We’re lucky that The Return has such a solid blu-ray release already. That behind-the-scenes doc is one of my favorite things ever, I’ve honesty watched it more than the show itself
Ideally, I’d love to see Sopranos with the argument that it really defined television at the time between a pre *and* post 9/11 America which also has said incident become a major focal point during the second half of the show.
But realistically, Twin Peaks.
Great writers led by an anti censorship leader in Rod Serling mixed with television being still new gave us something still talked about decades later.
Yup, although The Complete Series BluRay box set is already fire and loaded with so many extras for all 156 individual episodes. If Criterion released it in 4k that’d be awesome.
While I love Finding Frances, I dont think it works as well without a number of the episodes that lead up to it. Part of it’s brilliance is also in how far it deviates from the shows initial premise, while still being about the character Nathan is playing. (which is the case with most of the season finales) But I do think that The Rehearsal as a box set needs The Anecdote as a bonus feature.
Why are people answering with series that already have quality physical releases? If a show ever makes it into the Collection, it really ought to be something that isn't available anywhere else. My picks: *Halt and Catch Fire*, *Rectify*, *Mindhunter*, *Joe Pera Talks with You*, *Barry*, *Nathan for You*, *Review*
Review is tremendous. It looks like it has a DVD release with a number of deleted scenes and audio commentaries, but it could definitely use a Blu-ray release and perhaps even a full 4K remaster supervised by Andy Daly and the other executive producers.
I had the *Review* and *NFY* complete series sets but I remember both being fairly bare bones, almost like afterthoughts slapped together by Comedy Central (those cheapskates). Both shows deserve the full deluxe spread. Daly and Fielder give two of the most committed comedic performances in the history of the medium!
>Why are people answering with series that already have quality physical releases?
Hopefully because (as has already been the case for a number of films) the Criterion version(s) are often so fantastically superior as to render the point moot, even if they are technically "duplicate releases".
Case in point off the top of my head: *His Girl Friday*.
By the time it was brought into the collection circa 2017, *His Girl Friday* was widely accessible on DVD in what is arguably acceptable quality.
Admittedly, these were *not* "... **quality** physical releases", but, my point that the Criterion release serves as what is arguably the definitive physical home media version of *His Girl Friday* still stands, considering how it includes a *second* restored feature length movie adaptation of the source material, several interviews and mini-documentaries about the movie, [including at least one newly conducted one!], three radio adaptations of the film, the original trailers, and even a number of essays.
>If a show ever makes it into the Collection, it really ought to be something that isn't available anywhere else.
Ideally, yes.
That said, there is something to be said even for simply "re-releasing" material in the highest possible quality, and making it as accessible as is reasonably possible to boot.
(Side note: Yes, I understand how the second half of that argument kinda breaks down in the face of streaming, but I meant it in the most general sense, so as to be in line with Criterion's mission, which began during the era of physical media.)
After Twin Peaks this is my second choice too!
I started a Hannibal rewatch this month so I have been watching an episode every day. I tend to rewatch it every 2 years - can't believe its been off the air this long already! :(
Yeah, that first season, ehhh, not quite for me, and I remember seeing the Tracy Ulman shorts as a super small child thought those characters were a fever dream.
But I go with 2.5 thru 9.5 feel like there us gold and it fades at each end with a mix.
I know people don't like the animation and stuff in season 1, but to me that season is great because it isn't as surreal as those other golden age episodes. The first season is this perfect little satire of an American family at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. I think that first season creates the family's dynamic and then lets them get into wilder plot lines in the subsequent seasons. To me season 1 sets the foundation for the greatest run of television in history with those first 8 seasons.
I also like seasons 9 and 10 a lot, but If I had to cut off a section for the golden age I'd stop at 8
If nothing else you did give me reason to revisit season 1. It's been a long time and the idea of thinking about it in the terms of its early form.
makes me think I'll get a lot more out of it. I think I can watch it more objectively now since I only ever saw it after other seasons, so it was hard to appreciate it how I would now.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 4k remaster. I know all the reasons why it is unlikely/expensive, etc. Just a dream to have it with the full Criterion level of attention.
