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Second! Farscape is amazing.
I have a high bar when it comes to recommending enthusiastically. Not to say my list is universal bangers, but they are MY bangers.
Andor (the only good Star Wars series) Band of Brothers (WW2) Chernobyl (Cold war drama) Queens Gambit (Chess drama) Silo (Fallout-esque apocalyptic dystopia) The Expanse (Sci-fi)
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BSG remake is a must watch for anyone, even those who don't like "sci fi"
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Band of Brothers is a must watch, even for those who don't like "war"
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Black Sails started amazing, dragged a bit in the middle, but well worth it for the final speech by Flint at the end.
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The Americans is a show that has tragically never gotten the love that it deserves and is well worth your time.
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Angel is better than Buffy in every conceivable way basically beginning in the second season and I'll always point it out to people who won't give it a chance because they don't like Buffy. (I don't like Buffy...but Angel was darker, more mature, less teeny bopper. And frankly funnier)
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Boardwalk Empire, the forgotten red-headed stepchild of HBO's prestige lineup. I loved it but for some reason it's completely dismissed and barely remembered.
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12 Monkeys. Someone else mentioned it below and reminded me that I need to do a rewatch. I loved it. But in the later seasons was to distracted by other stuff to finish it.
The Mentalist, Person of Interest and IT Crowd.
Some I've hardly seen mentioned here
Season 1 True Detective is peak tv
Season 1 Westworld
FX's Legion- the story is a bit disjointed between the season but the effects are top notch
Westworld was my #1 for so many years until Foundation pipped it.
I actually find it difficult to recommend it anymore because of how complex the plot got in later seasons. You need to be very familiar with every sci-fi concept to even stand a chance of keeping up with what's going on.
And the fact that HBO canceled it one measly season away from being about to finish the story. I’ll never pay a cent for HBO again.
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.
Kingdom South Korean fuedal era zombie series EPIC! There is a movie also to watch after
Arthdal Chronicals Bronze Age fantasy show, but I only can recommend season 1, with 18 episodes, it's very good.
1670 Here again to promote 1670, my favorite of the (my) year, and possibly all time. Polish series full of dead pan comedy, dark humor, and absurdity.
Projekt UFO Polish Cold war era dramadey that I fully enjoyed also.
all of these shows listed I feel are acted and directed very well.
Taskmaster (UK). Free on YouTube, but it's also a TV series, so I'll count that.
Scavengers Reign was amazing.
Arcane
Sweet Tooth
Andor
I can wholeheartedly, enthusiastically, recommend any of those.
And The IT Crowd is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, if you can find that please watch it.
The Patriot is the best show you haven't seen. Fucking incredible not a bad episode and you should watch it now!
Futurama.
Sci fi dramas: Severance, and Pluribus
Sci fi comedy: The Orville
Just fun: Taskmaster
You might want to use some paragraphs there…
Oops have to double newline on my phone, for reasons... fixed
Black Mirror - the first couple seasons are really good
I would watch the Apple TV show Silo. Amazing show
I introduced my wife to Chuck, one of my favorite shows, and it's the only show so far that we've both liked.
Hannibal (2013) is still one of my absolute favorites to rewatch.
I'll admit I don't know a ton about the main lore of the character to spot any flaws in the storytelling, but it does feel like it hits all the main arcs and the art is so damn nice to look at. Can be really trippy/visceral/haunting/beautiful at times and has, what I think, was a pretty satisfying ending.
That and 30 Rock
same same but different
Halt and Catch Fire - love shows about technology and innovation and liked Silicon valley, but this show just took it to the next level for me. Both inspiring and at times horribly sad to watch, all done beautifully.
12 Monkeys and DARK. Both shows deal with time travel in a very cool way.
Severance and The Boys are also fantastic.
Better call Saul X-Files Breaking bad
Vince knows how to tickle my brain
Not because it is on the list, but Lost is one I'd always recommend to watch. People either heard or remember about it being bad. It is not. Binging it made me understand it. This show is a masterpiece.
Not on the list - Chernobyl. Top notch short series.
Also When Life gives you Tangerines. I am not kdrama watcher, but my wife is. This series was breathtaking to watch. Really nice story telling.
I'll second (or third) shows like The Wire, Deadwood, The Terror (S1 and S4), Chernobyl, etc.
For something less man focused there's The Change which is a slightly surreal series about Bridget Christie's character setting off to rural England on her motorbike when she gets tired of her family.
Just started watching Dirty Business which is like Chernobyl but about English sewage, i.e. excellent acting around a slow motion disaster caused by human error and arrogance.
That I had to scroll this far to see The Wire and Deadwood is appalling! Chernobyl is also a triumph.
I recommend Shogun. It's a political drama set in feudal Japan following a fictional not-Tokugawa figure and the English sailor who crashed nearby and becomes his good luck charm.
...and the English sailor who crashed nearby...
~~Portuguese sailor~~ English pilot sailing for the Dutch against the Portuguese. Only two languages are spoken in the story, Japanese and Portuguese. Whenever you hear someone speaking in English, they are speaking Portuguese in the story.
EDIT: I got that wrong.
It's been a while since I saw it, but didn't the Portuguese in Japan hate Blackthorne because he wasn't one of them? And Blackthorne saw them as his enemy. But he was indeed speaking Portuguese in the story as he knew the language as part of dealing with Portuguese as a trader.
I have the nationalities wrong as well. In the book the pilot (Blackthorne) is british, sailing for the Dutch, in a clandestine mission against the Portuguese.
What I noted about the languages in the show was correct though. English = Portuguese.
Tales From The Loop. It's a slow, vibey, and kind of whimsical show that perfectly matches the paintings its based on (Simon Stalenhag's). There is no main plot, each episode is a story that takes place in a town above a particle accelerator with a loose thread between them
If you like the mood of the trailer, you'll like the show.
Foundation is the best sci-fi I've watched and I've seen a lot. The way they adapted it from Asimov's books is so well done, just enough changes to modernise is and keep people who read the books guessing.
Season 2 is a bit weak but 3 was great and the scope for future seasons is huge.
I'm actually reading the books now, and it really feels more like the show was loosely inspired by the concept and not at all based on the source material.
That being said... I like both! Definitely recommend the show to any sci-fi fans. It was fun.
I partly disagree. It’s changed so much it only follows mostly the high points of the books. IMO the first season was really weak with some awful wooden acting and choreography. The cast have very much improved as the series has progressed and Pace, Birn, and Mann are best in show. The set and CG visuals are great.
Fair enough, I personally see the changes as a benefit as the source material is pretty dated although still incredible for sci-fi written in the 50s.
I might even go as far as to say it's the best book-to-film adaptation I've seen for that very reason, as you say it kept the high points of the books and it's aim was clearly not to faithfully recreate them for reasons that become somewhat obvious at the end of Season 3.
Definitely agree on Pace, Birn and Mann, rarely do you see such good acting in a sci-fi series.
I liked The Peripheral. It only got better with each episode despite the changes from the book original. Of course it got canceled after the first season.
Some less obvious ones I loved were Severance and Fargo.
The Newsroom , with Jeff Daniel's. Done by 2012, but it outlined the blueprint of the enshittification of media and the Republican party, but even then, the writers gave US voters far too much credit and would never have predicted Trump elected. Twice.
On the lower brow, Titans was among the best DCU.
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