ending.
AMC has funded and then killed so many good and inventive shows.
Like what!? Pantheon is the only one I looked into (and miraculously got 2 seasons out of it).
“Lodge 49” was mentioned in this thread. I’ll add “Rubicon” to the list.
Thanks!
Pantheon is such a good show and Ken Liu is an amazing author
+1. It was really good
Galavant! The medieval, comedy musical!
Canceling Galavant is one of the greatest crimes ABC has ever committed.
Endlessly rewatchable delightful nonsense with Timothy Omundson at his PRIME. Great supporting cast and Weird Al as a singing monk.
The perfect show.
AND VINNIE JONES
“I like my women either really fat or really skinny! Like, unhealthily skinny!”
It felt like it may have ended on a high note. The plot and songs had started waning a bit at the end. Kinda like how they should’ve left schmigadoom at one season, the followup season was definitely a bit rougher.
There is a song that pops in my head regularly because it seems relevant to what I’m doing at the time, and I’m pretty sure it is from Galavant. Can’t remember it right now though. sigh
Maybee you won’t die aloooone
off with his shirt ! Strip him down!
You’re the same damed height
Travelers is quite good and I don’t see it being mentioned as much online. Has a lot of ex Stargate extras.
I wish they’d restart/reboot this one.
Is that serialised, or episodic?
It’s on my list - but I’ve heard it has a ‘monster of the week’ type style by a few, and I tend to dislike that more.
It’s problem of the week with an overarching story for the season.
A good mix. Most episodes are a mission but there are a lot of serial storylines that work through the seasons.
For a time travel show it holds up very well on rewatch.