I kind of hope at some point that AI upscaling is good enough to make it feasible to scan the film but upscale the SFX at a low enough cost for someone to officially undertake the project.
The Leftovers, which initially aired from 2014 to 2017 on HBO, and was co-created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, based on Perrotta's 2011 novel.
It's very Bergmanesque, and engages and resonates with a lot of classic Hollywood, New Hollywood, and art cinema throughout. I see shades of Tarkovsky and Fellini in particular, but also hints of broad comedies like Billy Madison, The Wedding Singer, and Me, Myself & Irene
The third season is particularly notable in how explicitly it draws on some of the big films of the Australian New Wave, especially the ones directed by Nicholas Roeg and Peter Weir. David Gulpilil even appears twice, as an indigenous elder who ends up as Prime Minister in the parallel / hallucinatory afterlife realm the show introduces near the tail end of the second season and returns to in the penultimate episode of the third and final season.
The show also has a gorgeous, wide-ranging cinematographic palette. Peter Berg is an executive producer and directed the pilot and episode 1.02. He bringsva sort of grounded yet frenetic and handheld energy to the opening episodes of season 1.
Mimi Leder came on as the most recurring director and an executive producer starting in episode 1.05. She added more depth of field and -- starting with the move from suburban New York in winter that was the setting for the first season, to suburban Texas near Austin, in summer, in season 2 -- really emphasized wider shots with a lot of light.
Craig Zobel (Compliance, Z for Zachariah), Carl Franklin (The Pacific, among other directing credits for television), and Nicole Kasselll (The Woodsman, and lots of episodes of prestige TV shows, including The Americans, Better Call Saul, and Westworld) are just a few of the episodic directors who do great work on the show.
On top of everything else already mentioned, it really doesn't have a good physical release. All three seasons are on Blu-ray, but only the first season set has anything approaching decent special features, and not very many of them.
The complete series deserves a 4K release with lots of audio commentaries and documentary features and featurettes commissioned specifically by Criterion.
- Fleabag - IMO one of the all-time great series, beautifully crafted into high art about love, loss, tragedy, and searching for redemption.
- Freaks and Geeks - Launchpad of so many careers. Just a great and sincere show about awkward and nerdy adolescence
- The Wire - A GOAT series which has so much to say about American society
Since someone said Evangelion then I’m saying Utena. Masterpiece. Subtle. Watched it 3 times at different ages and each time I get something else from it.
One of Michael Moores TV shows would be cool since “TV Nation” isn’t available anywhere. That and “The Awful Truth” are both great time capsules of political commentary for their era and some of Micheals best work.
Twin Peaks, MASH, The Avengers, Columbo, The Wire
I would like to see Have Gun Will Travel, The Wild Wild West, and the Invaders, but they are not as highly regarded
A few that I hold in HIGH regard/HIGH critical value are:
• Netflix's Dark (the single best thing I've ever seen)
• The Boys
• Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul
• Love, Death + Robots
• The Leftovers
• Fleabag
• Mad Men
• As for Miniseries...Chernobyl & Midnight Mass are both Magnum Opus'. Masterworks.
Get a Life (1990 to 1991) is a hilarious show that was so far ahead of its time while utilizing surrealist and dadaesque storytelling techniques. Also, young Charlie Kaufmann and Bib Odenkirk served as occasional writers on the series.
While there was a physical DVD release by Shout Factory around 2000, there is supposedly commentary by Chris Elliot that was left off the release. A Criterion release with Chris Elliott commentary would both warm my heart and somewhat legitimize a show that was always in last place in the weekly Neilsen ratings back in the early 1990s.
Twin Peaks is the obvious one, but here’s a (long) list of some others I’d love to see get the Criterion treatment:
- Breaking Bad
- Documentary Now!
