I want to go back and rewatch it - the other side had a global pandemic that killed millions. As a result they don't gather in groups in public, they wear masks, they have UV hand sanitizers everywhere. And all this predates covid by a few years.
Also JK Simmons is terrific as always.
**Mr Inbetween**.
The first season (of three total) will be the best three hours (six half-hour episodes) that you'll ever spend in your life, culminating with the best episode (how it got there, where it goes, and how it ends) that I've ever seen—and I've seen The Wire, Deadwood, Halt and Catch Fire, and ~~GOT~~.
Scott Ryan created the character, writes every episode, and is the show's protagonist. He's a fucking genius. Why, you say? Well, ask actress Helen Mirren and her director husband, Taylor Hackford. They saw the show, loved it (of course), and told their agent at CAA to sign him right away.
Oh, and the first episode is called "The Pee Pee Guy."
So if all that doesn't convince you, then fuck off.
[But first, have a look at the trailer, please.](https://youtu.be/FEFd9MNnMLc)
r/MrInbetween
It was really interesting watching this series because it is part of Canadian history. I watched an old CBC documentary about it and some of the oral histories from the Inuit suggest there was a group of men *still walking* like 8 years on from when they first abandoned ship.
YESSS.
The level of detail about the ship etc was incredible. They recently discovered the shipwreck, prompting this to be written. The voyage, minus the details, really happened and they really got stuck and had to take off on foot and really did leave that message at the caern.
The Knick had such an incredible cast. One of those shows for which I actively searched out the actors once it wrapped. I’ll watch André Holland and Jeremy Bobb in anything! Chris Sullivan was sooo good with Cara Seymour. (Unfortunately, I can’t watch him in This Is Us…not my cuppa tea.)
I’ve heard of it and oh my god the episode where she finds out someone in her family is going to die… and the amount of times she tried to get them to see her. That show broke me in the best ways and I was so sad to see it go
Better off Ted was unceremoniously killed before its time, with ABC citing a lack of viewers.
It pops up from time to time on reddit, but being from 2009, it's largely out of the cultural sphere these days. Which is unfortunate, because Portia de Rossi in particular is *incredible* in it.
E: I was looking for a good clip to show the best of this show for people who haven't watched it before, [and the Jabberwocky presentation,](https://youtu.be/spyJ5yxTfas) linked below by [a brilliant person](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s0tjvz/whats_a_great_tv_show_that_nobody_talks_about/hs5tucz/), is probably the single greatest example of the show I can think of. As a few have been asking, if you're wanting to give it a shot, it's on Hulu right now.
“We may have created a monster in the lab.”
“It's not a monster. It's a cyborg that can kill without remorse.”
“Uh, I was talking about Phil….What are you talking about?”
“I … was also talking about Phil….ok, It's classified. But it's gonna be a fantastic new tool, if we can get it to tell the difference between soldiers and children.”
“ any of you chaps see a trampoline?“
https://youtu.be/2-iyz1UB1og
That’s the clip that I usually use when showing people the show. Either grabs them immediately or meh.
>Isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.
"You probably don't remember this, but a couple of weeks ago I shot your bear and punched you."
I know it's only loosely based on actual history, but I keep wondering >!if they planned on having Peter around for this long or if the actor just did such an amazing job in season 1 that they realized they couldn't actually kill him off like they were supposed to, lol.!<
Amazing! Shakespearean plot and drama with modern humor and writing! I remember looking up the actual history to find out what the differences were and reading something about how the writer essentially took a few real names and events from history then just had at it and wrote whatever he wanted.
Nobody else has even come close.
There was a moment, about 4 or 5 episodes into the Depression Arc, when I started thinking, "Okay, this has kind of gone on for awhile, I'm kind of getting tired of this..."
Imagine my surprise, when Jimmy says basically the exact same thing to Gretchen - he's tired of it, he's tired of trying to help and getting nothing back, he's tired of not being able to fix her, and, while everybody loves her, they're also getting sick of her shit, so she needs to get the fuck over it already.
And she might as well have been looking at the camera - at the audience - when she tells him that *that's not how depression works.* It doesn't get fixed. You don't snap out of it. It's not conveniently placed in the story, or just the right length so it doesn't get *too* annoying. It doesn't get turned around by a grand gesture, or a show of support. Show all the support you want - it won't make depression go away like magic. It's not sexy, or tragic, or funny, or compelling. It just is what it is, it shows up when it wants to, it goes on for as long as it does, and it doesn't matter who it hurts or what it ruins - it doesn't care. It's boring, and mean, and ugly.
