Obligatory Firefly mention.
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.
Community
- Peep Show
- Derry Girls
- Silicon Valley
- The Gentlemen
- Workaholics
- Chernobyl
- Mr Inbetween
- Moonbeam City
- The Inbetweeners
- Archer
- Disenchantment
- Futurama
- Stranger Things
- Game of Thrones
- Curb your Enthusiasm
- Clarksons Farm
- After Life
- Smiling Friends
- Gravity Falls
- Bobs Burgers
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
- My Name Is Earl
- Better off Ted
- White Lotus
- The Righteous Gemstones
- Eastbound & Down
Admittedly I missed the “a” in the title, the grid threw me.
But I already made a list…
My name is Earl.
Mr Robot. So many twists and turns, and had me absolutely fascinated from start to finish
(Staying spoiler friendlyish) My absolute favorite little bit in Mr. Robot is the thing that they do the thing on 5/9. In the IT infrastructure world “five nines” means 99.999% uptime/availability, which means you have less than five and a half minutes of downtime a year.
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
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
Futurama.
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.
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.
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
arrested development
Since it’s not mentioned, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you liked Firefly, you’ll like Buffy. Yes, it has baggage, but that doesn’t prevent everyone else in the cast from having their work appreciated. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll dabble in witchcraft.
Avatar: the Last Airbender.