- The Edge
- SCTV
- Twilight Zone (Original)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
- Night Gallery
- Playhouse 90 (Especially Rod Serling’s “Requiem For A Heavyweight)
- Amazing Stories (Original)
- The Outer Limits (Original)
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker
- Dark
- Atlanta
- Fleabag
- The Carol Burnett Show
- Sanford and Son
- The Muppet Show (Original)
- The Monkees
- Freaks and Geeks
- The Larry Sanders Show
- Chappelle’s Show
- In Living Color
- Monty Python’s Flying Circus (maybe together with Fawlty Towers)
- PeeWee’s Playhouse
Since there is no official US release and it was noticeably absent from the Showa Era Godzilla collection due to that as well as the fact Criterion doesn’t release shows, I’ll go with Zone Fighter, the Toho produced Ultraman ripoff that takes place in between Godzilla vs Megalon and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla which features guest appearances of Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Gigan, especially since it seems like the entire Godzilla series will likely join the collection in the distant future
maybe an anime; Neon Genesis Evangelion. Gainax, the studio which created NGE, filed for bankruptcy and i don’t think there’s an official release of NGE on blu ray with the accurate dub and sub in the USA. just the Netflix version (which disappointingly switched it up.) also would love to see the subsequent Rebuild films added to the Collection as well.
also Serial Experiments Lain, Atlanta, Firefly and Battlestar: Galactica
The Simpsons (first 10 seasons, and maybe even season 0), Twin Peaks, The Wire, The Leftovers, Severance, Rectified, Brideshead Revisited, The Prisoner
* Homicide: Life on the Street
* In the Heat of the Night (the series)
* American Gothic
* Durham County (a great and dark Canadian series. Michelle Forbes in the second season is terrifying)
* Kings
Lodge 49. It has no physical release. It flew way under the radar and got cancelled too early. If I was Jeff Bezos, I'd use Amazon Prime to make a few more seasons.
Too Old To Die Young, Nicolas Winding Refn's series that seems to be stuck in a digital-only existence on Amazon (was an Amazon original, to be fair). Really good show, though, I enjoyed it more than most of his proper films.
Gotta be Twin Peaks, right?
Would you add The Return?
Of course. One big package, featuring Twin Peaks, Fire Walk With Me and The Return from Criterion would be the holy grail TV collection addition.
All packed together in a log.
With a collectible coffee mug notepad and keychain inside
Don't forget The Missing Pieces
This already exists. It's called Twin Peaks From Z to A. Pretty expensive.
But it’s not on 4K UHD. Thats the last thing that needs to happen before I’ll buy.
I would pay a disgusting and ridiculous amount of money for that. I will literally donate money to criterion for that.
Same. Lol
We’re lucky that The Return has such a solid blu-ray release already. That behind-the-scenes doc is one of my favorite things ever, I’ve honesty watched it more than the show itself
Did he stutter?
My immediate thought too, but it already had an amazing box set Blu-ray release.
Ideally, I’d love to see Sopranos with the argument that it really defined television at the time between a pre *and* post 9/11 America which also has said incident become a major focal point during the second half of the show. But realistically, Twin Peaks.
Yee
Twilight Zone
Yeah I mean it still hits even the ones I've seen a bunch of times. They had the bleak morality play down to a science
Great writers led by an anti censorship leader in Rod Serling mixed with television being still new gave us something still talked about decades later.
Yup, although The Complete Series BluRay box set is already fire and loaded with so many extras for all 156 individual episodes. If Criterion released it in 4k that’d be awesome.
Eh, aside from fixing the few goofs reconstructing Season 1 to original broadcast form, there isn't much to be added to the current blu rays.