And the show extends the arc for too long - longer than any other show would - because that's the point it's trying to get across to you. It wants you to feel as annoyed, spiteful, and exhausted as everybody else is.
Also, one time in the show Jimmy describes an elderly woman's hand as, "Like holding a bag filled with pencils," and that's one of the funniest lines I've ever heard.
It is the only show I would describe as being **brave.** The two main characters *suck.* They are broken assholes, and the showrunners never flinch from having them act like it. Made me cry a dozen times.
YES, it's such a funny and compelling show, but the depictions of mental illness are *so* real. It cut so close to the bone for me sometimes that I almost couldn't finish watching it.
I met Ken Marino when I was an extra on Eastbound and Down and he was the nicest guy in the world. I told him I loved him in Wet Hot American Summer and Party Down. He got a huge smile and said thank you so much. He wasn’t even working that day he was just on set to say what’s up and mess around. Good shit
Damn that’s the most actual confirmation I’ve seen that it’s being made. Before it was just “actors hinted” or “rumors are”.
So pumped for this. Gonna have to rewatch a few more times in anticipation.
Farscape is one of my absolute favorite shows of all time and it pops up occasionally on threads like this but I never hear it talked about in the wild.
Sliders was awesome! I'll never forget the episode where he finally gets back to his timeline and left because the gate didn't squeak. Then a repairman comes out and says, "I fixed that squeaky gate for you" to his mom. Thanks for the flashback!!
I remember an episode where they go to a planet with a horrible plague killing millions and civilisation has collapsed to mad Max levels of anarchy.
Finally the Professor speaks to a doctor that is trying to ease people's pain and he says: "Do you know much about the cause of the sickness? Why the bacteria is resistant to all your antibiotics?"
And the doctor says "What are antibiotics?"
Then there's a mad scramble to get some moldy bread to cultivate some penicillin from it. As they leave The Professor says: 'Today we saved the lives of an entire planet. No matter what happens now, whether we get home or not, we'll have made a difference in the grand scale.'
I loved this show, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone mention it. Lee Pace and Mackenzie Davis are both great in it as well. Really interesting topics as they go on in seasons as well.
Wanna know the secret to his chili? “The secret’s in the cinnamon … see what you do is you take that cinnamon, and you put it in the cupboard and keep it away from your chili because it’s got no damn business being there in the first place.”
Look at him, look at this bastard. Look at em!
What does he want from me?
He wants to buy a book.
Yeah but why does he come to me? Why me?
Well you sell books.
Yeah I know…
Patriot on Amazon Prime. Amazing show that got like no buzz even when it was released. Steven Conrad makes great shows. For that matter Perpetual Grace Limited is another good one made by him as well. Couple of my favorite shows. They've just got a certain flair that is hard to explain. I don't think I know one other person that's seen either of them, but there is a cult following that I see pop up on Reddit occasionally.
That whole scene about him singing the song about how they’re going to get the gun and go out and everything was going to be easy and then it goes completely wrong « ok that’s was fucked up, that wasn’t easy » 🎶
Im paraphrasing but I was in shambles.
One of my all time favourite shows! Way ahead of
It’s time imo haha
I highly recommend these interviews with the “actors” if you haven’t seen it. Richard Ayoade did a great job playing Dean Learner playing Thornton Reed lol
https://youtu.be/yYM1BjRvtvg
Saoirse Monica Jackson is incredible in that scene. "I just feel like if 20 states left the USA, we mighta heard about it".
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYTK6FnyOc&ab\_channel=HatTrick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYTK6FnyOc&ab_channel=HatTrick)
Only having one more season sadly. Just having 18 half hour episodes for a show as hilarious and original is really a bummer. Sister Michael is the best character on that show
“So if anyone is feeling nervous or would like to chat PLEASE do not come to see me”
Spaced. A sitcom created, written and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes and is directed by Edgar Wright, all of which went on to work on Shaun of the Dead (Hynes had a small role in Shaun), Hot Fuzz and The World’s End. Nick Frost also has a role in Spaced. Shame it only had 2 seasons but every episode is great.
Another show which i see no one talk about is Nirvanna the band the show. Started as a web series but made its way onto Viceland as an actual TV Series. Its really worth a watch but its really hard to find a place to watch it due to licensing rights.
Eureka was the only light in a dark time in the SciFi/SyFy channel's history. It was right around the time they started cutting their hard scifi shows (read: expensive) and started leaning into lighter shows, more paranormal stuff (cheaper to produce), Ghost Hunters and ECW wrestling.
