I Ike Righteous Gemstones, but it’s A LOT of Danny McBride. Aside from John Goodman, every actor is channeling Danny McBride through their line delivery and movement. It’s like Danny McBride directed them by saying “Do it like THIS, exactly like this. Mimic my every inflection.”
I can’t belive nobody has recommended The Good Place yet. Only 53 episodes, just about 20 hours total, and an amazing series. You can watch the whole thing on a long enough trip and it’s an amazing ride. Do yourself a favour and don’t read up on it just go along for the ride.
I’m also not sure how you watch Better Call Saul without having seen Breaking Bad. It’s like watching Wicked having never seen The Wizard of Oz. Sure, you can do it, but a number of scenes, especially in the final season, don’t really make sense of you don’t know Saul’s story from Breaking Bad.
Also if you’re going to watch Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, while not a TV show, the El Camino film is worth watching as well. It’s a nice Breaking Bad epilogue that we didn’t need, but is well done and worth your time.
Can’t believe I haven’t seen someone say Mr. Robot. My favorite show of all time. Opened my eyes to corporate greed for the first time. Can also buy a blu ray of it if you don’t want to pay the subscription.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was pretty good
Also second Andor (I haven’t watched season 2 yet, but season 1 was a banger), Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul
I would buy that one, but I got a 4k TV so I would like to have a 4k disc. The season 1 in 4k looked so good. Trust me though, if anyone else made them I would buy it.
Netflix cancelled the show, and after fan backlash, they ended up greenlighting a finale. While the finale was pretty abrupt, it was better than nothing.
Old sci-fi hands down: Babylon 5.
And a lot of young people haven’t seen some movies: Matrix (mostly the first one), The fifth element, Short circuit, if you want blood: RoboCop movies. Animation: Titan AE, Vampire Hunter D, Battle Angel Alita, Blood the last vampire.
Perhaps a bit out of left field: Heated Rivalry, a Canadian romance about gay, closeted hockey players. I usually don’t care about that genre at all but started watching the show on a whim after seeing much hype online. It’s really good—acting, dialog, cinematography, sound design, … Just be aware that the sex scenes are quite explicit—not porn but up there in what can be shown on TV (well done though and always relevant for the story).
You might like Ghost in the Shell. There’s a handful of different movies and timelines, but I think the anime show Stand Alone Complex is a good entry point. For that continuity, after SAC is SAC 2nd Gig, then the movie Solid State Society, and finally the recent Netflix CG show SAC_2045.
Cyberpunk future, although not as gritty as Altered Carbon or Cyberpunk 2077. This trailer gives a good idea of the action scenes, but the show isn’t mainly about that, instead more about the psychological themes. Story follows a cyborg special forces group in the Japanese Government. Lots of side plots about stuff like privacy and being able to trust your senses when hackers can hijack your eyes, what does conciousness and self mean when someone can literally shove their brain in a self sustaining VR box effectively forever, at what point does AI reach personhood, when brains can be fully digitized and be treated as data how do you ensure abscence of tampering, how do you even begin to handle people that opt into a gestalt existence, and more. The idea of self is a core thing repeatedly. Main plot of Stand Alone Complex is some wide reaching thing about corporations and billionaires holding critical medical knowledge hostage from the public and a specific hacker fighting to get the info out.
Speaking of Cyberpunk 2077, go watch Edgerunners if you haven’t yet. The dub is great, but I can’t find that trailer dubbed. If you’re even remotely aware of the videogame or the tabletop you know the kind of thing to expect. Gritty, dark. Starts about a year and a half before the game, ends around half a year before. Holy shit, nothing I could say would do it justice and it’s best to go in blind. Just… be prepared to hurt. There are no happy endings in Night City.