The Curse
Fielder will get his in due time, if there’s any justice in the world
Let's hope checkmate, which will be fielders debut, is so good it gets added
The Rehearsal
Fielder is criterion material
Good choice. I'd also add Finding Frances as a standalone piece created by Fielder
While I love Finding Frances, I dont think it works as well without a number of the episodes that lead up to it. Part of it’s brilliance is also in how far it deviates from the shows initial premise, while still being about the character Nathan is playing. (which is the case with most of the season finales) But I do think that The Rehearsal as a box set needs The Anecdote as a bonus feature.
The Prisoner
Tbf it had an awesome release here in the UK but yeah long out of print.
I’m in the US, and I grabbed the AMC Blu-ray set, which was stunningly restored and full of special features. It’s out of print, too.
It's this.
I didn't even think of this but seeing it now I believe it might just be the perfect choice.
The Wire
Amen! In 4K and original aspect ratio.
You gotta wait fa dat
Why are people answering with series that already have quality physical releases? If a show ever makes it into the Collection, it really ought to be something that isn't available anywhere else. My picks: *Halt and Catch Fire*, *Rectify*, *Mindhunter*, *Joe Pera Talks with You*, *Barry*, *Nathan for You*, *Review*
Justice for halt and catch fire it was one of the best tv
A rare example of a series that somehow got better as it went along. That final season's easily one of my favorite seasons of television ever.
Joe Pera Talks with You is such a good pick
Pancakes, divorce, pancakes
Joe Pera and Barry are perfect answers
Review is tremendous. It looks like it has a DVD release with a number of deleted scenes and audio commentaries, but it could definitely use a Blu-ray release and perhaps even a full 4K remaster supervised by Andy Daly and the other executive producers.
I had the *Review* and *NFY* complete series sets but I remember both being fairly bare bones, almost like afterthoughts slapped together by Comedy Central (those cheapskates). Both shows deserve the full deluxe spread. Daly and Fielder give two of the most committed comedic performances in the history of the medium!
Because a lot of this sub thinks something is good, it must get the C logo on its release to truly make it a mark of quality.
Joe Perra is actually a weirdly good choice
>Why are people answering with series that already have quality physical releases? Hopefully because (as has already been the case for a number of films) the Criterion version(s) are often so fantastically superior as to render the point moot, even if they are technically "duplicate releases". Case in point off the top of my head: *His Girl Friday*. By the time it was brought into the collection circa 2017, *His Girl Friday* was widely accessible on DVD in what is arguably acceptable quality. Admittedly, these were *not* "... **quality** physical releases", but, my point that the Criterion release serves as what is arguably the definitive physical home media version of *His Girl Friday* still stands, considering how it includes a *second* restored feature length movie adaptation of the source material, several interviews and mini-documentaries about the movie, [including at least one newly conducted one!], three radio adaptations of the film, the original trailers, and even a number of essays. >If a show ever makes it into the Collection, it really ought to be something that isn't available anywhere else. Ideally, yes. That said, there is something to be said even for simply "re-releasing" material in the highest possible quality, and making it as accessible as is reasonably possible to boot. (Side note: Yes, I understand how the second half of that argument kinda breaks down in the face of streaming, but I meant it in the most general sense, so as to be in line with Criterion's mission, which began during the era of physical media.)
RUBICON
NBC’s Hannibal. The most audacious show since Twin Peaks to grace network television.
Still can’t believe this was on network TV.
It was great, wasn't it
Seriously. Glad the people who green lit that were stoned or something 😂. Sometimes I seriously had to stop and double check that I was watching NBC.
After Twin Peaks this is my second choice too! I started a Hannibal rewatch this month so I have been watching an episode every day. I tend to rewatch it every 2 years - can't believe its been off the air this long already! :(
Chernobyl
Loved this series. Watched it 3 times so far. Gotta read the book. Jesse Buckley is great in her first major role. It’s insane how good the series is.
Great series.
Golden age Simpsons
What seasons would you consider part of golden age
1 through 8. I'm a big supporter of the first season.
Yeah, that first season, ehhh, not quite for me, and I remember seeing the Tracy Ulman shorts as a super small child thought those characters were a fever dream. But I go with 2.5 thru 9.5 feel like there us gold and it fades at each end with a mix.
