The Good Place. Funny, compelling, I cried through the final episode. It also doesn’t waste your time, things will happen mid-season that any other show would have dragged out for the season finale.
Obligatory Firefly mention.
Fringe. Best Sci-Fi ending that wraps back around to an episode that broke the show open. The last season getting there is kind of rough. But the first 4 seasons are solid.
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More like a miniseries, but HBO’s Chernobyl. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen.
Futurama.
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The Wire. It’s the best piece of visual media ever created. Not only is it the best portrayal of the inner city drugs trade but also the decaying institutions and social structures that allow it to flourish, and the corrupting influence of dirty money.
It also is consistently the best written show on TV and is grounded in it’s reality better than anything else. Half the cast were complete unknowns, in many cases plucked from the streets of Baltimore itself and there are standout performances all across it’s vast and diverse cast.
It’s a little slow to get going, the first few episodes have a lot of ground to cover to get the viewer up to speed, it also makes no effort to ease the viewer in, with a lot of jargon, slang and some very thick accents to content with, there’s also no “previously on the wire” to go over key points from earlier episodes so it definitely requires more participation from the viewer than most TV but it’s all the better for it.
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As a scifi buff: Battlestar Galactica, and The Expanse were excellent. Nightsky was also a really good watch even though it was slow moving, and was more about relationships than SciFi
My name is Earl.
Andor is the best piece of Star Wars media and the best TV show I’ve ever seen. You don’t need to like Star Wars. I don’t know if seeing Star Wars would even increase your enjoyment. I think seeing Rogue One would probably be good but otherwise just jump in. No space wizards or laser swords or destiny or whatever. It’s so adult and grounded. I can’t believe Disney let them make this.
Plenty of great shows that ended poorly.
Maybe I’m just in a negative frame of mind but I won’t recommend any shows at this point.
I was a fan of Lost when it was on the air, dumbest ending ever; ruined the show. I was a fan of Game of Thrones; the show ended in season 6 and the last two seasons ruined the previous 6.
Hmmm ok, X-Men ‘97 was very well written and I liked it but that’s only one season and the main guy responsible for making it good got canned.
- 15 Storeys High
- Green Wing
- Spaced
- The Venture Brothers
- Common Side Effects
- Taskmaster
- Taskmaster New Zealand
- Father Ted
- 24 Hours In Police Custody
- The Thick Of It
- Hardy Bucks
15 Storeys High is probably my favourite show ever
I genuinely get a little pang of pride when I see Benedict Wong in huge blockbuster films and TV series and think “Aw, our Errol’s done well”
Since everyone already recommended what I was going to recommend, I’m going to say fuck it. I’m going to recommend FLCL. It’s not the best anime ever but it is extremely unique and has some of the best music of any anime. And both the anime’s sub and dub are great. If you speak english I’d recommend the dub. The series is only 6 episodes. This anime has aged like wine for me with each subsequent viewing making the anime better and better.
For my favorite comedy (more “haha” comedy), it’s gotta be It’s always sunny in philadelphia.
did you see the modern adult swim seasons? i loved the OG episodes and haven’t gotten around to seeing them yet
No I have not and I will continue to pretend they don’t exist. First and foremost IMO the FLCL story was a complete story on it’s own with beginning and end, so I don’t exactly understand why they made more instead of just making a new anime. Second, I heard the new seasons were not nearly as good. I do listen to the new pillows music though so a new Pillows album is a silver lining I guess.