If you’re up for a little less cyberpunk but still heady sci-fi future, give Psycho-Pass a try. Hard to find a good trailer for this one, the dub is fine but I was only able to find a decent subtitled trailer. The world is one of near omnipresent surveillance by “the sybil system” which can analyze a person’s mental state to detect criminal intent before it happens. MC is a fresh graduate who has just started her job as a police detective, and has to adapt quickly to the reality that detective work is no longer true investigation, but mostly using the reports from the system together with using a troop of people flagged as criminals by that system to hunt down the other potential criminals. Of course cracks in the surveillance and the system itself begin to show pretty quickly, even before someone starts fucking with it for fun. First season is the best and works very well as a standalone thing. The movie and other seasons aren’t bad, just not as good.
If you just want some good anime without the cyberpunk elements, Cowboy Bebop is universally considered a classic. Great great stuff. Struggling bounty hunters just trying to make ends meet as their pasts eventually catch up with them through background details episode to episode. Heavy jazz influence and wonderfuljazzsoundtrack. You’re gonna carry that weight.
If you only pick one, go with Edgerunners, if you pick two, add Bebop. Edgerunners is a short show, I think 12 eps. Bebop is 25 episodes (and a movie technically between I think episode 23 and 24, but it came out years later and isn’t needed for the overall plot).
What genre of anime? I’m obsessed with Frieren right now, it’s a really good fantasy anime. And I’m also catching up on Jujutsu Kaisen atm, quite brutal with its themes, but I’m loving the story, can’t wait to read this manga once I’ve caught up on the animated series and finished Claymore for the first time (I know I’m super late to read this one).
Good chance you’ve checked them out already. But in case you haven’t, Satoshi Kon’s works are all amazing.
Paprika, Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers. If it has to be a series, I guess Paranoia Agent.
Currently watching “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and would recommend. The original release order if you can find it, I know Crunchyroll has chronological, which I’m less favorable towards.
I don’t watch many shows, and the ones I do like vary wildly on whether people will find them horrific or not, but:
Steins;Gate was a good watch. Nothing generally awful there, but there is a trans character who gets treated poorly by the other characters.
Black Butler’s just a fun show IMO, but some disagree. I even liked the second season, which is widely regarded as bad.
In defense of chronological order, the “original release” is only 14 episodes and the so-called broadcast order that many recommend is a fanmade amalgamation of the 2006 broadcast and 14 of the 28 episodes that aired in 2009.
In a literal sense, the “broadcast” or “original” order is not the original order of the broadcast. There were 14 episodes in the 2006 series and 28 episodes in the 2009 series, only half of which were new. “Broadcast” order is just the 2006 series with the new episodes tacked onto the end.
There’s nothing wrong with the broadcast order, but many people think of it as “the original” or “closer to the original artistic intent”. If you’re watching 28 episodes of the show, that’s simply not true. Many of the episodes are placed much better in the 2009 (chronological) order, especially Live Alive and Someday in the Rain. I would never recommend watching those so early, as one would do in “broadcast” order.
I personally recommend the chronological order OR if you’re willing to be a little bit confused trying to figure out what episode to watch next, a custom watch order like this one posted by user Xirema to Reddit or this one that I created and posted to MyAnimeList a couple years ago.
Oh, wild, didn’t know that. I hadn’t gotten into it when it came out.
I did kind of toy around with the idea of throwing Endless Eight into the rest of the series every couple of episodes instead of back to back if I rewatch. I was kinda tired of it by 6, plus I think the deja vu every couple episodes would be fun
I do still think the confusion was kinda fun, in a certain way. That does explain why episodes 16-28 were chronological though
x-men spinoffs, that were cancelled by the merger, gifted, runaway,,,,etc. much better than what MCU slop that disney pushed out that is related to xmen.
I liked the first season of dark matter. Can’t remember where it fell off but I liked the beginning
Currently rewatching twin peaks so I can get the new season without 25 year memory gap, also just started star trek strange new worlds with my wife because she hasn’t watched much trek
PieFed
mesa
Stargate SG1 - It’s like Star Trek with machineguns.
FarScape - It’s like Star Trek but the main cast are fugitives, there’s lots of muppets, and watching it makes you feel like you’re on drugs.
The Righteous Gemstones - Danny McBride made comedy farce about a horrible, vain, and stupid megachurch family.
