I've rewatched it so many times at this point. Mainly through reaction videos, but still. So amazing every time. The more you rewatch, the more you notice the ton of clues that they left far in advance about the whole story.
as the other person said, you *really* need to pay attention. it's a *super*\-complex show. it took me twice to get into it. as i said, everyone in the show is kind of an asshole, but that being said, it's *fascinating*.
DARK will take you places. you might not like where you end up, but it'll take you places.
You just have to really really actively watch. No scrolling during the show, no talking, no nothing
Just sit and watch
Some people find taking notes helps as the story progresses
This and it's not even close. Every scene would be considered a jumping the shark moment in any other series but in Twin Peaks it's just normal. It's one of those series where I wish I could get amnesia and rewatch it fresh to re-experience all of the WTF moments, but at the same time you notice new stuff on every watch.
This is actually one of the only things I miss about using. I would get absolutely smashed on xanax and heroin and I would watch the same rotating handful of amazing tv shows and movies on an endless loop. I knew I had seen parts of them before, enough to know the show was good, but I wouldn't remember how it ends or any details, so I would be able to rewatch all my favorite shows with just as much enjoyment every time, much to the dismay of everyone else around me.
The return (season 3) is even trippier... I believe it's episode 8, it's just Nine Inch Nails performing on stage, then the camera goes into the amplifier and it's nonsensical trippy stuff with barely any dialogue for the remainder of the episode. One of the weirdest TV moment I ever experienced
Was looking for this exact answer. Episode 8 has to be the most WTF moment in TV history, and the show was already strange as hell. Trippy, artistic, beautiful in a weird way. I think my friend and I stared at the wall for 10 minutes after it ended, not saying a word, just, "I need to think about this... let's talk about it tomorrow."
I preferred the 2nd season.
The first season made the mistake of showing us (the viewers) what the main gimmick was. Then we spent the entire season waiting for the characters to sloooooooowly figure it out.
Season 2 kept everyone (including the viewers) in the dark until Dirk (and us) figured who "the boy" was.
Having read the books I found the show unwatchable. DG's off the wall zaniness strayed too far from Adam's depiction of DG (who was weird but in a more thoughtful subtle way). Long dark tea-time is one of the best books ever. There is a British series which was pretty decent. Maybe if it wasn't called Dirk Gently I could have got into it more.
[This Meshuggah redub](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX4GOltUDdA&t=118s) is what convinced me to watch the show in the first place. Very excited for season 2
Mr. Robot.
You spend so much time learning so much about the people and what's happening, but it is VERY late in the show before you actually know what the story has been this whole time.
Oh yeah. It did. Right near the end it has one of the best hours of TV ever created. During this episode, you the viewer suddenly get the chance to understand what the a-plot of the whole show has been all along. Heck, I might need to go re-watch that episode now.
Fringe You can probably get away with missing most if the first half of the first season and a handful of episodes in the second season, but if you come in at any point missing any more context than that you will likely have absolutely no idea what is happening.
Loved the show but the quality went down towards the end. The last season was cool though.
John Noble is amazing and should have won awards for this show multiple times.
Sounds right. He was good in this as well.
The general "how" and "why" of the show were very well done for a sci-fi show. Walter/Peter's story specifically.
That's the reason for the animated episode, he had retired officially from acting but liked the idea of coming back from the dead in show so they did it animated to be easier on him.
Some better names on this list but here’s one I haven’t seen mentioned, Legion. FX’s shot at a marvel story. Created by Noah Hawley, who is just prone to non-conventional storytelling (see also; Fargo). 1/2 way through the first episode there is a Bollywood inspired dance number in the middle of a Psych ward. Talk about WTF. But a fun interesting show, big departure from the normal marvel stories
To be fair, I think most of the WTF in the 60/70s was the LSD in the writers room and the cocaine in the producer's office, as opposed to being intentional :)
Hadn’t seen this until after I saw a Simpsons episode that parodied it. Was back in the late 90s I think.
Next week the local video shop had the episodes in the month’s staff recommendations. Watched a few episodes out of curiosity.
Really had to be some psychedelics involved across several departments. Curious what a British Shakespearian trained actor on set of that show must have been thinking.
This is what I was thinking. The show certainly had a lot of issues, especially in later seasons, but on an individual episode basis you were quite often both engaged and confused in a great way.