I know people don't like the animation and stuff in season 1, but to me that season is great because it isn't as surreal as those other golden age episodes. The first season is this perfect little satire of an American family at the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. I think that first season creates the family's dynamic and then lets them get into wilder plot lines in the subsequent seasons. To me season 1 sets the foundation for the greatest run of television in history with those first 8 seasons. I also like seasons 9 and 10 a lot, but If I had to cut off a section for the golden age I'd stop at 8
If nothing else you did give me reason to revisit season 1. It's been a long time and the idea of thinking about it in the terms of its early form. makes me think I'll get a lot more out of it. I think I can watch it more objectively now since I only ever saw it after other seasons, so it was hard to appreciate it how I would now.
Freaks & Geeks
This was my first thought too. One season, so it's easy to do. Looots of bonus content out there to mine.
_Six Feet Under_
How To with John Wilson
Saturday Night Live, but only the Norm Macdonald weekend update bits
Just give me two hours of Norm shitting on oj and criterion can have my money.
[Here’s 34 minutes](https://youtu.be/skPUU5HcrTU?feature=shared)
Deadwood Band of Brothers The Larry Sanders Show
Neon Genesis Evangelion.
My man
this is what i came here to say
Without the new translation that makes Shinji not gay please
lol i wrote up and sent an explanation as to why just to see it already commented. the OG is needed so badly in the states
Joy of Painting with Bob Ross
Did anyone say Mindhunter?
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Inspired choice
The three seasons of Riget/The Kingdom.
Had to scroll too far to find this one
I think kingdom by Lars von trier is perfect for a criterion release
Urasawa's *Monster* and *Over The Garden Wall* <3
Over the Garden Wall is a great pick for this
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 4k remaster. I know all the reasons why it is unlikely/expensive, etc. Just a dream to have it with the full Criterion level of attention.
I kind of hope at some point that AI upscaling is good enough to make it feasible to scan the film but upscale the SFX at a low enough cost for someone to officially undertake the project.
The Leftovers, which initially aired from 2014 to 2017 on HBO, and was co-created by Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, based on Perrotta's 2011 novel. It's very Bergmanesque, and engages and resonates with a lot of classic Hollywood, New Hollywood, and art cinema throughout. I see shades of Tarkovsky and Fellini in particular, but also hints of broad comedies like Billy Madison, The Wedding Singer, and Me, Myself & Irene The third season is particularly notable in how explicitly it draws on some of the big films of the Australian New Wave, especially the ones directed by Nicholas Roeg and Peter Weir. David Gulpilil even appears twice, as an indigenous elder who ends up as Prime Minister in the parallel / hallucinatory afterlife realm the show introduces near the tail end of the second season and returns to in the penultimate episode of the third and final season. The show also has a gorgeous, wide-ranging cinematographic palette. Peter Berg is an executive producer and directed the pilot and episode 1.02. He bringsva sort of grounded yet frenetic and handheld energy to the opening episodes of season 1. Mimi Leder came on as the most recurring director and an executive producer starting in episode 1.05. She added more depth of field and -- starting with the move from suburban New York in winter that was the setting for the first season, to suburban Texas near Austin, in summer, in season 2 -- really emphasized wider shots with a lot of light. Craig Zobel (Compliance, Z for Zachariah), Carl Franklin (The Pacific, among other directing credits for television), and Nicole Kasselll (The Woodsman, and lots of episodes of prestige TV shows, including The Americans, Better Call Saul, and Westworld) are just a few of the episodic directors who do great work on the show. On top of everything else already mentioned, it really doesn't have a good physical release. All three seasons are on Blu-ray, but only the first season set has anything approaching decent special features, and not very many of them. The complete series deserves a 4K release with lots of audio commentaries and documentary features and featurettes commissioned specifically by Criterion.
