What’s the antithesis of Arrested Development, Firefly or The Big Lebowski? Those may never have ‘found their audience’ but over time seemed to recognised by everyone. What are the deep cuts that you liked but it feels like everyone has completely forgotten they even existed.
Better Off Ted is still my favorite sitcom. Corporate came along and tried to pick up the mantle, but I still prefer Ted.
I would upvote this fifty times if I could. Better Off Ted was an absolute gem.
Loved Better Off Ted. I still use Veronica’s “I’m going though a tunnel…” line when speaking to someone in-person.
The hair is up. That’s all they hear.
I often quote “deal with it, Ted”
Yeah! Deal with it!
Yes! I was thinking of this when I wrote the question. I feel like it was great and just totally disappeared.
I kept thinking about it’s parody ads when all those ‘we’re in this together’ ads kept playing during the start of the pandemic.
Beyond good and evil.
It’s sales were poor but the reviews were great. A fantastic adventure game with a great story and a world that felt so incredibly lived in. It had a bunch of interesting mechanics that focused on stealth rather than confrontation.
Playing it now the scope feels pretty small but it’s still a very tight experience.
Ah good thing the sequel is coming out any day now!
Any day now…
Any day now…
Propaganda 👍
Corncob TV: Just hours of naked, dead bodies busting through shit wood.
There can’t possibly be that many dead bodies falling out of coffins every day. And there’s no way one in every five of them are nude.
I DIDN’T RIG SHIT
Deadwood.
I agree with the Mr. Robot take in this thread but nothing matches the infectious dialogue and energy that takes place throughout the entire Deadwood series. I never hear or see it talked about online or in my friend groups.
Yeeees. I’ve tried to get so many people to watch it. “It’s like literature in TV show form, you’ve just gotta!” Nobody has. It’s so, so, so good. I’ve watched it multiple times and, weirdly, it’s become comfort TV, despite how heavy it gets.
It took me a few tries to get through the first episode, but once it clicked I was hooked. The flowery vulgarity is such a great style of writing. It’s since become one of my favorite shows.
About a year or two ago, through a weird six degrees type situation, I got a surprise phone call from Leon Rippy, the actor who played Tom Nuttal. He spent hours chatting with me that night and over the few days that followed. He was so amazingly friendly and full of great stories about Deadwood and all the other shows and movies he’s worked on.
SAN FRANCISCO COCKSUCKA!
I was in Deadwood SD this summer, I’ll have to check out the series. Thanks for the suggestion!
Literally one of the greatest TV shows of all-time. You won’t regret it. Enjoy your first watch; I envy you.
There was a string of time between 2006 and 2009 where there were AMAZING new long format TV shows coming on… and promptly dying on the vine after a year due to bad advertising or ratings chasing.
Kings was a great TV show that deserved 4 more seasons.
Jericho Was an amazing show, that got dumped by Network after the first season… and the fans were so infuriated that they crowdsourced funding to send over twenty tons of nuts to CBS in protest, Which forced them to greenlight a second season for like…5 or 6 episodes (first season was 22 episodes, as comparison) and left it hanging on a painfully huge cliffhanger. before cancelling it again… Netflix even came forward and offered to buy the series and continue it on Netflix (Which all the actors were 100% on board with), and as a final FUCK YOU to the fans, CBS refused. They hated the show, tried to fuck over its second season hard, and hated the fans… and still refused to sell the rights to someone who would let it flourish.
God, typing this out has made me realize how irrationally angry I still am at CBS over the absolute fuckery they pulled with that show that I cant even think of the other shows at the moment.
Go watch Jericho. Its still a fucking awesome show, despite how much the c-suite hated it.
Jericho was awesome, didn’t know it was treated like that.
Any insight into why in the world they’d greenlight Jericho to begin with if they seemed so uninterested in supporting it? It’s certainly not the first show to run into a situation like that, but it’s always kind of interesting to see how the reasoning may vary across businesses with each show.
Probably a The Producers scenario where they expected to make money off its failure, and then it was successful and cost them more than they wanted since they betted against it.
Only reason I can think of. Only reason that makes any logical sense.
Peep show
I’ve watched it about 4 or 5 times, including when it was originally aired.
I nearly didn’t watch Am I Being Unreasonable because it appeared to centre around a developmentally challenged wee boy, and the trailer looked like it would just be him making sarky remarks
Couldn’t have been more wrong. Fantastic twisting story, often hilarious, and the kid was nowhere near as prominent or annoying as expected.