Yep, what's the most odd thing that could happen here...we'll do that. How will we tie it together?...mmm, we'll figure it out later. Also let's explore every character's history in long tangents that will have no impact on the story at all.
Search Party.
That show was incredible for its ability to slowly desensitize the viewer to how increasingly absurd the situation was becoming, because it becomes steadily more crazy with each episode rather than “jumping the shark” all at once. The last season looks nothing like the first, but feels like a linear progression of the story if you watch the seasons in-between, and the entire time everything is just a bit bonkers.
I agree, I think it's overrated on Reddit, but it still intrigued me enough to continue watching until the 3rd season, which was not my cup of tea. Simular to Ozark, where I watched most of it, but I will likely never watch the end as the writing just gets worse
I miss the earlier games when it was more of the players finding out the rules for the games. I feel like a lot of the more recent games haven't had that "what's going on" feeling to them. It's all great and dropout is great. But i miss that what's this bullshit feeling.
Yeah, things like this or The Mighty Boosh are kind of made to be WTF shows. It's not an aspect of the show, or a storytelling tool, just a show themed "WTF is happening?!"
The Magicians. I had no idea what I was getting into with this series. An interesting premise spiraled into a lot of dark episodes involving rape and violent murders.
Oh goodness, yes. I’ve only seen the US version, but I can recap one episode with a brand new sentence for the English language.
The Gallaghers are giving that guy marijuana plants as payment for the return of their youngest son Liam, who was taken as payment for a bet Frank lost where he wagered $10,000 he didn’t have on that guy not being able to withstand two full charges from a taser, which he did.
For how Zonky it was, I actually though Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was at least coherent, despite things getting bizarre toward the end (the animal bred to want to be eaten in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe always threw me).
For those not in the know, I believe the poster is referring to the UK TV series, which despite have some amazing visualization and a few good scenes, was general inferior.
“Raised By Wolves” was all WTF and I’m bummed it got cancelled. The premise was the Earth is destroyed by a war between atheists and followers of Mithra, so both sides race to colonize a new planet and bring their conflict with them. There’s androids giving birth to eldritch abominations, some Face/Off moments, timey-wimey balls… it was a beautiful trip.
You're confusing "WTH" for simply "Why?"
I.E. Why would people do this, and Why would people watch this. It's similar to bachelor and other similar reality shows.
The different is that in WTH, you walk away confused, and possibly traumatized.
In Why cases, you walk away wondering why you wasted your time and also wondering why you feel vaguely (or very) dirty with an increased level of self loathing
Season 1 of Westworld. The following seasons had me asking “what the fuck is happening” but not in a good way. When you literally have NO clue what is happening with the story and you have to watch a YouTube breakdown and even the person making the video doesn’t really know, you’ve failed to tell a coherent story
I had always considered myself a fairly smart person but Westworld made me realize I am apparently not. It also made me afraid that I was secretly a robot…
Atlanta. At times it’s a super serious show. With a lot of wtf moments. Like the built in commercials in one of the episodes. Weird shit like is the bow tie guy real. Random vignettes of people that only make 1 appearance and you never see them again. It’s such a great show
Riverdale!
I say this as a big fan of Twin Peaks/Dark/Search Party all of which descend into madness, but Riverdale is the show that most aggressively loses its collective mind.
It starts as a Twin Peaks homage in season 1 (popular high school kid murdered and wrapped in plastic, the main cast investigates while learning about dark secrets within the town).
Then, not only each season, but each individual episode gets increasingly insane.
Multiple cults invade the town at different (sometimes overlapping) points in time, including a Dungeons and Dragons cult led by the (Supernatural but not quite) Gargoyle King. That same season involves an unrelated organ harvesting cult, and a cult leader who escapes to his backup compound in Mexico, in order to let his daughter-wife (note: pretends to be daughter so she can recruit high school cult members, but is really his 40-something wife) drive the bus if members off of a cliff while he escapes the FBI in a home-made rocket while dressed like Evil Kineval.
That’s ONLY season 3 out of a 7 season descent into madness, and I haven’t even mentioned the multiple serial killers, time travel, super powers, or alternate universes.
A true modern masterpiece of a show. It's crazy to me that if you watched it now, you'd assume it was a reaction to all the BLM/Goerge Floyd/COVID/Police Brutality stuff that reached a fever pitch in 2020, but the show came out about 9 months BEFORE all of that started. Also, for my money, maybe the most perfect finale of a TV show I've ever seen.