Batman Beyond - Cyberpunk batman with an unparalleled intro sequence.
Jericho - Post apocalyptic show with a conspiracy mystery bent and heavy GWB GWOT flavor.
Kings - A sort of adaption of the story of King David in a modern setting.
I Ike Righteous Gemstones, but it’s A LOT of Danny McBride. Aside from John Goodman, every actor is channeling Danny McBride through their line delivery and movement. It’s like Danny McBride directed them by saying “Do it like THIS, exactly like this. Mimic my every inflection.”
Yes.
I can’t belive nobody has recommended The Good Place yet. Only 53 episodes, just about 20 hours total, and an amazing series. You can watch the whole thing on a long enough trip and it’s an amazing ride. Do yourself a favour and don’t read up on it just go along for the ride.
Breaking Bad’, Better Call Saul, Pluribus
Skip breaking bad imo, but better call Saul is one of the best shows out there
Eh, breaking bad’ is an extremely well made show. You might like it or not, but qualitatively, it’s one of the best shows out there
Plus, having watched Breaking Bad makes all the references/shoutouts in BCS even better.
I’m also not sure how you watch Better Call Saul without having seen Breaking Bad. It’s like watching Wicked having never seen The Wizard of Oz. Sure, you can do it, but a number of scenes, especially in the final season, don’t really make sense of you don’t know Saul’s story from Breaking Bad.
Also if you’re going to watch Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, while not a TV show, the El Camino film is worth watching as well. It’s a nice Breaking Bad epilogue that we didn’t need, but is well done and worth your time.
The Wire
The different voices singing the same song for each season…👌
Drama - The Wire
Comedy - Arrested Development
Mystery - Twin Peaks
Those should keep you going a while 😁
Can’t believe I haven’t seen someone say Mr. Robot. My favorite show of all time. Opened my eyes to corporate greed for the first time. Can also buy a blu ray of it if you don’t want to pay the subscription. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was pretty good Also second Andor (I haven’t watched season 2 yet, but season 1 was a banger), Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul
You should watch season 2 of Andor!!!
I’m waiting until they make a disc of it. Should be sometime this year I hope.
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I would buy that one, but I got a 4k TV so I would like to have a 4k disc. The season 1 in 4k looked so good. Trust me though, if anyone else made them I would buy it.
Mr Robot is on tubi for free right now.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0379632/ Hustle
The sopranos
Silicon valley , the IT crowd … If you like tech
Its always sunny , seinfeld
The White Lotus. Great vacation show. Short, funny, watched it on vacation, helped the vibe was a good time.
If you want the English version watch Benidorm
Sense8
It’s made by the same sisters who directed The Matrix and it’s amazing. Just kinda weird wrap-up.
Netflix cancelled the show, and after fan backlash, they ended up greenlighting a finale. While the finale was pretty abrupt, it was better than nothing.
Really would have been my all time favourite if it didn’t get fucked over.
It had enormous potential then just sort of ended in an orgy and…the world is Netflix
I’ll hate them forever for cancelling Santa Clarita Diet right when Fillion shows up
Gurren Lagan for the anime request. One of the best. Its only 1 season but it tells its story and ends.
Andor.
This. If I had to name 1 show that everyone should watch, it would be this.
Old sci-fi hands down: Babylon 5.
And a lot of young people haven’t seen some movies: Matrix (mostly the first one), The fifth element, Short circuit, if you want blood: RoboCop movies. Animation: Titan AE, Vampire Hunter D, Battle Angel Alita, Blood the last vampire.
Perhaps a bit out of left field: Heated Rivalry, a Canadian romance about gay, closeted hockey players. I usually don’t care about that genre at all but started watching the show on a whim after seeing much hype online. It’s really good—acting, dialog, cinematography, sound design, … Just be aware that the sex scenes are quite explicit—not porn but up there in what can be shown on TV (well done though and always relevant for the story).
My name is Earl
The Middle
Fallout
The Golden Girls (it’s funny as hell, for real)
Found Wade Wilson
Got any preferred genres?
