• Railcar8095@lemmy.world
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    15 minutes ago

    As I didn’t seen them mentioned

    • Scrubs: 8 UND ONLY 8 seasons of funny comedy, heart wrenching tragedy. For such a funny show, they managed to still make me cry with “Where Do You Think We Are?”
    • Better off Ted: very funny too, hardly ever hear anybody mentioning it
    • Bluey: is you have small children and you are going to give them screen time, do both of you a favor and chose bluey.
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    Two shows that weren’t mentioned yet:

    • Warehouse 13 - An endearing sci-fi show about a warehouse full of weird artifacts. Despite some intense episodes, it offered mainly a light, feel-good entertainment, and featured a really well-crafted send-off.
    • Fringe - Starts out weird, then it goes totally off the rails, but in a good way. Also wrapped up nicely.
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      26 minutes ago

      Fringe: starts weird, but then they introduce the multiverse.

      Honestly great, they knew how to change things up when the “strange phenomena of the week” formula was about to get old.

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      27 minutes ago

      Oh I love Warehouse 13. It’s great and I loved it.

      I’m currently watching Fringe and I’m glad it’s going to wrap up nice.

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    I’ll bring up a few shows that haven’t been mentioned yet.

    Band of Brothers. It’s probably one of the greatest TV shows ever made. It’s about the Easy company of the 101 airborne division in WW2. The show follows the company from bootcamp (where you get to see David Schwimmer give a performance that could shock you out of seeing him as Ross from Friends) all the way to the end of the war. It’s a must watch and that’s all I’m going to say because if I say anything more I’m just going to start praising it to high heavens. I’ll only add this that if you’ve finished Band of Brothers and feel like you want more there’s also a sort of a follow-up miniseries called “The Pacific” which focuses on the Pacific front of WW2. It is good definitely worth watching if you enjoyed Band of Brothers but it doesn’t reach the high that was Band of Brothers.

    The other miniseries I’ll mention is Bodyguard. It’s about a British Police officer who ends up becoming a bodyguard for the Home Secretary (Minister of the Interior or Homeland security of however it’s named it your country). I won’t spoil anything else about the plot, I’ll just add that the show does an excellent job as framing conflicts and building up suspense. It’s an all around great thriller.

    And now something from the left field, Attack on Titan. This is the only show that I recommend that isn’t a miniseries and it’s not even live-action. It’s an anime based on the comic (manga) of the same name. It’s set in a world where humans are forced to live behind walls to keep out giant man-eating humanoids called the Titans and the anime (and the comic) follow Eren Jaeger, who wants to rid the world of the Titans. This one needs a PSA. Anyone who has watched anime knows the trope of the hero putting together a band of companions and they go on their merry adventures. That is definitely what you will feel on the first half of the first season so if you start watching and think “what is this boring bullshit” it gets way better. It’s a really well written story with a lot of hints that will make sense in hindsight and some borderline Dark (if you’ve seen the show you know what I’m talking about) moments that make you go “what the fuck is even going on?” It’s one the few stories where I hope we get a proper “Edge of tomorrow” level adaption of the whole story (as a show not a movie because you’re not fitting that into a movie) to make it more digestible for western audiences because that’s how great Attack on Titan is. It’s the only anime that I recommend on the basis that if it had a a good live-action adaptation I would be recommending that. But because there’s no live action version we have to make due with anime and if you’re not going to watch it because it’s anime then it really is just your loss.

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    Y’all, watch Heated Rivalry fr. Yes there’s a lot of gay sex in the beginning. No the show is not about the sex. I haven’t seen the level of acting, care, or attention put into a show like this in a very, very long time. There’s a reason it hasn’t dropped from top 10 in Canada in 3 months.

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    More like a miniseries, but HBO’s Chernobyl. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen.

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    The Owl House (Disney) a ridiculously wholesome magical animated show with some amazing well integrated LGBT/non-binary representation.

    Battlestar Galactica. It’s heavy weight politics, in space. Cast is rock solid. there’s too much confusion here The follow on movies are also excellent.

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      Absolutely agree with The Owl House, such an amazing show. On the other hand, it’s definitely not for everyone, especially the character Hooty.

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    Since I’ve seen no mention of it, I have to say Leverage.

    Leverage follows a five-person team: a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist or “hitter”, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to carry out heists to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.

    I freely admit the structure of the episodes becomes a little stale after a while (the team starts a con against the episode villain(s), things go south, and then either they improvise a solution or it’s revealed they already anticipated the issue), but for me the chemistry between the cast keeps the show entertaining to the end.

    It’d without a doubt my most rewatched TV series, a comfort show of sorts.

    I can’t say anything about the reboot (Redemption) as I’ve not got around to watch it yet.

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    If you want to go old school, I highly recommend the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. It’s a comedy steampunk cowboy romp featuring Bruce Campbell from the 90s, filmed on the lot where they used to film all of the old spaghetti westerns before they destroyed it.