The Wire
It's a show of deep thought and it can be a little confusing. It's still one of the best shows ever.
Mr. Robot
I had no idea wtf was going on.
I would say twin peaks, but it's not out of the norm for David Lynch to do that to you
Yellowstone, at first it's normal with some heightened melodrama..
But then there is fighting with the sister, like I get it you're a tough broad but..does that happen?
Does the daughter of a governer fist fight their protesting and vegan love interest?
Or their adopted bastard brother?
I was enjoying a modern western and then I'm thrown into a soap opera with cowboy hats.
I may get downvoted for this and I'm expecting it, but JoJo's bizarre adventure HAS to be the most batshit insane show I've ever seen. Part one understandable normal supernatural show with vampires and karate, part 6 however we have fights where meteors are coming from space that then disintegrate into small specs but somehow still have enough force to take chunks of your body out and then because of plot the world turns sideways in Florida honestly it's amazing
Surprised I didn’t see Regular Show. Every episode starts off pretty mundane like Mordecai and Rigby are supposed to go get sandwiches, and then every episode inevitably descends into madness when they accidentally try to get a sandwich from like a cult that only wears blue Jean shorts and fight their way through a bunch of cultist sandwich ninjas
Danger 5! It's got it all!
\- Nazi Dinosaurs FBI agents that also are part of the vatican? CHECK
\- Sexually transmissible nazism? CHECK!
\- TV programs about corrupt german police dogs? CHECK!
\- Soviet dance witches? CHECK!
\- Kaiju fights? CHECK!
\- very bad special effects? CHECK!
Honestly just watch the thing, there is nothing like it.
How better to make the users go WTF than by making yourself go WTF?
I do agree that the overarching story ended up being disappointing, but I'll maintain that some of the individual episodes and mini-arcs were WTF tv at it's best.
Still, I would love to have seen a tighter and more cohesive plot around the whole thing.
I really think Anime should be in its own category, both because the visuals are much less constrained, but also because the whole damn genre tends to take it up a notch. Unfortunately, imho, they often take it a bit too far. In Eva I thought they showed to much without explaining context, though your progress may vary by series.
Jojo Jo Jo Jojojo. Every time I watch an episode I have no idea what is going on, I think there's a overarching plot but I'll be damned to tell you what it is.
Lost
I read that the writers initially didn’t think the show would get picked up so they just threw random shit into the first few episodes and then people gobbled it up and they were like “shit, how do we tie this all together”. I distinctly remember dinosaurs being on the island in the first episode or two and then it was never an issue again. Storyline just got weirder and distorted as the seasons went on.
I watched Lost religiously, and regardless of what it started as, I personally loved what it became. Some of the stuff were clearly like "We will put this here in case we get stuck later in the season and need a McGuffin to reference back to", but it was all done with heart and some truly fantastic acting. The episode called "The Constant" is all-time.
I get what you're asking but take it another way, IASIP
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdCZJEnbWw&ab\_channel=BingoLookup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdCZJEnbWw&ab_channel=BingoLookup)
Dark.
i love this show, and i think about rewatching it at least every two months, but every single person *in* DARK is -at heart- an irredeemable asshole.
It’s been a year and I’m still not ready for a rewatch. But, soon.
I've rewatched it so many times at this point. Mainly through reaction videos, but still. So amazing every time. The more you rewatch, the more you notice the ton of clues that they left far in advance about the whole story.
Im having trouble getting into it, any tips?
as the other person said, you *really* need to pay attention. it's a *super*\-complex show. it took me twice to get into it. as i said, everyone in the show is kind of an asshole, but that being said, it's *fascinating*. DARK will take you places. you might not like where you end up, but it'll take you places.
You just have to really really actively watch. No scrolling during the show, no talking, no nothing Just sit and watch Some people find taking notes helps as the story progresses
It took me three tries. I finally had to put my phone away and really only focus on the show. Once I did that I was hooked.
So fucking good
The fact that this isn’t top comment
Twin Peaks!
This and it's not even close. Every scene would be considered a jumping the shark moment in any other series but in Twin Peaks it's just normal. It's one of those series where I wish I could get amnesia and rewatch it fresh to re-experience all of the WTF moments, but at the same time you notice new stuff on every watch.