Also Daisy May Cooper is just legendary anyway
Highly recommended, but I think a lot of people didn’t watch it for the same reason I nearly didn’t
Mr. Freedom should be more widely known.
Person of Interest - it not only anticipated NSA mass surveillance (with some SciFi elements but anyway) but also ethical questions about AI, the singularity of human intelligence and human nature in general. All while being a well told crime show with comedic and heartwarming moments.
Really good series. I was particularly happy to see Amy Acker get a juicy long-running role after getting screwed in Dollhouse.
Orphan Black.
Intriguing show that entertained throughout, backed by one of the greatest acting performances I’ve ever seen in tv by Tatiana Maslany.
Started strong, the got a bit dull
Besides everything else, the show is a master class in acting. Every character has her own walk, speech pattern, and gestures.
Her acting skills on the series were amazing! She was my main reason to start She-Hulk, but meh.
Not sure if it depends on the region, but AFAIK Orphan Black it’s a Netflix original and it’s not on their platform anymore. I found out because of a mexican series, Triada which is way to similar to focus on the bits that make this story original.
iirc I first saw it on BBC America and haven’t seen it offered on Netflix in my area.
I never heard anything about ‘Crashing’ on HBO before just stumbling on it in the HBO app.
It’s a pretty funny show about a standup comedian trying to make it in NY while dealing with a divorce. It kind of feels like Louie if the protagonist had a positive outlook on life.
It’s not the greatest show ever, but it blows my mind that I’d never heard of it at all
I have vague memories of watching this years ago. It was amusing but not very memorable.
Pete Holmes is a treasure
More people need to watch Wheel of Time. Go. Watch it now. Season two comes out in less than a week.
This show was the television equivalent of the smell of a dead skunk being roasted over a tire fire.
That show should come with the disclaimer to avoid the season finale at all costs. Just terrible.
Horrible abomination to anyone who read the books.
The climax in book one was really well done, in the series it just… misses the point entirely
Make sure to go watch the Sword of Truth series so that your disappointment can continue.
I have to disagree with you so hard on this. The show started OKish, but by the end was just bad. I was hoping they would just drop it. Hell, even the old Billy Zane version of the show was better.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again,
Only two seasons and it ended before it ever had a chance to get bad. The acting is phenomenal, sets are well designed, the background music choices are very unique for what you would expect in that time period. But it works! Cannot recommended it enough! If you can find it or “acquire” online I think it would be worth your time.
Did it end prematurely or is there a conclusion?
There’s a conclusion, it wraps up nicely. Give it a watch and decide for your self :)
Absolutely! An amazing show.
Dredd, highly praised by fan and critics; Also a recent one Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves no buzz but high praise overall.
Dredd had a really poor advertising campaign. I think the first trailer only came out a few weeks before it’s release when for other films it’s months in advance.
I think the first footage I saw was actually a VFX breakdown that somehow made it’s way into YouTube but it didn’t stay there long.
There was a big campaign to get a sequel and Dredd on Blu-ray rose to #1 in the Amazon sales charts.
One of the executive producers, Adi Shankar, explained in a YouTube video that he appreciated the effort but the big problem was the box office returns. Everyone who invested made a loss, so no one wanted to invest in a sequel.
Rebellion were going to make a Mega City One series which may have had appearances from Dredd occasionally but I think that project has stalled.
Wouldn’t it be lovely if content could be made without the need to be profitable
If I remember correctly here in German it was marketed as “Dredd 3D”, which turned me off at the time.
Same in the US. Putting 3D in the title is lame, especially if it’s not the third in a series.
The Dredd: the Musical parody is pretty good.
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Honor Among Thieves was so good. I couldn’t stop geeking out over how much D&D was in it. They even cameo’d the freaking Animated Series party! It’s nuts.
It’s the first time I’ve unexpectedly felt, “Wow, that was so fun!” since maybe Zombieland or The Lego Movie. The definition of a “fun movie,” it was so much better than I expected.
it is absolutely baffling to me that Dredd (2012) has a better review score than Judge Dredd (1995) (a far superior movie in my opinion).
I think the worst thing about Dredd not getting a sequel is people who only see it will think he was just a generic action hero.
Farscape was an absolutely fantastic show with one of the best villains ever. Characters were well thought out, they had motivations you could understand and showed character growth. Highly recommend for anyone who hasn’t seen it.
Wayne Pygram should be a household name with his portral as Scorpius and Harvey.