Wife wants anime and shows like the “Traitors”.
I liked Altered Carbon and Ghibli.
The Expanse if you haven’t seen it.
Also Battlestar Galactica (The newer one)
The Expanse if you like Altered Carbon
Ill give it a shot thanks!
It’s pretty much perfect sci-fi.
IMO ends just before the books started get long in the tooth but that’s maybe a spicy take to say I’m glad the tv series ended where it did.
You should watch LEXX too. The most underrated sci-fi as well, if you like to get weird with it.
Anime and Altered Carbon?
You might like Ghost in the Shell. There’s a handful of different movies and timelines, but I think the anime show Stand Alone Complex is a good entry point. For that continuity, after SAC is SAC 2nd Gig, then the movie Solid State Society, and finally the recent Netflix CG show SAC_2045.
Cyberpunk future, although not as gritty as Altered Carbon or Cyberpunk 2077. This trailer gives a good idea of the action scenes, but the show isn’t mainly about that, instead more about the psychological themes. Story follows a cyborg special forces group in the Japanese Government. Lots of side plots about stuff like privacy and being able to trust your senses when hackers can hijack your eyes, what does conciousness and self mean when someone can literally shove their brain in a self sustaining VR box effectively forever, at what point does AI reach personhood, when brains can be fully digitized and be treated as data how do you ensure abscence of tampering, how do you even begin to handle people that opt into a gestalt existence, and more. The idea of self is a core thing repeatedly. Main plot of Stand Alone Complex is some wide reaching thing about corporations and billionaires holding critical medical knowledge hostage from the public and a specific hacker fighting to get the info out.
Speaking of Cyberpunk 2077, go watch Edgerunners if you haven’t yet. The dub is great, but I can’t find that trailer dubbed. If you’re even remotely aware of the videogame or the tabletop you know the kind of thing to expect. Gritty, dark. Starts about a year and a half before the game, ends around half a year before. Holy shit, nothing I could say would do it justice and it’s best to go in blind. Just… be prepared to hurt. There are no happy endings in Night City.
If you’re up for a little less cyberpunk but still heady sci-fi future, give Psycho-Pass a try. Hard to find a good trailer for this one, the dub is fine but I was only able to find a decent subtitled trailer. The world is one of near omnipresent surveillance by “the sybil system” which can analyze a person’s mental state to detect criminal intent before it happens. MC is a fresh graduate who has just started her job as a police detective, and has to adapt quickly to the reality that detective work is no longer true investigation, but mostly using the reports from the system together with using a troop of people flagged as criminals by that system to hunt down the other potential criminals. Of course cracks in the surveillance and the system itself begin to show pretty quickly, even before someone starts fucking with it for fun. First season is the best and works very well as a standalone thing. The movie and other seasons aren’t bad, just not as good.
If you just want some good anime without the cyberpunk elements, Cowboy Bebop is universally considered a classic. Great great stuff. Struggling bounty hunters just trying to make ends meet as their pasts eventually catch up with them through background details episode to episode. Heavy jazz influence and wonderful jazz soundtrack. You’re gonna carry that weight.
If you only pick one, go with Edgerunners, if you pick two, add Bebop. Edgerunners is a short show, I think 12 eps. Bebop is 25 episodes (and a movie technically between I think episode 23 and 24, but it came out years later and isn’t needed for the overall plot).
GITS:SAC is my recommendation as well
What genre of anime? I’m obsessed with Frieren right now, it’s a really good fantasy anime. And I’m also catching up on Jujutsu Kaisen atm, quite brutal with its themes, but I’m loving the story, can’t wait to read this manga once I’ve caught up on the animated series and finished Claymore for the first time (I know I’m super late to read this one).
Good chance you’ve checked them out already. But in case you haven’t, Satoshi Kon’s works are all amazing. Paprika, Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers. If it has to be a series, I guess Paranoia Agent.
Have you watched Love Death and Robots?
Fullmetal Alchemist was awesome. It gets really intense and pretty graphic. I haven’t seen it in over a decade but might be time for a rewatch!