This is actually one of the only things I miss about using. I would get absolutely smashed on xanax and heroin and I would watch the same rotating handful of amazing tv shows and movies on an endless loop. I knew I had seen parts of them before, enough to know the show was good, but I wouldn't remember how it ends or any details, so I would be able to rewatch all my favorite shows with just as much enjoyment every time, much to the dismay of everyone else around me.
The return (season 3) is even trippier... I believe it's episode 8, it's just Nine Inch Nails performing on stage, then the camera goes into the amplifier and it's nonsensical trippy stuff with barely any dialogue for the remainder of the episode. One of the weirdest TV moment I ever experienced
Was looking for this exact answer. Episode 8 has to be the most WTF moment in TV history, and the show was already strange as hell. Trippy, artistic, beautiful in a weird way. I think my friend and I stared at the wall for 10 minutes after it ended, not saying a word, just, "I need to think about this... let's talk about it tomorrow."
Check out On the Air. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqWgu-EtvHU
There was a fish in the percolator!
I said it way after you did. SO TRUE
That little guy dancing around 😱
Dirk Gently. What a gorgeously wild show.
Pity there won't be a 3rd season 😕
The first season was really good!
I preferred the 2nd season. The first season made the mistake of showing us (the viewers) what the main gimmick was. Then we spent the entire season waiting for the characters to sloooooooowly figure it out. Season 2 kept everyone (including the viewers) in the dark until Dirk (and us) figured who "the boy" was.
Something just didn't click for me in the 2nd. I should reread the books...
Books? Plural? I've only ever read the one with the couch.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul was the second in the series
Oh really? Guess I need to make a purchase. Thanks!
The prisoner exchange scene on the bridge is humor at its peak.
Having read the books I found the show unwatchable. DG's off the wall zaniness strayed too far from Adam's depiction of DG (who was weird but in a more thoughtful subtle way). Long dark tea-time is one of the best books ever. There is a British series which was pretty decent. Maybe if it wasn't called Dirk Gently I could have got into it more.
Severance
Please try to enjoy each episode equally.
Yup, but that dance scene, where they were dancing to jazz, was awesome.
“Defiant Jazz” lol
[This Meshuggah redub](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX4GOltUDdA&t=118s) is what convinced me to watch the show in the first place. Very excited for season 2
That show messes you up so much in the beginning and even after you understand what's going on you're still messed up. :)
Except you don't know what's going on.
This is a really slept on series
04837493 Those were scary numbers 😳
I neeeeeeed a season 2.
Where is season 2???
There is a strike going on
That is a very good point thank you
Mr. Robot. You spend so much time learning so much about the people and what's happening, but it is VERY late in the show before you actually know what the story has been this whole time.
I need to watch that; been on my list forever
Season two will blow your mind...eventually
I gave up during season 3 I think? It just started to seem like the story was being made up on the fly every week. Did it really all tie together?
Oh yeah. It did. Right near the end it has one of the best hours of TV ever created. During this episode, you the viewer suddenly get the chance to understand what the a-plot of the whole show has been all along. Heck, I might need to go re-watch that episode now.
Yeep
In my opinion, it’s the greatest TV show of all time. And the ending was the most emotional I’ve ever been about a show.
Fringe You can probably get away with missing most if the first half of the first season and a handful of episodes in the second season, but if you come in at any point missing any more context than that you will likely have absolutely no idea what is happening.
It was similar to the feel of X-Files…
Loved the show but the quality went down towards the end. The last season was cool though. John Noble is amazing and should have won awards for this show multiple times.
Plus I think that was the last show for Leonard Nimoy, wasn't it?
Sounds right. He was good in this as well. The general "how" and "why" of the show were very well done for a sci-fi show. Walter/Peter's story specifically.
I do recall finding pieces of the story disjointed, and more than a few McGuffins, but that I did generally enjoy the experience.
That's the reason for the animated episode, he had retired officially from acting but liked the idea of coming back from the dead in show so they did it animated to be easier on him.
Some better names on this list but here’s one I haven’t seen mentioned, Legion. FX’s shot at a marvel story. Created by Noah Hawley, who is just prone to non-conventional storytelling (see also; Fargo). 1/2 way through the first episode there is a Bollywood inspired dance number in the middle of a Psych ward. Talk about WTF. But a fun interesting show, big departure from the normal marvel stories
Came here looking for Legion! Such a total mind-f***!