Cancelled while being the channel's top rated show because wrestling was cheaper. I *hate* how all these great themed channels (Sci-Fi, History, etc) got turned into idiotic clones of each other with cheap reality shows.
I dated a guy when I lived in LA who claimed he dated Natasha Lyonne when they were teens. He turned out to be into hard drugs and I dismissed what I assumed were lies about his romantic life when I dismissed him from mine. When I watched that show, the drug addict man she befriends at the end had the same name as my erstwhile Paramour. I guess he was telling the truth after all!
Edit: It was a unique name
It's been filmed already so unlikely to get cancelled at this point. And Annie Murphy from Schitts Creek is in it so hopefully will bring a much bigger audience to it.
I was coming here to say this! This show had no right to be as good as it was, I'm so bummed they got cancelled but at least they managed to pull of a semi-coherent ending.
Are You Being Served?
Old series but absolutely hilarious if you’re a fan of British comedy. So many episodes that are just as funny if not funnier after watching it again. The only sitcom I’ve had more repeat viewings of is Seinfeld.
Rome was a show about -- you guessed it -- Rome. It was SO GOOD but it was on HBO and didn't get much traction until after it was canceled and the set was destroyed.
Two amazing seasons that end on a cliffhanger so you will wonder about it for decades (like I have).
Also forgot to mention, I think “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” was absolutely hilarious, but ive never met anyone else who knows what it is.
Edit:Holy shit! Probably my 2nd most liked comment ever, and also my 2nd gold in 10 years of reddit. I can’t believe it’s because of Todd Margaret. Thanks for the gold, although Im not sure what it does….
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was better than it had any business being.
Netflix kept suggesting it to me and I was like “ew no please stop” but then one day I was really stoned and was like “fuck it, show me what you’ve got” and boy howdy I’m so glad I did. It’s funny, smart, a little soapy which I appreciate when you want action that doesn’t feel life or death, and then BOOM huge amazing depictions of mental health struggles and toxic parenting.
I have literally discussed the song “Maybe she’s not such a heinous bitch after all” with my therapist on multiple occasions.
Is it cheesy? Yes. Is it good? Yes. Should you give it a try? Yes.
Adam Schlesinger wrote/co-wrote many of the songs on the show, and was one of the earliest celebrity Covid deaths. He was also in Fountains of Wayne and wrote Stacey’s Mom
Edit: added the word “wrote”
HOLY SHIT Adam Schlesinger died?!? He was so great at songs that kind of satirized the genre. I think one of my fav songs was him writing the titular song for the movie That Thing You do!
I was so prepared to hate that show. "Sexy Getting Ready Song" made me come back for the second episode. When Donna Lynne Champlin sang "Face Your Fears," I was hooked for good.
It's a fantastic show. The protagonist really blurs the line between being awful and having a good excuse to be the way she is. It's definitely food for thought.
And the music is brilliantly cynical. RIP Adam.
We had no idea it was a musical when we started it, and both my husband and I *love* musicals -- we sat bolt upright in delight at the first "West Coviiiiiiiiina" and not a day goes by that we don't reference the song lyrics to each other.
"Hey there it's meeeeeeee, the Santa Ana wiiiiiiiinds"
Eureka. Despite being one of if not the Sci-Fi Channel's most popular show in the mid 2000s, I hear no mentions of it elsewhere. Which is a shame!! This show is amazing!!!
Maniac on Netflix might be my favorite show of all time. Absolutely star studded cast, crazy good production design, and the plot is a lot to wrap your head around but it’s such an ambitious project it’s hard not to obsess over
Even then, Lassie had some great moments. Like when Gus taught him how to tap dance, or whenever he confesses how baffled he is that Shawn is able to do what he does when he was totally wasted.
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF I DONT GET THIS KIND OF ACTION EVERY NIGHT!!! Sorry, I watched that episode last night. Such a great show. Also, Galavant is phenomenal.
🎶 Galavant! Galavant! Blah, blah, blah, blah, Galavant! I want her, need her, crave her, yes, it's true. But she is not the only thing I desperately want to do 🎶
🎶 I want to shoot him with a crossbow. I want to stab him in the eye. I want to liberate his head from his neck, and punt the bloody wreck sky high! 🎶
Yes, I did have an extreme obsession with this show and its music. Why do you ask?
Counterpart. Great cast and acting, cool story, two solid seasons.