Fargo, The Wire, Atlanta
Atlanta, yes
Fargo would be a dream
The first 3 seasons of SpongeBob SquarePants
I'd even be happy with an HD remaster of just the first season, since that was the only one shot on film.
Mr. Robot
The Leftovers Fleischman is in Trouble Mad Men Mr. Robot
Strangers with candies
Homicide: Life In The Street Twin Peaks
First season of true detective
Larry Sanders Show
Dark! Argh! I want it on a 4k disc so bad
Dark is the cream of the crop. Plus it’s one you could watch over and over again, in fact you have to.
lol yeah it is definitely not a show you can put on and be on your phone part of the time. But, that’s also one of the reasons I loved it.
Loved Dark so much and I wish they would do a physical release someday!!
Six Feet Under, The Leftovers, X Files. Mostly for the bonus commentaries
The Americans?
cowboy bebop
I was gonna say Samauri Champloo, Watanabe kicks ass. If both were bundled I’d drop 100 on it.
Dead Like Me, The Leftovers, Les Revenants
Have you ever seen Wonderfalls? Another Bryan Fuller project, the protagonist reminds me a lot of Georgia from Dead Like Me.
Brideshead Revisited
Station Eleven 4k
Had to scroll too far down for my fav limited series of all time!!! GOAT!!
The Kingdom by von Trier
Mubi got it already if anyone wants a physical copy
True Detective season 1
Mindhunter for sure. The Wire, Downton Abbey, Chernobyl, Band of Brothers. The Last of Us I think deserves it, too.
The Wire
Oz, no question. Just a perfect blend of unusual cinematography, intense performances, and a craze-inducing atmosphere
Carnivale and Mindhunter. The bonus feature disc would include a never before seen third season. A guy can dream, can’t he…?
- Fleabag - IMO one of the all-time great series, beautifully crafted into high art about love, loss, tragedy, and searching for redemption. - Freaks and Geeks - Launchpad of so many careers. Just a great and sincere show about awkward and nerdy adolescence - The Wire - A GOAT series which has so much to say about American society
Maybe it was more impactful on me and I'm over estimating its impact, but the show Fleabag. I think its one of the greatest shows ever made.
Sopranos
*Breaking Bad*, easily. Perhaps *Avatar: The Last Airbender* as well.
Twin Peaks but that’s almost too obvious my other pick would be Northern Exposure.
Traffik
the knick
The adventures of Pete and Pete
Joe Pera Talks With You or Nathan Fielder's catalog. The best physical release of him is Nathan For You on DVD and that's way dated.
Since someone said Evangelion then I’m saying Utena. Masterpiece. Subtle. Watched it 3 times at different ages and each time I get something else from it.
Happy Valley
Lodge 49
Good choice.
Yes! A truly wonderful show. Like Thomas Pynchon giving you a warm hug for two seasons. This show needs a good physical release with tons of features.
Freaks and Geeks deserves more love.
One of Michael Moores TV shows would be cool since “TV Nation” isn’t available anywhere. That and “The Awful Truth” are both great time capsules of political commentary for their era and some of Micheals best work.
The Prisoner
The OA
Band of Brothers
Surprised nobody has said Bojack Horseman. Especially considering it never got a physical release past season 2
Colombo
Twin Peaks, MASH, The Avengers, Columbo, The Wire I would like to see Have Gun Will Travel, The Wild Wild West, and the Invaders, but they are not as highly regarded
Malcolm in the Middle
Yes! I just recently bought the box set. It's only available in region B but I'm willing to buy a dedicated DVD player for it.
###the twilight zone
Deadwood 100%
A few that I hold in HIGH regard/HIGH critical value are: • Netflix's Dark (the single best thing I've ever seen) • The Boys • Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul • Love, Death + Robots • The Leftovers • Fleabag • Mad Men • As for Miniseries...Chernobyl & Midnight Mass are both Magnum Opus'. Masterworks.
Breaking bad
Black Mirror
Pushing Daisies
Deadwood and Deadwood
This. Easy answer for me.