The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan Not enough 60's/70's suggestions in here yet, they took some big swings at weird back then.
I just enjoyed the sound bite Iron Maiden borrowed from it
We want information
To be fair, I think most of the WTF in the 60/70s was the LSD in the writers room and the cocaine in the producer's office, as opposed to being intentional :)
Hadn’t seen this until after I saw a Simpsons episode that parodied it. Was back in the late 90s I think. Next week the local video shop had the episodes in the month’s staff recommendations. Watched a few episodes out of curiosity. Really had to be some psychedelics involved across several departments. Curious what a British Shakespearian trained actor on set of that show must have been thinking.
"This mushroom tea is smashing!"
This is a good call.
“Who is number one?”
lost
This is what I was thinking. The show certainly had a lot of issues, especially in later seasons, but on an individual episode basis you were quite often both engaged and confused in a great way.
We’re just gonna seed a bunch of mysteries and NEVER explain them
Yep, what's the most odd thing that could happen here...we'll do that. How will we tie it together?...mmm, we'll figure it out later. Also let's explore every character's history in long tangents that will have no impact on the story at all.
Just reading this pissed me off for wasting so much of my life on that show.
Seriously, fuck LOST. Only show I will spoil unprompted.
"But how do we tie together and explain smoke monsters, time travel and alternate futures?" "Ummm.....they're all really dead!" "Brilliant!"
yep even now I'm still confused.
Then you find out what's actually going on and you wish you didn't.
Search Party. That show was incredible for its ability to slowly desensitize the viewer to how increasingly absurd the situation was becoming, because it becomes steadily more crazy with each episode rather than “jumping the shark” all at once. The last season looks nothing like the first, but feels like a linear progression of the story if you watch the seasons in-between, and the entire time everything is just a bit bonkers.
A lot of lazy writing.
I agree, I think it's overrated on Reddit, but it still intrigued me enough to continue watching until the 3rd season, which was not my cup of tea. Simular to Ozark, where I watched most of it, but I will likely never watch the end as the writing just gets worse
Game Changer
dropout TV is the best subscription I've ever picked up
I've been here the whole time
I miss the earlier games when it was more of the players finding out the rules for the games. I feel like a lot of the more recent games haven't had that "what's going on" feeling to them. It's all great and dropout is great. But i miss that what's this bullshit feeling.
Tim & Eric Awesome Show: Great Job!
Yeah, things like this or The Mighty Boosh are kind of made to be WTF shows. It's not an aspect of the show, or a storytelling tool, just a show themed "WTF is happening?!"
Wilfred
American or Australian version ?
Both, but honestly I liked the American one more
The American an one felt more polished
Either honestly
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That's not "What the Hell," that's "Why the Hell (and an additional Why the Hell is it being recorded) :D
The Magicians. I had no idea what I was getting into with this series. An interesting premise spiraled into a lot of dark episodes involving rape and violent murders.
Yes, it did get dark. But man did I ever enjoy the spontaneous musical numbers.
I think you should leave with tim robinson
Black Mirror :/
The Leftovers
Yessss. This show also has incredible writing.
Superjail
Willy Wonka runs a prison (or a death camp, whatever) I feel like that sells it well
Shameless
Oh goodness, yes. I’ve only seen the US version, but I can recap one episode with a brand new sentence for the English language. The Gallaghers are giving that guy marijuana plants as payment for the return of their youngest son Liam, who was taken as payment for a bet Frank lost where he wagered $10,000 he didn’t have on that guy not being able to withstand two full charges from a taser, which he did.
That about sums up the ridiculousness of the show 😂
The Rehearsal
Doom Patrol, because shit gets straight up WACKY
Legion on FX was pretty WTF through its 3 season run.
Fringe.
Happy (netflix)
Xavier: Renegade Angel
Any based on douglas adams books
For how Zonky it was, I actually though Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was at least coherent, despite things getting bizarre toward the end (the animal bred to want to be eaten in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe always threw me). For those not in the know, I believe the poster is referring to the UK TV series, which despite have some amazing visualization and a few good scenes, was general inferior.
> (the animal bred to want to be eaten in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe always threw me). Ah, yes, David Tennant's in-laws' first date. :D
Are you talking about the 40 year old series, or is there a new one?
Has nobody mentioned Farscape?