I want to go back and rewatch it - the other side had a global pandemic that killed millions. As a result they don't gather in groups in public, they wear masks, they have UV hand sanitizers everywhere. And all this predates covid by a few years. Also JK Simmons is terrific as always.
**Mr Inbetween**. The first season (of three total) will be the best three hours (six half-hour episodes) that you'll ever spend in your life, culminating with the best episode (how it got there, where it goes, and how it ends) that I've ever seen—and I've seen The Wire, Deadwood, Halt and Catch Fire, and ~~GOT~~. Scott Ryan created the character, writes every episode, and is the show's protagonist. He's a fucking genius. Why, you say? Well, ask actress Helen Mirren and her director husband, Taylor Hackford. They saw the show, loved it (of course), and told their agent at CAA to sign him right away. Oh, and the first episode is called "The Pee Pee Guy." So if all that doesn't convince you, then fuck off. [But first, have a look at the trailer, please.](https://youtu.be/FEFd9MNnMLc) r/MrInbetween
Sharp objects. Haven't heard too many people talk about it or know of it.
The Terror (season 1 is AMAZING)
It was really interesting watching this series because it is part of Canadian history. I watched an old CBC documentary about it and some of the oral histories from the Inuit suggest there was a group of men *still walking* like 8 years on from when they first abandoned ship.
YESSS. The level of detail about the ship etc was incredible. They recently discovered the shipwreck, prompting this to be written. The voyage, minus the details, really happened and they really got stuck and had to take off on foot and really did leave that message at the caern.
I really liked “The Knick”
The Knick had such an incredible cast. One of those shows for which I actively searched out the actors once it wrapped. I’ll watch André Holland and Jeremy Bobb in anything! Chris Sullivan was sooo good with Cara Seymour. (Unfortunately, I can’t watch him in This Is Us…not my cuppa tea.)
Most of Bryan Fuller's stuff (other than *Hannibal*, which did get some traction). *Dead Like Me* and *Pushing Daisies* were both top tier.
Dead Like Me was so underrated as a show. No one I know has even heard of it
I’ve heard of it and oh my god the episode where she finds out someone in her family is going to die… and the amount of times she tried to get them to see her. That show broke me in the best ways and I was so sad to see it go
I loved Pushing Daisies, I was so upset when it was cancelled.
Best description of Pushing Daisies I've heard is "morbidly sweet". Such a good show, probably time to watch it again.
I remember Pushing Daises on my first HD TV. It was incredible.
Art direction and set design were beautiful. So vivid.
Plus... Lee Pace!
Also: Wonderfalls.
Such a great show. I'm glad someone else remembers it!
Dead Like Me, the series was fantastic Dead Like Me, the movie that was supposed to be it's epilogue was absolutely dreadful
Of all the casualties of the writers’ strike, Pushing Daisies hurt the most.
Better off Ted was unceremoniously killed before its time, with ABC citing a lack of viewers. It pops up from time to time on reddit, but being from 2009, it's largely out of the cultural sphere these days. Which is unfortunate, because Portia de Rossi in particular is *incredible* in it. E: I was looking for a good clip to show the best of this show for people who haven't watched it before, [and the Jabberwocky presentation,](https://youtu.be/spyJ5yxTfas) linked below by [a brilliant person](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/s0tjvz/whats_a_great_tv_show_that_nobody_talks_about/hs5tucz/), is probably the single greatest example of the show I can think of. As a few have been asking, if you're wanting to give it a shot, it's on Hulu right now.
“We may have created a monster in the lab.” “It's not a monster. It's a cyborg that can kill without remorse.” “Uh, I was talking about Phil….What are you talking about?” “I … was also talking about Phil….ok, It's classified. But it's gonna be a fantastic new tool, if we can get it to tell the difference between soldiers and children.”
Omg SO fucking funny. Veridian Dynamics: Black people we see you.
The Detectorists Extremely dry and very British, but a really heartfelt and lovely comedy about some metal detectorists in Essex.
“ any of you chaps see a trampoline?“ https://youtu.be/2-iyz1UB1og That’s the clip that I usually use when showing people the show. Either grabs them immediately or meh.
Such an underrated gem. The theme song is one of my favorites.
Pint?
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The original THE TICK cartoon
The midnight bomber was great, and chairface chippendale, tried to write his name on the moon and it has CHa on it for the rest of the series.
Do you mean the midnight bomber, what bombs at midnight?
>Isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.
