I don’t watch shows anymore I just watch serpadesign feed his frogs on YouTube x
I get what you’re saying here, but in all seriousness there’s no good reason to have not watched Yellowjackets by now. You can do better. It’s easily the best show of the last 10 years.
It had potential to be great, but falls far from that. Some cringe-inducing writing and acting there. It was fun and entertaining enough to watch. Hope the next season is better.
Honestly never heard of it.
I definitely wouldn’t say it’s the best show of the last 10 years TBH. The first season is fun, and the second one kind of trails off a bit IMO.
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Based on the mostly fantastic choices presented here, I am now using those mentioned that I haven’t seen as a guide to future choices.
The Bear is very very good
I still haven’t recovered from a certain Season 2 episode
The fishes, right?
That somehow made me love Jamie Lee Curtis even more…
She deserves every award for that episode.
I had to stop watching at some point, it was just too close to home. The overall feeling was just like christmas at home and I don’t go anymore, because I value my sanity more these days. Holy shit what an episode.
If I had to watch every movie/show that was/is popular… I wouldn’t have time for things I really enjoy, so fuck that.
I’ve tried about half of those and liked two of them. I’m sort of fine with missing what keeps flowing out of the P R E S T I G E T V slop vats at this point.
Why does anyone watch new TV when there are perfectly good copies of every season of Gargoyles they could be pirating?
We talking bout Goliath, Hudson, Bronx, Brooklyn and the rest of the gang? Them gargoyles?
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of my favorite Hank Hill quote: “Why would anybody want to do drugs when you can just mow a lawn?”
Can’t take the mower to the club, not anymore.
not since somebody used the lawnmower after the drugs
MISTER PIIIICKLES
Same energy
Never seen gargoyles. Only porn of it.
Is it any good?
Based
This is the lasting legacy of my childhood TV experience…porn 😔
Gargoyles…porn
Tiny toons…porn
Sonic the Hedgehog…porn
It’s all porn now.
Now that you say that, it’s really an odd, surreal experience. Were my fellow children unique, and just did not grow up, and made a blend of their childhood and what should be adult pursuits, or were people in the past just as fucked up, but all they had to make porn of was Charles Dickens and Dante and such?
Sounds like you may be unfamiliar with Tijuana Bibles, as they were called. You might find their history interesting.
Just as god intended, I’ll tell you hwat.
It’s the internet. That’s what it’s for. 😄
It’s okay but it’s a bit distracting what with all the sexy gargoyles
I am out of the loop with this one, are you referring to the cartoon series?
Yes?
How many times do we need to pirate them before we can watch new shows?
Also all anyone needs is The Wire, been watching that recently and it’s so good
Follow that up with Oz.
You can stop watching Gargoyles when the voice of Keith David is available as a default TTS client on every phone.
We live in a machine learning world, don’t let your dreams be dreams.
I’ve never identified with someone else’s comment so hard.
Are you… Me?
“Hello there!”
“General kenobi !”
I just watch Naruto, there are hundreds of episodes and I will never finish it before the apocalypse
Out of all of those, I only saw Russian doll. Did it ever come back? There was a huge gap after season 2, and it didn’t finish the story at all. Never heard of it was continued, I haven’t had Netflix since I stopped getting it for free with my phone bill.
Nah, just two seasons. It should have just been the one.
I liked the first season, but the second one? Natasha Lyonne voice: Ehh, not so much.
Mindhunter
Imo we should limit these to one every 5 years.
I’m just now watching the 20 year old tv show “the wire” and its better than the 5 of these I have watched (of those 5, I’d only recommend the “the bear”)
Oh man, I’m just starting that one myself. West Wing. Sopranos. For some reason, if you can get past the old-person video quality, 20 years ago was peak TV. Gen-X is mostly a waste of oxygen and natural resources, but their art (TV, music) was a Renaissance era.
I’d argue about the waste of oxygen thing, but my gen x coworker says she mostly identifies with boomers.
No! That’s not true! We’ve just kept the best shows from that era! For every “The Wire” there were a dozen other terrible shows airing at the same time. It’s true that there were fewer shows on TV so there were less to pick from but believe me, in another 10 years people are going to only point to “Breaking Bad” and other shows (Sherlock? Mr. ROBOT? Dexter? Game of thrones minus the last season? we can’t say for sure right now) as amazing and they’ll say “damn, 20 years ago was peak TV.”
I will say though, it’s impressive that HBO is really the only production company to consistently produce the best TV.
I would say I feel attacked, but you’re mostly right.