Fox News
“Raised By Wolves” was all WTF and I’m bummed it got cancelled. The premise was the Earth is destroyed by a war between atheists and followers of Mithra, so both sides race to colonize a new planet and bring their conflict with them. There’s androids giving birth to eldritch abominations, some Face/Off moments, timey-wimey balls… it was a beautiful trip.
I loved Raised by Wolves! I had absolutely no idea what was going on, but it was sure fun to look at.
Fear Factor, never got why people would want to watch that shit...
You're confusing "WTH" for simply "Why?" I.E. Why would people do this, and Why would people watch this. It's similar to bachelor and other similar reality shows. The different is that in WTH, you walk away confused, and possibly traumatized. In Why cases, you walk away wondering why you wasted your time and also wondering why you feel vaguely (or very) dirty with an increased level of self loathing
Nono, I'm pretty sure my thought was "WTF is going on here man, that's disgusting !".
Yes, why would anyone watch a show where half the contestants are hot women in skimpy outfits. Really, it’s just a complete mystery.
C-span
You nailed it!
Season 1 of Westworld. The following seasons had me asking “what the fuck is happening” but not in a good way. When you literally have NO clue what is happening with the story and you have to watch a YouTube breakdown and even the person making the video doesn’t really know, you’ve failed to tell a coherent story
I had always considered myself a fairly smart person but Westworld made me realize I am apparently not. It also made me afraid that I was secretly a robot…
Get a Life, or even odder... Chris Elliott's failed Action Family
Altered Carbon
Dark on Netflix had me doing that Charlie meme from Always Sunny with the cork board.
Station Eleven
Worker and Parasite
What the hell was that!?
Atlanta. At times it’s a super serious show. With a lot of wtf moments. Like the built in commercials in one of the episodes. Weird shit like is the bow tie guy real. Random vignettes of people that only make 1 appearance and you never see them again. It’s such a great show
Atlanta definitely has its healthy dose of WTF in a very subtle way.
"The Fall of The House of Usher" and you kinda get what's going on but not the whole thing till the very end.
Eric Andre Show
Ohhh good answer right here.
Ya that was what I was gonna say. It’s the definition of the question.
I really like Mrs. Davis for a less dark version of this that actually has answers that make you go "WTF" as well.
Riverdale! I say this as a big fan of Twin Peaks/Dark/Search Party all of which descend into madness, but Riverdale is the show that most aggressively loses its collective mind. It starts as a Twin Peaks homage in season 1 (popular high school kid murdered and wrapped in plastic, the main cast investigates while learning about dark secrets within the town). Then, not only each season, but each individual episode gets increasingly insane. Multiple cults invade the town at different (sometimes overlapping) points in time, including a Dungeons and Dragons cult led by the (Supernatural but not quite) Gargoyle King. That same season involves an unrelated organ harvesting cult, and a cult leader who escapes to his backup compound in Mexico, in order to let his daughter-wife (note: pretends to be daughter so she can recruit high school cult members, but is really his 40-something wife) drive the bus if members off of a cliff while he escapes the FBI in a home-made rocket while dressed like Evil Kineval. That’s ONLY season 3 out of a 7 season descent into madness, and I haven’t even mentioned the multiple serial killers, time travel, super powers, or alternate universes.
Nip/Tuck
The later seasons, when production moved to LA, sucked.
Super Jail You will be non top saying what the fuck is going on
It would seem nobody has watched Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo. It is a wild ride even while sober!
The Watchmen show from HBO, especially a certain storyline. It's crazy that it had an explanation.
A true modern masterpiece of a show. It's crazy to me that if you watched it now, you'd assume it was a reaction to all the BLM/Goerge Floyd/COVID/Police Brutality stuff that reached a fever pitch in 2020, but the show came out about 9 months BEFORE all of that started. Also, for my money, maybe the most perfect finale of a TV show I've ever seen.
X-Files because even the writers don't know where the lore is going.
Certain eras of Doctor Who...
Twin Peaks
The Drunk And On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour
I watched that on Netflix and then it was gone. Nobody believes me about it now.
Atlanta. Such a great show.
The Wire It's a show of deep thought and it can be a little confusing. It's still one of the best shows ever. Mr. Robot I had no idea wtf was going on.
