12 Monkeys the TV show. I’ve never met anyone that has even heard of it, and I really enjoyed it! Same main characters as the movie, more or less, but a more involved story. Very satisfying, tidy ending.
I forgot to add on my first post:
Dare to Believe - Weird UK sketch show
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Odyssey 5 (Only lasted a season, but damn…)
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Boardwalk Empire (for some reason the least talked about and most forgotten HBO show)
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Into the Badlands (Deserved a longer life. Great martial arts action in a post-apocalypse)
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First Wave (Nostrodamus, Conspiracy theories and the first wave of an secret Alien invasion)
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Seven Days (The younger lapaglia brother jumps back in time 7 days to prevent various threats)
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Sense8 (strangers from all over the world find themselves linked mentally for some reason)
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Patriot. On Amazon prime. Dark comedy. CIA and government ineptitude.
Honestly, great show. I don’t know what I expected, but it was so much better.
Hell yeah
We Are Lady Parts - a more recent one. Dramady following an all-girl Muslim punk band in London.
4400, but it was a wierd hybrid of superpower humans and dystopian future+ time travelling of mankind, basically in the future the wealthy/aristocratic were living in prisitne cities while everything was a version madmax and judge dredd future. threshold was another one. the “rich people” found out about the scientist going back in tiem to prevent this future, so they sent thier own agents to the past to stop it.
Comrade Detective
Fictional 1980s Romanian buddy-cop propaganda tv show promoting Soviet communism - filmed in 2017. Dubbed into English with voices including:
Channing Tatum Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nick Offerman Jenny Slate Jason Mantzoukas John DiMaggio
It’s fucking amazing
Flash Foward was an interesting series, sadly it end on a major cliffhanger and was never continued.
Brickleberry
Otherworld.
Pushing Daisies
The pie maker is happy to be included
Paul Reuben’s cameo in Pushing Daisies is a lovely part of an even lovelier show.
Really any Brian Fuller show
Dead like me
Reaper
Truth Seakers
I was trying to remember the name of Reaper the other day, thanks! Loved the guy who played The Devil.
Lexx, a show about a giant dragonfly spaceship that destroys planets and the creepy cowardly idiot who somehow lucked into becoming the single person in the two universes that it obeys. And an undead assassin-warrior-poet. And a woman who survived a botched “love slave” transformation. And a weird robot head.
It’s outrageously strange and strangely horny and hornily gross. Highly recommend if you like weird TV.
The woman was called Xev Bellringer. But don’t google it because you’ll find something else.
wow this is some boring porn
Different strokes for different strokers.
Lexx is brimming with campy nonsense!
But it has moments when an actor delivers a heartfelt performance that tells a meaningful story.
And then those moments are followed by a robot with a saw arm chasing some folks through a cardboard maze before a planet gets blown up.
My cat was named after the undead-assassin-warrior-poet.
Great show in that it is so strange and offbeat that you don’t really know why things are happening but they certainly are happening.
Tell your cat I said yo-way-yo hum-va-ray!
I would if I could but he went with my ex while I kept the dog, who is named after the god emperor of the known universe.
Lexx resulted in my marriage (at a lan bash, we’re all sharing the ol’ yar har haar me maties, a certain young gentleman browses the wares, goes “holy shit Lexx, who has all of Lexx i must find this person” and 20 years later we have matching rings, a house and cats. )
Actually just finished snagging the 1080 rip, makes my dvd boxset look like poo
I loved Lexx. It was one of those weird science fiction series that were popping up in the 90s as a response to the success of ST: TNG and Battlestar Gallactica. I haven’t watched it in decades, I have to go find it.
I always mention this one, but The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
It’s got Bruce Campbell in it (Army of darkness) And he plays a cowboy as the lead character where he goes on wacky steampunk-filled hijinks and adventures through the Old West.
it came out in the early 90s and you can watch it for free on tubiTV.
Fun fact, a lot of the old timey western movies used a particular set and the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. was the last show to use that set.
When they finished it was torn down.
Another fun fact, you’ve heard the theme song.
It’s now used in the Olympics when America plays.
It’s a fucking amazing show.
I still remember my favorite character from that show: Bowler.
LORD Bowler.
I think that was the first show I watched that got cancelled and I was waiting for the next season wondering what the fuck happened.
Unfortunately not available on Tubi right now
If you like Severence, you really need to see Dollhouse. Only 2 seasons, complete story. Slow start, but it doesn’t go where you expect, it’s a complete story, and Dichen Lachman (Gemma Scout) plays basically the same role.
I feel like the end of season 2 got wonky because they found out they were getting cancelled. They did make it work with the little time they had left.
As far as I can remember, Dichen Lachman has never been in anything that wasn’t science fiction. Altered Carbon, The Last Ship, Dollhouse, and Severance. I’d check her imdb but it would ruin my wierd fanboy theory.
Agents of SHIELD. That counts.
Forgot that. She murdered Admiral Adama
Scavenger’s Reign and Pantheon
LOVED Pantheon it’s one of my top shows easily
Scavengers Reign is great.
I hope you have watched Common Side Effects. Joseph Bennett (co-creator) is also the co-creator of Scavengers Reign. It’s excellent. Mike Judge is also EP and voices some roles. It was renewed for a second season last week in advance of the season finale, which aired Sunday night.
I’m in season 2 of Pantheon. It’s quite good.
Wow how could I forget Common Side Effects?? I’m happy it’s getting a second season but sad Scavengers Reign wasn’t so lucky :( something tells me CSE is going to hit mainstream popularity though.
I love Joe Bennett’s (what I call) “American Chibi” style soooooo much. Such weird big heads and little bodies but it works so well.
Bennett also illustrated Joe Pera’s bathroom book. “A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape”
https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-People-Pooping-Peeing-Escape/dp/1250782694
I really enjoyed Scavenger’s Reign. Never heard of Pantheon, but if you mention both in the same sentence I’m intrigued!
Edit: It was already on my watchlist
Get ready for a little existential crisis after watching Pantheon (at least that’s what happened to me). I loved it!