Been boycotting the media for about a decade. It frankly makes it difficult to make small talk when you refuse to know about the latest trends that Big Media sells to the populace
Why not try watching an episode of something and if you like it, keep going, and if not, drop it? No need to worry about Big Media.
At some point I just accepted that I’ve become one of those “I don’t really watch TV” people, although I also accept that watching youtube videos and listening to podcasts isn’t much better.
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Haven’t watched any of these and I don’t feel like curling in fetal position. What’s wrong with me, doctor?
Oh, he’s doing that because he feels like he’s missing out? I thought the joke was that he curled into fetal position because the guy is peppering him with questions and is feeling overwhelmed.
I had a boss that’d always try to talk about films, TV, and frequently referenced actors to me, and I’d always feel a bit bad that I never got it.
I imagine you have your own methods to handle these types of discussions, but this is my trick.
“Have you watched random niche show you’ve never heard of?”
“No, but I’ve heard it’s pretty decent. What’s it about?”
At this point, you can check out of the conversation while they talk about a show you’ll never see. Personally, I like to half listen because I like to hear about stuff people have a passion for
I do try to engage in conversations about it when prompted to, but I always feel rather bad when they ask and can somehow instantly tell that I have absolutely no clue.
That’s a neat tip. Now, if only I had a social life to put it into practice
I like to think he’s overwhelmed by an instant realisation of his own brief mortality in the face of what must be hundreds of cumulative hours of shows that he will most likely never watch
That’s profound!
i’ve tried 3 of them and they were so boring, i tried watching them with 4x speed, then gave up. i watch different new shows tho. it’s not like i can’t enjoy anything, i swear 😅
Wow if I have to resort to speed up something then I’m watching it because I have to, not because I want to. May I ask, which ones? Of those, the only one that I have on my Maybe Someday List is The Last of Us.
Why is that out of interest? Plenty of shows here have been universally acclaimed and I don’t think there are many people who wouldn’t love at least one of the shows here.
What are some of your favourite shows you have seen? I’d be curious what you enjoy if there’s nothing in this list that appeals.
Honestly I haven’t heard about the majority in the list, and those I did just didn’t grab my attention. I’m not saying they are bad shows. I can’t speak of what I haven’t watched.
It’s difficult to get me to follow up on a series. I prefer movies. When I do series, it’s likely to be animation. Bojack Horseman comes to mind as something I’ve watched recently, that isn’t ages old, and that I’ve enjoyed a lot. HAPPY! is another, mostly live action, but I still need to finish S2. All other examples of live action tv shows I’ve watched a substantial amount of eps are from before streaming became standard, and even then I haven’t finished a lot of those.
I think it’s because of something in the way shows are marketed + my personal experiences of trying shows and not liking them/getting bored. It irks me when the plot quality of a show goes down as the series progresses. I see a movie trailer and I get a pretty good idea if it’s worth my time or not, but that’s not the case with long format shows.
If you had to sell me some of the shows in the comic, which ones would be and why?
Sounds totally fair enough mate. I’m not really the person to ask because most of these shows are shows I want to watch but haven’t yet. Last of Us is fantastic though and the boys is as enjoyable as any superhero property imo, mainly because it feels like it’s pretty much what would actually happen in our world if superheros existed and doesn’t pull any punches (literally), where every other show would just give you a sound effect while it cuts to someone’s reaction, the boys will give you slow motion and high focus so you can see the details of someone’s head being pulled off their body or something equally (often more) horrific.
Ted Lasso sounds more likely to grab you from that list if only because it’s 30min episodes and relies on humour more than plot. But this is still based on others opinions, it’s just a show I still want to watch at the moment so I could hate it yet. I tend to find that most things which are universally acclaimed are well worth watching though.
I appreciate the answer! I’ll keep these in mind. Cheers
No worries. Another show that sprang to mind which isn’t in this list is the legend of vox machina.
It’s an amazon prime series based on critical role and follows the first campaign relatively faithfully (so far). It came to mind because it’s an animation and the setting and plots are well thought out. Characters have been played by the voice actors for literally hundreds of hours before the show was even conceived so whilst there are clichés aplenty, the characters are fully formed and fleshed out from the start. I’m biased because I was addicted to CR since the early days but the show really stands up on its own in my opinion.
It sounds corny as fuck but it’s one that was 100% made with love and if you like adult cartoons I really recommend it.
Westworld, Wednesday and The Boys. I sped it up, because they had a promising start and interesting scenes sprinkled in. I hoped it would become good again, but it didn’t.
The Boys just ride the wave from the good start and just became more and more disgusting.