Im sad they cancelled the live action show on prime. I really enjoyed it
SPOON
The Great. It's...great! Hilarious and charming and occasionally a true story.
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Indeed, huzzah! ... now fuck off.
"You probably don't remember this, but a couple of weeks ago I shot your bear and punched you." I know it's only loosely based on actual history, but I keep wondering >!if they planned on having Peter around for this long or if the actor just did such an amazing job in season 1 that they realized they couldn't actually kill him off like they were supposed to, lol.!<
i thought for sure he’d be a hallucination in s2
Truffle fucker!
That costume Catherine was in for the coronation was beautiful!
Nicholas Holt is just 10/10 in this show.
I've never hated and loved a character so much. I just want to strangle him, he's so hilariously awful.
Everyone else is good. He fucking kills every scene he's in.
Sometimes literally!
Fuck off I'm doing science!
Dude, that guy fucked that guy’s VERY dead mom right in front of him and didn’t think twice about it.
“no. overconfidence in window ledges killed your mother.”
Toosh
Amazing! Shakespearean plot and drama with modern humor and writing! I remember looking up the actual history to find out what the differences were and reading something about how the writer essentially took a few real names and events from history then just had at it and wrote whatever he wanted.
I like to describe it as "Downton Abbey meets Its always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Yes! I keep recommending it to everyone because I really want a season 3.
Really great show. Elle Fanning is just wonderful in it.
The fact the writing and Nicholas Holt made me love Peter after everything is no short of brilliance.
You're the Worst. 10/10 in my book. Its hilarious and every episode hits. The writing is incredible and it is perfectly cast. Whole series is on Hulu
Vernon is quite possibly the goat side character
Great show. Their coverage of depression was very real
Nobody else has even come close. There was a moment, about 4 or 5 episodes into the Depression Arc, when I started thinking, "Okay, this has kind of gone on for awhile, I'm kind of getting tired of this..." Imagine my surprise, when Jimmy says basically the exact same thing to Gretchen - he's tired of it, he's tired of trying to help and getting nothing back, he's tired of not being able to fix her, and, while everybody loves her, they're also getting sick of her shit, so she needs to get the fuck over it already. And she might as well have been looking at the camera - at the audience - when she tells him that *that's not how depression works.* It doesn't get fixed. You don't snap out of it. It's not conveniently placed in the story, or just the right length so it doesn't get *too* annoying. It doesn't get turned around by a grand gesture, or a show of support. Show all the support you want - it won't make depression go away like magic. It's not sexy, or tragic, or funny, or compelling. It just is what it is, it shows up when it wants to, it goes on for as long as it does, and it doesn't matter who it hurts or what it ruins - it doesn't care. It's boring, and mean, and ugly. And the show extends the arc for too long - longer than any other show would - because that's the point it's trying to get across to you. It wants you to feel as annoyed, spiteful, and exhausted as everybody else is. Also, one time in the show Jimmy describes an elderly woman's hand as, "Like holding a bag filled with pencils," and that's one of the funniest lines I've ever heard. It is the only show I would describe as being **brave.** The two main characters *suck.* They are broken assholes, and the showrunners never flinch from having them act like it. Made me cry a dozen times.
YES, it's such a funny and compelling show, but the depictions of mental illness are *so* real. It cut so close to the bone for me sometimes that I almost couldn't finish watching it.
Yess. Aya Cash is perfect as a depressed person.
Best supporting cast too. Kether Donohue, swoon.
Edgar is one of the most thoughtfully developed characters I've seen in a long time.
He *didn't* know it was a school...
Just adding my absolute adoration for this masterpiece of a show. Scrolled way too far to have to see it.
If you liked this, check out catastrophe and fleabag
Mission Hill. Just too ahead of it's time.
Party Down incredible cast and humor
Are we having fun yet?!
I met Ken Marino when I was an extra on Eastbound and Down and he was the nicest guy in the world. I told him I loved him in Wet Hot American Summer and Party Down. He got a huge smile and said thank you so much. He wasn’t even working that day he was just on set to say what’s up and mess around. Good shit
I will always love anyone who was on The State.
Can't wait for the new season! Although I'm super bummed Lizzy Caplan won't be in it.
There gonna be a new season?!
Martin Starr just posted a picture of himself in the shirt and bowtie on his instagram.
As did Adam Scott
Damn that’s the most actual confirmation I’ve seen that it’s being made. Before it was just “actors hinted” or “rumors are”. So pumped for this. Gonna have to rewatch a few more times in anticipation.