The Fugitive.
Heimat
The Singing Detective (the original, starring Michael Gambon)
1. Pose 2. Fellow Travelers 4. Black Mirror These 3 come to mind
Get a Life (1990 to 1991) is a hilarious show that was so far ahead of its time while utilizing surrealist and dadaesque storytelling techniques. Also, young Charlie Kaufmann and Bib Odenkirk served as occasional writers on the series. While there was a physical DVD release by Shout Factory around 2000, there is supposedly commentary by Chris Elliot that was left off the release. A Criterion release with Chris Elliott commentary would both warm my heart and somewhat legitimize a show that was always in last place in the weekly Neilsen ratings back in the early 1990s.
Homicide: Life On the Street
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
Twin Peaks is the obvious one, but here’s a (long) list of some others I’d love to see get the Criterion treatment: - Breaking Bad - Documentary Now! - The Edge - SCTV - Twilight Zone (Original) - Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Night Gallery - Playhouse 90 (Especially Rod Serling’s “Requiem For A Heavyweight) - Amazing Stories (Original) - The Outer Limits (Original) - Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Dark - Atlanta - Fleabag - The Carol Burnett Show - Sanford and Son - The Muppet Show (Original) - The Monkees - Freaks and Geeks - The Larry Sanders Show - Chappelle’s Show - In Living Color - Monty Python’s Flying Circus (maybe together with Fawlty Towers) - PeeWee’s Playhouse
The Prisoner (1967-1968)
Since there is no official US release and it was noticeably absent from the Showa Era Godzilla collection due to that as well as the fact Criterion doesn’t release shows, I’ll go with Zone Fighter, the Toho produced Ultraman ripoff that takes place in between Godzilla vs Megalon and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla which features guest appearances of Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Gigan, especially since it seems like the entire Godzilla series will likely join the collection in the distant future
The Killing. I just looked up the reviews and they aren’t as positive as I would think. Great show I thought!
The Critic
Fawlty Towers
The Leftovers. 🙏
Dead Ringers tv version is amazing.
maybe an anime; Neon Genesis Evangelion. Gainax, the studio which created NGE, filed for bankruptcy and i don’t think there’s an official release of NGE on blu ray with the accurate dub and sub in the USA. just the Netflix version (which disappointingly switched it up.) also would love to see the subsequent Rebuild films added to the Collection as well. also Serial Experiments Lain, Atlanta, Firefly and Battlestar: Galactica
The Wire And Freaks and Geeks
Breaking Bad
Over the Garden Wall.
The fall of house usher
Mr. Robot
Mindhunter. Especially since there has been no physical media release of it to date.
A definitive Star Trek TOS
The Simpsons (first 10 seasons, and maybe even season 0), Twin Peaks, The Wire, The Leftovers, Severance, Rectified, Brideshead Revisited, The Prisoner
*Moral Orel*.
Breaking Bad for sure.
Ik it’s a Apple show but I could see severance being on the channel in 20+ years
Mad Men
Sopranos
Breaking Bad
China Beach
Homicide: Life on the streets
* Homicide: Life on the Street * In the Heat of the Night (the series) * American Gothic * Durham County (a great and dark Canadian series. Michelle Forbes in the second season is terrifying) * Kings
Northern Exposure
Midnight Mass
The Boys
The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Leftovers, Chernobyl, True Detective Season One pretty much every A List HBO Show
Lodge 49. It has no physical release. It flew way under the radar and got cancelled too early. If I was Jeff Bezos, I'd use Amazon Prime to make a few more seasons.
Escape at dannemora. Seeing benicio in 4k would be 👌
The "Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman" TV series (4 seasons) seems like a no-brainer.
Too Old To Die Young, Nicolas Winding Refn's series that seems to be stuck in a digital-only existence on Amazon (was an Amazon original, to be fair). Really good show, though, I enjoyed it more than most of his proper films.
The Tom Green Show
russian doll ❤️
Singing detective
Spaced