What We Do In The Shadows - I still need to watch the last season
Wellingon Paranormal - A spin-off of the What We Do In The Shadows movie.
Letterkenny
Corner Gas. - Kinda old school, but very charming and hilarious.
15 Stories High - Peak Sean Locke - It’s on YouTube
Garth Marengi’s Dark Place - Also on YouTube
Lost up until Season 6.
Walking Dead up until Negan.
Firefly, all of it.
Babylon 5, start with Season 2-3-4 then go back to 1.
Really enjoying “From”. But there’s a drinking game:
Every time someone asks “Hey, are you OK?” the answer is “Naw, man, I’m pretty fuckin’ FAR from OK.” abd take a drink.
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.
In a similar vein to Warehouse 13, Eureka is also a very fun SyFy channel show.
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.
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.
I didn’t see either of these mentioned:
Farscape
The Orville
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.
Recently: Succession, Pluribus.
OG: ATLA, Toradora (the best love story ever told, btw).
Toradora (the best love story ever told, btw).
Time to try and watch toradora again
If you prefer the written medium, make sure to read the light novel as well!!! IT’S REALLY FREAKING GOOD!!!
Personally, I actually prefer it to the anime (though I basically always prefer the written version to video).
This is not about Toradora, but general visual novels: I quite liked the Re:Zero anime, so I thought I’d read the visual novel as it’s much further ahead (and I actually love reading). But the quality of the writing was so damn bad.
Are all visual novels like that? Simplified English to get the point across, but not a good read overall?
Well, not sure. What version of the Re:Zero light novel did you read? By the way, it is light novel, not visual novel; Visual novels are effectively video games. I assume you didn’t play Re:Zero.
There is actually a Re:Zero visual novel, so if that’s what you meant, then I can’t comment, as I don’t play visual novels.
But, generally speaking, light novels use relatively simple language. I did read the Re:Zero LNs though, and didn’t think they were bad at all! I only read up to volume 17. I’ve heard that the web novel version is much worse in a lot of respects, though. If that’s what you read, then maybe that’s why you disliked it. Not sure.
I would definitely say that good light novels are expected to be good reads, even if they don’t use complex language.
Bored to death
Mrs. Brown’s Boys
Utopia. (2 season UK version, not the 1 season Amazon reboot.)
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.
Barney Miller
Dark humor spy show about the incompetence of a 2010’s US attempt at stopping Iran’s nuclear program.
More like a miniseries, but HBO’s Chernobyl. Some of the best television I’ve ever seen.
I’ve not owned a TV since 2006 and never watch series yet I’ve seen Chernobyl and would recommend
I did watch it twice already. The third rewatch is nearing, now that you make think about it.
It’s so damn good! If OP only were to pick a single show from the recommendations here, it should be Chernobyl.
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.
Absolutely agree with The Owl House, such an amazing show. On the other hand, it’s definitely not for everyone, especially the character Hooty.
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.
Leverage is pure comfort watch. So fun. And might even learn a thing or two.
Btw if you don’t mind British humor, Hustle, is/was also a great watch.
Similar themes and con of the week but the characters and power dynamics make it shine. Would recommend!