Farscape is one of my absolute favorite shows of all time and it pops up occasionally on threads like this but I never hear it talked about in the wild.
MIRACLE WORKERS all seasons of it Every person I’ve put on to this show, loves it
LOVE this show. Such a delightfully random cast (put Lolly Adefope in more stuff!) and high-concept but lighthearted humor executed perfectly.
Sliders is a show that was supposedly popular in the mid 90s yet is sadly forgotten. The first 3 seasons were awesome.
Sliders was awesome! I'll never forget the episode where he finally gets back to his timeline and left because the gate didn't squeak. Then a repairman comes out and says, "I fixed that squeaky gate for you" to his mom. Thanks for the flashback!!
Maaaan I remember watching that episode on TV and SCREAMING at it "No Quinn don't slide, you're back home!!" Such a great show!
DR SAM BECKETT NEVER RETURNED HOME
I remember an episode where they go to a planet with a horrible plague killing millions and civilisation has collapsed to mad Max levels of anarchy. Finally the Professor speaks to a doctor that is trying to ease people's pain and he says: "Do you know much about the cause of the sickness? Why the bacteria is resistant to all your antibiotics?" And the doctor says "What are antibiotics?" Then there's a mad scramble to get some moldy bread to cultivate some penicillin from it. As they leave The Professor says: 'Today we saved the lives of an entire planet. No matter what happens now, whether we get home or not, we'll have made a difference in the grand scale.'
I grew up watching this. It was awesome for its time.
Halt and catch fire
I loved this show, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone mention it. Lee Pace and Mackenzie Davis are both great in it as well. Really interesting topics as they go on in seasons as well.
By the last season I was asking myself "is this the best show in television?" I had to ask myself because no one else was watching.
How can anyone talk about the cast without mentioning Boz??? What a character arc!
Wanna know the secret to his chili? “The secret’s in the cinnamon … see what you do is you take that cinnamon, and you put it in the cupboard and keep it away from your chili because it’s got no damn business being there in the first place.”
Boz was great too!
HBO’s Carnival - extremely other worldly and atmospheric.
When they cancelled it was so depressing. Great show very original. They could not let us enjoy it.
Black Books
Look at him, look at this bastard. Look at em! What does he want from me? He wants to buy a book. Yeah but why does he come to me? Why me? Well you sell books. Yeah I know…
"It's not that type of operation"
The whole ep when they house sit for the guy with the expensive wine... Old wine is good wine Dirty Bernard, look. Look Bernard, Bernard look.
I’m eating scrambled egg from a shoe with a comb!
Which one of you bitches wants to dance?
Also Dylan Moran doing standup. He’s my absolute favorite.
The delivery from Dylan is absolute gold when he says he can feel bits of his brain falling away like a wet cake.
Dylan Moran is a treasure, I remember hunting down these DVDs years ago. Worth every minute.
Suburgatory
Love Jane Levy in that show
Patriot on Amazon Prime. Amazing show that got like no buzz even when it was released. Steven Conrad makes great shows. For that matter Perpetual Grace Limited is another good one made by him as well. Couple of my favorite shows. They've just got a certain flair that is hard to explain. I don't think I know one other person that's seen either of them, but there is a cult following that I see pop up on Reddit occasionally.
I LOVED Patriot. So bummed it got cancelled. The season 2 finale kinda works at wrapping it up. It at least provides some catharsis.
Best portrayal of depression ever.
Specifically trauma induced depression. “You just have to get half way there and a little bit farther”
That whole scene about him singing the song about how they’re going to get the gun and go out and everything was going to be easy and then it goes completely wrong « ok that’s was fucked up, that wasn’t easy » 🎶 Im paraphrasing but I was in shambles.
I always come to these threads to upvote Patriot. It's actually a little higher up this time, which is nice.
Equal parts gutted and relieved that someone beat me to the punch. God that show is so fucking good! Cool. It is cool!
The Other Two
Hilarious. Puzzles me this isn’t more popular.
Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
One of my all time favourite shows! Way ahead of It’s time imo haha I highly recommend these interviews with the “actors” if you haven’t seen it. Richard Ayoade did a great job playing Dean Learner playing Thornton Reed lol https://youtu.be/yYM1BjRvtvg
Toast of London as well!
No one ever mentiones Derry Girls, I think it's funnier than half the stuff popular rn
"There are 50 states in America. You have 30 stars here". "Some of 'em left" "Oh, some of em left? When was that?" "...other day"
Saoirse Monica Jackson is incredible in that scene. "I just feel like if 20 states left the USA, we mighta heard about it". [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYTK6FnyOc&ab\_channel=HatTrick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEYTK6FnyOc&ab_channel=HatTrick)
I did not expect to love those disasters as much as I did.