Dept Q (netflix?) was really good. A bit of mystery detective. A bit of British humor. Interesting characters. Was excellent.
Scrubs
Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Babylon 5 :)
Currently watching “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” and would recommend. The original release order if you can find it, I know Crunchyroll has chronological, which I’m less favorable towards.
I don’t watch many shows, and the ones I do like vary wildly on whether people will find them horrific or not, but:
Steins;Gate was a good watch. Nothing generally awful there, but there is a trans character who gets treated poorly by the other characters.
Black Butler’s just a fun show IMO, but some disagree. I even liked the second season, which is widely regarded as bad.
In defense of chronological order, the “original release” is only 14 episodes and the so-called broadcast order that many recommend is a fanmade amalgamation of the 2006 broadcast and 14 of the 28 episodes that aired in 2009.
In a literal sense, the “broadcast” or “original” order is not the original order of the broadcast. There were 14 episodes in the 2006 series and 28 episodes in the 2009 series, only half of which were new. “Broadcast” order is just the 2006 series with the new episodes tacked onto the end.
There’s nothing wrong with the broadcast order, but many people think of it as “the original” or “closer to the original artistic intent”. If you’re watching 28 episodes of the show, that’s simply not true. Many of the episodes are placed much better in the 2009 (chronological) order, especially Live Alive and Someday in the Rain. I would never recommend watching those so early, as one would do in “broadcast” order.
I personally recommend the chronological order OR if you’re willing to be a little bit confused trying to figure out what episode to watch next, a custom watch order like this one posted by user Xirema to Reddit or this one that I created and posted to MyAnimeList a couple years ago.
Oh, wild, didn’t know that. I hadn’t gotten into it when it came out.
I did kind of toy around with the idea of throwing Endless Eight into the rest of the series every couple of episodes instead of back to back if I rewatch. I was kinda tired of it by 6, plus I think the deja vu every couple episodes would be fun
I do still think the confusion was kinda fun, in a certain way. That does explain why episodes 16-28 were chronological though
Comedy: Future Man and Resident Alien
Actually curious why a TV show?
Could watch some documentaries about your trip destination and be inspired to visit around?
Otherwise fallout.
3%
Murderbot
Counterpart. Absolute top tier series. I don’t know why it flies under the radar.
Whoa thanks for making me aware of this! The premise sounds sweet, giving me some Fringe vibes.
Archer
Recently, The Pit is quite good. The Lowdown also has some merit.
Some older shows that are considered the best of all time for a reason: Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, Arrested Development.
Honorable Mention: Succession, Parks and Recreation, The Office (UK), I Think You Should Leave
Cancelled shows: Battlestar Galactica 2003, start with Caprica, and The Boys. Firefly - only 15 episodes and you will be sad when it’s over.
Returning: Tracker, High Potential, Silo, Severance
Animated cancelled: Young Justice, Batman Beyond
Animated returning: X-Men 97, Harley Quinn (just silly fun), Invincible
x-men spinoffs, that were cancelled by the merger, gifted, runaway,,,,etc. much better than what MCU slop that disney pushed out that is related to xmen.
I liked the first season of dark matter. Can’t remember where it fell off but I liked the beginning
Currently rewatching twin peaks so I can get the new season without 25 year memory gap, also just started star trek strange new worlds with my wife because she hasn’t watched much trek
Elementary is a great modern day Sherlock Holmes series. Way better than BBC’s contemporary counterpart IMO.
Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans, King of the Hill, The Man in the High Castle, Hot Fuzz, Gattaca, Office Space, Star Trek TNG.
I scrolled right to the bottom and not one of ya mentioned ‘freaks and geeks’…
It is an absurdly good 80s time piece and if you can’t recognise at least half of the actors from their ongoing careers… Then good luck to ya!
Succession. It’s a mature and contemporary Game of Thrones.
Surprised I’m the first one to suggest Peep Show
Farscape
The Prisoner: https://youtu.be/osNmf_zmSyE
Peaky Blinders
Landman