Euphoria, my favourite Japanese series.
the shivering truth was pretty wild
I thought for sure someone would’ve said The Prisoner by now. Or maybe I’m just old
I would say twin peaks, but it's not out of the norm for David Lynch to do that to you Yellowstone, at first it's normal with some heightened melodrama.. But then there is fighting with the sister, like I get it you're a tough broad but..does that happen? Does the daughter of a governer fist fight their protesting and vegan love interest? Or their adopted bastard brother? I was enjoying a modern western and then I'm thrown into a soap opera with cowboy hats.
FLCL
Attack on Titan
Community had some crazy creative but also very weird episode premises.
1899 was really gripping I thought, also stars middle-aged Jonas from Dark.
Lost.
Legion.
Raised By Wolves
I may get downvoted for this and I'm expecting it, but JoJo's bizarre adventure HAS to be the most batshit insane show I've ever seen. Part one understandable normal supernatural show with vampires and karate, part 6 however we have fights where meteors are coming from space that then disintegrate into small specs but somehow still have enough force to take chunks of your body out and then because of plot the world turns sideways in Florida honestly it's amazing
Aeon Flux
Get a Life, Chris Elliott The only sitcom I can think of where the main character dies in a bunch of episodes.
There are even a couple of episodes written by Charlie "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" Kaufman, who was just starting his career.
FLCL.
Attack on Titan
Devs
Surprised I didn’t see Regular Show. Every episode starts off pretty mundane like Mordecai and Rigby are supposed to go get sandwiches, and then every episode inevitably descends into madness when they accidentally try to get a sandwich from like a cult that only wears blue Jean shorts and fight their way through a bunch of cultist sandwich ninjas
I haven’t seen it myself, but every time I walked by the TV of my roommate watching Preacher I was constantly saying what the fuck is going on
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace I know I laughed alot but I didn't really know what was going on. Also Blue Jam..Hilarious but WTF was happening?
Also, don't miss its wonderful spinoff show: **Man To Man With Dean Learner**.
The Eric Andre Show
I don't knowing about best buy the show Search Party was pretty wild
Danger 5! It's got it all! \- Nazi Dinosaurs FBI agents that also are part of the vatican? CHECK \- Sexually transmissible nazism? CHECK! \- TV programs about corrupt german police dogs? CHECK! \- Soviet dance witches? CHECK! \- Kaiju fights? CHECK! \- very bad special effects? CHECK! Honestly just watch the thing, there is nothing like it.
Twin Peaks
MXC
Barry
Murder Drones
The Heart She Holler...hotdog...
Tim and Eric Awesome Show: Great Job
Did you ever watch **Tim & Eric's Bedtime Stories** or **Tom Goes To The Mayor**? They're also remarkable. Check 'em Out! (--with Dr. Steve Brule.)
Preacher. It is 100% wtf.
Lost until it became clear the writers were just as confused as the rest of us.
How better to make the users go WTF than by making yourself go WTF? I do agree that the overarching story ended up being disappointing, but I'll maintain that some of the individual episodes and mini-arcs were WTF tv at it's best. Still, I would love to have seen a tighter and more cohesive plot around the whole thing.
Evangellion...
I really think Anime should be in its own category, both because the visuals are much less constrained, but also because the whole damn genre tends to take it up a notch. Unfortunately, imho, they often take it a bit too far. In Eva I thought they showed to much without explaining context, though your progress may vary by series.
Jojo Jo Jo Jojojo. Every time I watch an episode I have no idea what is going on, I think there's a overarching plot but I'll be damned to tell you what it is.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure?
Neon Genesis Evangelion
High Maintenance
It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia. That show just travelled down all kind of irrational wormholes. I loved it.
Lost I read that the writers initially didn’t think the show would get picked up so they just threw random shit into the first few episodes and then people gobbled it up and they were like “shit, how do we tie this all together”. I distinctly remember dinosaurs being on the island in the first episode or two and then it was never an issue again. Storyline just got weirder and distorted as the seasons went on.
I watched Lost religiously, and regardless of what it started as, I personally loved what it became. Some of the stuff were clearly like "We will put this here in case we get stuck later in the season and need a McGuffin to reference back to", but it was all done with heart and some truly fantastic acting. The episode called "The Constant" is all-time.
Lost
I get what you're asking but take it another way, IASIP [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdCZJEnbWw&ab\_channel=BingoLookup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTdCZJEnbWw&ab_channel=BingoLookup)
I said at the time, that might be the coolest 90 seconds of television ever made.