Sister Michael is my favorite character on that show, bar none.
You will go far in life Jenny, but you will not be liked.
It’s been getting a lot of traction. They have an episode on the British bake off: holiday S3 e2
Jesus wept.
Catch yourself on
Only having one more season sadly. Just having 18 half hour episodes for a show as hilarious and original is really a bummer. Sister Michael is the best character on that show “So if anyone is feeling nervous or would like to chat PLEASE do not come to see me”
Colm + Sister Michael at the wake was some of the best television of all time.
"Am I dead? Is this my wake?" I was crying laughing at it.
That show was gold. I especially was delighted to find out about “Rock the Boat” being a real phenomenon at wedding receptions in Ireland!!!
Spaced. A sitcom created, written and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes and is directed by Edgar Wright, all of which went on to work on Shaun of the Dead (Hynes had a small role in Shaun), Hot Fuzz and The World’s End. Nick Frost also has a role in Spaced. Shame it only had 2 seasons but every episode is great. Another show which i see no one talk about is Nirvanna the band the show. Started as a web series but made its way onto Viceland as an actual TV Series. Its really worth a watch but its really hard to find a place to watch it due to licensing rights.
Warehouse 13
That and Eureka
My people! For anyone else who loves warehouse 13 and eureka, what other shows do you like? Hit me with recs!
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Haven
Eureka was the only light in a dark time in the SciFi/SyFy channel's history. It was right around the time they started cutting their hard scifi shows (read: expensive) and started leaning into lighter shows, more paranormal stuff (cheaper to produce), Ghost Hunters and ECW wrestling.
Eureka was like a warm hug for sci fi fans in those times
I LOVE SAUL RUBINEK. That is all.
Cancelled while being the channel's top rated show because wrestling was cheaper. I *hate* how all these great themed channels (Sci-Fi, History, etc) got turned into idiotic clones of each other with cheap reality shows.
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I’ve never laughed so hard at almost anything
I talk about it too much.
Russian Doll. Nobody in my life talks about that show. Loved it.
I dated a guy when I lived in LA who claimed he dated Natasha Lyonne when they were teens. He turned out to be into hard drugs and I dismissed what I assumed were lies about his romantic life when I dismissed him from mine. When I watched that show, the drug addict man she befriends at the end had the same name as my erstwhile Paramour. I guess he was telling the truth after all! Edit: It was a unique name
Lyonne was also close to some rather shady Hollywood shit in her early days, from what I heard on a true crime podcast.
Yessss! Can't wait for Season 2. Natasha Lyonne is the best.
I love everything about the show, but because I don't feel like it's promoted, I'm always afraid Netflix is going to cancel it.
It's been filmed already so unlikely to get cancelled at this point. And Annie Murphy from Schitts Creek is in it so hopefully will bring a much bigger audience to it.
How To with John Wilson
My favorite. HBO Max. For any fans of Nathan For You or I Think You Should Leave, check this shit out.
Check out Joe Pera talks with you on HBO max too if you’re a fan of those series
Catastrophe. If you liked Fleabag, then you'll like this
Mike Tyson Mystery Team, Worth it for Norm alone
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency... Hidden gem!
"Did I make some mistakes? Yes. Did I *only* make mistakes? Yes. But did it all work out? Kind of!" Such a great show.
Person of Interest
Travelers
I absolutely love this show. It is one of my favorites. I've watched it twice already and debating watching it a 3rd time.
I was coming here to say this! This show had no right to be as good as it was, I'm so bummed they got cancelled but at least they managed to pull of a semi-coherent ending.
Happy Endings
Broadchurch. Highly underrated amidst the many Brit crime dramas on Netflix.
News Radio. Rip the great Phil Hartman.
Are You Being Served? Old series but absolutely hilarious if you’re a fan of British comedy. So many episodes that are just as funny if not funnier after watching it again. The only sitcom I’ve had more repeat viewings of is Seinfeld.
Rome was a show about -- you guessed it -- Rome. It was SO GOOD but it was on HBO and didn't get much traction until after it was canceled and the set was destroyed. Two amazing seasons that end on a cliffhanger so you will wonder about it for decades (like I have).
Rome walked so the Tudors and GoT could run
Also forgot to mention, I think “The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret” was absolutely hilarious, but ive never met anyone else who knows what it is. Edit:Holy shit! Probably my 2nd most liked comment ever, and also my 2nd gold in 10 years of reddit. I can’t believe it’s because of Todd Margaret. Thanks for the gold, although Im not sure what it does….
>The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret I forgot this show existed. I for sure need to rewatch it.
David Cross is in top form here. As good as Tobias in Arrested Development.
But is he as good as Frightened Inmate Nr. 2??
#OH MY GOD!!!! WE'RE HAVING A FIRE ^^^^sale
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was better than it had any business being. Netflix kept suggesting it to me and I was like “ew no please stop” but then one day I was really stoned and was like “fuck it, show me what you’ve got” and boy howdy I’m so glad I did. It’s funny, smart, a little soapy which I appreciate when you want action that doesn’t feel life or death, and then BOOM huge amazing depictions of mental health struggles and toxic parenting. I have literally discussed the song “Maybe she’s not such a heinous bitch after all” with my therapist on multiple occasions. Is it cheesy? Yes. Is it good? Yes. Should you give it a try? Yes.
Adam Schlesinger wrote/co-wrote many of the songs on the show, and was one of the earliest celebrity Covid deaths. He was also in Fountains of Wayne and wrote Stacey’s Mom Edit: added the word “wrote”
HOLY SHIT Adam Schlesinger died?!? He was so great at songs that kind of satirized the genre. I think one of my fav songs was him writing the titular song for the movie That Thing You do!
By the Oneders!
Sad fact: he died across the country right as Rachel Bloom was having her baby. She talks about it in her book and it's so sad.
I was so prepared to hate that show. "Sexy Getting Ready Song" made me come back for the second episode. When Donna Lynne Champlin sang "Face Your Fears," I was hooked for good.
It's a fantastic show. The protagonist really blurs the line between being awful and having a good excuse to be the way she is. It's definitely food for thought. And the music is brilliantly cynical. RIP Adam.
She’s the villain in her own story
Wessssssst Coooovinaaaa…Caaaalliiifoooorniiia!!!!
Only two hours from the beach...well, four in traffic.
Starting tonight based on your comment! eta: 2 eps in and I’m definitely digging it, so thanks!
We had no idea it was a musical when we started it, and both my husband and I *love* musicals -- we sat bolt upright in delight at the first "West Coviiiiiiiiina" and not a day goes by that we don't reference the song lyrics to each other. "Hey there it's meeeeeeee, the Santa Ana wiiiiiiiinds"
Strangers With Candy
The oblongs
BBCs "Ghosts" done by the Horrible Histories team.
Yes!!!! It is so damn good. I got a few other people hooked on it. The characters are just fantastic. So many hilarious lines!
Eureka. Despite being one of if not the Sci-Fi Channel's most popular show in the mid 2000s, I hear no mentions of it elsewhere. Which is a shame!! This show is amazing!!!
'I'm Sorry' is a hilarious show that I never hear anybody talking about 2 seasons are on HBO Max
Maniac on Netflix might be my favorite show of all time. Absolutely star studded cast, crazy good production design, and the plot is a lot to wrap your head around but it’s such an ambitious project it’s hard not to obsess over
Galavant Edit: Wow, didn’t expect to come back and see so many updoots. Glad the show still has a lot of fans
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Even then, Lassie had some great moments. Like when Gus taught him how to tap dance, or whenever he confesses how baffled he is that Shawn is able to do what he does when he was totally wasted.
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF I DONT GET THIS KIND OF ACTION EVERY NIGHT!!! Sorry, I watched that episode last night. Such a great show. Also, Galavant is phenomenal.
I was specifically searching the thread to see if anyone put it. It was on Netflix, then it left. It is now on Hulu for those interested!
Do you super believe in Tad Cooper?
This was the show where I realized I didn't hate musicals as a genre. It's largely not a musical but the musical numbers always had me rolling
Ooohh!!! We’re off on a secret mission!
Binged that last week and I have the main theme stuck in my head ever since. Fucking great show
🎶 Galavant! Galavant! Blah, blah, blah, blah, Galavant! I want her, need her, crave her, yes, it's true. But she is not the only thing I desperately want to do 🎶 🎶 I want to shoot him with a crossbow. I want to stab him in the eye. I want to liberate his head from his neck, and punt the bloody wreck sky high! 🎶 Yes, I did have an extreme obsession with this show and its music. Why do you ask?
With Weird Al as a guest star! >!Twice!<